Innocence

Introduction

Introduction

I was born into an odd world; a world where everyone begins life with blonde hair representing fragile innocence. When that innocence is lost, your hair changes color to match your sinful offense. But what happens when I, alone, am the only highschooler left standing? The only one who hasn't lost her innocence? What happens when my innocence becomes a bet for who can take it first? Forceful or not? What happens when an unexpected character is the only one willing to do anything to make sure I have my innocence to the very last moment?

I live in a world where everyone is born innocent, pure, and brimming with potential--but potential works both ways; you can either remain pure, or become something less so. There are multiple ways to lose ones innocence. You could lose your innocence by murdering someone, having sex, stealing, breaking the law, cheating, or even lying.

By now, everyone in my school has lost their innocence. Depending on how othey lost their innocence, their hair color changed. For example, every girl in my school has brown hair because they had sex, and bragged all about it.

The boys in my school mostly have brown hair, too, but some were left with red hair for petty theft crimes, and others, still, with dirty blonde for cheating on past girlfriends and tests. But there's one person who everyone looks up to and tries to avoid all at the same time. His name is Luca and his hair is black. No one knows exactly what he did, but the rumors about him change so often that no one can even tell the difference anymore. He's the only one in town with black hair, and he's the biggest mystery of all.

Because I am the only blonde left, I try my best to avoid every single person in this hellish school. Everyone always asks these ridiculous questions:

"Wait, you're still a virgin?"

"What? You haven't done anything bad? Not one little lie?"

I don't think anyone would understand the promise I made to my parents before their death. It was their dying wish that I keep my innocence as long as possible, and it's a wish that I plan to make.

Ever since they died, I've lived with my aunt Katie. She means well, but she's never home because of her job as a tour manager, and she refuses to take me on account of all the drugs and sex and alcohol. She wants me to have nothing with that and truly I don't blame her.

Now all I have to do is get through one hundred-eighty days of my senior year and keep my innocence intact to my final day.