Prologue
July, 5th 2027
"Just five minutes mum, please" I said, pulling the bed covers over my head. I wasn't in the mood to face the day, especially with my date being so close. Two days, only two days till everything ends. I wonder what it feels like, I wonder it if hurts. I took off the wrist bands that covers my tattoo and looked at it for a while trying to take in everything that was about to happen in the next couple of days.
July, 7th 2027
I have to act completely normal though, I can't let anyone that my time is about to come.
"Good morning", Mum beamed when she saw me, "Are you hungry, do you want breakfast?" I nooded and looked away, I couldn't stand seeing her this happy to see me. I wonder what it will be like when she wakes up on the 8th of October and notices that I am not awake, that I won't wake up. When she notices that my time ended, when she finally gets to uncover my tattoo and read what it says. It's going to break her heart and I'm almost glad I won't be here to see it, because I'm sure would've been to painful to watch. I was her little girl, and she was going to lose me in two days.
My little brother trudget down stairs as if he hadn't slept in days.
"Is the meetting today or tomorrow?" He asked. "Good mornung to you too Brian", Mum said, smiling even harder. Brian were both awake, we both have another day. "Good morning, Mum. Good morning, Em" He smiled and trying to act normal, trying to hide the fact that he was happy to see us both still here, to see both of us have another day. I smiled back, a heavy pain building up in my chest. "Now, is the meetting today or tomorrow?"
"It's tonight, now come on get dressed you're going to be late to school, your sister will take you today," she glanced at me to make sure I haven't changed my mind about taking him, I gave her a reassuring nod. "Why do I have to go to school and Emily doesn't?" I laughed. He asked that question every morning. "You have just more years, Bri. I think you can hope." He sighted as loud as anyone could possibly sight and trudget back up the stairs, the same way he came down.
My mum once told me a story, passed down to her from her great grandmother about life before the system. Children used to go to school until they were eighteen, then they graduate and go to college for as many years as the proffesion they want requires. It was complicated back then. The system makes everything easier. Nowadays, we go to school till we're sixteen then we get two years of practice for the job assigned to us at birth and at eighteen years old we start our jobs. Your job is assigned to you the same to way your date is. The you're born before your familiy or anyone gets to see you, you're taken to the government. You stay with them for three days. In those three days, thay would test you to figure out your date, no one knows how they do it, but they do and it always works.
Always.
Everyone dies on their specified date, no one ever dies before or after. When they figure out your date, they choose a job for you. So for example if you were to be a doctor and you were to die at 8th of October, 2027. Your tattoo would look like this:
October, 8th 2027
Doctor.
The only time the tattoo looks different is if the person's date is before their eigtheenth birthday.
Like me. I turn eighteen on the 17th of July ten days after my date, so I don't have a specified career I'm supposted to pursue. No one knows this though, of course. I have to go out every day, pretending I'm training for my future job, while I'm really just wasting time until I get to go back home. I don't need a job anyways and I can't train for something I am not tattoed about, so I can't train for anything. After they choose your job and set your date, you're sent you back to your family.
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Have a nice day and merry christmas, also it's too late. But I want repeat this sentence ;)
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