Reality by Louise Trowern
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I’m not quite sure how it started. Or how it was supposed to end. But as
reality calls, its what’s put in front of you tells the story. As far as I
know, I was born back in a time when people were poor and if you weren’t a
healthy baby, you were put in the basement. Some sort of meter had stuck earth
and people were just dying to live. When I was born, I was healthy. But after
the meter I was lost, I got sick, almost died. My mom waved a police officer
she saw the window of a old building "Please help me, my baby is sick." The
police officer came in and looked at me. Then told my mother "stay were you
are". I was put in a wooden box in the basement, fit perfectly for a dead baby.
The police came back up my mom yelled and protested "where’s my baby, what have
you done with my baby." The police officer looked at her and moved on, my mom
ran downstairs to find me. She ripped open the box and took me out; I was so
small and helpless. As she was running up the stairs with me, the officer stood
there and said, "Do you care about your future or this babies?" "The Babies."
"Do you want to ruin your life for something that wont be saved?" "Yes". So she
ran past them and got to the top. There was nothing that meant more then just
to go. I still wasn’t concise, but she fed me cheerios. I was actually able to
eat. That day we went back to my mom’s house. It was basically an old rundown
basement type of place it couldn’t of been described. My mom lived with one
other person, someone I never got to know. I grew up into a kid like many
others, but I wasn’t like the others. I was more intelligent. One day while
sitting with friend I’d known for quite some time. We were watching a show of
some sort; there must have been a thousand people in the audience. Before we
knew it some type of laser gun had had killed a corner section of the audience.
There was children hanging half off the seats and adults cut in half. Then all
of sudden a gas went over half the audience. We were told from an announcer on
the stage, that this gas would make them very hungry. So we took all our food
and threw it at them. Some died from starvation. The little girl next to me
didn’t survive. The rest off us left, we didn’t know what to think. The next
day I started school, because my mom told me it would get me far. I met lots of
friends, and I always considered myself different from the others. Every year
of school was with the same teacher and the same kids. So getting to know them
was never an issue. We were all eager to learn. One day a boy shot a gun over
at the wall. He said that his dad gave it to him he got taken away. Later the
teacher found that many more students had guns. I guess because we’d never know
when the next event would happen. That day the main teacher of schoolhouse came
up the stairs looking for me, he didn’t recognize me, so I didn’t get taken
away. They were trying to take me away because I was the kid that escaped from
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