Violet

Chapter One. Violet POV. Let me tell you a bit about the earth, not the one you know, it's not all white and black, it's not a straight road, I don't care about your ethnicity, or what your religion is, everyone else might, but not me. The life that I know is completely different from everyone else, I don't give two damn about who the new president is, I don't pay much attention to any drama, I don't live under a rock, I'm still on Earth, but the thing is I don't belong here anymore. Area fifty-one, aliens, UFO, they all are real, but they aren't that common, people aren't supposed to know about them, but I do, and they are real. They wanted to learn about earth, about our habits and genetics, but humans are way too scared for that, they decided to make a deal with us, we'd give them one of ours, well more than one. We'd give them some of ours, they have volunteered some of us, we didn't have the real choice here, people who wouldn't be missed, kids that are unwanted. But our human bodies couldn't take being in space, their planet wasn't made for us, we were too weak and fragile, and so they had to change their plans. Instead of taking us straight to their planet, they taught us about it first, they started to get our bodies ready for the trip, we were genetically modified until we could make it there. But they didn't want a normal human, since we couldn't make it there, they came over and studied us, things we had different, they don't have kids, they don't grow old, they don't change, they are created adults, they never go through childhood, they don't go through parenthood, they are just them! And that's a big thing for them, to have kids, but they can't take real kids from earth, instead, they take adults, ones that could take living in their planet. Us the adults who are taken, we get a chance to have a second childhood, our first one is filled with lessons and being taught about the aliens, about our future life with them, about our future owner, we have to obey them, they'd be our mommy and daddy until we pass our new childhood, then we'd be treated like adults, maybe not full adults. There's a thing called cgl, caregiver little, it's one of earth dynamics, a coping mechanism for most, a safe place for others. It's when the human goes to a little space, a younger headspace, they'd act like kids and be treated like ones from their caregiver, but they could also have some s****l adult life when they aren't in that headspace. That's what I've been taught my whole life, I'm sixteen now, and I've been born and raised in this facility, the teacher and nannies aren't that bad, I live in the facility, I'm not allowed to leave, a thing I don't like. When I asked why I can't leave, they'd always tell us that we can't get attached to earth, we are leaving, we'll be attached to our new home, to our new owners, me personally, I was always told I would be having a daddy, not that I had the choice I could scream at them I don't want him, I don't want to be a little. But they'd never listen, my fate was all decided even before I was born. I'm to keep on with my treatment, not that I do, some days I'd skip the pills, spitting them out, I'm a trouble maker according to the nanny who's in charge of me. I don't like their rules, I always wanted to get out of the facility, I want to see the outside, I want to skip the treatment that makes me super emotional, or make me feel like I'm a baby, they also make my body small, I don't feel or look like a sixteen-year-old, my chest is too flat, I cry way too easily, and I won't be talking about my night accidents, those happen, and it's the end of this topic. Others in the facility get daily phone calls from their future partners, some get gifts, and notes and letters, I on the other hand don't believe in any of that. If they were real I'd have mine too, but I never received anything, maybe they are real, but I'm here by mistake, I have no one out there for me, no one is waiting for me, and so I decided to run away, it's not my first trial to run away, but this time I will succeed, I heard the nannies talking about a visit from them, someone who's really high in the food chain, that would be my perfect distraction, no one would pay attention to little me, while they have a big important alien on earth. Chapter Two. Violet POV. My big day is almost here, the day I'll get away from them all, I know no one in space would want me, I'm not like the rest, I'm not obedient, I'm not someone who likes to cry over everything, although sometimes I do, it's not me, I swear, or maybe it is me. But the more of the treatment I take the more I feel emotionally vulnerable, I feel like I'm a baby, that's the whole concept, we'll be sent back to childhood, we'd still have our adult humans brains and intelligence, but we'll go to a headspace where we'd be vulnerable and completely dependent. Not my favourite thing on planet earth, I'd like to keep my big space, I'd like to always be big, but again, that's not an option, not for people like me. And so I decided to run away. I was nice to my nanny this morning, when I woke up, I allowed her to help them get ready for classes, we only wear our uniform, it has the facility logo on it, it's bland and white, no colours allowed, we can't get a favourite colour and go to space only to find our favourite colour doesn't exist there, we can't say I love the blue sky, because the sky isn't blue there. No attachment to earth is allowed, we don't belong here, talk about feeling outcasted, add to that when your said caregiver doesn't give two damn about you, that if he actually exists, to begin with of course. All of our hair is kept to their natural colours, not that they are any natural, the treatment affects those too, my hair is now mousey brown, at one point it went to muddy black, but back to the brown colour. Others have pink and purple hair, I don't envy them really, I hate the colour pink, purple is nice though, I don't think I have a favourite colour yet, I have never seen many to decide. I was dressed in my clothes, my hair brushed and tied back, my shoes added and sent to class, the facility is one big orphanage, each kid has his own nanny, and rules, some are general rules we all have to obey, others are rules your caregiver gives, I had none of those. The classes are all about aliens technology, about how to slip into a headspace, how safe it is to be there, about trust, and about us being so lucky, we even took the history of this fancy s*****y we call our future lives. I went to class as normal, I'm not in the most advanced ones, the thing is, I don't want to learn about the aliens anymore, I don't want to see pictures of their lives, ones that I'll never have. Maybe when I was younger I really wanted to see it, I was curious about it all, I just wanted to go there, but my dreams were crushed around when I was nine when everyone's CG started to message them and I didn't. When they received gifts, when they received attention, while my nanny told me that I'm such a bad child no one would ever want me, not in this childhood or the next one. And so I lost all my dreams, I lost all my hope for the future and my new life, but look at me being a good girl today and going to the class, I sat in the back as I always do. Even the classroom was white, the only colour present around here is the pictures they show us of their world, and how they live, it's like being taunted by things that'll never happen. The aliens have their own dynamic, they have a king, or at least that's the best comparison to earth, he's the one in charge of everyone, they all respect him. Next comes the people, they live their lives normally similar to our earthly life, there's job and money, there are grades, there's the army, and there are other planets they'd go to and back for several reasons. Some to collect us, humans, others to get supplies, and some to have wars, they are humans whose evolution have hit a hundred time. I sat and looked out of the window, just waiting for the day to end, I could see the teacher acting all nervous, they were worried about whoever is going to visit us. They didn't care about all the comments I threw through the class, I wasn't threatened to be sent to the corner not even once, instead every time I misbehaved the teacher looked worried and concerned, it was kind of funny and I was pushing my luck with them. We were all sent to have our lunch of the day, I didn't have to wait for later that day, only a few nannies were present while we all had to eat our lunch, the food is plane nothing too fancy around here, we can't get attached to human food, God forbids. Chapter Three. Violet POV. There was another commotion if today isn't my lucky day! Everyone was talking and mumbling about him coming, he's in the facility, also some of the humans, what's up with the humans, we are humans after all aren't we. One by one the nannies started to slip out, they usually stay along with us to make sure we eat our food and don't choke and die, they kept sneaking out until only one nanny was left in the dining room with us, I think I forgot to mention, there aren't many of us, maybe sixty in total, even less. We are here from the day we are born until the day we are collected at the age of eighteen, never to come back again to earth, I got two more years before no one comes to collect me. I got on my feet and started to move away toward the door, I didn't have anyone to worry about, the only nanny here was busy with one of the kids, while the others, none of them paid me any attention, we aren't friends, I don't like any of them and they don't like me back, we aren't supposed to be friends either, we'll have friends later I guess. I made it to the door opened it, made sure no one was looking toward me, everyone was looking out of the window, one last look toward them and I took off running from there, in my staying here, I found a few ways to get away, it's not my first trial, they all were failing attempts, but not this time, I never had such a strong distraction before. The facility was made of a five-story building, the first floor is all filled with humans and administration, the second is for our classes and cafeteria, and the third and up is our rooms, nannies rooms, the therapy rooms, the one I hate the most, but also had few entertainment rooms, not that we got the time to use those much. I knew the front door if you managed to get to it, it has sensors all over it, if I walk out they'd know, but the windows, the one that doesn't have bars on them, they are a safe bet, all the first and second-floor windows had bars, courtesy of my previous trials, but the ones in the principal window doesn't have any over it. I moved toward her office, I've been there before, way too many times, I'm not that proud about those times, but I've been there. I knew her office way too well, I made sure to look around to make sure she's not in it right now, good for me, the commotion had her busy too. I walked inside the office and went toward the window, opening the window and looking down, damn, it's a long way down, I was pep talking myself into it, I could do it, I won't die, I can do it... I heard the door opening behind me, I was quick to go on to hide, the first place I could reach was under her desk, it's my best choice. I heard our principal, Miss Emma walk-in, she sounded worried and panicked at the same time, she was talking to someone, my nanny, I knew Rila's voice anywhere, she yells and scolds me way too many times during the day. "Where's the brat! He'll be asking for her! He wants to see her!" Emma says on the verge of a breakdown. "She's in the lunchroom, we don't have to call the president yet do we?" Rila asks making me giggle, yes oh please call the president.