Wars
Stella V. G.
The Wars
The wars. The wars aren’t something you recover from. They take, they take and never give back. My name is Kalexios Crota, and I am in this world as nothing, but everything. My parents know I’m different, but they don’t understand who I am. Mom, she thinks she knows who I am, but she doesn’t know anything. Dad never met me. He departed when I was born. Mom doesn’t know why. Something about “Another woman” which I don’t believe. There is something in me that knows that isn’t true. I was told by aunts and uncles that he was never really right in the head, but that he wouldn’t just desert my mom for another woman.
If I ever see my dad in real life, I will ask him why he did what he did. I know that will never happen, I’m in Chicago in 2047, it is not necessarily a small world. And before you go thinking we have flying cars and all that crap, no. After the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020, the economy has crashed. I’m lucky to be a girl with a house and a mom. There are no aliens either. Again, the Pandemic left us far more worried about vaccines and medicine than little green men.
School is different now. More of the typey-typey and less of the chatty-chatty. We all have an old-fashioned school-issued Google Chromebook, but many prefer to use their own more advanced computers or phones. Jobs are hard to get now. Many 18 year olds go unemployed until about 19 or so. Some longer. These challenges as an 18 year old, come next week. My birthday, January 24th. I can wait. I will hold on to my childhood. After my birthday, I will need to find a way to support myself somehow. All the local businesses have a one-year waiting list. I need money. School will come.
Aria and my group will stay in touch for the remainder of our lives. My friends are few, but I trust them all with my life. Aria, Zarin, Jax, Adelai, my friends. Aria and I were friends very early on. When I was about two or so. Her parents are good friends with my mother. Zarin and Jax are twins. They are inseparable, and very independent. Adelai is smart, very. He realizes this too, but doesn’t say anything about it.
I have none of these. I am average on the IQ tests, and my face and body have no special features except for my eyes. I have deep, deep blue eyes. That’s it. Many people say that my eyes aren’t natural, but it’s who I am, and I don’t listen.
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