Human Hacking Code

*Chapter twelve*

Casey sat on her bed with her arms folded, muttering to herself. I stared blankly at the designs on my covers. I guess once I was eliminated because I wasn't fit to be Nova, I couldn't go back home.

I glanced over at Casey, she picked a figurine off the nightstand next to her bed and threw it.

I got up and walked over to her bed. I made myself comfortable next to her and wrapped my arm over her stomach. She just exhaled sharply from her nostrils. "My mom was disappointed with me ever since I left and since Rose left too she must have filled the void with a new kid." She shook her head.

"What about your dad?"

"He left for another woman. Then my step dad fell into my mom's life. But hey, they stopped mattering to me ever since Rose's death so I am good." Casey raised her hands with empathies.

I cringed, thinking of my father. He had never left a trace of what had happened to him and it was just covered up and forgotten.

" All Nova trainees report to room 3101 sector M please." A voice over the speaker announced over the intercom.
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I sat next to Casey in the many chairs seated in a large audiotorium. Sheryl scurried in from a side door with a worried look on her face and peered at us.

"You all might have wondered what happens to Nova trainees when disobeying large regulations such as murdering other Novas, having a companionship... So on and so forth..." She waved her hand around in the air.

I gripped Casey's hand, but she squirmed out of it. But no one would suspect a companionship from us right?

"Well, we have a suitable person who we will be punishing today for rebellious crimes against our perfect society." Sheryl finished.

Were we really a perfect society?

Sheryl led us into a hallway that led into a dimmly lit room. We stood on the other side  of one way glass where three people in white jump suits and gas masks set up serums on large metal needles and tubes that would be set into the veins of the heart from the shoulder.

"This man is being executed for doing rebellious like behavior." A man was brought in by two shielders. He had a white mask on that concealed his face. The shielders forced him into a chair and clasped metal restraints on his wrists. I shuddered and closed my eyes as the tubes puntured his skin.

I looked back up and a cloth covered the tubes. The mask was taken off and the shielders left the room.

The man had a thin face, probably from being in a holding cell and had bright white hair.

I gasped. Casey looked over at me with confusion in her eyes. I screamed as realization hit me.

I had been living a lie. Our society isn't perfect but they try to make the civilians think it was. They were lying to us to make us feel safe in our 'perfect' society.

How could I want to try and stay here when I knew what they wanted us to be? When they could go and do this to my family.

Everyone's family. I couldn't bare to let this happen. I wanted to live in a place where I wasn't lied to about my family. A place where Casey and I could live together without our companionship being rebellious behaviour... And a place where I can be accepted.

I knew that rebelling would be a horrible idea and it could get me killed, but I knew that I wouldn't be able to live like this. No.

"Marley what's wrong?"Kayla asked from across the room.

And the man went limp.

My father was dead.