Jake:

"Morning Sweetheart." My mom Melissa says as I walked down the stairs.

"Hey mom." I yawn and go to the fridge and pull out some tasty bacon. Although bacon is against my religion, I don't care. I'm already going to burn in their underworld for wearing skinny jeans.

"Hon, can't you at least try to follow out gospel today?" My mom asks me.

"Come on son," My step-dad Simeon says. Simeon had dark skin, black hair and blue eyes, I have seen his great power, he can control water. He never uses his power in public, since magic is forbidden here.

"Don't call me son." I snap. "If you don't want me eating pork, quite buying it." I zap it in the microwave and start to eat my delicious breakfast.

"We have church in thirty minutes dear," my mom tells me, "can't you get dressed?"

"I am dressed." I state, I was wearing a 5SOS t-shirt, ripped skinny jeans, a jacket, and converse all star high tops.

"Church clothing please." Simeon says.

"Like your gods care what I wear." I huff before walking up the stairs.

"They are your gods too." Simeon snaps at me.

"Wait." My mom runs after me and fixes my brown hair, it was spiky, now it's flat.

My mother was the imagine of me, with long brown hair and green eyes, pale skin from the lack of sunlight. She was a beautiful women, and after my dad left, she easily remarried.

"Why don't you ask the other kids to sign your cast." My mom says as she hands me a pen. I have had this cast for three years, and by next year, hopefully it would be off.

"Gee." I snap, but take the pen and puck it in my pocket. "Thanks mom, lets all just sign the sinner's cast now. Like writing your name down on the devil's list."

"It might help you make friends." Simeon points out.

"No one wants to me my friend." I say and walk upstairs back to my room, which is decorated with posters of bands and musicals. Mason is in the corner, going through my cds.

"Another amazing conversation." Mason laughs at me.

"Whatever." I huff and sit on my bed and try and eat my bacon one handed, it's hard. I hate this stupid cast.

I take out my journal and begin to write.

"Are you writing to your future self again?" Mason asks. "I've read those, Dear Jake Alton, today is gonna be an amazing day, dispute going to church for twelve hours of it and here's all the reason why?"

"Yes." I snap. "And why are you going through my stuff?"

"I like your stuff." Mason says and sits on the bed next to me and reads over my shoulder. "Come on! Somebody might sign your cast."

"Nobody is going to." I say to him and continue writing.

"Can't we be confident about the future." Mason asks and puts an arm around me for comfort. "The world isn't going to fall apart, besides in a year you will be fourteen, then you are legally an adult and can leave this stupid planet."

"I already dropped out of school at age ten, where would I go?" I ask.

"Malison." Mason smiled. "The planet of opportunities and Zodiac dictatorship rule!"

"No," I say.

"Don't give up before you try." Mason smiled at me. "Come on, today could be a new start to something greater."

"Fine." I snap. "I'll try."

"I'm proud of you already." Mason shakes me and I laugh.

I laugh because the truth is I am seriously making up all this crap as I go. I have no clue what I'm doing or where all this is going with my life.
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Mason:

"This is your first day of school." Rebecca, my mother says to me. "You are not missing your first day of school."

"I'll go tomorrow." I snap.

"You have to go today." Rebecca says to me.

Rebecca is a lot like me, black hair, darkish skin, strong Latino accent. Not a lot of differences. She is a model for some famous magazine for swimsuits. My father Azun Zodiac walks into the room, he is pale white, has black hair and silver eyes. Absolutely nothing like me. Why does my mom even like this guys?! I am pretty sure he isn't my real dad, let's hope I'm adopted. For my sake.

I don't respond to my mother, instead I just looked out the window, I want so badly to be outside and away from this stupid mansion. I don't even carry the Zodiac last name, don't see why I got to live here.

"Is he high again?" My cousin, Torrent, says as he walks into the room. He is fidgeting with a spinner in his hands, he has black hair and multicolor eyes, if I cared enough I would pay attention to the colors. He is the son of my so called uncle, Luke Zodiac. He has two brothers as well, Jay and Enzo, although Enzo is adopted, thank goodness for that, I envy him.

"You better not be high!" Azun snaps at me, I still ignore them.

"He is definitely high." Jay says.

"You can't go to school high Mason!" Rebecca is on the verge of tears with me.

"Perfect!" I smile. "Then I won't go." I grab some bacon from off the counter and go up to my room. "Thanks mom!"

Another stellar conversation with my family. As I pack my bag for school, since I know they will make me go, I imagined what will happen once I get there. Malison University. It's stupid and pointless to learn about crap that won't help me in life. I feel like my school years are just a tutorial on a video game, like the ones that have absolutely nothing to do with with the rest of my life.

Does anybody happen to know how to heck to be an Adult! I'm thirteen, and the scary truth is next year I'm graduation and I have no clue how to be an adult. I'm treated like a child now and I'm expected to behave like an adult. This all so stupid and pointless!

I walk downstairs with my bag as I overhear my family talking about me.

"He is relentless." Azun says.

"School is starting soon." Torrent snaps.

"Uggg!" Enzo sighs. "Who drank all the milk?"

"It was probably Jay." Torrent says.

It was actually me... but whatever, blame Jay for all I care. It's not like I make that much of an impact in anyone's lives but my milk drinking.

"Hurry guys!" Jay calls. "If Mason isn't ready we are leaving without him."

I hurry and grab my sack lunch of whatever my mom made and run out the door with my cousins.

We drive to school with the interstate already jammed, I hate this part of the day. Everybody honk their horns as we listen to talk on the radio, so stupid..... and pointless....

I actually don't even know why I'm here, I don't know how to adult and by the end of the school year I'm just expected to know what to do with my life! This is insane! I can't be an adult now, who thinks I can be an adult now? Those people are obviously stupid, because right now I'm flying blind. I have no clue what I'm doing.