Lana

"I forgot! You elements don't know anything about religion!"

The old lady in charge of my floor, Debb, says as I lay on my bed. She's got to be past eighty. She limps at every step, and is half blind. I guess there weren't too many volunteers to watch us elements.

"I learned about it in history a little bit." I say, staring at the ceiling. 

"Here's what I believe," she grabs a chair and sits. I sigh, wishing she could just leave. I stay laying down and listen anyway.

"There's a heaven and hell, right? Heaven equals good, hell equals bad. If you believe in God, that he is good, when you die you will see a light. You will see a hand reach down, and you need to grab that hand, to accept it. If you grab that hand, you will live a infinity of happiness and health. If you don't reach the hand, you will live a infinity of sadness and pain."

"Why are you telling me this?" I ask. I sit up and look at her. She bites her lip.

"Because I don't know how long you elements have until you have to decide to grab that hand or not."

***

I was awaken up early, about 6am. I overheard Hanson talking frantically when I wake up.

"What the-"

"Get her a dress or something, I want them looking professional." I overhear Hanson say as he continues down the hallway. "Someone wake up fire boy, I don't want to get burned alive today."

I'm the one who can call him that, I think. But I get out of bed and jump into the shower as a woman gives me a straight black pencil looking dress, with a white necklace and shoes.

As I shower and then dress, people are waiting out my door.

"Where are we going?" I ask, but nobody answers. Everyone seems to be running on high anxiety right now, and I think back to what that old woman told me just yesterday.

This might be bad news.

But it doesn't make sense why I would be wearing a dress for my death day, so I don't jump to conclusions.

I spot Aira down on the next hall. She's in a black blazer and skirt. Her hair is long, her blonde curls almost perfect. Her heels make her look almost my height. I walk behind her as we continue down the halls.

"Where are we going?" She turns around to ask me, but my eyes move past her.

"I don't know, but I fucking hate it-"

We both look and spot Paytah looking down at himself. He's wearing a black tuxedo with a black tie. He looks gorgeous; his dark brown hair gelled, eyes a sparkling orange under the light. I didn't realize how slim he was. Yes, he obviously lost weight at the government, but he's slim yet toned.

I can tell Aira is staring too. Oh yeah, they kissed, who could forget.

"Well, fire boy sure cleaned up." I say. He looks up at us and cringes.

"Enjoy it now, cause this'll never happen again."

The three of us walk down to the end of the last hall, and Juris comes into view. And I can't help but laugh. He's in a pure white tuxedo with a black tie.

"Seriously," he says, "why am I the only one wearing white. I look ridiculous."

"When don't you?" I say, and he shoots me a glare, but then smiles. "White is classy anyway, or, so I've heard."

"We all look fine. I'm sure we're not used to dressing like this, but." Aira says.

"Actually, I was in debate at school. We dressed up all the time." I say, and I hear Paytah laugh a little.

"Of course you were in debate. It all makes sense." He says, and I smile. "It was my specialty."

"Still is." Juris sneers.

"Okay, are we all ready?" I look at Hanson as he walks up to us.

"Not until you tell us what's happening." Paytah says, and Hanson smiles at him.

"Calm down, my boy. You'll find out in a little bit-"

"We'll find out now," I say, and Hanson raises his eyebrows.

"I would cut the attitude, you two. I'm trying to save you and your kinds lives here."

"A decision is going to be made today?" Juris asks, and Hanson shakes his head. "It's a trial. They may ask you all a few questions, and you must answer truthfully. It's another chance to persuade the people to keep you guys alive. You four will be representing, of course. I highly suggest you don't mess anything up. I would say we are losing as of now. Let's go."

Guards guide us all down the hallway until we are outside. I almost gasp at what I see. If I thought the amount of people outside our dome all the time was a lot, I was very wrong.

People are all around the perimeter, trying to get as close to the door as they can. A number of police cars surround the door, as well as policemen pushing the people back. It's so many people, I start to get nervous. Do all of these people want us dead or alive?

Guess we'll find out.

I duck from the crowd as I walk out of the dome. Everyone starts to come towards us, but police hold them back. I don't look back up until I'm in the van. Aira is sitting next to me. Juris and Paytah must've gone into another vehicle.

"I'm scared." Aira says.

"No shit." I say, looking out the window at all the people. I can feel Aira's eyes on me. I look back at her, and I realize that she doesn't know.

She doesn't know that I know.

"He's not on his side, you know." I say, and Aira looks at me weirdly. "What?"

"Paytah. He's not on Hanson's side. Neither is Juris, or me."

"What are you talk-"

"A kiss won't convince him to kill his own people."

Now Aira is silent. She looks me straight in the eyes, her face turning red.

"If you want to be on Hanson's side, so be it. Just know if you are, you're killing us. You're killing Juris. You're killing Paytah. You're killing me. You're killing you're family. You're killing you're kind. Just remember that. Remember what side you're on."

"What side are you on? It's either the people who want us dead, or Hanson. So?" She asks.

"I'm on our side. I'm one our people's side. That's all we can trust."

"Give me one reason why you don't trust Hanson." Aira says, and I don't even hesitate.

"Because he's killed our kind before and isn't sorry. He put us in a war that wasn't even necessary. He's killed our people, and he'll do it again if he has to."

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