This Is the Night by Jonah C. Sirott

Author:Jonah C. Sirott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Little A
Published: 2015-10-31T18:30:00+00:00

16.

The dance is tonight. Not one girl from the sister school has agreed to go with Alan, but then again, he had not managed to ask anyone, either. He reminds himself that people who have not challenged themselves should not be disappointed when their goals stay unmet. Nonetheless, he is.

Tomorrow, all fourth-years will receive their assignments from the Registry. The boys will hold their sealed envelopes up to the light, a few of them drunk from some homemade cider they have saved for just this occasion, their eyes squinting in the shafts of sunlight, all hoping that they are the ones offered a job as a cook or driver. But that day has not yet come. For there is still tonight. And tonight is a dance. And at a dance, anything can happen.

Months ago, the boys filled out their forms. For those in Majority Group, Alan has read, the Registry form is a paper of possibilities. Maybe you’ll be lucky, the form says to these boys, maybe you won’t have to fight. But the pamphlets have spoken to him, and now he knows: for Homeland Indigenous, for graduates of the School, the form is different, not a matter of if, but instead a circling shark, hungry and biding its time, sure to strike just as soon as it’s ready.

From his bed, Alan had watched as Gad’s pen attacked the thicket of printed boxes. Weight. Height. Few of the questions on the paper left room for possibility. And then Gad paused. Name and Address of Person Who Will Always Know Your Address.

Gad had looked at Alan. A slight nod.

Both of them knew then what they know even better now: the real is getting closer.

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