Trapped by K. Weikel

Author:K. Weikel
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: k weikel, dystopia, dystopian, trapped, k, dome, society, utopian, dome wall, weikel

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Walking home, I can’t seem to get Nad off of my tail. She’s been asking questions ever since we checked out from our job. Too many questions, if you ask me.

I stop at the corner of my street, Nad still by my side, and pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration. She’s giving me a headache. Doesn’t she know that there are people watching our every move? Doesn’t she know we could get in trouble for these conversations we’re having?

I sigh. “Where do you live, Nad?”

“Right there,” She points down the street and to the house across from mine.

I close my eyes, trying not to let out a sound of annoyance.

“Great…” Sarcasm. “I live right across from you.”

Her body explodes up with excitement. I wrinkle my nose at it. Why is she so excited? I’m not that fantastic to live around, especially be around.

“We can go to work together every day!” She exclaims.

I start to walk again.

“As long as you don’t get too used to it,” I smile a little, not able to help myself.

“Why?” She asks, matching my pace.

“Because in a few months, its the six month mark after my seventeenth birthday,” I say casually. “I’m going to be reassigned.”

“That’s so exciting!” She squeals, beaming a smile at me and jumping up and down as she walks. “He’ll be sooo handsome, I know he will!”

“I guess,” I say.

Unlike Nad and all of the girls I’ve ever been around, I never pondered what it would be like to see the love of my life for the first time, or what I’d wear that special day. I’ve always just been focused on the present and concerned about how many strikes I have. I think that thinking about all of those things would have distracted me and I probably would have been kicked out of the Dome long ago.

“I’m not really that excited about it,” I tell her casually.

Her face falters a little bit.

I shrug. “I’m okay with being on my own, is all,” I explain. “I don’t think I’d like... you know, being held down to someone.”

She looks at me, amused. “Shouldn’t you be used to it by now though?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” I say defensively, stopping in front of my house.

“I mean the Government holds everyone down already.”

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