This is a rough draft and i wanted to change the characters name to Dhea and didnt edit but i think i will stick with the former~ Its Thea
THE S U R V I VAL
In a world that we can only describe as unpredictable, where competition and fearless exploitation became the daily rhythm, an adolescent girl was laying backwards on her bed writing poetry. The anomaly was named at birth Nokta Thedea, though her mother always called her Thea. The mother, named Nokta Loan, her cousin Phoenix and Thea lived on the third sector of Old Earth, Road 57 House 22 in the Completed United Earth (C.U.E).
It was no wonder that the girl was oblivious to the reality of the fast paced world for the Old Earth was called “old” for a fitting reason. House 22 lay in a mostly abandoned city, populated by the poor of the C.U.E., who lived in what could be explained as tall rows of green cardboard building closely pilled. The landscape of Old Earth with its abandoned factories, antique billboards, clustered markets and schools could not be said to have been an astounding place where one’s interest could constantly linger in the truths of constant misery.
While Thea continued to pour her angst and ambition onto paper her mother was situated in the kitchen three floors down watching a small black screen. The device was called an E level computer dome, on which Loan’s brown-grey eyes were firmly fixed.
Loan’s hair was dark red and her skin light golden like her daughter. Her round nose above her thin lips and between her high cheekbones was uniquely her own, however. She quivered the nose of hers as she drank a sour smelling beverage from a broken cup. When Thea finally joined her mother she remarked firstly on her dislike of the odorous drink that her mother was occupied with. While Loan brushed away Thea’s complaints, her daughter became occupied with her second grievance.
“Do you know that everything they say on that is always a lie?” she said.
Loan was now engrossed completely in the C.U.E’s internationally aired, (and one and only) channel’s broadcast about building unity and common-hood in the C.U.E.
“Are you listening to me?” She asked her mother.
Loan continued watching as if Thea was not there.
“Mother”.
“Thea why have you chosen to constantly pester me? What the does it take you to understand that it is this kind of meddling in every single thing that I do that is giving me all this anxiety. I’m saying this for your good” yelled the mother.
Thea recognized that her mother’s attention could not be redirected. She stared at Loan’s face and recognized the stubbornness that always occupied it.
She too watched the C.U.E channel until Loan also had something to ask.
She turned off the E-level.
“Have you completed your applications for the Old Earth Recruits?” she questioned, referring to the work opportunity granted by the C.U.E in the Old Earth -- the only legal job available to the residents of the old earth.
“Yes, I told you before”, Thea replied.
“ Were you accepted?” Loan asked.
“I do not know still.” Thea said.
Now with a turn of her mood, with a smile on her lips and a glare of faith in her eyes Loan delved in to her regular speech, “It was your own choice to go there. I only came for you. Have you thought that I miss home? It was a much better life, a warmer place than the cold sky here. Grandma is still a little wealthy and surviving”.
“Surviving? I do not want to survive, I want to have more than what we have. I know I can do that; so grandma can enjoy her house and animal farm alone in that dry old waste land”, replied thea.
As if she had not heard Thea speak, Loan sighed, “But the sky is cold here”.
Staring down at her reflection and placing her bare feet on the marble floor Thea whispered, “So is the ground”. And everything in between is cold, she thought as she swirled her head around to glance at her sodden and somber home. It all seemed like a green and gray gust of wind and suddenly across the room she saw the familiar shadow of a woman with a half shaved head and everything dark about her. Her hair, her eyes, her clothes, her smile were black like ink.
“You look like as if you had an epiphany”, shouted Phoenix from the door. Even in the Old Earth codes were required to slide the automated metallic doors. As Phoenix came through, the door crushed back in place creating an unbearable banging. Phoenix did not appear to hear the noise as if her darkness absorbed it before it could touch her.
“I did not…have an epihany”, said Thea fastly.
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