Masks of life
By Ian D. Wiley
My name is David. I'm a 5 foot 11 inch tall boy who is 16 years old. I have completely black eyes (not just the iris but also the white part of the eye, the doctors said it was a birth defect but they were scared of me after that), brown hair, I have chalk white skin, and I'm fit. I live in district 13 and I go to a famous high school in my city. But I have a really boring personal life.
My life has been the same for as long as I can remember. I have had the same course of action everyday for the last 13 years of my life. Every morning I get up and go to the bathroom to use the toilet, after that I go to the kitchen to make myself food. I eat alone on the cool, twilight lit porch. After I'm done with all that common sense junk, I go to the front door of the house and leave for school. I have an average day at school. I come home, do my work and have dinner, and then I go to bed. I have done this for 13 years of my life . . . or that's what I say to everybody who asks me.
The reason why I lie to everyone who asks me is because I live in the biggest city ever built on earth. The city has had so many names and there are so many ideas about what it was made to do, that no one knows the real name or the real purpose that was given to the city many years ago. The one and only purpose that we believe in now is that this city was made to hold every kid from the age of 3 up to the age of 25. So as you can imagine, putting every kid in the world in one city was not such a good idea. The kids go to school, learn, make friends, go out, and have fun, and all that good stuff.
But all of that is just what the good kids do. There are gangs, and cults, mass religious groups, just about everything you can think of. Because the city is so large everyone in it decided for there to some sort of government. So the kids that were here before us divided the city up into 13 districts each one having a leader to govern his/her own piece of our glorious city. (I just want to laugh after saying that.)
Because of all that there are many varieties of . . . contests that the kids of this city can compete in. There are many things a kid can do from car racing to fighting. There is any number of things to choose from at night. But there became a problem: kids were being taken by something that no one could find. All we knew was that they were being taken after they had become NK.
But because of all the things we do at night, all 13 district leaders gathered to discuss what we needed to do to have fun at night but not get caught. Their agreement was for any kid that came out at night to wear masks. All the night kids thought this was a good idea, so from that day forth we all wore masks.
I'm apart of one of the most dangerous sects of NK, it's a group that has fights to have a fun night. I have friends just like everyone else but because I have the life I do, I have to keep my personal life from them at all cost or they might be in danger.