The sun is hot against my skin and I can't help but smile. More than anything in the world I love to be outside on a warm sunny day. Not only am I free from being a Four, but I sometimes like to pretend that I'm not in Illea, that I'm on an island all by myself, not having a cast, or having to worry about my family not making it through another year. In my dream's everything is perfect, but the perfection is the only thing that tells me that I am dreaming. Nothing in this world is perfect, no matter how much a person might dream.

I look out into the ocean water and wonder what would happen if I just swam away, or just drowned. Would anyone notice that I'm gone, and if so, would anyone ever miss me? I laugh at the idea. The only people that would miss me would be my family, and I would miss them as well. They are everything to me, the reason that I work as hard as I do, the reason as to why I live and breath. Without them I would be a small speck on the Earth, just waiting to be taken away.

" Amberly." I hear a voice call out to me. As I turn around I see my older brother Aaron running my way. His brown is a mess, just like mine and a worried look is on his face. My heart is starting to pound heard in my chest. This can't be good, this is Aaron, my brother who always has a smile on his face. I hold my breath, waiting for the bad news to come. " Amberly, I got a notification that mother got into an accident during work." he stops for a moment to let a tear fall down his face. " She didn't make it Amberly, Mother is dead."

His words hit me hard and I fall to the ground, cry. This can't be happening. First we lost our father, not our mother. What else can they take away from us before they are finally happy? What more does' the Royal family want? Do they want all of the lower casts to just become Eights? Do they just want us all to die?

" We have nothing Aaron." I say as I lift my head. " Who will take care of us?"

Aaron kneels down, making sure that my blue eyes are watching his brown. Though he is able to put on a small smile, I know that this will hurt him the most. He's the oldest out of our whole family, he is the one who is going to have to feed us all. There is no way that he will be able to fend for all three of us. Adele and I will need to help him as much as we can, but what work can I do? I can't really do factory work, but the farm doesn't seem to bad.

" What do you need m to do?" I ask as I wipe the tears form my eyes. Your stronger than this Amberly I tell myself.

" I did want to bother you with this Amberly." Aaron says. " You can always sign up for the Selection."

I think about it for a moment. Even if I don't get picked, they Royal family would still send us a bit of money that all three of us could use for food. But if I did get picked, I could see if Prince Clarkson would keep me there as long as possible. It's the only way that I can keep us all from starving, or worse. The Selection is my only hope now.

" I'll do it." I say.

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