AJ

The forum. What can I say? It kept us all safe in our darkest moments.

. An amazing man. Kind to all of us. Kept us safe. Gave us shelter and food. Something few other people were willing to do.

AJ's POV

I sat in the empty, dark computer lab, alone. I rarely felt alone. I had a family with five children (One older brother, one older sister, one twin brother, a younger sister, and, of course, myself) until I moved to Harlow/Hendrick's with my twin brother and younger sister.

Not much in the way of people changed. I went from a house with a grand total of 7 people to sharing a room with the same number of people.

As I thought through the story of my life a heard a soft ping. I turned back to the computer and saw that someone had posted on the forum. I brought the forum page up. The same blue outlines and pictures by the posts. I was expecting Emmi to have posted but it wasn't, it was someone new.

They obviously didn't know the rules because they hadn't posted the password. I, automatically, posted

Who are you? What's the password? The one you can't see me type.

I then realized that they might be in danger and I typed

Are they there now?

They didn't respond so I typed

Delete this site from your browser history, get off the computer & hide. Now. Fast.

They still didn't respond so I waited, anxiously, on the edge of my chair.

Many minutes passed and they still didn't post. The bell rang and, although I was worried I had to hurry to get to history.

I walked into history class and sat down quickly. passed out tests. I'd forgotten about the beginning-of-year-testing, to see what we know from last year.

1 Hour Later

I walked out of history before the bell rang. I knew the exact bell times now. It was helpful for making it to class on time and avoiding the rush of people from other classes.

I was glad the questions weren't too difficult, I hadn't studied.

I signed back into the chat room. That person had been posting me thank you's for the past hour. I wasn't sure if they were still on so I posted

You're welcome. If I hadn't helped you, you would have die, I'm not like the PoPo I care. Anyway now that the danger is gone...what's your name and what is the password?

My name is Elisabeth Walters. The password is...FREE. Okay so another girl joining this forum. There were already two girls on here(now three) Emmi and I.

I responded with Welcome Elisabeth. Let's hear your story.

She went on with explaining her story. She had two older sisters and one twin sister, Katie. She was a fourth because, technically, her twin sister was older. She didn't have an ID. She was living somewhere nearby. And she was getting an ID and coming to Harlow ASAP(according to her mother).

YAY! I can't wait until you get here! It'll be exciting to meet you. I can probably help you get around.

That'll be great! My mom said that a man named will be getting the ID...Do you know him?

Yeah. He works for the Population Police, sabotaging it from the inside. He is great. He will get you a good I.D., I'm sure. He got my family's I.D.s. (My twin, Sam, and my younger sister Kirstie.) You've heard of Jen, right? And Luke? And Nina? Right?

I've heard of Jen, She's amazing..my hero (but what Third wouldn't like Jen?). I've never heard of Luke or Nina. Who are they? Are they on our side or the PoPo's?

Mr. Talbot is Jen's step dad! Luke and Nina go to Harlow & Hendricks. They are thirds just like us. They are definitely on our side. Luke is kind of like Hendricks' leader. Nina was/is for Harlow. When she's not there I take over, I guess.

That sounds cool! I'm so excited!

The bell rang and I quickly typed Anyway I have o go for study period. We have lots of tests this week. TTYL.

I logged off and ran down the hall. I got to study hall and opened my books, pretending to study, making plans.