It was two days before the big announcement. I would be filmed live with President Grey. They told me the idea of this was to give people hope. But the only logical reason I could think was to keep the country in line while he fiddled with our brains some more.

They had moved me to the white house a few days ago, unfortunately they had brought Justine along with them. She had come each day and was getting on my nerves. President Grey had come once and I had to restrain myself from strangling him.

He had come up to me five times in his visit and tried to pat my shoulder or something, each time I had moved away. The truth was I was scared. I used to be just mad at the government, I hadn't been scared, what worse could they do than take us away from our families and lock us up. But now I was frightened. When someone touched me I shied away, scared that they would beat me or terminate the rest of me.

Its true when they had taken away my powers they dissolved a part of me. Sure it wasn't my favorite part, but still it was me. And now I had no idea how to get that part back. I tried each day when people would enter my room. If they managed to touch me I would try to see into their minds, but it was as if it was locked.

I felt bad for Clancy. He would be next. Would he be braver than me?

I'd like to meet the president's kid one day. he was like me. An orange. Or I guess I was no longer an orange I was just me, but I had been like him. But what if Clancy had taken after his father. Did he abuse his powers?

It didn't matter anyways, cause I was getting out of here. I would escape somehow. I would run and never stop running. I would g=find a place, a place where I could hide and be who I wanted. Cause really I wasn't just some colour, or number.

I was Ruby.

Justine came early today. She sat on the chair as I huddled myself in the corner.

" Ruby there are things in this world that you won't understand and what I'm doing now you will never begin to understand." She said in a low hushed tone. I frowned. I had never liked Justine but where did this burst of wisdom come from. In one swift movement she had a gun pointed at my head. The psi soldier at the other end of the room looked up. I gasped as he lifted his rifle, pointing it near my head.

" Don't shoot, you wouldn't want to be the one to kill off hope would you?" I could hear the smirk in her voice. The man shook, he was young and obviously inexperienced. My breathing was quick, this was what I had meant, I was too scared of something like this happening. The guard lowered his weap9on but still held his finger on the trigger.

Quickly Justine fired once hitting the man in the chest. He slumped to the floor as I screamed.

"Shhhhhhh.." she said dropping her arm and letting me go, only to grab my wrist and pull me forward. " Hurry, I'm only trying to get you out of here." I gasped, not because of her declaration, but because I could see it.

Flashes of memories came at me in a swarm. I could see Justine kneeling beside a dead kid, crying, it had been a blue I could tell that much. I could see her holding hands with another man her age, he leaned over and whispered in her ear.

"Cate." I said without realizing. Justine gasped.

" Yes, how….. you can see it now." A smile broke out on her face. " Hurry we have to go now." I let her drag me out of the room, down two hallways and down a flight of stairs. She pointed to a door.

" you have to go, I have another kid that I have to get." She said urgently. Was she talking about Clancy? " Meet us at the café on 8th street." I didn't think twice, I ran, and I didn't look back.

Once I got outside I sighed. It had been days since I had felt the cool breeze on my cheeks. Should I go to the café, I wasn't sure if I trusted her or not. But seriously, without being able to drive I had nowhere to go. I didn't stop long, soon I was on the run, looking for a café on 8th street.

I found it, but instead of heading inside where people could see me I went down the alley and hid behind a trash can. Soon I heard footsteps, three pair. It was obviously not Justine since she had only said one kid, so I huddled there in the alley, trying to make myself small.

A man and two kids ran up the alley and stopped. I noticed that then man was carrying a gun and decided to stay silent. In two second he had the kids, that were my age, one was a boy and the other a girl, on there knees begging for mercy.

Without any expression on his face he shot the girl than in two seconds he shot the boy. I couldn't stop the scream from exploding out of me. I stared horrified as the man looked at me. he cocked his head, staring right at me.

In three large strides he walked over and grabbed me by my shirt. My breathing was short and quick.

" please, I-I won't tell anyone I swear." I begged, doing exactly as the boy and girl had. The man smirked.

" Ah- you must be one of Cate's." he said accidently whipping his finger against my neck, I gasped at the rush of images. I saw him in some strange compound that seemed to be underground. I could see him shooting some other girl.

I gasped as he pointed his gun at my head. Before he could shoot, we were both launched five feet in the air, my head hit hard against the brick wall. before the darkness claimed me I could see a boy rushing to my side.