"Azalea come on someone might see you out there." I hear my brother Nate call from the window.
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I grab one more blue flower from the bush and run inside.
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I hear the wooden door of our cottage slam back behind me.
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"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" I say before Nate can get the words out.
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"I've told you a thousand times to stop slamming the door. Now go wash your hands dinner is ready." Nate says and I scramble to my room.
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My room is in the basement under the stairs because I often have to hide from strangers who come to the door.
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I don't know much but my brother told me that 25 years ago families became illegal.
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Our state called Dorado separated it's self from the rest of America and decided to leave by its own rules
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3 years later a war broke out between the men and women because they could not agree weather a man should be in charge or a woman.
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After the war the two genders separated themselves, the men took what was left of the city and the women took the woods.
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Homme is the name for the left side of the bridge where the male clones live.
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Femme is the name of the right side of the bridge that the woman clones live.
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The two sides are separated by a bridge that no one crosses over.
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Neither side even makes mention of the other.
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The men having taken the factories and computers designed a way to make humans, clones so that they could continue on their species without having to find a wife like in the old days.
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The women never got that technology so their breed slowly died out.
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As far as i know they are all gone.
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My mother, Rosalina Harper, was the only other girl to survive besides me.
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My dad,Thomas,did not agree with the program neither did his brother.
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You can't leave the state if you were born here so dad and his brother hide with their families.
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My uncle funded the clone making program in hope to erase humans and create creatures that could live longer.
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My uncle did not agree with dad that we should all be human and not clone so they two separated leaving my aunt in the woman's side and my dad and uncle separated but on the men's side of Dorado.
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My uncle became the ruler of the male side and my aunt the ruler on the female side.
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My dad was imprisoned by his brother for birthing children and later killed.
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Dorado is a ruined state because of the war.
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Very few trees line the streets of the city.
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Most of the grass is long but gone, burned by battle.
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No crops or flowers grow here except one species of flowers.
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Blue Azaleas
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I adore them.
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I think of the flowers as myself living in the Homme.
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I might be the only girl left on the planet.
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I've never seen a girl like myself only a picture of my mom.
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She was beautiful.
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With long black hair like mine and a lacey white dress that i now wear.
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My brother was born 8 years before I was born.
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I've never met my parents my mother died giving birth to me and my dad was killed by his brother a month later.
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Nate tells me they were wonderful parents.
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After my parents were gone, Nate has taken care of me ever since.
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"This is my favorite time of year." I say showing Nate the Azaleas I found outside.
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"I knew when I picked it, that name would suit you well." Nate said smiling and showing carrots into his mouth.
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My dad let Nate name me when i was young after my mother passed.
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Azalea Rosalina Harper.
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Thats the name he chose for me.
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Nate Thomas Harper
That's Nate's full name.
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"Carrots again?" I give him a grossed out face.
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"I told you as soon as Jerry gives me a better deal on the cows we will have actual food." Nate reassures
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"Okay." I say.
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After dinner I look outside and down the hill I see little boys who look about my age playing in the creek.
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"Nate! One day can I play in the creek." I ask not taking my eyes off the boys.
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"One day Azalea," He says as he kisses the top of my head.
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"When are you going to brush this nest." Nate says trying to rake his hands through my messy hair.
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My hair is long and hangs down to ankles.
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Nate never lets me cut it.
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"Well if you would let me cut it just a little maybe it wouldn't take so long to do." I plead
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"No, mom never cut her hair so neither should you." Nate says grabbing a brush and starting to brush my hair.
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"Ouch Nate. Your too rough. Do you even know what your doing?" I try to grab the brush but he is too tall.
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"Uh Yeah....i saw mom do it all the time." Nate says from behind me.
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"Nate you going to make be bald ripping my hair like that." I try to run be his hands are stuck in my hair.
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"I'm no ripping out your hair....I'm just....aggressively separating it." Nate chuckles to himself.
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I finally get ahold of the brush and finish my hair with a nice braid.
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"Okay...time fo be young one." Nate hugs me
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I'm to tired to say anything.
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I hear the sound of the basement door lock above me and the sound of the carpet slide back over the door.
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I scoot my chair up to my vanity.
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I take a long look in the mirror before putting on my favorite night dress, that perfectly complements my tan skin.
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I turn off the light and fall fast asleep.
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The next morning
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I wake up at 5 am every morning before the guards on the street set watch so that I can go outside for a bit.
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I basically inhale my plate of eggs thinking about the beautiful Azalea flowers in the backyard.
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"Not so fast, wash your plate." Nate says walking out of his room in his pajama pants and no shirt.
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"Ew put a shirt on freak." I jokingly punch him in the stomach as I go to wash my plate.
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"Knock, knock, knock."
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"Shit! Azalea in the basement now." Nate pushes me.
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I do as he says.
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I place my ear on the door once I'm in the basement.
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I hear the sound of 2 guards.
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"Hey there Nate!" I hear one of them say, "were just doing random inspections, nothing to worry about."
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"Yeah." Nate laughs nervously
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"You thought anymore about the offer?" One officer ask.
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"....No.....No i havent ." Nate says nervously.
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What offer?
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What feels like an hour goes by and I finally hear the basement door open up.
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"Everything okay?" I say placing the rug back over the door.
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"Yeah!" Nate says but it sounds like a lie.
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I decide not to ask him about it.
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"Azalea you have to be more careful. You left your flowers on the table,but they didn't say anything about them." Nate says flopping down on the couch, "I don't know what I would do if they found you. I promised mom I would take care of you and I feel like I'm not doing a good job."
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"Shut up! You are doing an amazing job. If mom were here she would say the same thing." I say sitting beside him and give him a hug.
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He hugs me back.
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I check my watch.
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6:22am
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"Dang it, the stupid guards took all my outside time." I say sadly.
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"Sorry young one. We can watch a movie I don't have work today." Nate says
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"Okay yes, but only if I get to pick the movie." I giggle
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"Fine I guess so." Nate tickles me
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We end up watching spiderman and sometime during the movie I fell asleep.
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