Forgotten ‘I hate myself,’ Mia Anderson thought, ‘I hate how I look compared to everyone else in my school. I hate how I worry too much about everything. I hate my life so much!’ It was 2034, and a young teenage student in the city of Fremont, California was trudging home from school. It was raining heavily outside, the dark gray clouds guarding the sun. Making sure to cover her backpack with her umbrella, Mia went past her neighbor’s tall brick house and started to walk towards the familiar place with its crimson red roof and the newly painted ivory door. Mia took out her house key from her pocket. She took a quick look at the key and opened the door, then tossed her shoes off and headed towards her room. “Mom, I’m home!” Mia called out. A …show more content…
“You shouldn’t be shouting like that to someone you don’t even know! Haven’t you learned better? Please get out of this house,” Mrs. Anderson told her in a firm voice. “But Mom-” Mia started to say but gave up. She went back to the front door, slipped her shoes back on, and headed outside. ‘So now I don’t have a house to live in, or parents,’ she thought. Her own mom had a different daughter that she’d never seen before, and they didn’t want her living in the very house she’d lived in for nearly all her life. The heavy rain seemed to match her confused and sad mood. Tears began to race down her face. Hands trembling, she slipped her phone out of her pocket and clicked on the internet icon. For the next few hours, she searched up what seemed like a million things to make sense out of what had just happened to her, but none of the results helped her out. She splashed through the murky black puddles to her friend Chloe’s house after deciding that she’d had to somehow figure out what was going on. ‘I really hope Chloe hasn’t been brainwashed,’ Mia thought as she stepped on the driveway into the light blue house she’d been to so many times since kindergarten. Impatient, she pressed down on the doorbell