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The Red Tablet

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In a world where everything is controlled for you by the sorting of numbers. From who you’ll marry, the job you have, they even promise you a fulfilling life all the way up to age eighty, as you pass away peacefully never feeling useless or unwanted. Your life is controlled by three tables: green, blue and red. No knows what the red tablet does, people believe it is a death tablet, but the Society fends off those rumors. The blue tablet is given at age 10; it is filled with enough nutrients to keep you alive for serval days. The green tablet is given at age 13; it will make you calm, but you can only use it once a week. The red tablet is given at age 16, and is only to be used when instructed. Where the world is finally at a state of content, the Society seems perfect on the outside. But inside at Mapletree Borogh, one girl finds the flaw that runs deep into the …show more content…

She always had, and thought she always would. Her family consisting of her mother, father and little brother Bram have lived in Mapletree Borogh all their life. Everything was peaceful, or so they thought. The day of the match banquet was a series of preparation for the girls of Mapletree. As at age seventeen the girls will find out which boy they have been destine to marry, and a chance to show off their beauty by colorful dresses, instead of their regular brown, black or grey clothes. Cassia was especially excited as this was the day she’s been dreaming off, showing up as the only girl in a bright green dress. Her match, well it was an unusually one as she was matched with her best friend since childhood Xander. It seem like a fairy tale as both family were excited, and Cassia’s peers jealous, as Xander was a good cached, and they already shared so many memories together, they knew even before the banquet they be perfect together. Cassia was happy, at least until she put her card in to find out all about Xander’s life and saw a face that wasn’t Xander’s staring back at

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