What If?

Prologue:

Hi, I’m Elise Hiser, and I’m here today to explain something that may be very troubling for some of you to hear. Fortunately, I am working on ways to end it. This all started way before I was born, and I have no clue how long, maybe since the beginning of time. You see, I grew up in the part of society that you don’t see. We are called the GAP: standing for Gifted Advisors for the People. That means we are the people who choose how your life is run. At birth we are assigned a DP (Designated Person), for whom we make life choices; essentially what you would call the “voice inside your head”, yep that’s me, well at least for my person Jacob Winsethorp, he's the one who changed me and made me realize what this GAP was and I wanted no part in being torn from my one true love just to make more super humans, to corrupt the minds of society, not really my style. Our special team is like a hybrid of humans or a super breed, hand picked by the government, and they keep us pretty well hidden considering you've clearly had no knowledge of our existence prior. I know this is a lot to take in at once, it’s very confusing, but just stick around a while and it will all be explained along with why I caused everything to change by breaking the border and starting a rebellion to last a lifetime.

Chapter 1:

At precisely 4:25 am Elaina and Edward Hiser became the loving parents of their new baby Elise Hiser (me). I was one of the special ones, a GAP (Gifted Advisor for the People) as our government would call it. We are genetically modified humans, we are all born with the intellect of a typical five year old. Since we are so advanced, the government decided to hide us from the real world and assign us each a regular everyday person to be in control of, we call those people normys. We never get to meet the people we control, and they never even realize they are under any control. The government set it up like this so they can still have total control over the society, and control things like who becomes the next billionaire, or who is the next mass murder. The only time we ever see the normys is when we are born because we don’t have our own birthing units. At birth we are all assigned a DP (Designated Person), which is the normy whose life we are in control of. Since we are not smart enough to fully grasp a control panel, all you really do as a baby is eat, sleep and cry. Around 2 years old, we have to go through a three day training phase to finally learn how to work our DP’s brain. Then we go through another three day training phase at around 10-13 years old, for when our DP reaches puberty. As they age, we start to have a more indepth control panel, we are able to access all inner thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and we are able to choose what you do with them. The process of choosing who our DP will be is very simple, they choose the baby that is born at the closest time and proximity to us. We are also given an SP (Special Person) which is supposed to be our soulmate. SPs are almost always from the same society you are born into. The process of finding out who someone's SP is more difficult. the government made a special device to test compatibility and see who would work better together. This test also determines the path that the person will take in life, based mostly on the family you are raised in, and the area you are coming from. Some people are also predisposed to certain characteristics; this test tells them that, like who could be more rebellious and who is more compliant. They use that information to either double down on the GAP kid, and make sure they stay in line, or guide the normy to a pathway that leads to jail, or who knows, maybe they could be the next revolutionaries. The problem with me is that normy chose to be my DP, Jacob Winsethorp, just so happened to be my SP as well. He was even born the exact same time and in the same exact hospital, oddly enough three rooms down from me. When the leaders of GAP went to run the test to see who my SP was they freaked out seeing Jacob’s name. My soulmate wasn’t just any normy, but a normy whose life was under my control. However before we dive into all the juicy details and get into this huge war that was destined to be, I should explain to you the type of life I was living. So the GAP people are hidden underneath the normys. literally picture this underground concrete village of people, this is how we manage to stay hidden from one another. The government built it years ago when they realized they could use us to control everyone else. So while the normys get to live there life above ground in the “real world”, where they can feel the warmth of a sun beam and the wetness drip down from the rain, we don’t get to see sunlight, we’ve never smelt fresh air in the spring or felt waves crashing on our feet and we haven't even felt rain dripping down on us from the sky. We are all stored together in a facility and we live in factions. They have cameras all around our factions, and security guards that stand by each pod. In our rooms we have our bed, a counter, and DPs control panel. with these control panels, we can see all that our DP sees, almost as if we were playing a video game and the normys were our characters. Sounds pretty awesome right, well atleast if you're comfortable letting real people with real feelings walk around clueless to the fact that they are actually more like mindless puppets. We are only allowed to socialize with our families and the family of our SP (Special Person). I know what you all are thinking, who do you socialize with if your SP is a normy? well don’t worry they set up other options for you and your parents get to decide who they feel is best suited to be with you. Every age group (1-10,10-16,16-20,20+) has a curfew. If you're caught out past curfew you'd be stripped of social privileges and forced to stay in your portal, allowed only to read for two weeks on the importance of time management. If you are reported by someone for mentioning anything negative about the world we live in, you would undergo hypnosis to make you believe everything they're doing here is amazing, and you're doing the normy's a favor by controlling their lives. We wear a tracking device given at birth so they know our whereabouts at all times. We don't have Tvs, Phones, Computers nothing like that. it's deemed wasteful and unacceptable for our levels of intelligence. Instead we have Projectors controlled by our leaders and emergency phones to alert us when we are getting close to curfew, who broke curfew, if we weren't allowed social hours, when we are needed back home, basic information such as that. we are never allowed to use it for personal entertainment, or else we would be put in solitary for a week. Solitary is where they give you the minimum food needed to survive, and no one else but you and the control panel for your DP are allowed in the room, and they give you a manual you must read three times; talking about the importance of not taking advantage of your phones. After that you are tested and if you make a 100% you are released under probation, if not you get another week of studying in solitary. Probation lasts two weeks, you are still unable to socialize with most people other than the ones in which you live with, and you have a special guard with you at all times. The last three days of probation they teach you the importance of the phones again and let you go. Everything wrong you do gets documented in permanent files you're only allowed three documentations after the age of ten because we are supposed to be perfect super humans. If you get more than three you are forced to pack up your stuff and meet with the leaders who will decide your fate. This decision is based upon marital status, brain capacity, and age. If you are married you generally are sent to public execution to show that the leaders are serious about our rules. If you're single you usually get sent to the drain and get kicked out. This basically means they take 80% of your brain capacity leaving you average, and remove you while swiping any previous memory of who you were. If you're born into the “top of the top” families, and have an enormous amount of brain power you usually get put under a strong hypnosis and sent to a two year training camp, no one knows what happens there, but the people never return the same as they once were. So it was a pretty big deal for me to even begin to think about breaking this system down, after being taught to love this place and honestly feeling like you're doing this huge favor for your DP. To make matters worse, my family is in with the top people. My dad works as a security agent for our people because his DP unfortunately died at the age of 35. He's allowed to tell us some information of what is to become of the 'law' breakers however some remains secret. He's not allowed to give us information of who does the hypnosis or the names of the people who run our agency. He constantly reminds me of how the solitary room looks, honestly his constant reminder of that place is probably what took me so long to decide to rebel. He says it's worse than anyone could think it is, they knock you out so you have no clue of its location, put you in different clothes, lock you in a room where there is no door you can see visibly, only once a day a tiny slit opens to give you food and water. in a dark room with no light other than that given off by the DP brain panel, no bed or blanket to sleep on. based off surveys taken by our leaders the room is set to the extreme opposites of your preferred temperature; for example if you like it colder then it will be set to the extreme heats they give off in desert areas, if you like it warmer it'll be set to be as cold as the coldest days in antarctica. Given that all the clothes are a middle between two extremes, they provide little to no help. my dad said people surviving this is incredibly low, only about 1/100 people put in make it out alive. and after survival they are really messed up considering the circumstances of what they endured. I don't think anyone could leave that the same as they went into it. My father always told me a story about how even though my true love was my DP, I could make it work with someone who wasn't my true love and still have a great family life with them. My birth mother had died when I was just 5 years old and I was much to handle with his bustling job. My dad remarried to my current mother just months after my real one's death, the government hand picked her, and my dad tells me constantly she reminds him of my real mom. This story is supposed to make me not care that I will never be able to experience the feeling of true love, make me believe that the person I actually end up with can make me feel just the same way as Jacob would. However, all it really did was make me realize that no one really will ever understand what it's like to be me, seeing everyone else end up with their true loves, and having great lives and these people are telling me I don't need to care about true love. Sometimes I even wonder if the story dad tells me is true, or if the government killed her so he could tell this story and brainwash me into believing that being with someone you don't truly love is okay. I wouldn't put it above them to do something as cynical as that. Our society was not always as controlled and strict as it is now. all these new rules and regulations started a while back because our society was almost destroyed. This girl Sarah Reelers was assigned the love of her life as her DP. She was the cause of all of these new rules and safety precautions for security measures. Never before was someone given their Special Person as their Designated Person as well, so they set up some rules to make sure our society was kept secret, even though that meant they would both never meet their true loves. Sometimes when they run the test to see who your SP is at birth, the results are either inconclusive or blank, meaning you aren't linked to any particular person, so one day by chance two people from this group will meet and fall in love the most natural and unpredictable way. The leaders of our society, knowing this information, told her she would have to marry/ fall in love with someone else knowing that she could never love someone as much as she would love her person Mark. You see Sarah was susceptible to the rules at first even agreeing to marry a man in which she wouldn't ever truly love. One day her DP Mark had started to get feelings for a girl in his Chemistry class, at first Sarah dealt with it as she was told to; however, after they had a study date that left Mark wanting to "make a move" on the girl, Sarah went berserk. The very next day during a class experiment, Sarah forced Mark to spill a very dangerous chemical onto his crush causing her clothes to dissolve and burning some of her skin. The girl was rushed to the hospital and while Mark's immediate reaction was wanting to help and apologize, Sarah forced him to laugh and record the girl in disera and post it to every social site imaginable. It doesn't stop there, Sarah's obsession grew. every time a girl would even look at Mark she would make them regret it. Eventually she got so obsessed, she broke out at night while Mark was sleeping and made a run for it. back then our security was little to none because there was no need for us to be forced in and everyone loved it. Lets just say to this day, we don't know where Sarah is or what happened to her on her journey to the real world, but she caused this place to change A LOT! So I'm sure you're wondering now after learning about Sarah and Mark how everyone reacted to finding out my SP was a normy as well. As I told you in the beginning, everyone showed deep concern with my SP, since we were a perfect match just like Sarah and Mark. They figured I would have turned into another Sarah situation, and I can’t say I blame them. We would never be able to even look at each other face to face, which honestly feels horrible. Given my situation with Jacob I’ll be honest, the decisions I made were, at times, unprofessional and selfish. but for the most part I really did what I was supposed to. I put him on the path his life should be on, the only problems came into play when it came to girls, I was just a little apprehensive. Imagine knowing the person you would have the most amazing fairy tale love story with is real and out there but you can never even speak to him, now imagine having to control every move in his life and knowing eventually you’d have to pick someone else for him to fall in love with. It was hard to stay professional all the time because of what I knew. Maybe it wouldn’t have been the same if I never knew, but honestly I have to admit I’m glad I do know. I can see why the whole system almost collapsed last time with Sarah and Mark's situation, I don’t blame her. However, despite how that may sound I did not start this war strictly based on love and fighting so I could finally see Jacob in person and be with him, even though that made it an easier decision to make when the time came. The situation with Jacob and I caused the security where I live to become even tighter than it was before. The government would come in and do monthly check ups on me and my family to make sure we are all on our best behavior. They made my family tell fairy tales differently, they would always end with the princess learning that even though they didn't end up with the person that was supposed to be their soulmate they still managed to be happy and end up learning to love the person they ended up with.

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