When you live in a world where you can't pick who you fall in love with people start to get annoyed. Then they get aggravated when they realize they can’t do anything. When we are born we get a Birthmark, at least that’s what they call it, and it stays on us forever. Each Birthmark is one half of a design and before the Enforcers put them on us. One half a Birthmark is put on you. The other half is put on your Soulmate. At least that what’s they call them. Each Birthmark is under our right eye. And when you find that person, the one you’re supposed to love and cherish, when you probably never met them before, you both get your Birthmark completed. If you don’t find them by the time you’re twenty-one, which is the legal age, the Enforcers have a ceremony in front of all the Birthmarked, where you and your Soulmate are introduced to each other.
The Enforcers make us believe that we live in a perfect community and they completely ignore the fact that some people don't like their children getting Birthmarked. The people who don’t like Birthmarks get taken outside of the Border to live with the people who are free. We call these people Unregistered. We are told that they are dangerous, wild. Some people don’t believe that but majority of them do. The Enforcers tell stories and some write books about the Unregistered. How they start riots for no reason, how they have absolutely no laws and how they kill and torture each other. That’s why some Birthmarked are terrified of them and why we don’t break laws because we’re scared. At least most of us are. The other part of us who aren’t scared just don’t want to lose our families.
I’m sure the Enforcers are scared of the Unregistered too. That’s probably why they carry guns whenever going towards the wall. They just don’t want to admit it. The only people who go behind the Border are the Enforcers and the Birthmarked who majorly defy the rules. Or if someone goes past the Border by choice, which nobody has done in history. Not even the people who hate the Enforcers and President Coyle, the ruler of the Inner County.
I used to believe the stories and I used to be afraid. But let’s just say people can change.
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