Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020complete | Page 462

to call them over but my friends stopped me. My friends decided to get into the White House. I don’t know
how the guards didn’t see us but they didn’t. We overheard the president’s plan.
11/16/2058
It’s now 3 days since we came back to Shanghai. We found out why the water we saw was getting
darker. It was because they were releasing some type of chemical into it, but we don’t know why. We want to
fight back but that could never work. We think of all the possible ways to do anything, you know, without
getting caught. We all half-heartedly head back to greater bay area, because we can’t do anything about the fact
that our parents have been held captive.
We arrived back to our villa, exhausted and miserable. We were too tired to realize until 2 hours later
that no one was in Greater Bay. All bewildered, we went out on a search in the greater bay only to find no one.
The strangest part was that everything was untouched, nothing was damaged and nothing was gone. After about
an hour, we found a note pinned on our table, saying, “if you want your lives to go back to normal, maybe you
should not have escaped. You kids just put your friends in a whole lot of trouble”. We all look at each other,
way more scared then we were before….