I open my eyes. I am in the same room as before.

"I got a new holo-watch?" I ask.

"Yes, that is why I wanted you to follow me," she says.

"What is different?" I ask Dr. Jensen.

"Why don't you look at it yourself?" she asks me in her usual cheery voice.

I activate my holo-watch.

I see a few new features.

Some of them I kind of expected, such as jobs I'm interested in.

There is one thing that catches my eye. It is something called "Phone compatibility."

"What is phone compatibility?" I ask.

"Now that your 13, you are getting a phone," she says handing me a phone that looks like the phone I saw a girl using yesterday.

"It looks...." I am trying to think of the right word to say.

"It looks old. It looks like something people in the 21st century would use," I say.

"But it's not," she says.

"How?" I ask.

"You can bring up a hologram. Also it is in some ways connected to your holo-watch. You can use some of the same features," she says.

"Does everyone get one of these phones?" I ask.

"Yes. Once you're older you can get a different one," she tells me.

"Anyway," she says. "We have plenty more to do. It is only 15:25."

I look at my own holo-watch. Before when I activated it to see the new features, I didn't look at the time. That is pretty weird, as the time is the biggest size of all the text on the holo-watch. Also, it is the first thing you see when you activate the holo-watch.

I thought it would have been around 15:00, but it is 15:25 just as she said. Maybe it's because Dr. Jensen had me asleep while she was getting a new holo-watch for me. Also, I can't see why it would take that long to get me a new holo-watch. I mean, it's just taking my holo-watch off and putting the new one on, right? It's not like it takes 10 minutes to take the holo-watch off. It's actually pretty easy to take off, even though we are not supposed to. It only could have taken that long if it took a while to find the new holo-watch or if it isn't as simple as taking my holo-watch off and replacing it with a new one. The first option seems more likely. The society wouldn't make it that hard. Not here, at least. Maybe in that rumored part of the society where everyone doesn't follow the rules.

Something else comes to mind. How come I had to be put to sleep for this? I already decided that it must be as easy as removing the current holo-watch and replacing it with another one. Maybe I should ask her.

"Why... did I have to be put to sleep?" I ask in a quiet voice.

"Hmm?" she replies.

"Why did I have to be put to sleep to get a new holo-watch?" I ask again.

"It seems something isn't right with your new holo-watch. I will have to put you to sleep again," she says sitting on the only chair in the room looking at her laptop.

I wonder where that chair came from. I don't think it was here when I came in. Maybe it's a teleporting chair! No Rin... Dr. Jensen probably moved it in here.

"You didn't answer my question," I say.

"You have to be put to sleep to make sure it's all working," she says.

"Can't that happen while I'm awake?" I ask.

"Well, some things need to be done while you're asleep. The rest is done while you're awake," she says.

"I understand now," I say.

"Ok, lay back down on the bed now! I need to fix this error. Here, drink this," she says handing me a purple drink like the one before.

"There are errors in the holo-watch?" I ask holding the purple drink.

"Well of course! Once someone turns 13 there are more likely to be errors. Sometimes they are unnoticeable while other times they are noticed right away," she says.

"Do you know how to fix them?" I ask.

"Enough with the questions now. I need to fix the error before anything else bad happens," she says in her usual cheery voice.

I find it weird that Dr. Jensen always speaks in a cheery, friendly voice. I would think being a doctor would be hard. Well, it's not like she has to do horrible things to people. She's not one of the doctors that sees people fade away every once in a while.

When someone fades away, they are gone. If nothing is done with the person after they have faded away, they stop moving. I don't know if anything happens if they are left for several days as there are people in the society assigned to take care of people who fade away. Those people apparently know how finish the procedure of fading away. In class I learned that someone who has faded away needs to be properly taken care of so they can sleep peacefully.

"Drink it now, please," she says.

I had entirely forgotten what I was supposed to do as I was thinking about how Dr. Jensen always speaks in a cheery voice.

I take the purple unknown drink and drink it on one gulp. I start to feel tired.

"Please lie down," she says.

I feel I have no decision but to do as she says.

My eyes start to close but I try to force them to stay open.

"Let your eyes close," she tells me.

I don't want to close them! She will do something bad to me!

That's it. Being a doctor is hard, isn't it? She speaks in a cheery voice to hide what is so hard about it.

"Is being a doctor hard? Do you speak in a cheery voice to hide that?" I ask.

"It's not hard. At least not for me. I don't see people fade away often, like some doctors do. I think of it as an interesting job. Please just let your eyes close. I can't fix the error with your holo-watch if you don't," she says.

There was no hesitation in her voice or anything! She seemed confident. Maybe...

NO.

There's no way... that she could really be nice. That being a doctor isn't hard.

While I am still struggling to stay awake, I say, "You're lying!"

"That error has really made you go crazy... It must be fixed," she says walking out of the room.

I try getting up, but I don't seem to have the strength to.

Soon, she comes back with something else. It is a turquoise-colored drink.

"Drink this," she says in her usual cheery voice.

I shake my head.

There is no way I would ever drink that!

"I really need to fix this error, so the sooner I fix it the better," she says.

I shake my head again and refuse to drink it.

"Rin, I would hate to have to call someone to get you to cooperate. Those people can be quite harsh," she tells me.

"Shut up! You are lying!" I yell at her.

"Rin..." she says.

"What the hell do you plan on doing to me?!" I yell-ask her.

"I just plan on fixing this error, Rin!" she tells me, her voice starting to get angry.

"Yeah right," I say.

I feel a sudden surge of energy. I no longer have to struggle to keep my eyes open.

I quickly get up and start to run.

"Do you need some help over there?" I hear someone yell.

"She's trying to escape! The error has really affected her!" yells Dr. Jensen.

Someone stops me from going farther.

Dr. Jensen comes over and helps him get me back on the bed and force the turquoise drink down my throat.

My eyes start to close.

No... there's no way I will ever surrender! This will not be the end!

I try to force them to stay open. It doesn't work this time.

Whatever I do... I will not...

"We are all done with that," she tells me.

"Wha?" I say.

"What's wrong?" she asks me.

"I feel..." Different, is what I am going to say. At the last minute I change my mind.

"Go on," she says.

"How could of you fixed the error..." I ask. I was going to continue but my gut feeling tells me not to.

"It's 15:46 now. Time past while I was fixing the error." She smiles.

"You thought no time had passed at all, didn't you?" she says in a friendly, soothing voice.

"Yeah..." I reply.

"We should try to do things more quickly now. Those errors really took up a lot of time..." she says to me.

"It seems they did," I say.

"What's next?" I ask a few seconds later.

"Let's see..." she says activating her holo-watch.

"Oh. I need to take some tests on you," she says.

"What type of tests?" I ask.

"Tests to make sure nothing is wrong with you," she says.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"I want to make sure you don't have an illness or anything of the sort. An illness that could be a threat to the entire society, that is," she says.

"We need to go into another room for this. Follow me," she says.

I follow her into another room with lots of scientific-looking things.

She puts on protective gloves and gets a syringe. She puts a tiny bit of a strange-looking liquid into it.

"I need to give you an injection," she says.

She as brings the syringe near, I wonder what this injection is for. I have them so often that I can't count the amount of times I've had them. I seldom am told what the injection is for and it doesn't bother me.

After she pulls the syringe out after a second or two of having it in she says, "There. All done."

I don't ask what it was for. It is expected that I don't ask. All I know is that it must be something making sure I'm healthy or keeping me healthy. I assume it is the first one, as she said she would need to take tests on me to make sure I'm healthy.

"I would like to look at your holo-watch," she says.

I grab it and try to take it off.

"No, no. Don't try to take it off. Just bring your arm here so I can look at your holo-watch," she says.

"I'm able to take my holo-watch off though," I say.

"Not now. Children-citizens are able to take it off but not adult-citizens or training-adult-citizens," she says.

"Why only children?" I ask.

"It's for protective reasons, or something in that area," she says.

"Oh," I reply.

"Well come over here and sit on this chair." She gestures to the weird-looking chair in the room.

I do as she says.

"Put your hands here," she tells me.

I put my hands where she says. It is on the arm-rests of the chair.

"Now drink this and let yourself sleep," she says to me.

I take the purple liquid and drink it. I let myself sleep. Whatever Dr. Jensen is doing, it must be safe.

I wake up still in the chair. I check my holo-watch as I don't want to get confused like before. It is 16:15.

"You are up, I see. Your arms look normal," she says.

She puts something into her laptop.

"Here, put this on your arm. Also sit in that chair over there," she says gesturing to a normal-looking chair.

I put on the sleeve-looking thing on my arm and sit in the chair.

Dr. Jensen takes a circle-looking thing connected to a box shaped thing on the table. The box shaped thing is blue with a screen in the middle. I can see a few buttons from the side of it that I can see. There is also a hologram up. It seems to show both of my arms.

She starts squeezing the circle-looking thing.

I feel something whenever she squeezing the circle-looking thing.

After what feels like a few minutes she tells me to put the "sleeve" on my other arm. I do as she says.

She taps something on the hologram.

I feel something on the other arm after that when she squeezes the circle shaped thing.

After what feels to be a few minutes she says, "There, all done. You can take that off now."

I take it off.

"Follow me back to my room," she says.

I follow her back.

"Stand on this," she tells me.

What she tells me to stand on is a blue circle slightly above the ground. It seems she wants to test my balance.

I step on the blue circle.

"Ok, try to stay balanced," she tells me while she works a control of some sort.

"Good," she tells me after a while.

"Here is your phone. I put it in a safe place while we had to deal with those flashbacks," she says handing me the phone.

I feel happy to be getting a phone but at the same time I wish I had gotten something better than this. I mean, what was the people who decide who gets what phone thinking? At least I can do more on it than the phones that children can get. Now on those ones you can only call home. If you were in a dangerous situation for whatever reason, you couldn't call emergency! Not that it happens often that someone has to call emergency.

The number for emergency is simple, as it is an easy to remember number. Here it is 999, but in other parts of the society it is different.

"Make sure it works," she says to me.

I try turning it on. It works just fine.

"It seems to work fine," I say.

"What about connecting it with your holo-watch?" she asks me.

"How do you do that?" I ask.

She click some things-I don't pay attention to what it is-and then a holo-gram comes up showing some info.

"Good, it works. I will send you a manual for your phone," she tells me.

I check my holo-watch. It is 16:35.

"I almost forgot. Here, this is for charging your phone," she says handing me a glass-looking darker turquoise rectangle.

"How do I use it?" I ask.

"You just put the phone on it. I'll send you a manual for this too," she tells me.

"Ok," I say.

"Come back here next Saturday. From 14:45 to 16:00," she informs me putting that onto my schedule.

"Can I leave now?" I ask.

"Yes, we are done for today," she says.

"I'll see you next week," I say.

An android comes to bring me back to the lobby.

"So it seems I will be having less checkups at the checkup center..." I mutter to myself.

It seems that becoming an adult is hard.

I'm actually not becoming an adult but training-adult, but they are pretty much the same thing. The difference between the two is that training-adults are learning the job they have been assigned.

AN: So here is chapter 3!
And for once I don't have to fix the paragraphs... they are already there! For the other two chapters when I was copying and pasting from word it was one big paragraph. I would have to look it word to see when I would make a new paragraph so the paragraphs would be the way I typed them in word. If that makes any sense...

Ok now I think I should get off my laptop and go ride my bike. I've been on it all day(my laptop).

I've decided to say how many words each chapter is.

Word Count: 2552