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"So we have all been given very vague instructions as to what we're supposed to do," Azul was talking in her posh accent, still acting like she was superior to us, "So I've written some schedules for all of us as well as some projects for all of you with some deadlines."
It felt like we were back in school, she was teacher and we were the bored pupils who couldn't wait to get out of her lesson. She handed us our schedules and projects one by one and I averted my eyes to the writing on the paper. I didn't know how she could have written them all up so quickly, we had only been our rooms for half an hour maximum.
Dara: writing
Project 1: write new religious scriptures.
Time given for project: one week
I was still confused as to why I had been assigned to write, sure I had written for fun in my free time but I wasn't particularly talented. Not when you compared me to all the bestselling authors whose books were sold at the rate of light. Curiously I looked over at Niall's paper which was set out very similarly to mine.
Niall: singing
Project 1: write and record five pop songs
Time given for project: one week
That's not fair, I thought to myself; why did we both have the same time given for our projects when mine would take a lot longer than his. He could probably write and record songs within the space of three days whereas I knew I would have to spend every waking hour working on some new scriptures. I wanted to complain to Azul but to honest, I was scared of the Thai beauty who was in deep conversation with her partner Jack.
I saw the other boys looking at Azul out of the corner of their eyes while the girls beside them tried to make conversation. Even I had to admit that she was distractingly beautiful. Her hair cascaded down her back, the teal colour glinting under the lights in the room, she had a gorgeous complexion that most people would die for and despite her small stature she still had curves.
"What's going to be in your new religion?" The Irish boy next to me asked which snapped me out of my daze and I played with my fingers nervously. I knew he was only making conversation to try and get rid of the tension, he probably didn't care what would be in my religion.
"Love," I said in a small voice, "Equal rights, an all loving god."
Niall nodded and slowly stood up, without another word he whispered something in Azul's ear and left the room. Some people looked at me with a puzzled expression and I just shook my hands at them to say that it wasn't a big deal even though to me it was becoming an increasingly large problem.
All around the room, the partners held hands with each other despite only knowing each other for a space of a few hours. It seemed crazy to think that we had only known each other for a matter of half a day, it seemed like whole weeks had passed and yet none of it had really sunk in. The shock was still very much alive inside of me.
Azul sent me off to some room in the upstairs of the building where we all had our own rooms to work in. Opening the door to my 'study' I gasped at how beautiful it was; the walls had been painted a light lilac and pictures were hung all around the room. There was a desk with a laptop on it, but there were also chairs dotted around the room that looked a lot more comfortable than the office chair behind the desk.
I didn't know where to begin, I had never been a religious person myself; my parents had drilled their atheist views into me since I could remember and the idea of a god existing seemed like fairytale to me.
"Surely this can't be a good thing," I whispered to myself, "All the future generations will look at my words and believe they came from a divine entity when in fact the came from some girl who didn't even believe that a god of some sort existed!"
I can't screw this up, I thought to myself as I got out a sheet of paper and a pencil. I was faced with a dilemma when I started planning, I couldn't decide whether to go down the route of having a main character whose actions would teach people how to behave or whether to just make an instruction manual that would outline how to live.
I walked around the room, trying to see if the people who placed me there had left me any clues, and finally I found a laminated sheet that was almost like a checklist. I skimmed over the sheet, and deciphered that they wanted something much like the Bible or another holy scripture- but they wanted one that wouldnt cause wars or division in society.
"I suppose I should treat this like a story; plan my main characters, themes and maybe a few plot twists," I laughed at my own words just because it sounded so strange. The idea that I would be writing something that would shape the new world seemed so unreal that I had to convince myself that I was simply writing a storybook that would teach children good lessons.
Opening the laptop, I opened up a blank page where I would begin writing the future. My fingers brushed over the keys, I wasn't sure where to start.
"I'll stick with the name God, its catchy," I murmured to myself as I wrote the first sentence.
The Almighty God, decided that the universe was too empty so he formed...
"No this is rubbish," I pressed the delete key so hard I was surprised that I didn't break it, "I'm just rewriting the things from the Bible, I need to write something new."
God was not a male or a female, he wasn't a human, not a living being.
"This is going to be a long, hard week," I whispered as I deleted the sentence I had just wrote. I was already feeling the pressure suffocating me, the task just seemed so gigantic- too big for just one person.
One sentence, I thought to myself while I closed my eyes, once you have the first sentence you will be fine.
So I thought it would be nice to kind of introduce what Dara will be doing, things will speed up soon.
So I was trying to think of ship names for all the partners but some of them are pretty crap! If you can think of any better ones please comment them (because all of mine are pretty bad)
Coby and Indigo - #Cobigo?
Madeline and Gary - #Gadeline?
Ellie and Maz - #Mallie?
Azul and Jack - #Jazul ?
Zara and Adam -#Zadam?
Dara and Niall- #Nara?
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