I
got home from school
 and
tossed the folder on the
table.
Nikki was coming over later
to
help
me cope with this problem.
  I
sat there just looking it.
After
some time, I had
gotten
the nerve to actually read
the information in there.
The first sheet is what
I expected.
  A
normal blood test.
The
very last entry on the page
said
"LY test: postive."
 What
the hell is LY?
Apparently, the next page
described LY.
 From
what I got from the second
page,
LY is some genetic disease
that causes
 extreme
agression and physical strength
at times.
It
turns out that LY meant
Lycanthrope.
   "I'm
a fucking werewolf?"
I said recalling what a lycanthrope
was.
I
relized that the werewolf myth
had some
 kind
of factual base.
It
said that the myth of the werewolf
originated
from people with this disease
becoming
  aggresive
like wolves.
 "What
kind of joke is this?"
I read on and it said
that the effects of the LY
  don't
show until age 18.
Only
2 weeks till this stuff happens I thought.
The
next page was on stationary with
the Department of Defense header
at the top.
  It
informed me that having
the
condition is basically against
the law.
People
like me it stated were a
threat to the country and
must be taken care of.
The letter continued by saying
that I was to be
  entered
into a special
military
program
were people like myself can
live in safety.
  A
fucking leper colony.
The
next thing in the folder was
a
brochure that basically tried
to sell me on the
 concept
of the colony.
All
the people in it were in
army fatigues and
carrying weapons and doing
various army things.
 It
also showed the accomidations
that I
could be living in.
  A
barrack .
A fucking barrack in the middle
of the
  fucking
desert.
I
skimmed the actual text of
the brochure
and went on to
the last page.
 The
last page is what originally
    freaked
me out.
It was the item
that the suit told me
to fill out.
It
was a simple contract.
 All
I had to do was check
a box and
sign my name and I
was a
member
of the desert freak show.
   And
if I didn't sign
it?
 What
would happen?
I read the fine
print of the contract and
just
about collapsed when I read
the clause.
"Any persons possessing
the LY genetic
variation
and willingly makes the choice
not to join project LY shall
be considered
a threat to National Security.
   As
stated in NSC-2385A-5,
  any
persons with LY genetic
variation
and
in the general public past
their 18th birthday
shall be executed in accordance
with
 NSC-0193D-9
regulations."
I
fell to my knees relizing that
in a week
I could be dead or in some
secret concentration camp.
I
sat there thinking about what
to do.
 The
sun had set during this
time and
moon light shone through the
window.
A
couple hours later, a knock
at my door:
    Nikki
was here.
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