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[itrywriting-noob]

Grey

Only the oldest humans remember what colours looked like and what the world looked like before it all went grey.

My Grandma was one of them. Before she passed, she'd sit little me down and talk and talk and talk about how beautiful the world was before the Greying.

"Oh Noah, it was so beautiful," She would say, a glazed look in her sad eyes, "The sky was a vibrant blue, the soil a beautiful brown and the trees, an unforgettable green."

I never knew what any of those words meant, I didn't know what she meant by green or blue or brown, I didn't know what any of those colours look liked.

Just like the rest of the children my age, we were born after the Greying, as they - the ones old enough to remember, called it.

Mama would always say - verbatim, "It's those damn capitalist fault. They were so desperate to make more money that they didn't care what they destroy or who they hurt. They just kept pumping the air with pollution, putting dangerous materials into the ocean, and destroying anything and everything they could get their dirty paws on."

"What's a carpi- carpitlist?" Little Gwen, my sister would ask, her pigtails swishing side to side as she hopped around the kitchen.

"You'd understand when you're older." Mama gave her the same reply she always gave me which didn't make sense because, i'm older now and i still don't know what any of those things meant.

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Jane.

She kept glancing at her phone in her hands, hoping for a message, a phone call or anything at all even though she knew it was all wishful thinking. She had made sure that no one would be able to contact her when she ran away from her family.

She couldn't help the sad smile that etched itself on her lips. Not only that, but she still couldn't believe what she had done. She had not just abandoned her parents and friends, she had also left behind her husband and her children.

'Quite selfish of you, don't you think?' A small voice at the back of her mind said to her, causing her smile to drop a little. 'Abandoning your entire family and ruining the lives of the people you love, all for a selfish dream. That isn't right of a good Christian woman.'

"Shut up." She muttered under her breath as her smile fell completely. She knew what she was doing, and it wasn't a stupid dream.

'Do you really think that you could make it in Hollywood and become a celebrity?'

"Shut up." She rebutted, her fists clenched tightly by her side, tears threatening to spill from her big baby blue eyes, "Please...", she pleaded silently.

'Jane Jane Jane...' It mocked.

"Shut Up!" She shouted loudly, causing many of the passengers on the train to stare at her.

'Jane Jane Jane... Stupid Stupid Jane...' It taunted.