Among the Hidden
...e’s other brother, Mark, grumbled. “Can’t he go outside some? Maybe at night?” Luke waited hopefully for the answer. But Dad just said, “No, without looking up.” Just because Luke was the third, illegal child he wasn’t allowed to go outside, and help his brothers, he must stay home and be lonely for the rest of the day, until they back. Luke was lonely because he doesn’t have any friends, and the worst thing was that he couldn’t get any fiends. Luke’s parents and his brothers were the only people he cold talks with. At morning, after breakfast Luke’s family, left and they barely had time to say goodbye to Luke. One day he was up in his room. They had the new neighbors and he was looking at their house, he saw a face in the window. There were already two children and they were at school at this time. So he starts thinking that maybe this could be a third child like him. He decides to go over to investigate. He meets a girl named Jen who introduces him to the world of shadow children. She was the first person that he ever meets. “All the driveways were empty. Nothing moved, not even the flag on the Gold Family’s flagpole or the spokes on the Birdbrain Family’s fake windmill. And then, out of the corner of hid eye, Luke caught a glimpse of something behind one window of the Sports Family’s house. A face. A child’s face. In a house where two boys already lived.” After that he was so surprised, because he never thought that somewhere in the world may be a child who is exactly like him, who must hide because of the Population Law. Luke was also lonely because he wasn’t a free person and he couldn’t do things that his brothers did. He must felt like a imprisoned animal in the cage, he couldn’t go outside, he couldn’t play baseball with his brothers, he couldn’t do nothing, just sit in his room and thought positively that maybe someday things will change. But thing will not change, specially if he doesn’t do nothing with the Population Law. “But he’d never be able to do anything in hiding. He bit his lip. His hand shook as he wrote his answer. I want a fake I.D. Please.” He decided to receive the fake I.D. so he could be a free human who can do whatever he wants to do and he doesn’t have to hide any more. I think Luke is not lonely any more but the feeling of loneliest is still hiding somewhere deep in his heart. Luke is helpful kid because he was helping his parents in many jobs at backyard before other people “Barons” came to the town and settled t...