The Fruits of Earth - Part 6
Friday, January 04, 2019
Today is the big day!
Today the supervisors will check the girls from my season to see if they have blossomed. This day has finally arrived. The biggest day of my life!
We are brought to the sorting facility which is right outside the Nursery: a long and low building where they have built chambers with transparent walls. We are marched inside a big room and the first-supervisor tells us what is going to happen next.
“Get your clothes off and leave your beanies aside, too,” he says. “We want to see that pretty hair of yours…
First, you have to get undressed. After that, you will wait in line in front of this door and when you get the signal, you must walk down this aisle with glass walls. Supervisors will be posted on each side of the glass walls, on the outside. They will perform the checks by looking at you, girls, but they will not touch you.”
As the first-supervisor explains all this, I glance around me, at the other girls. We are twenty-seven seedlings in my season. Some are taller than me, but I am amongst the most well-developed ones. I can see Oleya wearing her signs proudly, parading in front of the other girls. There’s Carole, too, but she doesn’t appear to be a seed. The skin on her legs looks plain to me. Whoa, too bad for her! Ladeena is also in. She fiddles with her clothing, not wanting to get naked, like she could postpone this moment indefinitely. She’s a wretched soul.
There are other girls showing the signs, too. I have already heard some of them bragging about that and I even saw a few showing their legs. There’s no surprise there. The real surprise will come when I’ll get undressed. Because no one knows what I am. No one suspects. Just a second now. Here we go.
Naked.
I can sense the eyes of the other girls on me, like so many burning arrows. I pirouette in place, smiling, just enough to let them see better. Taking off my beanie, I allow my red hair to cascade around my shoulders. I feel so delighted now that I have all their attention on me. Look closer, poor seedlings: I bear the true signs of a seed.
“…and girls, try to look happy, will you?” the first-supervisor finishes his discourse. “After all, this is the day you’ve been waiting for…”
What happens next, it’s a blur. Still enchanted by the sensation I had as I got undressed, I walk down the aisle behind Oleya. I smile my brightest smile, not only trying to look happy but feeling like in the ninth heaven. It is the first time the supervisors see us without our normal green rompers. I’m a little emotional, to tell the truth, but everything turns up well.
In a minute or so we find ourselves into another room, on the other part of the long aisle. Here we are waited by a few older girls, dressed as servants. They help us put some clothes back on and they sort us into categories: seeds to the right, fruits to the left. In the end, from my season, we are only nine seeds and the rest are fruits. I can now join the rows of the privileged ones.
While we are brought outside the sorting facility and into the sunlight, all I can think about is how great my future life will look like. All the joys, all the experiences that are awaiting me, all the things that I ever wished for… I am a seed! I bathe in this thought as a sparrow would bath in the sunshine.
We, the seeds, are then transported in a real wagon towards our newest destination, the Villa, leaving behind the Nursery and all those poor girls who are nothing but fruits. We travel about twenty minutes in total silence. Everyone is quiet, like being afraid they’ll wake up from a fabulous dream. But this is reality.
In no time, I stand in front of the Villa with tears of happiness in my eyes. As the massive framed doors open, I feel like all my dreams have come true and I am happy beyond myself. I can’t believe my good fortune: I have been chosen!
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