Author's Note: District A1 is an anthology series. Each Week will usually focus on a different character, but in the same setting: District A1.
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Jamie awoke in her bed. She started to sit up but her head felt unusually heavy and foggy. As she propped herself up as well as she could, half lying down, half sitting up, she remembered why she felt so sluggish. She had been drugged.
Jamie Lambert lived on Earth, but it no longer went by that name. The New World was called Valantsa, and Jamie lived in the Valantsian Empire. She had been raised as all women were under the Valantsian Empire, without any parents and without any exposure to males. In fact, Jamie and the majority of the female population had no idea that men even existed. The two sexes were completely segregated, and the women were kept in the dark about the existence of a second gender.
This was because women's entire purpose in life was to be bred, and integrating men and women would only distract from and confuse this purpose, in the opinion of the Valantsian High Council. The world outside the walls of the Valantsian Empire was a dark and treacherous place, and so in return for shelter from the harsh apocalyptic elements, the Valantsian Empire demanded a renewable and exponential source of population growth, which all women provided.
Women were impregnated with sperm harvested from men, although as far as Jamie and her fellow female citizens knew, sperm was simply an organic chemical produced by the government that enabled women to create life. Upon being born, their babies would be taken away by the government and sent to schools, so as not to distract the mothers with the task of child-rearing and to allow them to continue to reproduce.
The female babies were raised together, and once they were old enough, taught together, in various schools throughout the Empire. They were prohibited from having sex until they were eighteen, to allow them to focus better on their studies, which were primarily centered around world history. Once they did turn eighteen, sex was not only allowed, but strongly encouraged. The Empire indoctrinated and brainwashed women to be sexual beings above all else. They bombarded them with a culture that was pornographic and, unbeknownst to the general populace, during food production laced all food with hormones that increased libido so that sex would be an inevitable part of everyday life. This way the monotony and discomfort of being pregnant most of one's life could be somewhat alleviated by the constant and accessible relief of sex, making for a content and controllable population.
Women were also typically trained in one of nine professions upon turning eighteen, so they could work and earn a living once they were sent away from school. Once a woman reached the age of twenty, she was usually sent to an existing District to begin being bred. However, in Jamie's case, she was sent to a brand new District that would be filled with a population of women fresh from school who had never been bred before. This was the first time this had been done in the Empire, since it had always been easiest to send graduates to existing Districts so they could be further trained and assisted by women who already lived there and had experience with working and being bred. Women were bred until they were no longer fertile, at which point they were sent to the Capital, where the High Council, other government officials, and the elderly lived.
So, as her memory came flooding back to her, Jamie recalled what had happened just previous to her being drugged. She had graduated from school on her twentieth birthday, as was customary, and had scheduled an appointment with the Doctors.
The Doctors were the faceless and nameless agents of the High Council. They only intervened in the affairs of the citizens when there was trouble, such as a crime being committed or when complex medical procedures were necessary. They were women who were exempted from the responsibility of being bred, and who wore long white robes and white veils to mask their faces. No one was quite sure how one became a Doctor, for they were a very mysterious order that did not communicate or justify themselves to others unless completely necessary.
Jamie had met with a Doctor in her school hospital. The Doctor had explained to her that she would be sedated for her journey to her new home in District A1, for her own safety.
All Districts, included the District her school was located in, were surrounded by immense and impenetrable walls, and topped with transparent domes to shield the citizens from the uninhabitable conditions of the outside world. Travel between Districts was strictly forbidden, and impossible besides. There were no visible entrances or exits in any of the Districts, no doors or passages through the District walls. No one knew how the Doctors traveled between Districts when they were called upon, although some speculated there was some sort of subterranean tunnel system and secret doorways that allowed for unseen transportation.
Of course, in the case of populating a new District with graduates, an exception in the travel restrictions had to be made. But Jamie was not allowed to be awake for it. She was leaving everything behind — her friends, teachers, belongings. She had been assured that everything she needed would be waiting for her in her new home, and upon waking up from her drug-induced slumber, she would find herself in that new home lying in bed.
The Doctor had stuck an intravenous needle connected to an IV bag into Jamie's arm, and before she knew it she had drifted into a deep sleep. Now, as Jamie wiped her eyes groggily and finally managed to sit up and swing her legs over the edge of her bed, she looked around and realized the Doctor had been telling the truth. For one thing she was completely naked. She chuckled, thinking back to the Doctor telling her she wouldn't be allowed to bring anything with her from school. When she'd said anything, she'd really meant it.
She was in a large bedroom, not unlike the one she'd slept in back at school, although this one had only one bed and no roommate to be seen. There was a dresser, a desk, a bathroom, and a closet that looked to be filled with clothes. She got up uneasily, still waiting for the fog to lift from around her head, and shuffled slowly over to the closet. She looked through the wide variety of shirts hanging in front of her, all of which appeared to be her size.
She figured she had probably better get dressed before she could leave her room and explore the rest of her house. She fussed around for a few minutes, rummaging through the brand new clothing that had been supplied for her in her closet, trying to decide what to wear on her first day in her new life.
Finally, she settled for a pair of jeans and a yellow blouse. She slipped on a pair of panties and a bra first, then got dressed. She entered the bathroom to see how she looked in the mirror.
Jamie was a tall, moon-faced girl with long and straight black hair and brown eyes. She had a slight tan and rosy cheeks that grew very red when she was embarrassed or aroused. She had large, perky breasts that were currently pressing together to show off her cleavage, and a wide, round bottom to match.
She smiled at her reflection, running her hands through her somewhat unkempt hair a few times to straighten it until she was satisfied. She left the bathroom and walked to her closed bedroom door. She hesitated before opening it.
At school, she had not only slept in the same room with another girl, but had shared a dormitory with fourteen other girls. She hadn't been told much about her new home at all, so she wasn't sure if she would be living in it alone or with other people. She took a deep breath and opened the door.
She stepped out into an empty hallway. There was another door on the opposite wall to her right, after which the hallway dead-ended. To her left the hallway opened into what looked like a common room, from which she could hear some sort of noise. The other bedroom door was closed, so she decided to head to the common area.
She entered what she realized was a spacious living room with vaulted ceilings and an open kitchen against the back wall. In the middle of the living room was what looked like an extremely comfortable couch, in front of which were a coffee table and large flat screen television. To the right of the television was an ornate wooden door which Jamie figured must open to the street outside. She noticed all this in just a moment, but her attention was naturally drawn to the open kitchen behind the couch, where the noise she'd heard was coming from.
There was a woman in the kitchen cooking something in a pan, which was making a loud sizzling sound. Jamie's view of her was slightly obstructed by the kitchen counter and parallel hanging cabinets. The stove was built into the counter, and so the woman was standing right in front of it, her face blocked from Jamie's view by the hanging cabinets.
Jamie walked past the couch, noticing a dining table and chairs placed between it and the kitchen, and stepped into the kitchen to meet the stranger in her house.
She was face-to-face with a very large woman. She wasn't severely overweight, but was very tall and chubby. She had long and straight brown hair that matched the color of her eyes. Her skin was even more tan than Jamie's, and her breasts were bigger as well. She was wearing a skin-tight gray top that was struggling to contain her heavy breasts. Her large chest was even more obvious due to the decorative black belt she had fastened firmly between her breasts and pudgy stomach. She had long, thick legs encased in tight navy jeans.
