Jok's Tunnel Ch8

Chapter 8

When I was born, my mother was a very beautiful person. My mother from the upper world told me this. She knew about the sceam from the beginning. "You." She said to the military general, "You thought no one knew. You were wrong. They knew, and they told me." I gasped in suprise. Amy, who told me everything, never told me that. I thought I was the only human who knew about this place, and then told Amy. "I have been here before. Under here, no one gets sick, they can die, espeically from child birth, but never sick. When I was out sick, I was under here, visting my family down here. The military general lies. My mother above ground, she is my birth mother. The militay general, he loved her, but when she found out that she did not belong down here, that her real family was up above ground, he told her to leave. She had me above the ground, but that did not stop her from telling me the truth. The military general told all the people down here an awful lie, that my mother had died in child birth." Amy stopped to take a breath. "Every hundred years, they bring two people down from above when they are young, to increase the population. My mother was one, and Jok is the other. They don't divide the hundred years evenly, so there is about fifty years left." Jok looked very suprised. I don't think he knew that he didn't belong down here. "Everytime they find out, they go up, and nvery come back, because, they really don't belong. The family that Jok comes from........ is Lizzie's.