The Fairness I Never Got Novels & Stories

Darice asked skeptically. "I have to prove that what the book says is true." Ana sat back in the chair. "I told you the book was just nonsense." Darice sighed tiredly on the other side. "After I checked and found out I was wrong. I promise I will let you think of me as crazy or whatever. Even if you put me in a mental hospital. I don't care but before that let me find out first." Ana tried to persuade. Darice chuckled. It was useless to forbid Ana, she knew her friend very well. That's why she decided to give in. "Okay. But you have to promise me one thing."

*Flashback* "That's not fair. Do you even care at all about what I want? No, you don't! It's always been about you! What you want and what works for you! Everyone else can just suck it right?" Kayla had argued back to her husband that evening. She hadn't been one to raise her voice - for anything really, but she'd been beyond livid. "Kayla, we've talked about this many times. Shouting will not get you anywhere."

He whispered, I shook my head, unable to meet his gaze. “It's not fair… Liam, it's not fair. Why does he get to go scotfree after he took so much from us? After stealing nine years of my life? Why does he get to have me? How can he win? After everything he did to ruin my life.” I wailed. Liam kept quiet, letting me get everything off my chest. My heart ached, the festering wound in my soul felt raw and it burned.

“We did what we could, mi niña. That’s all anyone can do in this life. It’s not fair… I know it’s not, but fighting it won’t change what’s already been set in motion.” My vision blurred all over again with hot tears I stubbornly refused to shed. “Not fair?” I whispered, my voice shaking violently. “You just… handed me over. Like I was… some sort of object to be traded at a market.” Her gaze softened, but it didn’t lessen the crushing weight of the truth. “Rivera, you have to understand. People like us… we don’t get soft. We don’t get love. We don’t get—” Her voice hitched slightly. “We don’t get to live the fairy tales we dream about.”

] My father wrapped his arms around himself in fear as he cursed, “Annie already gave up her position as the Dawson family’s heiress. She has sacrificed enough! Does it matter if Zinnia eats alone? This system is garbage! I want to terminate it right now!” [The system reserves the right of final interpretation. [Contract term: lifetime. Termination permissions: none.] “What level of pain did we experience earlier?” my mother cautiously asked. [Level 5.] I felt a sense of satisfaction unlike any I had ever known as I watched my parents’ anger and helplessness. So, this was what the Children’s Fairness System felt like. I was elated! My mother waved her hand and pulled me to the dining table.

There’s a stranger in my house and she’s taking over everything that was supposed to be mine. As I raise to my feet, knocking the chair down as I do it, there is only one thought in my head. It’s not fair. That’s all it comes down to. It’s not fucking fair. Right now I don’t care about my revenge, I don’t care about the money or the lands, I don’t even care about my late mother. All I care is that this is my life’s work that this woman came to steal away from me and it’s not damn fair

Smiled through war. All I’d wanted was to ask for my gym renewal. Something small. Something for me. Instead, I was the villain. Again.

When I returned to the Costello family as the long-lost daughter, I was dressed in my adoptive sister's hand-me-downs, and the family driver came only for her. Still, they felt guilty toward the daughter they had raised in my absence. So when the government rolled out the Fairness System, they registered the whole family before I could blink. My father exhaled with relief. "With this system enforcing absolute equality, Brittany won't ever have to suffer again." My mother took my hand, her voice leaving no room for argument.

“That’s not fair!” “Fair?” I laughed bitterly. “You want to talk about fairness?” I stepped even closer toward her, anger burning hotter with every word leaving my mouth. “Was it fair to Nilah? Was it fair making her raise another woman’s child while grieving her dead babies? Was it fair watching her pour every ounce of love she had left into Alex while we both stood there lying to her face every single day?” Stephanie looked horrified now, but I could not stop anymore. Years of resentment I had buried beneath guilt and silence finally spilled out uncontrollably.

I didn’t come to Westbridge High to make enemies. I came to survive. New school. New city. Just me and my best friend, Joe, trying not to get crushed by a place ruled by rich athletes and their unspoken rules. That plan lasted exactly one day. Because Joe got targeted. And I made the mistake of stepping in. Now, I’m caught between the two most dangerous boys at Westbridge: Jay Vale the untouchable hockey captain who looks at everyone like they don’t matter. Liam Knox the former best friend who used to stand beside him... until a bitter confession broke them apart. Jay says he wants to help me. He offers to tutor me, to protect me. But the way he watches me doesn't feel