My document started in “dark mode” as my first page opened online. Quickly, I mouthed out a few words to test the waters of my new found portal and spoke the word, “sex” into the microphone of the cell phone. Like much of my life, I always started in dark mode.
Different from the rest of the people, my place was at the bottom, scrambling with my fingers outstretched reaching for answers constantly through my 18 years of aging. Digging to climb out of the world I was born in, my life was going to be different some day. I can’t believe it started changing with just a single device, a cell phone.
“Charlie’s” the name, by the way, but only Rebecca calls me this…because I like it. Rebecca was my best friend growing up in the compound underneath the ground and we had decided years ago, “Charlie suited me better.” Everyone else calls me “Dinah,” a biblical name of which I despise.