Spark — Alicia Michaels

Most nineteen-year-old girls are thinking about college, stretching the wings of newfound adulthood, and boys. Well, I'll probably never go to college, and all my dreams of the future are gone. I've been adult for much longer than I should have been, and my girlhood was stolen the minute the North Koreans dropped their nukes over the United States. As for boys... well, that's pretty much out of the question now. My love life is too messy to even talk about. I have nothing. Except, maybe, my cause - my mission - The Resistance. It is the hope I have to cling to. I am counting on it to pave the way to my future. As things heat up and the terrorist sect known as The Rejects make themselves known opponents of society in this war, the choice to be on the side of good is harder than ever. My friends are broken; Olivia is a shell of her former self, and Jenica is barely hanging on. Dax and Gage... well, we're not talking about my love life, remember? The Rejects, the government, President Drummond... they are pressing in on us from all sides, and the weight is tremendous. Still, when given the choice to crumble or stand, I'd rather stand. Times are dark, but we are here, a rebellion, a whisper in the dark, a spark that lights the flames of change.