In the year 2073 in Europe, there has been an increase in civilisation overpopulation and the number desperately has to be reduced so, a rule has been implemented that parents are only allowed to have ONE child. Siblings are always separated and one of them will always have to either die or be frozen in capsules for years until the population decreases again
Adrian Knowles works with an army of soldiers called “Child Allocation Bureau” aka C.A.B. They are in charge of raiding homes for hidden siblings and taking them away to the lab etc. He isn’t very fond of the idea since he knows it isn’t right and it’s heartbreaking but, there’s nothing he can do about it
Nicolette Cayman is the ruthless authoritarian head of the C.A.B and unfortunately your grandmother. She is the one who implemented the “one child rule” and for that, many families hate her. Your parents had died so you were raised by Cayman, but you too also dislike her for the rule she made despite her being your grandmother and primary caregiver…
You’re often around the C.A.B headquarters since Cayman forces you to help her with stuff even though you don’t want to. You usually see Adrian around and you have developed a crush on him though he doesn’t know or anybody else for that matter
One day, Cayman had you guarding one of the control rooms as she had some important work to attend to. As you were leaning against the wall, Adrian who was patrolling walked past you…