Being born into a world where all you needed to do was draw in order to achieve what you wanted came easy to everyone. You want to be an astronaut, just draw yourself a certificate. Want a puppy with three eyes and pink fur, draw it! Want the newest car model, draw it!

For every problem there seemed to be a solution, except death, that was still not reversible. Life was just easier, along with making adults more cautious about letting their children use pens and pencils. But despite that people pretty much did as they pleased.

When Charlie was born, she, like many other babies, was drawn by a great artist. Her mother had wanted children, but didn’t want to leave her job. Her father traveled a lot making it hard to talk with her mother, so they both decided to just set an appointment with a well known artist that was difficult to get a hold of, but as always money seemed to be the solution to the problem.

When they met up with the drawer it was a very brief interaction. Almost as if he had known exactly what they wanted. The list of demands on the looks they wanted Charlie to have was as long as the U.S Constitution, along with the traits they had both agreed to. The only difficulty would be raising her. The artist had made this very clear, having met a million different customers with the same expectations that a week later would demand the very first thing he had warned them about, nothing could be erased.

That was one of the main problems with the society you see. Everything you drew was irreversible, despite the fact that anything you drew came to life in its own way, it was impossible to delete that object out of existence. You could burn the object if you'd like, it would just appear in the fire. You could break the object, only for it to come back together on its own. You could also attempt to eat it, many did, the only thing was that many people would end up in the hospital after a few hours.

Nothing seemed hazardous, until you would try to get rid of it. And that also came with drawing a child to life. When you drew a baby to life, the child was born the same way most babies did, bawling. If the baby’s flesh hadn’t been closed off, the baby would die immediately. If the baby had missed an arm, that would be the way the baby would live. But the children would just not die. There had been a ton of babies that had been drawn from the first society, and all of them were still alive.

But despite the warnings that was how Charlie had been born. Growing up was easy for her mainly because of how their parents had given description of how they wanted her to grow up as a kid. The only problem was that they hadn’t prepared her for her teenage years…