The Abundance Of Flavor

I bit my lip in anticipation as the line got shorter and shorter. Yvette stood in front of me, equally nervous but not as excited.

"Yvette c'mon lighten up, aren't you excited?" She looked back at me but didn't reveal any emotion.

"I'm just anxious" She looked forward "Some of us have no idea what flavor we're going to get today" I knew she was just teasing me but it still hurt.

"Hey! I have just as much of a chance of becoming salt and pepper as the rest of us"

I said it to defend myself but even I didn't believe my own words.

Salt and pepper were the bottom tiers. Very common and so they weren't that high up in rank. To become one wasn't a bad thing but of someone of my status, it would bring great shame upon my family.

Besides everyone already predicted that I was going to become a sweet. Whether on not I became one, the prince had already announced me as his Queen.

"Sure princess" I blushed at the familiar nickname.

Yvette was next in line to get chosen and she was sweating bullets, I tried to comfort her but I knew that as soon as she got inside I wouldn't be able to help her.

Her name was called out and she glanced back to give me an unsure smile "Wish me luck" I smiled encouragingly and gave her the thumbs up.

I watched her enter, her thick dreadlocks dancing behind her, I tried to peak at whatever was in the room but as far as I could see there was just endless darkness. I shivered, creepy.

It didn't take long for it to be my turn and I felt my stomach clench in excitement. This is it, the moment that defines the rest of my life.

I walked inside and the huge doors closed behind me, completely trapping me in the darkroom. I looked around in hope of seeing where I was supposed to go.

"Honey, of the house of Honey please step forward" A loud voice boomed. Although loud, it sounded robotic, as if it had done this thousands of times.

I clasped my sweaty palms together and took one step forward. A platform beneath my feet immediately lit up. It was a circle split into 5 parts, all shaded with the colors of the 5 flavors.

"You are a leader, great for a sweet" I blushed as I knew where this was going "Your destiny is to be our queen, you will surely lead us into prosp-

The voice glitched for a second. I swayed on my feet and waited for it to continue stating my destiny.

" You will st-" The voice glitched again. Is this supposed to happen?

"Rebellion- You will lead us i- The light- You will be our- Your majesty- Greatest fall- A powerful empire-" The voice continued to glitch mixed up versions of my strange future.

The lights underneath my feet began to move in a circle. I felt myself get dizzy and they spun rapidly, the voice continued you shout random pieces of information, none of which were making sense.

I watched the lights hoping that they stopped on the pink section. And they did stop, just not on the flavor I expected.

The silence was deafening silence choked me as I started at a new light that was not there before. The voice also stopped only making things much more painful.

What did this mean? Which flavor is this?

I felt the change. The strands of hair that escaped from my ponytail were turning blue. One by one, my original chestnut hair was changing into a light cyan.

All I could do was watch as an unwanted color claimed me slowly. My shock overwhelmed me and my mind screamed at me to beg for my correct flavor. But I could not move.

I felt myself falling to the ground. The platform beneath me had lost color a long time ago, I was grateful for that because I wouldn't have to stare at the color that picked me.

The color that was never created.

As I hit the ground, the pain never found me. Instead, I numbly stared, and the blue-dyed strands of hair that fell into my vision.

"Honey, of the House of Honey, a Queen we don't deserve, a Queen we didn't expect, a Queen that we have never seen before" Darkness crept into my vision as I felt myself succumbing to unconsciousness.

"And a Queen we will never see again"