Emeros X
Prologue
Studies have shown that when an individual is in love, his or her body releases a series of chemicals:
phenylethylamine (PEA), norepinephrine, dopamine, oxytocin, testosterone, and many endorphins. Years
passed with little attention to the study. People became more reliant on the state of technology, finances
and education. Within several decades, the homelessness rate was barely one percent. The national
minimum wage set at ten dollars an hour, and the technology industry was flourishing. Educational
standards were set higher, creating a system that enabled students to retain critical information while still
holding onto their imaginations and creativity, allowing industries to grow exponentially. Divorce rates
however, were at an all-time high, with eighty percent of couples divorcing within ten years.
The nation was in an uproar. What could possibly be done to lower the divorce rate? Many suggested
not getting married at all; they claimed that love was unnecessary. Dr. Emeros, a biological chemist with a
divorce looming in his future, had a different approach. After months of research, he and a team of forty
developed a small pill. This pill, when ingested at the right time, causes an individual to release the
chemicals attributed to love, affectively making him or her to fall in love, and when taken daily, stay in
love. Tests were made, using human subjects between the ages of thirteen and forty. Regardless of the
subject’s age, gender or sexual orientation, the study showed that one hundred percent released the
chemicals appropriately.
Dr. Emeros announced his findings and within months, the product was sold to most of the populace
who were in romantic relationships. Divorce rates plummeted as expected. However, the nation became
dependent on the drug. Not a single couple lasted for a year without the aid of Emeros X. To them,
organic love, as it was now called, didn’t exist. The problem with the drug quickly came into
consideration: how would the next generation fall in love? They soon came to a consensus that, once the
child had fully undergone puberty, they were to be paired up with another based on opposite genes
linked to the immune system (MHC), physical type, and sexual preference. A week before the pair was
scheduled to meet, both would be taken to a building in their town, placed in a room and told to take two
pills a day. At the end of the week, they would be placed across from each other, affectively starting the
process of falling in love. Every couple used married by the time they turned twenty five, with no
divorced filed.
phenylethylamine (PEA), norepinephrine, dopamine, oxytocin, testosterone, and many endorphins. Years
passed with little attention to the study. People became more reliant on the state of technology, finances
and education. Within several decades, the homelessness rate was barely one percent. The national
minimum wage set at ten dollars an hour, and the technology industry was flourishing. Educational
standards were set higher, creating a system that enabled students to retain critical information while still
holding onto their imaginations and creativity, allowing industries to grow exponentially. Divorce rates
however, were at an all-time high, with eighty percent of couples divorcing within ten years.
The nation was in an uproar. What could possibly be done to lower the divorce rate? Many suggested
not getting married at all; they claimed that love was unnecessary. Dr. Emeros, a biological chemist with a
divorce looming in his future, had a different approach. After months of research, he and a team of forty
developed a small pill. This pill, when ingested at the right time, causes an individual to release the
chemicals attributed to love, affectively making him or her to fall in love, and when taken daily, stay in
love. Tests were made, using human subjects between the ages of thirteen and forty. Regardless of the
subject’s age, gender or sexual orientation, the study showed that one hundred percent released the
chemicals appropriately.
Dr. Emeros announced his findings and within months, the product was sold to most of the populace
who were in romantic relationships. Divorce rates plummeted as expected. However, the nation became
dependent on the drug. Not a single couple lasted for a year without the aid of Emeros X. To them,
organic love, as it was now called, didn’t exist. The problem with the drug quickly came into
consideration: how would the next generation fall in love? They soon came to a consensus that, once the
child had fully undergone puberty, they were to be paired up with another based on opposite genes
linked to the immune system (MHC), physical type, and sexual preference. A week before the pair was
scheduled to meet, both would be taken to a building in their town, placed in a room and told to take two
pills a day. At the end of the week, they would be placed across from each other, affectively starting the
process of falling in love. Every couple used married by the time they turned twenty five, with no
divorced filed.