3 En... I Am Alrigh (1/2)

She stood outside the doors of the study trying to prepare herself before coming in.

”Elizabeth, sit down.” Her father's stern but gentle voice can be heard as he sat on the olive green European style armchair near the small fireplace. Her mother is sitting on the chair beside her father, her lips pursed together tightly while holding her hands together.

He harrumphed before starting. ”Precious, we have to tell you the truth right now. We've been so attached to you that we were silently hoping for this day to never come. My precious, you are not our daughter. We were given the task by our leaders to take care of a child more than a decade ago. We never had a child of our own so we gladly took you in and treated you as if you were our own. I know that this is going to be hard for you to take in but before your coming of age ceremony comes we have to bring you back to your real family.” He lightly patted the back of his wife to console her as she silently cries about what's going to happen.

She was dumbstruck. Her mouth still gaping in shock of what her parents, no scratch that, what her foster parents told her.

'No no no no... this is not real. Dad, is this some kind of joke? If this is some kind of joke you're taking it too far.” She said as her head shakes in denial of what she's been told.

Still in denial, she ran out of the study while trying to wipe the tears that are falling down. She slammed the door to her room and dove under the covers. Bawling her eyes out like there's no tomorrow. She felt a sharp pain in her heart that made her gasp. 'Pain, pain, so painful.'

A painful scream can be heard from her bedroom. Two people ran furiously to get into her room only to see her body contorting in pain.

”Call them now!” he said as her mother fumbled for the phone and tried to call them.

Everyone's heart feels like it's being pricked with tiny needles seeing her body contorting in pain, red tears flowing out from her eyes and scratches on her chest.

A few minutes felt like hours while waiting for them to come and stabilize her body.

Two people in black flitted to her room, one of them immediately took out a syringe filled with red liquid and injected it into her body. The spasms stopped and her body relaxed but the bloody tears are still falling down.

”This is what's gonna happen to her continuously if she's still not confined within the palace walls before her coming of age ceremony.” The man who injected the serum told them firmly and pursed his lips.