I take a deep breath. I have no idea why I'm so scared. I've already had a Selection, so this has to be no problem. I have to think positive thoughts just as Father said I should. This is my second, and last shot at finding the love of my life. I have to take this more seriously that I did my last Selection. I have to make sure that I don't get caught up in someone like her.

America, I wonder how she is doing. I wonder how she is taking the news. I hope that someday she will be able to forgive me. She probably hates me, but she has to know that I have done this for her, to protect her. If I hadn't, who knows what my Father would have done. I would rather spend the rest of my life with someone else, rather that know that she is hurt, and that I could have stopped it.

Coward I call myself. It's true. I am a coward. I couldn't stand up to my Father, and now I have lost everything that has ever mattered to me. I hate myself for this.

" Maxon," my mother's warm voice calls out to me. I look up from my plate full of food. She gives me a kind smile, as she always does. Another reason as to why I hate myself. Mother had thought of America as a daughter. She thought that she would final have a daughter, someone that she would be able to laugh with and talk to. America was everything to us, but she would never be welcomed to our family as long as he had a say in any of this, which he did. " Please eat, Dear. You haven't taken a bight of anything since they left."

How can I? I want to ask her. I shake me head. I shouldn't get mad at her.

" If he doesn't want to eat anything Amberly, then let him be." Father says, coldness in his voice. Mother gives a nod and sighs.

How can a kind and loving person like herself, end up with a cold, selfish man like him? I sigh and try to take a bite of my food, my fork drops back to my plate. I can't do things, I don't want to do this. Why was I such a fool for letting her go? Maybe she has put her name in for the Selection.

" You better straighten up. Tomorrow we will learn who the Selected are, and they will arrive in a number of days. I don't want you to shame this family more than you already have. " Father's words sting my, but I know that they are true.

" Yes Sir. " I say before leaving the table, not wanting to take place in the family meal anymore.

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