"So you asked her to marry you?" The Baron asked.

"Y-yes Baron. I've done what you asked." Erol stammered.

"Good. The plan is coming together." The Baron said evilly. Selena heard everything. She wanted to break down and cry. She never felt so...so...used and so stupid and gullible in her life. She fought back tears. She had thought that Erol really loved her, but she should have known he was just using her to make the Baron happy and also used her so he could get some. Tears now ran wildly down her face. Suddenly The Baron and Erol had noticed her, and Erol went red.

"Uh...uh...Selena? This isn't...What you heard...I mean..."

"Fuck off!" She screamed, throwing the expensive ring in his face. She ran as fast as she could away from that horrible place. The man that said he loved her, the man that was there for her, the man that had taken her virginity, was all a phony.

"Guards! Stop that woman!" The Baron commanded.

"Shit! Shit! O fuck! What am I going to do?!" Selena thought to herself. They were on her tail until she found a door. Unlocked. She quickly bolted herself in the room. The florescent lighting killed her eyes as the tears ran down. Her eyes stung with the intensity of a broken heart. She sniveled into her jacket.

"We lost her..." She heard a guard say. Finally she was alone.

"Selena?" A man asked. Selena didn't want to look up, but she recognized that voice it sounded like...

"Torn?!...Torn it is you!" Selena hopped up and ceased her crying.

"Oh. My. God. Selena?! Is it...is it really you?" Torn said hugging her as he kissed the top of her head.

"Yes. I wasn't really dead, Torn! They lied to you! I am alive, but they pumped me full of dark and red eco." Selena said reluctantly.

"They what?! I'll kill them!" Torn replied, anger dripping in his voice. "I knew that the KG was corrupt. Did you know that the Baron killed our dad himself?"

"What?! How is that...?"

"Mom. She didn't mean it. The Baron did it out of spite. I am quitting as the KG commander, but I have to sneak off or they'll kill me." Torn whispered.

"Treason?" Selena guessed. Torn motioned his head up and down, his eyes closed.

"Come on, we can go to mom's house." Torn directed. Selena shook her head, finally she would see her mother again...

"Mom!" Torn called as he opened the door. Ms. Blackheart, dropped the pan she was holding out of shock.

"My baby's alive!" She cried as she embraced Selena.

"Oh mom!" She said, resting her face on her mother's shoulder.

"Selena?! Selena!" Blade yelled. Blade's voice was a little different, he was fourteen years old now. He had chin-length shaggy brown hair, stood at '5"7", and still had those same child-like exuberant eyes. He was a handsome young man. Selena quickly hugged him and kissed his face. She was so happy to see he was healthy and out of harms way. Knock, knock, knock. The door beckoned.

"I wonder who that could be?" Ms. Blackheart questioned. She looked through the peephole to see three very large KG and Baron. She gasped.

"What is it mom?" Torn asked.

"KG..." Selena guessed reluctantly.

"You three kids go in the backroom. I'll handle this."

"No mom, I will." Torn calmly protested.

"I said now!" Her voice raised with authority. It was almost venomous. Torn, Selena, and Blade quickly did what their mother told them to do. They went in the room and watched through the door crack.

"Good morning Baron. Lovely day isn't it?" She said, her voice like silk.

"Cut the bullshit, Ms. Blackheart. You know what we want..." His voice stung with acid. Ms. Blackheart shook her head in confusion.

"I don't have the slightest clue of what you are talking about." She replied dumbfounded. The three KG circled around her. The Baron grabbed her by the collar of her shirt.

"Don't. Play coy...WITH US!" His voiced boomed. A tear ran down Selena's face as she witnessed this in horror.

"I don't know where the kids are. They went into town." Her voice grew more stern.

"Liar!"

"How dare you accuse me of such outrage!"

"You know this city has a strict no-liar policy. How you managed to survive just makes me wonder. And if lying is genetic, then your family is THE BIGGEST LIARS I KNOW!" he accused as he yelled in her face.

"I raised my family good." She defended.

"Oh really, is that why you have them live in a lie. Telling them that their father was killed by metal heads, eh?" The Baron questioned. There was a long pause.

"I have not told them a lot of things, but I can assure you I am more honorable then you."

"Oh well that's a shame. You, such a beautiful woman wouldn't marry me. Oh well, I guess I'll be going now, but when I am gone say hi to Mr. Blackheart for me will you?" The Baron said, his tone more deadly than ten cobras put together and his strike more powerful. Her eyes widened in horror. The biggest KG took out a knife and stabbed her from behind. She slipped to the floor. Lifeless. Then they walked away and out of the house.

Selena went into shock.

"Selena! Come on we have to move." Torn instructed.

"I want mom, Torn. I want mom." She said finally breaking down and crying. The tears just kept coming down as natural as rain fell from the sky.

"We have to go, Selena, or else." Blade said, sadness in his voice. Torn carried Selena as they snuck out of the window, leaving their sanity and their mother's lifeless corpse...behind.