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Chapter 22
The Dreadful Secret
Elizabeth washed her plate and put it in the dishwasher. Takuya was on her like white on rice.
"So, what happened? Tell me, tell me tell me!" Takuya asked being very hyper after waiting what seemed like a slow millennium to him.
"Man, you really want to know, and you didn't say the magic word," Elizabeth crooned. She finished putting the dishes away and turned to look at Takuya.
"Please tell me what happened," Takuya grunted. Elizabeth went to the two person couch and sat down, then beckoned Takuya over. Takuya sat down on the soft couch and watched Elizabeth.
"It all started three days after I turned three," Elizabeth began softly, recalling the memories from the depths of her heart and mind.
"Cupcake, time to wake up," Elizabeth's mother shook Elizabeth so lightly. Elizabeth's eyes fluttered open.
"Good morning, mom, what's for breakfast today?" Elizabeth hoarsely asked with the high voice a three-year-old she had.
"It's your favorite, pancakes. Get up and get dressed so that you can eat. Your sister's already downstairs waiting for you," Elizabeth's mother walked out the door.
"I will, and thank you for the cake the other day," Elizabeth yelled to her mother. Her mother warmly grinned and shut the door. After getting dressed, Elizabeth came down the stairs with a bright orange shirt on with jean shorts.
"Come on, sis, it's time to eat now," the impatient eleven-year-old called to her sister.
"I'm coming, I'm coming," Elizabeth came down and rushed to her spot at the table. Her father gave Elizabeth a small, cut up pancake; to eat with, a small fork. Elizabeth's mother came to her spot at the table, which had scrambled eggs on the plate. After prayers, they ate.
"I'm going to brush my teeth now," Elizabeth declared after finishing. She got up and ran upstairs. A few minutes later, Elizabeth went to her room. Something intrigued her at the window, so she looked outside. What she saw, she couldn't believe it at all.
A large crowd of people with varies outfits were marching towards Elizabeth's house like an army preparing to fight in an inevitably catastrophic battle. Elizabeth didn't understand what was going on, or who these people were.
"Mom, we have visitors here," Elizabeth yelled down the stairs. Her mother ran quicker than a cheetah up the stairs and looked out the other window in the room. After a gasp, she ran out of the room, shut the door, and locked it from the outside. Elizabeth tried following her mother, but couldn't because of the door.
After twenty minutes of fighting, Elizabeth somehow opened the door and dashed to the front door. Hesitantly, she opened the door to see that her whole family was strewn over the ground. Scared, Elizabeth briskly made her way to her mother, whom was on a hill a few meters away form where the door was.
"Elizabeth," Elizabeth's mother croaked. Elizabeth turned her mother over to her back and kneeled down beside her.
"E-everything's going to be alright, mom, y-you'll see," Elizabeth tried not to cry, but tears squeezed out anyway.
"It's alright, my child, everything will be alright," Elizabeth's mother slowly placed her right hand on Elizabeth's face; Elizabeth made sure to keep the hand on her face, which was quickly turning cold.
"D-don't talk, p-please rest, and y-you'll see, everything w-will be alright," Elizabeth's tears kept rapidly escaping her eyes.
"That will be unnecessary, my child, I will be seeing you soon, I p-promise," Elizabeth's mother's hand slacked and her eyes closed.
"N-no, you can't be." Elizabeth stared in disbelief at the mother whom not to long ago was smiling warmly as though nothing would go wrong.
"NO!" Elizabeth's long cry descended into the sky for all to hear who was close by to the mournful girl.
"After that, everyone called me the most unlucky kid in the universe and turned me away. Even at the orphanage, everyone called me a failure and a disgrace to all here in America. After I was adopted, I felt that if I called another person 'mother' or 'father', or even 'sister', I would be betraying my own family, the ones who gave their lives for me," Elizabeth finished, successfully managing not to shed tears herself.
"Why would they do that to you?" Takuya asked, ready to smack down whoever did such a terrible thing to Elizabeth.
"The second to last thing my mother said was that they attacked because of some prophecy, though she didn't say what it was," Elizabeth tried to help, but she couldn't.
"Well, I'm here for you, and so are the others," Takuya hugged Elizabeth slightly, and she turned light pink.
"T-thank you, Takuya, you know how to cheer me up," Elizabeth hugged Takuya back and her face returned to normal.