Perfectly Imperfect

(4)

I can't speak. I can't even think right now. They will place judgement on me and I will be sent to earth. No.

This can't be happening. This can't be happening.

"You understand the consequences of your actions, Ms. Harrington?" Princess Serene asks. I want to scream at her. Of course I understand! Otherwise I wouldn't have committed such actions. Why is she so stupid?

"Hmm. Anger towards us, no less." Athene says and I glare at her. "She's a danger to the society, Sister. She must be sentenced immediately," she adds. "I am afraid so," Serene says.

"Why do you treat me like I am some contagious decease and an accident waiting to happen?" I say bluntly.

"You are different, Keira Harrington, you are a danger to this perfect society." Athens says.

"No! Your rules are! People should be allowed to choose freely on who they love! They should be able to feel happiness!" I say while pointing at them.

"Such insolence," Serene says calmly. "Eledo, take her away. Do you wish to request an imperfectionist to accompany you to Earth, young Lady?" Serene asks.

I almost wanted to stab her. "It is the least we could do, we hate sending other people away to earth, but that is where you belong," Athene adds without batting an eyelash.

"Leone Knight."

They both smile. "I am afraid you have to choose another, because we are sending him away as well,"  they say with a hint of mockery.

"What? Where are you sending him to? Earth?" I say with annoyance and hopefulness.

"I am afraid I can't tell you that. Now, off with you." They say and Eledo drags me away. "Let me go! I want to speak to them!" I shout, hitting him harder which seemed like a poor idea since it doesn't even affect him.

I give up and he places me gently into one of the holding cells.

Is this what I've become? A violator? A defect of the system?
An imperfect being?

If so, then I couldn't be happier.

If this is what it means to be imperfect, then I accept it all: the flaws and the emotions that come along with it. If being imperfect means that I have to feel something and live rather than survive, then I accept my fate.

The prison cells are most accommodating. They look like the hotel suites in the city and it reminds me of sleeping in my own bed. The same softness and same sweet smell is present in the environment.

Is this proper living? Does this count as living? If so, then being alive is the most ridiculous thing I have ever done.

Without knowing it, tears run down like razor blades across my cheeks.

It hurts. It hurts because I have realized that living as the embodiment of the perfect being isn't exactly living at all. It is pretending to be alive and making all of those beings inferior to you. But you're not. I realize I am just like them, with the same flaws and same mistakes.

I hate it.

I am a liar.

I hear a commotion outside and I stare at the door. Is it Leone? Has he come to save me? Hope builds up inside me and I bring myself to stand up. "Leone?" I say softy.

I approach the white painted door and I stop at my tracks when it opens abruptly. Yes! It is Leone!

"Kay," he says. No, its not Leone. Its Kendall. I lurch myself into him and he wraps his arms around my waist. "Ken, t-they. . ." he hugs me even tighter as I cry onto him. He soothes my back and my hair, and he keeps whispering that everything will be okay.

"No its not, Ken!" I shout at him. "It is not okay and you know it!"

"Its going to be okay, I am here." He doesn't let go of me and for that I am glad. He smells different from Leone. Leone smells like lemon and wood while Kendall smells like the smell of the ground before it rains.

"Where is he? I want to know, Kendall." I tell him.

"Please, Ken, I need to know."

He sighs and releases me. " I came here with him. The Princesses have him in custody. He. . . He is being sent somewhere, Keira."

Fear. That is what I feel. Fear and anger, combined. I clutch Kendall's shirt forcefully and he soothes my back. "Shh.. Its okay, Keira. Those bitches don't know anything."

"They do, they made those rules!" I say and he shakes his head.

"It will be okay, Keira. I promise."

And for a while, I let myself believe him.

"Why are you here, Ken? Why did they let you in?"

He lifts me from my current position and brings me to the bed. "Leone asked me to stay with you."

Even in a situation like this, he sends his brother to come see me instead of doing it himself? I stare at Kendall's brown eyes and sob. "I'm guessing you will be accompanying me as well on that drastic journey, am I right, Kendall?"

He sighs and nods. "It will jeopardize your life, Ken, I can't let you." I say firmly.

"It was my decision to make, not yours."

"But, Ken--."

"I'm doing this for my brother. Besides, how bad could earth be?"