Perfection In The Imperfect

Chapter 22-complete

~Kendra

We ran and ran for hours (well, it felt like hours) until we came out of the massive building, but when we did, Adrianna stood before us, smiling from ear to ear.

"Leaving so soon?"

Suddenly there were guards all around us. I look around for a way out, but it's hopeless. We're surrounded. There is no way that we will get out of this.

"Why? Why are you doing this?"

"Because I am the rightful ruler, the only one who has to sit on the throne, not you, you are not of royal, and you are not my family, you're a peasant! When I am queen, I am going to kill you. You ruined my life!" She screamed at me, tears spilling everywhere.

"How is this all my fault?!" I yelled back at her while the guard holds me back.

"My mother demanded me to be friends with you and gain your trust, and learn everything about you. I didn't have a life a normal person should have. My life was miserable." She looked at her hands with tears in her eyes, and just stood there. She looked back at me with hatred in her eye, and whats weird is, that I see something else in her eyes too, I just don't know what it is yet. "Before I'm going to kill you, I'm going to make you suffer, for everything you have done!"

I'm speechless, I don't know what to say to her. They blindfolded me and Axl, and took us somewhere deep in the woods.

***

Suddenly we stopped walking, and they tied me to a pole, and took off my blindfold. Adrianna stood before me.

"Look to your right." she commanded.

"No." I spat out with disgust.

"I said, look to your right!" she yelled and took my face between her fingers and turned my face to the right.

I gasped at what I'm seeing. They put Axl on a rope -again- and slashed with a whip, blood everywhere, while he is in a coma -probably because of the pain- they must've taken another route, because I didn't hear the whip. Right next to him is my sister, Cameron, and Astrid, in a cage( and should I say that everything is happening in the woods)

"So here is the deal. Tell me who I should kill, your darling prince charming of a boyfriend, or Cammie and her friend? One is going to die, and the other is going to live, and go on with their lives, and if you don't choose, then I am going to torture you until you give an answer."

"Why are you doing this to me? I'm not going to choose."

"Fine then." she clicked her fingers, and a big, muscular guy takes my hand, and puts a machine on it, and the machine starts to pull my fingernail out of it's socket. I scream in pain while the blood gushes out of my fingers. Tears roll down my face, and burns my lips. My throat is soar from all the screaming. 3rd finger, 4th finger, 5th finger.

"Ready to tell me yet?"

"Never!" I scream in pain.

The guy stops pulling my nails, and takes a knife, and cuts into my cheek. Now it burns when tears roll down my face. He cuts deeper and deeper. He cuts into my arms and legs. He cuts into my stomach and back. It burns like I have never felt before. Blood drips from everywhere.

I am not going to give up.

"Choose who is going to die Kendra." Adrianna says with a calm voice.

"Never."

I am not going to choose.

I will never choose.

"Kill me instead."