The One (A selection aftermath)

Chapter 12

Maple's POV

Southern walks right up to me and slaps me across the face.

"You idiot! You think you could escape your cell?!"

In a flash Harris jumps on to Southern sending them sprawling across the floor.

I ignore the pain in my cheek and stager to my feet.

Harris grabs southern by the throat and pins him to the ground.

"You have no idea what your doing." Southern spits, blood staining his teeth.

"Shut up." Harris snaps squeezing his throat tighter.

"Harris, wait,"I say kneeling by Southerns face,"What do you mean?"

Harris loosens his grip enough to let Southern talk.

"You 2 think we locked you up as hostages? No, we are protecting you from the outside."

"Lair!" Harris says.

"It's a bloody war out there. Everyone wants the royal family, even the North." Southern looks at Harris when he says that part.

Then I remember.

"My parents. Where are they?"

Southern closes his eyes shaking slightly.

"I am sorry my dear-"

The world seems to pause for a moment sending pain through my veins.

"No.No.No.No. I know what you are going to say. Your lying you have to be lying they're not dead."

At this point I am sobbing.

I fall to the ground curling up seeing if I could maybe disappear.

Queen America and King Maxon.

Gone.

Dead.

They were so in love. They loved me so much.

I remember on my fifth birthday my dad got me all the dresses my heart desired.

My mom brushing my hair 100 strokes each night telling the funny stories of her own selection.

I stand up wiping away my tears.

I look Southern right in the eyes.

"I know for a fact they are not dead. Do want to know how?" I place my hand on my heart, "I would have felt it. But you probably never experienced losing loved ones because you don't have a heart." I walk up to Harris speaking to him now.

"We need to get out of here."

He nods his head then smiles at his brother.

"Dead or knocked out?" he asks me.

"Knocked out."

"What ever you say princess."

Harris squeezes a little tighter then let's go, Southern limp in his hands.

Harris walks over to me wrapping me in a warm hug.

"Maple I love you and it is tearing me apart to see you like this. We are going to find you parents."

I hug him tight.

"Do think it's true what he said?"

"That your parents dead, no."

"No the other one. That it's a bloody war out there."

He pulls back then grabs my hand.

"There's only one way to find out."

A/N

sorry this chapter is short! I promise the next one will be pack with action!

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