Stitch Heart--Chapter 4

Here is the fourth chapter of Stitch Heart, Mia figures out what's going on with Karen and her unstable emotional status. Can Mia break free from this nightmare she got herself in? Find in this chapter. And, as a bonus, Mia meets a 'boy' name 'Felice' but it's a girl cross-dressing as a girl who was once kidnapped and put in an asylum plus brothel. Thank you for reading the other chapters, I have more on the way my friends. Please, be patient. --KatDon 

Chapter 4: Only Mine 

"....It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and the slimy, lithy badgers. Going round and round like a gyroscope and make holes like a gimlet in the grass plot round a sundial. All flimsy and miserable is a thin shabby-looking mop like bird with its feathers sticking out all round. From home is a green pig bellowing and whistling....." Mia was typing from the notebook she'd wrote. As she was typing, Elissa called her: "MIA!!!! We have a guest." Mia turned around, then she looked shocked and then a smile appeared on her face. One...two...three... Karen count the seconds. Four...five...six... She stare at the mocking face. Each tick and each tock. Seven...eight...nine... It's mocking her. Pearls of sweat glide down her face. Ten...eleven...twelve... "Why-why-WHY?!" She screamed banging the wall with her fist and with her feet. Then her forehead. She stopped and then sat there. However she finally calm down and took a walk but saw Mia talking and laughing with some 'strangers' as this made Karen angry as she begin to stalk each person that comes into contact with Mia. She went after the trio of friends and stalks them silently. "You couldn't help yourself. Could you?" The girl in the hood said, her voice cold as ice. "I--I--W--W--We were just... curious." Dorian stuttered in reply. "Curiosity killed the cat." The girl echoed. "Yes, but satisfaction brought it back." Saruta snapped, smiling at that comment. The girl narrowed his eyes. After a moment, she finally speaks. "I'm sorry," She whispers, "But I can't let you get too close to her." Then, she pulled out a knife and Saruta fights back with his katana but it broke, he picked it up and dodged quickly from the katana. Dorian pulled him along with her and Jamie, "C'mon! It's the sword or your life!" She said. That psychotic girl was nothing more than a crazy person. Dorian and her friends bolted in the opposite direction, towards their house. They managed to get in the girl grasped a foot long, shining knife in her right hand. They got in and slammed the door shut. Chaining and bolting it up. The insane girl pounded on the front door. THUMP THUMP THUMP. Dorian felt her heart banged on your chest. THUMP THUMP THUMP. All of a sudden, the pounding on the door stopped. Later; Drake and Alexander head right into the asylum. It's like they've been prepared for stuff like this! Once inside; Drake decided to split up. "It is never a good idea to split up in situations like this.That's how you get killed!" Alexander said. "Well, do you have any other ideas?" Drake said. There was a door into another room, something attacks them almost. She wrapped his arm around Alexander's neck, squeezing almost every breathe out of his lungs. "Give me your money, anything you have. Otherwise, I'll be spilling blood." She said in a voice stung like venom. Alexander could barely breathe, but Drake wasn't going to give up so easily. With all his energy, he elbowed him in his stomach. His movement was restricted and hardly as sharp as he hoped, but it worked. He released his strain around Alexander's neck; clutching his stomach. Alexander pull a fist back as far as possible and his punch fires through the air straight for her nose. Causing blood to gush out from her nostrils, staining her shirt. The girl stumbles back and collapses onto the ground. 

Karen came to visit Mia at Tirnanog but her mood was dropped when she saw Helena there. "Who is she? And what is she doing here?" demanded Karen. Helena smiled at Karen in greeting, "Oh! She hired me." She said, pointing over to Elissa, who waved. Karen seemed troubled but Helena didn't, "I don't think we ever officially met. I'm Helena." said Helena. "Hi, Karen. You must be so excited. Are you freaking out?" Karen said. Helena giggled, "Yeah." She said. "It's okay. I would be losing my mind." Karen assured her. Later, Karen was having a meltdown in her room. Her mother wasn't home as Karen was upset by the appearance of Helena, she thought she got rid of her but noooo, she kept coming back for more to get Mia's attention. One day, Mia would soon find out the truth of Karen after drinking a blood bag with her name and discovered her memories: "My name's Orson Ostern, what's your name?" He asked. "Karen, Karen Woode." The girl replied. And so, Karen and Orson became friends since that day. Karen made friends with Orson's friends: Seppo Garuda, Oliver Columbus, Toby Freyr, Fabian Cuward, Festus Hilder, Cesar Morpheus, and Anferney Zaal. Karen also made some female pals too such as Violet Daphnis, Maria Penn, Andrea Vulcan, and Valentina Lyle. Together, Karen and her twelve friends played games at the playground: They played Duck Duck Goose, Green Light-Red Light, and Boys Chase Girls tag. They also go on the slide, the jungle gym, monkey bars, and the merry go-round. They draw with chalk on the ground where the courts were that some kids come to play basketball sometimes but it was empty a lot. Young Karen Woode loved her friends so much!  When she got home; Karen would come to help her mother, Hestia, and wait for her father Lothar to come home. Young Karen was happy to tell her mother about the friends she made. Karen and her parents moved from Paradise Vale, a capital in Hoosier Village, to another capital by the name of Maple Lake. It wasn't like Karen was an outcast nor the most popular person. She was curious, intelligent, and well-behaved little girl at school. But at home, she was creative, bubbly, sweet little girl that everyone adores. Life was perfect for her! Except there was one problem: Lothar had a bad temper, he would hit Karen or Hestia as he then yelled at them, "SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!!!!" Sometimes, he gets upset at the smallest things: If Karen made an accident like a juice spill, leave the fridge door opened, or anything else like that; her father would throw a violent hissy fit and start beating her. Poor Karen would end up crying and she also hated to see her father hurt her mother too. Karen sometimes listen to her parents argue so much that her father would then get violent again and then, Karen could hear an object break while her mother would cry heavily. Karen would also get spanked by her father if she dare talk back to him and the spanking was violent and brutal as she was get bruises and cuts there. Sometimes, when Lothar was on his good side; he talked nonstop about whatever ridiculous conversation. When someone doesn't want to hear it anymore; Lothar would become all sullen and withdrawn from Karen and the others. Lothar was a devoted man of the Holy Giver, he was shown of a smile and smothers her daughter with hugs and kisses. He would say how much he loves Karen but what he only did that occasionally. Lothar was always abusive, heartless, melancholic, and smokes a lot. Lothar puffs cigarettes, he would be affect by the narcotics as he was always forgetful and rambling over what he recalled. This made Young Karen guilty and apologize for no reason why! Karen could see her perfect life was falling apart before her: She begins to cut her hair, wrote cryptic and dark stuff on the walls, annoy other people, and begins to oppress her cousins at family reunions. 

However, Karen realized the abuse of her father's weighed her and her mother down. Her mother was uptight and not her cheerful self as usual. She would go with a friend and drown her sorrows with an alcoholic friend. Despite all the dark times in her life; Karen had the memories of her twelve friends in her life! She stay together with her friends, even as they got older and they still remained their friendship. In the teen years; Karen grew up as a petite young lady, curvy and slim with large breasts. Long black hair and so beautiful! Her child self has grown so much. However, she would always get bullied by other students at school and the staff, the principal, and the teachers couldn't do anything about it. But Karen's friends could; they stood up for Karen and the bullies got so scared that they didn't bother her anymore. As time went by, Karen learned that her father got a little servant boy, his name was Jean Allen and he became a friend to Karen during her struggle in need. One day, Karen came home to overhear her mother's voice and there was a suitcase nearby. She was speaking to her husband and she had enough of her husband's abuse. She plans on leaving him! That's when, Karen decides to be a writer for novels of anime that she enjoys so much. When Orson and the others heard about this; they encourage her as they begin to tell her of their dreams: Orson wants to be a film director, Violet wants to be an artist, Seppo wants to be a chef, Oliver wants to be a boxer, Maria wants to be a musician, Toby desires to be a detective, Cesar wants to be an engineer, Andrea dreams to be a photographer, Fabian wishes to be a fire fighter, Valentine wants to be a a cosmetics guru, Festus wants to be a comedian, and Anferney wants to be a pianist. In return; Karen became supportive and is glad to have such friends in her life. Years later; it was senior year and the last for the high school class. Karen, Orson, Violet, Seppo, Maria, Oliver, Toby, Andrea, Cesar, Fabian, Anferney, Valentina, and Festus were going to the grad-bash to the coolest action film playing called Dusk Arising. 21 year old Karen was excited as she always wanted to see this movie so much! Now she's going with her friends to see this film for grad-bash before they part ways to their future coming. On that day, Karen and her twelve best friends got to the theater, got their tickets paid, bought snacks and drinks before heading inside the theater. The movie was just as awesome as everyone had said, except the prologue at the beginning; however the story line was great, the dialogue was well written and the scenes were top notched. Karen and her friends were enjoying the movie so much until she noticed Orson and Violet were so snuggled together. Smiling; she was happy for them! Then, the climax of the movie is where someone came in! He wasn't a guard nor a janitor! He was dressed in a black uniform, he pulled out a gun and begin shooting! There was screams and chaos all around. Karen try to escape however she witnessed the horror around her and was too catatonic too move. It turns out, she was hit in the head so hard and fell unconscious but was alive. Finally when was over; the gunman escaped as he heard the police sirens. According to investigators; 56 victims were alive but in the hospital, recovering while there was 12 bodies dead. And those twelve are known as: Orson Ostern, Seppo Garuda, Oliver Columbus, Toby Freyr, Fabian Cuward, Festus Hilder, Cesar Morpheus, Anferney Zaal, Violet Daphnis, Maria Penn, Andrea Vulcan, and Valentina Lyle. Karen was found by police, who question her and she becomes hysterical and flew into a frenzied of tears and screaming constantly like a madwoman before breaking down into tears. 

"Hey Karen!" Mia sang to Karen, who turned to her as she blushed, smiled and accepted her hug. "Hello Mia." Karen said, still blushing and smiling. "Do you want to go with me to the cafe nearby later Karen?" asked Mia. "S-sure." Karen replied, a sheepish grin on her face and childishly, used her hand to rub the back of her neck. "Yeah! Thank you!" you hugged him again before leaving. Karen smiled. Only with a hollow expression. "So Mia, you don't really like me?" Mia was walking with Karen one day. When Mia heard Karen asked this, she stopped in her tracks. "What do you mean? Of course I like you, you are my friend right?" She said. "Okay then..." Karen pouted slightly and you two came at the crossing where you part "Time sure passes by quick when walking with you Mia." Karen remarked. Mia smiled. "Glad you don't find me boring." She said. "I never will!" Karen smiled, "See you tomorrow then." Mia waved back, "Bye!" She said. Mia turned around and started walking to her house. Karen is a good friend, and she was always there for her, always. She knew she was going to be her friend forever. Mia pulled out her headphones and listened to some music. "So she likes music, doesn't she...?" Karen was walking stealthily behind her, behind a lamppost. "I better talk to her about it tomorrow then" She muttered silently and wrote the music in her notebook she carries. "Ah, she's home!" Karen thought, as she saw her turn around and head into her house. "Like I always see, she returns home about 4 o'clock to four-thirty, unless she's practicing music or staying after school, it's that time." She continues to write down everything, "And she is defiantly having curry tonight, her mother cooks curry every Friday" Karen looked at his notebook and smiled slightly "Mia, Mia... your routines are rather boring but-- I love them so much~ but not as I love you~" Karen and placed a carnation on her lips before leaving it at her doorstep "Well, I could almost imagine her face....lovely expressions...so beautiful..." Karen thought and smiled before leaving. Mia raced out of the door. "Good morning Karen." Mia, she  smiled at her who arrived just at her doorstep "Ah! Good morning Mia! We're on the same time again aren't we?" Yandere-kun grinned. "Yep, it's nice right." She said. Her heart fluttered when Mia said nice. In other words, Mia enjoyed being with her. So there's gotta be more 'coincidences' for that to happen. She enjoyed being 'nice' to her. Isn't that the most freshest red rose Mia found at her doorstep today? Although it might have been white once. How? Earlier, there was a girl went to the work out gym as she was ambushed by Karen, who knocked her out with a a syringe and tranquilizer and put her in a music case. At midnight, she came back to bring the girl home, pretending to be a young musician returning from a show. She tied the girl up to a pole in her basement. At morning, when she went down, the girl woke up. "Who!? Please, just set me free!" She begged. Karen came out from the shadows and revealed herself. "What did I ever do to you!? What did I do to deserve this!?" The girl yelled. She laughed hysterically. "What did you do!? You did horrible things! You talked bad about Mia! Now, she's going to fail because of you! I hate it! So now, you will never be able to see him, nor your friends, if you have them, again!" Karen said. You started to sob, tears running from your eyes. Karen brought a knife and carved a scar at her cheeks and hands. She would say "Mia is mine, Mia WILL be mine! HAHA!". Now, the girl's days started like this, she never bandaged Karen so after a month and a few days later, she died sadly. It was from blood loss and Karen used her blood to make a red rose. A week later, a boy spotted Karen stalking Mia so he yelled "Stalker!" and everyone looked at him and Karen. Mia didn't looked and Karen got revenge by ambushing the girl. He died with a stab on the throat. To hide the evidence, Karen dumped the boy's corpse, the weapon, the bloody uniform of hers. Then, she activated the incinerator. His body alongside the weapon and uniform were burned to ashes. She also mopped the blood. Although there was still the smell, nobody could find the evidence. Karen took a pair of scissors and left the house. "I wonder where does this Helena lives?" Later, what Helena could only see right now was... darkness. How did this happen? She was just taking a peaceful stroll in the park, and the next thing she was talking to a girl she didn't meet before at a empty space in the park before--"Ah....You are awake Helena." A wet voice echoed though out the room she was in. She lifted her head to see a dark figure "Y-You? Why--?" Helena asked. "Don't ask me. Just play along okay?" Karen smiled and came up to her. Helena tried to back away but found herself against a wall. That's when her eyes got used to the dark and saw Karen kneeling in front of you, "What's the matter kitten? Do you want your phone?" Karen smiled larger and handed her the phone. "But-! If you are going to ring someone, I suggest not to. First, whoever you call must be a rival. Second is that... you don't need them anyway. Final reason, there is no network here." She said. "N-no network? How?"gasped Helena. Karen giggled, "I could do anything. Anything. That's for my friend, Mia." She explained. Helena stared at her in horror as Karen threatened to kill her if she doesn't speak to Mia anymore. Helena agrees tearfully, Karen lets her go and turns to go. But before she left, she said: "When humans fight for survival, they can do anything. That includes all kinds of gruesome stuff you can think of. I guess I am the same. I need you, to survive and I will do anything for you." She chuckled and closed the door while saying, "So not to make things too complicated, I have you keep you away from Mia right? It's the easiest way!" In the next memory, Karen had research the company's profile and background for her job. She starts by looking into their future goals and plans. She also conduct the interview with this in mind will make you seem like a good long-term investment. She was dressed professionally means wearing a smart knee-length skirt suit in a dark color, along with sheer, non-patterned hosiery, closed toe shoes and subtle makeup. She then shows courtesy to everyone during the interview. Surprisingly, Karen was hired by Madame Hulda and asked why. Then Madame begin to tell her as she walk around a little: "Life was hard. I felt as though life had thrown a lot at me, and was contemplating surrendering. Life being very hard and to continue the idea that I found it difficult to go on living. But one day, someone helped me find true love. Now I have the strength to go on…Even when I'm not there with you physically, I am always there with you in spirit. If you wanna see it not as abstract, if you give me a call, I’ll always be there. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right!" Madame Hulda said, she looked over at Karen and smiled at her: "So, Karen Woode, I like to say you are one who triumphs over, you shall surely know There’s so much honor and integrity and beauty in being able to be who you are. It’s important to be brave because by doing that you also give others permission to do the same." After she was hired, Karen was happier when she arrived home and her mother was happy to see her happy: "You're in a good mood." remarked Hestia. Karen beamed, "She promised to feature me more this week of the job." She answered. Hestia smiled back, "Well, she certainly should. You've been there long enough and you're the most dedicated worker in the company." She answered proudly and encouragingly. 

But what happens next is going to be unbelievable for poor Karen. Because things with the madame are going to be stressful! Madame Hulda is being too nice! Her co-workers start rolling in late and blowing through deadlines, and Karen doesn’t get the feedback she needs. It could cost her a raise if she spends all year being praised only to find out at her performance review that she’s not all that impressed with Karen's work. She’s just nice. Then; her boss has no idea what her job is, or how to be a manager. So when she jumps in and tells you you’re doing everything wrong. Well, she wasn’t. The madame was alienating staff and customers. She can’t use Blind Carbon Copy. She can’t lead a meeting. She says things like “Let’s email it on the social media network.” She’s embarrassing. In awhile, things change in the madame: Madame Hulda was hurting Karen's career  by failing to provide feedback and direction and giving her negative performance reviews. Madame Hulda can be managed, manipulated, and massaged to her advantage. Madame Hulda wants to read every email she send. Madame Hulda doesn’t want her to carbon copy her—she wants to stand over her shoulder and dictate. She typed a schedule for washing coffee cups. She has strong ideas about the how toner should be replaced. She is driving Karen insane. Madame Hulda has no idea what any of her direct reports do for a living. Karen couldn't help but ask her a specific question about what she should be working on, and the madame replies with vague platitudes and off-the-wall suggestions. Stupid Madame, she has no idea what this job does. One of the staff members has a brilliant new idea, and Madame Hulda told her that the others can implement it by next week. Karen will do all the other projects as well, of course. She was just “fit it in,” maybe take lunch at her desk, and it’ll be fine. That's how the madame sees it. And when Karen makes a mistake at work; Madame Hulda takes the pleasure as she had told the whole office about it, loudly. Karen feels as if she is getting ulcers and losing her grip from the stress. And she is certainly not getting a raise. Then, it got even worse week by week later, Madame Hulda files a freedom of information request seeking the balance in the district's account. Because her family spends away money in such an account, she assumes that the school district does the same thing. She wants to approve every news release issued by the school district, and wants final editing rights on the school district newsletter. She votes to assign members of the board to district classrooms for the purpose of evaluating other workers. Madame Hulda begins her tenure by telling cooks what to serve in the work lunch program. She spills all the details of an executive session on negotiations to the union. She also requests a master key so that she can randomly visit rooms and offices at night and weekends. Even helping those special needs kids is where she doesn't show her kindness for them--As she claims she has a 'soft spot' for them: She shows little concern for the children, denies the existence of the child, blames the child for thei problems in school and the parents for raising them. She asks staff and caregivers to use harsh physical discipline if the child misbehaves. Madame Hulda sees the child as entirely bad, worthless, or burdensome. She demands a level of physical or academic performance the child cannot achieve. And looks primarily to the child for care, attention, and satisfaction of emotional needs. Even Karen notices the children are changing by the abuse and oppression that Hulda has done them: They show sudden changes in behavior or school performance, they not received help for physical or medical problems brought to the parents’ attention, they begin to have problems of difficulty concentrating that cannot be attributed to specific physical or psychological causes. They are always watchful, as though preparing for something bad to happen and lacks adult supervision. They are  overly compliant, passive, or withdrawn, they refuse to come back to that place. Madame Hulda rarely touches the children or looks at them, the relationship entirely negative and states they don't like her.

The next memory is where a clock was ticking: One...two...three... Karen count the seconds. Four...five...six... She stare at the mocking face. Each tick and each tock. Seven...eight...nine... It's mocking her. Pearls of sweat glide down her face. Ten...eleven...twelve... "Why-why-WHY?!" She screamed banging the wall with her fist and with her feet. Then her forehead. She stopped and then sat there. There was another memory of Karen stalking Dorian, Saruta, and Jamie. "You couldn't help yourself. Could you?" Karen said, her voice cold as ice. "I-I-We were just... curious." Dorian stuttered in reply. "Curiosity killed the cat." Karen echoed. "Yes, but satisfaction brought it back." Saruta snapped, smiling at that comment. The girl narrowed his eyes. After a moment, she finally speaks. "I'm sorry," She whispers, "But I can't let you get too close  to her." Then, she pulled out a knife and Saruta fights back with his katana but it broke, he picked it up and dodged quickly from the katana. Dorian pulled him along with her and Jamie, "C'mon! It's the sword or your life!" She said. That psychotic girl was nothing more than a crazy person. Dorian and her friends bolted in the opposite direction, towards their house. They managed to get in the girl grasped a foot long, shining knife in her right hand. They got in and slammed the door shut. Chaining and bolting it up. The insane girl pounded on the front door. THUMP THUMP THUMP. Your heart banged on your chest. THUMP THUMP THUMP. All of a sudden, the pounding on the door stopped. Another memory appears as Karen also stalked Drake and Alexander as well: Drake and Alexander head right into the asylum. It's like they've been prepared for stuff like this! Once inside; Drake decided to split up. "It is never a good idea to split up in situations like this.That's how you get killed!" Alexander said. "Well, do you have any other ideas?" Drake said. There was a door into another room, something attacks them almost. Karen wrapped his arm around Alexander's neck, squeezing almost every breathe out of his lungs. "Give me your money, anything you have. Otherwise, I'll be spilling blood." She said in a voice stung like venom. Alexander could barely breathe, but Drake wasn't going to give up so easily. With all his energy, he elbowed her in the stomach. His movement was restricted and hardly as sharp as he hoped, but it worked. Karen released her strain around Alexander's neck; clutching his stomach. Alexander pull a fist back as far as possible and his punch fires through the air straight for her nose. Causing blood to gush out from her nostrils, staining her shirt. Karen stumbles back and collapses onto the ground. Shocked, Mia went to see Karen at her house. Karen went to answer the door when the bell ring. 

"Mia!" exclaimed Karen happily. But Mia ignores her greeting, "We need to talk, in private." She said. At Karen's house, the two girls argue as Mia wanted to know why would she go and hurt her friends as well as innocent people. Karen claims that these people were trying to replace her with their own existence. "You're so sad. You know that, Karen? Lonely and very sad." Mia said. Karen got mad, "Don't you ever pity me, you smug bitch!" She spat. "I'll pity you all right, because you're sick." Mia snapped. "Why? Because I won't allow you treat me like a replacement doll. Don't you think I understand what they are doing? They are trying to replace me into you're life and they're keeping you away from me." Karen said, sobbingly. She took a knife and begin to slice her wrist but it was a cut as she wasn't trying to kill herself. Horrified by this; Mia begin to recall the tragedy of Finette and her emotional state: Tears spilled down her face. "Every time I found someone to love, I lose them!!!!" She screamed in a sobbing voice. She continued to cry. Without any hesitation, she walked over to the kitchen and turned on the oven. When it was burning hot, she climbed inside it and burned to death. Afraid that Karen might kill herself; Mia calmed her down in a soothing voice, "Please. Karen, don't hurt yourself." It wasn't working. "NO!!!! Listen to me... all I ever wanted was to be your friend..." Karen said sobbingly. "Karen, I am your friend..." Mia said. "No, you're not!" screamed Karen. "Yes I am." Mia insisted. "No. You're not. We're here because you betrayed me!" Karen shouted. "Karen, I'm your friend." Mia assured her. "STOP! STOP SAYING THINGS YOU DON'T MEAN! I protected you! I protected you against those asshole trio and that NASTY duo you hooked up with! I was trying to get rid of them all for YOU!" yelled Karen, Mia was shocked by what she was hearing what Karen said. She managed to get the knife away from her and Karen got more vicious as the knife was being taken. "Well, they all will betray you--that's a promise. And when they do, don't come crying to me, because... I've had it with you. You're so FRIGGIN' weak!" Karen shouted, clutching at her but Mia pushed her away: "Get off my back, Karen!" She exclaimed. "Oh? Get off your back? That's where you've been keeping me, isn't it? ISN'T IT?!" Mia felt bad, "I just felt sorry for you, that's all!" She said. Karen grabbed a potted plant and smashed it on the floor, "Bastard! You poor, pathetic bastard! You're nothing! You're not even a good friend!" She screamed, then she begins to cry. She was throwing a tantrum like a little child. She managed to calm down and she recalls the memory: "In English, the word 'sane" derives from the Latin adjective sanus meaning 'healthy'. Insanity can be considered as poor health of the mind, not necessarily of the brain as an organ although that can affect mental health, but rather refers to defective function of mental processes such as reasoning. When people think of Insanity they think someone has a guilty mind,or guilty conscience. You may think dark thoughts about crime, or death, or just darkness itself. And you may have thoughts of hurting yourself or someone else and you also may act on those thoughts." Lothar ranted to an unhappy younger Karen, "You have a lot of anger built up inside of you. But's it mostly based on people and bad past events that have traumatized you. You hold onto that anger hoping to make the ones who hurt you pay or to make things right by never repeating the same mistakes again."

Karen let out a scream and cuts her hand on the shards of the pot as blood oozed from the cut on her hand. She managed to heal it after squeezing the blood and then bandaged it. She was full of guilt ad misery so she drank her sorrows and she drunkenly found Mia at the front of her porch. "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Virginia Woolf? Virginia Woolf? I---I--AM!!!"  Karen sang in an intoxicated tone, she laughed drunk as she sipped more. Mia wasn't too impressed. Drunk Karen begin to sing more and more, "Virginia Woolf tried to kill herself, killed herself, killed herself. Virginia Woolf tried to kill herself, twice in a row!!!!" She laughed. Mia walked over to her, and slapped her. Karen was shocked by this, Mia looked at her hard. "Clearly you have no respect for the poor, troubled, tragic woman who wrote many amazing books." "Clearly I have no respect for those that killed themselves because their souls end up in HELL!!!" Karen shouted. Mia rolled her eyes, "That's not what I believe, Karen. Look, I know you didn't come here to talk about that, what do you want?" She said. Karen looked at her in disbelief, "I just can’t understand why you aren't interested in hanging out with me?!" She shouted. "When I first met you, you saved me and you were nice to me. I didn't know you were doing this stuff just for me. This is not what I wanted, I get along with everyone and love my friends & family equally, and don't think I left you out--You are also included." Mia said. "Oh sure, well why don't we hang out? Huh? Is it them? Please give me one of your pathetic excuses." Karen said. Mia sighed, "Karen, how about if we maybe just cancel this whole thing? I mean, it's obvious that you don't feel well." She said as she was about to leave but Karen pulls her back, "No! No, no, NO!!!!!!!!! Don't leave me! Don't leave me alone! DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!" She shouted. Mia try to push her away but Karen held on tight, "Where are you going? Don't leave me! I'm okay! I'm okay! I'm okay!" Mia was scared of her by her behavior, "Yikes! Karen, ease off! What the hell is wrong with you?" She said. Karen got even more pissed, "I'm the nicest fricking girl you'll ever flippin' meet! All I've done today is treat you like a friggin' princess!" Then her mood changed rapidly. "By the way, why the hell do you care about VW?" called Karen. "Because people might've liked her books and you're gonna go and sing that? You outta be ashamed, Karen." Mia said, she looked at her. The next morning, the news was on--It was an odd sight. There wasn’t a sound. Looking outdoors; Mia saw those same people as she’d seen the night before. Mia opened the door. Immediately their heads snapped towards her. Their faces were fixed in expressionless gazes, their mouths slightly agape and dripping blood. Mia faced them all of them and eating their flesh! 

Then, in her mind was memories of one of them: A girl name Flora has pale skin, teal eyes, and white-blonde hair. Her small stature, large vulnerable eyes, slender frame, and long, wavy, girlish pigtails, she looks much younger. Flora hated zombie media, she hates when they jump scare her as she cowers in fear. One day while at the arcade; her friend helps her overcome her fears by a new first person arcade shooter game called Fear the Zombies. During the whole time; Flora screamed when each zombie jump scare her to heck! In the next memory, There was a slender girl who has long strawberry blonde hair and emerald-green eyes. The second girl sneering beside her leader, her hair is cropped short and is spiky, reddish-blonde, and her figure is slender and athletic. The third was a tough one as she has long, curly black hair. She is also one of the more curvaceous of the girls, but still toned. And the fourth member was a cute and hot Asian girl with light brown hair with highlights. She has no bangs and her outfit is sexy, upbeat and cute. "You sure you weren't a 'trip' almost but surprisingly nobody fell with you." The Alpha Female said, flipping her hair. The Beta Female sneers down at the geeky-looking boy, "Well! The nerd's got himself into trouble, guess he should watch where he goes before tripping on others." She said. Flora comes to the boy's aid, "Wait a sec! That was my fault, I didn't know where I was going. It was just--" She protested. "Puh-leeze! C'mon, newbie! You're just letting the geek get away with it. You want someone to get away with it? Don't even try it." said the Alpha Female. Then, the four girls sashayed away. Flora watched them go, wondering what just happened but when she turned around, the guy was gone. Flora got her focus back, she went to get her things from the locker combination, her school supplies and other things. It wasn't easy to be part of a new school life in a new place but it was no brainer really. Mia woke up from the memory and wrote that down as an act of sympathy. Meanwhile; there were many men who physically assaults some girls by punching them in the back of their heads and pushing them through the glass top table. One of the men attempts to strangle a girl, but she is able to break free, and gain enough time to locate bullets and a gun in a case. When he turns around to attack her again, the girl shoots him in the head, causing his brains to be splattered on the wall. These girls took down the rest of the men one by one. 
One delivered a neck snap or slow strangulation, another shot them with a gun, one used a knife to stab, and the other one used a flamethrower. The girls there were tough as nails and pretty things that should not be messed with: The first one is Belle is the leader and is just trying to get her and her friends' freedom. She is left alone in the world when her mother dies and she accidentally kills her sister while trying to kill her step-father, he tries to kill her first. When she is sent to an 'insane asylum'. really a cover for a escort service, she does all that is in her power to help her and her friends escape this hell. She is strong-willed and awesome, yet she has her sensitive moments. She faced many challenges while trapped in the asylum. The second is Bubbly Jean despite her situation she always manages a smile. Her older sister Hervor does everything to keep Jean safe and Jean loves her to death for it. Jean was the first to make friends with Belle when she arrives and is instrumental in getting everyone else on board with the plan. She was the first one to take Belle under her wing.  She shows empathy and pity for Belle and tries to comfort her, which shows her sympathetic caring side. But on the battlefield, she is probably the most eager to fight. The silent helper Sherifa though she don't say much as she always want to help. Regardless of if she just met someone you see the good in them so when Belle arrives, she instantly want to be friends, but she holds back for fear of the unknown. In most of the adventures she is the silent helper the one that gets everyone out of the trouble they're in. Sherifa is the most empathetic of the girls. She is their fiery pilot and lollipop lover! She is easily intimidated, but can cause bad damage to an enemy when needed as she utilizes a fighting machine with a bunny symbol. And lastly, Constanza is a really sassy girl who isn't afraid to help her friends, but sometimes she can't help the way she wants. She is all for Belle's plan of escape and agrees almost instantly to help with the plan, but when things start to get hairy she freaks out and accidentally betrays the plan. When she confides what her and her friends are up to. What she sadly gets her and her friends caught but until the end she tries her best to do whatever she thinks is best for her friends. Constanza is the confident, tough girl of the group.  She does not warm up to Belle at first, but soon all the girls become close. She proves to be a tremendous fighter, but Constanza is not as tough as she seems. After escaping with her friends as they got to a safe destination; Belle had this strange dream: A young girl with butterfly wings exploring a surreal landscape, while Belle is near a large ditch which Jean is digging. Eventually the little girl's fantasy world becomes dark and frightening, with the character she was friends with before now turning into dark and sinister creatures, and she runs to escape, picking up her doll, emerging into the sunlight and falling into the ditch. Belle stands up and throws the girl's doll in after her, and Jean throws the first shovelful of earth into the ditch. The next in her dream; Belle was clad in a black karate gi, driving a large vehicle that’s carrying a man in cryonic slumber in a city, but the passers seem to ignore the mass of the vehicle. The vehicle begins to sputter and slow, prompting Belle to check the motor. The vehicle's engine assembly consists of a mouth in which all of the teeth appear rotten, comically exaggerated by a shaggy-looking man engulfed in a stench-cloud crawling out of the mouth and offending passers-by. Just then, Belle touches her cheek, appearing to have a toothache, and proceeds to a nearby dentist's office. 

While she's going to the room of the dentist, she is examined by the dentist, an anthropomorphic gorilla, who discovers a diamond in her mouth. The dentist attempts to steal the diamond for himself, but Belle leaps onto his back and pummels him, and retrieving the diamond, escapes the office. She takes the diamond back to her vehicle, all the while it multiplies in size until she is barely able to carry it. Belle tosses the diamond into the vehicle's mouth, apparently correcting its earlier affliction. She then drives to a museum and proceeds inside, carrying a satchel containing a bomb. The museum is full of surrealistic things like mirrors reflecting non-existent people. Sneaking past the museum's guards, she places the bomb on one of the exhibits, a man lying on an altar in a deep sleep. She then bolts toward the museum's exit, concerning the guards and other patrons. She makes it out of the building just moments before the bomb explodes. After the explosion, she re-enters the building to find all the unarmed visitors and the man from the altar, who appears to have been just wakened by the blast. Belle hugs him, crying teardrops of jewels. This guy, he means so much to her. Belle woke up, her eyes fluttered open and looked up at the ceiling. Thinking about these dreams: She’s known him for a long time. Even since childhood. She’s remembering nostalgic memories about him. Yet, what was his name? She finally understands why she keeps coming back to him, it’s because he means so much to her. However that was a long time ago before she suffered in this awful life. All of her life; Belle knows that materialism and typical things won’t lead to happiness but then again, nothing leads to happiness. Unification of time; people are searching for a place of belonging. But there are sadists, masochists, and also a continuation of the sadist and the masochist. She wants to be the one who wants be in control. But then, they keep their lives private and return to their normal lives. Belle wants to be heard, understood, and admired by the people that meet her. She wonders how the bad people she comes across with cannot see the devotion she and her friends have for the things they create. The thorn is the people and all these people who never believe what she said, tried to get rid of her. If they don’t believe her now, will they ever believe her? People say that home and school are far too boring for her- she wants to get into trouble, do bad and wild things, and live up her rebellious life. Sometimes older people look at rocker kids as helpless little punks, as if their musical dreams are never going to get them anywhere. This is happening to her, but she chooses not to believe the words she hears. Belle is the kind of girl who gets into trouble, and taunts authority with promiscuous and naughty behavior. She’ll be offering guys a lot of the wild side, and some really good hands to break them apart.

Belle heard once that boys just want to fool around at night, but never commit to any relationships or day activities with their 'interests' Boys and young men often fit into this category, because sometimes they just can’t stay tied down. They’re full of hormones, always horny. She finally gets this impression, and thinks that guys will only use her and then leave. She’s a chick who is talented and feisty, which just makes her ten times more bad-ass. She thinks of herself very highly, like she’s the equivalent to the world itself. She’s also is the type who can’t be gotten rid of. She’s everywhere, whether anyone likes it or not. In their hotel room; Belle, Jean, Sherifa, Constanza, and Hervor are paranoid that people might try to find them however in order to not be recognized, they were going to disguise themselves as someone else. Someone like a boy: Belle used the name Felice, Jean used the name John, Sherifa used the name Sharif, Costanza used the name Costanzo, and Hervor used the name Hervard. After getting lost; Belle, as her cross-dresser name Felice, decides to spend 24 hours in a so-called abandoned building to prove that it's not haunted. "This could be fun." She thought sarcastically. As she walk down the hallway; Felice could see a girl her age as she smiled at 'him': "Are you lost?" She asked. Felice was relieved, "Thank God I'm not the only one alone." She thought. "Guys, we have a guest!" The girl said. "All right, I'm right--" Another voice said. It was none other than it was Mia, who looked shocked at this. "Who are you?" asked Mia. Belle used her best male's voice, "Felice." But she thought to herself, "And here I thought this place was abandoned." Just then, the ghouls attacked Mia and Felice however Felice protects Mia from all the dangers as 'he' begins to fight back. Mia was impressed as they managed to get back to Mia's house and to her room but there was an unexpected guest there. "Wow! What a rough start. Must have been pretty bad." Karen remarked, looking in the mirror. Mia had no time for this, "Karen, get out of my room!" She demanded. Karen looked at her with a smirk, "See, I'm just worried about this person with you. I'm not sure he's feeling up to you so easily." She said. "Stop. Please stop." Mia said. Karen begins to choke up a bit while she talks, "I know everything that’s happening so just don't try to explain it to me. One minute you  are in love with me, then all of a sudden it blows up into a huge fight and feels like their each fighting on a battlefield of love. Love can feel like that at times. It’s getting to the point where the smallest things gets them into a disagreement." Mia could see she looks distress, like she's losing grip all of a sudden. But this was worst that she was before. Karen continued to rant: "Without you, I feel like nothing. You are the one who keeps me safe and comforts me whenever I'm upset. When you're gone, I don't feel safe at all." She begins to cry a bit, before she went on to her speech: "I can’t give up right now, what I did, it’s done. I gave up almost everything for this love. I could do other things but I was trapped in this love, both hands tied behind my back, for nothing. It’s not worth to love you, because I know that we will fall later, it’s a unstable relationship." Karen was wiping her tears away as Felice was confused by what was going on. "We never had a relationship, we were just friends." Mia said. But Karen didn't listen to her: "Why this fight is going on? Why this attitude? I never meant to start a war, that’s your fault. I would never hurt you, I don't even know why we were fighting for! It tends to feel like you’re fighting in a war because of the constant stress, and the feelings of loss."


Karen now displayed a psychotic smile on her face, "How about I kill him for you?" She said. Karen broke the mirror, grabbed a shard of glass and try to stab Felice. Mia wrestled her to the floor as the two girls fought. Felice stood there, shocked by this. Karen try to stab her, "STUPID!!! STUPID, BITCHY-BITCH! I HATE YOU, WHY DO I LOVE YOU?!" She screamed. Mia got the upper hand and broke Karen's hand as she told her, "You. And. Me. We were never 'in love', friends don't try to kill each other. And you are not my friend for doing this." Mia said between gasps. Karen gave up in defeat as she lied there on the floor. Karen was taken away by a hospital and she was submitted to a place where she would get help in therapy. Felice comforted Mia, who was relieved that this whole thing was over. Now she can move on with her life.