they were in the band p.3

“Good times, good times. Did you
ever think that..” Relena smiled “ I had no doubt, baby,
we have been through a lot tougher, I mean some good fortune was
bound to come our way.” Rould sat himself down at the table and
began flirting with the waitress and ordering sake. He a smug look on
his face, on top of the world type look. A look that at most times
would sicken the crew, this time it only it only slightly nauseated
them. Rould's look was one of lust for the drink, money and women.
Mey broke the awkward silence in the room, “ So who is ready
for some fine eats?” The group looked back on each other and
smiled. A sense of accomplishment and calm came when the food was
brought. At last they could live it large.

Times for the
Poyzen apples were not so grand, nor for their members. As with all
stories, everything has a beginning. Darkness must sprout from
somewhere and is birthed in all. This was her story. Relena and
Lumaria were the best of friends, before everything happened. Simply
living in childhood innocence. Relena and Lumaria spent most of their
time together pretending to be what ever they wanted to be and on top
of that list of make believe was a band, that is where it all
started. Lumaria started with a simple acoustic guitar given to him
by his mother and Relena took voice lessons.

Relena's birth
into darkness started early. She was eight when it all began. One
evening she came home from her voice lessons, she was walking down
the familiar streets. Passing and counting the lamps as she always
did, the slight buzzing of the electricity somehow comforted
her.

She came upon her house, in the ditch across was a
strange car. At first she was concerned she wanted to look at first,
but thought nothing of it. She got out her keys and put them to the
look, she noticed that something now was inherently wrong here. Near
the lock it looked like the door was forced open before she could
open the door BAM BAM! Gunshots, Relena froze outside of her door she
could the faint whimpers of her mother. Relena slowly opened the
door, everything was smashed on the floor, things were ripped. She
crept silently through the house.

She could now see into the
kitchen her father and mother both tied to chairs. Her father with
several gun shots in him already was bleeding out. The man with the
gun had a crazed look to his face. He paced around her parents “
Give me all of it, I know you have it!” He shot up into the
ceiling. Her mother began to cry “ Please just take what you
want, let us live.” The man with the gun smiled “ I know
you have it! Where is it” He cocked his gun and shot her in the
leg and cocked it again and shot her in her stomach. “ Next one
is for him, give it to me all of it.” Her mother now
hysterical. Relena saw all of this she crouched down near the island
and grabbed the nearest thing to her she took a kitchen knife in both
of her tiny hands.

She was trembling she had to do something.
Rage took over, the man with the gun shot her father again his death
blow. She saw her father die right in front of her, her mother
crying. Tears streaming down her face. A knife in the back then
another in the leg, pull and release. Again this time the man with a
gun bent down, a knife in the stomach, a knife in his throat. Pull
and release, he tried to raise his gun at her....click...click...
nothing. Her mother had the strength to dial 911. Relena was only
trying to save them, her mother her the last thing her mother saw was
her daughter in his blood.

Pull release a knife, a
knife....pull...a knife a knife.... a knife a knife a knife a
knife.... The cops arrived and ambiance arrived putting her father,
mother and man on carts. Her father already dead, now in a bag. Her
mother bleeding badly. A cop bent down say her spattered in blood. He
draped a blanket around her. “ You did what any one would do,
dear. I am sorry, I am so sorry. Your father.” Relena looked up
her eyes blank “ I know...I'm a bad person ? I hurt him, but
I...I..” “ It's alright, it was self defense. Lets get
you cleaned up.
Your mother is going to the hospital. You need to
go somewhere safe, it says on this sheet that you are to go to your
neighbors house.” Relena nodded and looked back at all the
chaos and damage.

This is where she and Lumaria and her
became inseparable. The cops brought her to their front door, still a
bit bloodied with new clothes but all could tell something very wrong
just happened. Once inside Relena was brought a a bath. The cop and
Lumaria's parents talked about what happened. “ It was pretty
gruesome, I am worried for her though, she saw her father die...and
that man. She will need time. They are not sure if her mother will
make it, she is in bad shape. Relena is a strong girl, she did some
serious damage to him...but no child should have to do that.”
Lumaria's mother clenched her teeth “ We will take care of her,
she is already so a part of our family, I just hope...for her sake
her mother does make it.” Thay night Relena's mother passed.
Her mother assured her she was not a bad person, but there was a
slight hint of fear for her daughter in her eyes before she said
those last words “ I love you, you're my daughter you could
never be a bad person..” Relena would forever be haunted by
those words and that look, the man with the gun...she wondered what
drove her to do that...yes he was a bad man, but still no child
should ever have to kill.