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Submitted to Contest #94
I have to do it. It doesn’t matter if I want to or if I don’t, I have to do it for the sake of my family. I didn’t always want to lead a crime family, actually, as a child, I hated the idea of it so much I run away multiple times through my pre-teens. But, now that I’m almost eighteen I’m dealt with the difficult decision to become a leader or an outcast. I look over to my little brother Marcus, he’s barely seven, I can’t burden him with this responsibility. After all, it is my fault my father is dead in the fir...
"You need me, don't you," Emilia says with an awful smirk. I turn my back to her, I don't have time to deal with her right now. "I don't need you, Lieutenant General Aldine does," I say sending her a harsh glare. "Which in turn, means you need me, Clara," she erupts into a hysterical fit of laughter which dies out as soon as I pull on the chains locked around her wrists. I lead us both into a train car trying to ignore the suspicious glances I get from pedestrians. Emilia is surprisingly calm for being kidnapped, almost as if she's done it b...
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