TERRAVERDE, ALIVE HOSPITAL*

"You both should just go another round again" she told the two troublemakers who're still glaring at each other.

"Fine" Silver agreed, but before they could start another game, the corridor door opened, and the witch came in.

Teal!

Pearl froze at first, then she threw down the apple and rushed to the cell door, holding the metals tightly as Teal approached their cell with a threatening look on her creepy face.

She's wearing a purple skimpy gown, hugging her bony figure and giving out a lot of her breàsts in the front.

It's backless too, and she's wearing slim heels, carrying a glittering shoulder bag.

She didn't change one bit.

"Aww...you look filthy and smelly, how has the only daughter of the Wilson family been surviving here?" Teal said, faking pity faces.

"Who is Richard to you?" Pearl asked without missing a beat.

"Richard is my father, simple" Teal shrugged, fanning her nose.

"Richard is infertile, everyone in my family knows" Pearl muttered, and Teal smirked.

"Console yourself with that, bîtch, and for your information, you've been buried at home, and everyone thinks you're dead! Hyce's family got implicated and he's disowned, Rebekah's father got dethroned and Rook lost Sybil. Perfect revenge. Serves you right for lying against my father!" She said.

Pearl dipped her hand into one of the holes and pulled her like she did to the guard.

She hit Teal's head on the metal, and Teal staggered.

"Damn you, I didn't hit it well" Pearl seethed in anger.

"Open this door!" Teal hit the cell with her heels, and a guard obeyed the command.

She stormed in like tornado, and Pearl was thinking she'd try to hit her, but instead of that, she plucked the sunstone necklace from her neck.

Pearl gasped.

"Sybil told me Banks gave you this. It's mine" she said, dropping it in her bag.

"Give it back!" Pearl went closer to her, but she easily pushed her.

Pearl staggered on Silver, and Silver caught her before kicking Teal on the hip.

Teal landed on the ground, and BJ took over, getting a bucket of water and wetting her completely.

Teal almost passed out, and her prosthetic leg got exposed slightly.

Only Pearl saw it though.

Guards had to rush in and take her away to safety, but Pearl and the rest didn't go free.

They were taken by the guards to the correction room.

They weren't even asked to strip, their clothes were torn off with a kitchen knife, and Pearl began shaking as her breàsts bounced free.

She quickly covered them with her palms.

Thanks to the panty that's covering her pussy, she'd have been totally naked.

It's same with Silver, but her body is badly bruised with marks and scars from the tortures of this place.

BJ's body is the same.

They were pushed to lay on the benches, and the belt lashes began.

Right from the first lash, Pearl was already bleeding.

It hurts, so much.

She couldn't take it, so her tears poured again as the belt landed wickedly on her back again.

Silver and BJ are used to it, so they only groaned at each lash, but Pearl's cries rented the whole place.

Her back is on fire, and she could feel blood trickling out.

The necklace is gone.

It's gone.

She was about to scream again when BJ secretly showed his hand, and she gasped wetly when she saw the necklace.

He actually took it back from Teal's bag earlier.

Before Pearl could smile, another lash landed on her back, and she almost broke into two.

"Arhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!"

Her scream is thin but deafening.

"Please please please.... it's ok!!!!! It's ok!!!!! Damn!!!!!! Stop!!!!!!!!!"

"IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S TOO MUCH AND YOU CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, JUST SAY THE SAFE WORD, AND I'LL STOP" Roonie's words rang in her head, his velvety voice soothing as she received another lash.

"Red!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She shrieked in agony.

But the beatings didn't stop.

*

TERRAVERDE, ALIVE HOSPITAL*

It's 8pm when nurse Layla entered Roonie's private ward to do his night reading.

She was beaming as usual, and she's not alone this time.

She's with Axel, Hyce and Rook.

"How're you doing, bastard?" Axel ruffled Roonie's hair in bed.

"Stop that, fucker" Hyce rolled eyes.

"Duhh" Axel ruffled it again.

"Don't disturb his peace, please" nurse Layla said respectfully, sitting on the tall stool.

"Start the reading, please" Rook replied, settling on the second bed.

Layla cleared her throat...

"The time is 8:05pm right now, Mr. Roonie Banks." She said, holding his hand as usual.

Axel and Hyce exchanged glances, and Rook smiled knowingly.

Layla continued. "My name is...

"Layla, and you're 25 years old. Your favorite flower is daisy, and you prefer winter to summer. You live in Ferguson, and I'm your first patient"

The ward went silent after that, and everyone stood attention cos that voice is definitely not Layla's.

The book fell from Layla, and her eyes widened when she saw Roonie's red eyes are wide open, staring at her.

"Oh my....gawd" she muttered, standing up in sheer shock.

Her hand is still with him, but he's the one holding it this time.

"Banks? For real?" Axel said.

"Banks!" Hyce's eyes popped.

"Roonie motherfuckin' Banks!" Rook said, his excitement going over the brim.

Roonie gave everyone strange cold looks except Layla, and Hyce's eyes flickered.

"No...I know that look" he said suspiciously.

"Don't fuçking tell me..." Axel narrowed his eyes.

Rook quickly fished out his phone, went to Pearl's I* and clicked on one of her pictures.

"Who's she?" He asked, showing Roonie.

"How the fûck am I supposed to know? Never seen her before" Roonie replied, shutting his eyes tiredly.

"And me?" Hyce asked.

"Is everyone fuçking crazy now? Hyce, Axel, Rook? Want me to say your surnames too?" He said with a deep groan, and the three guys exchanged speechless glances.

"She's gone from his memories. Just her" Layla muttered.