Written by **EYRAM**
While Heather was in the house all alone, Serena was in a police car being driven to the station, and this time she was held in an apex security holding cell, even before prison she was treated like this, and she could not believe she was in this situation because of the same guy she could say she actually saw a future with only a few days prior,
in the holding cell she demanded a call, but was ignored, a lawyer, ignored again and soon she realized they were not even going to feed her, but then realized she might not really need food if she kept all the advantages of being a Vampire as a Dhampir.
She ended up spending days there, not an idea regarding anything in the outside world and then one day she was let out the cell to go to a hearing, at the court itself and the case was being aired on international television,
As she was sent to the area designated to the defendant in her sports bra and Carhartt pants from the other day. On the other side was Caspian with a bruised eye and scared cheek, he was a Vampire for Pete's sake anything that shallow would have healed even without a sip of blood, it was make-up, she could see with her keen eye, and was going to use that fact to destroy his reputation internationally,
"All arise" the judge said to commence the hearing, then Caspian's lawyer walked in front of the court and presented footage of "Seraphina" allegedly punching Caspian in his face. Serena stood up and proclaimed as loudly as she could,
"I object"
"Objection overruled" the judge said
"For reason of?" the court was silent for a moment
"Not speaking in cue"
"Wait, was the court scene practiced? Like a Drama, where every actor has their lines and just like a movie scene" She made her way to Lance, effortlessly resisting many officers' tutelage, then brushed her hand against his face and they make up rubbed off. "And just like actors do special effects" the audience gasped and Caspians lawyer retaliated
"The scars might be fake, but this video is tangible evidence of the crime she committed, moreover she has a criminal record for assault" he said bringing out the evidence from his flat file, and then Serena retaliated.
"I am a minor, she said only sixteen years old, and Caspian is eighteen a young adult so on my phone I have evidence of him sexually harassing me" she took the footage from in front of the hotel restaurant and as it was played people wondered, who was on trial for arrest.
"Order in my court" the judge said he looked at Serena with arched eyebrows and pointed her to where she was supposed to stand
"I am not moving an inch without you bringing up a plausible reason why you're overruling evidence as tangible as this.
"Lack of credibility"
"It is obvious that the location in this picture is right in front of the only five star hotel restaurant in Ravensville, and there are even watermarks to prove it's from the surveillance and unlike that video of me punching him that all that shows is fake looking blonde wig his face is displayed in 4k continue with this bullshit and things between you and me are going to get real old man, I have not a second to spare on this rigged court so just tell us how much you were offered as bribe and let's get this over with" she said so confidently, that even people who came to support Caspian were forced to consider.
The court was silent and the judge said
"I hereby sentence you to life in prison, hard labor and communal work for the following crimes, lying in court, harassing the judge, placing pressure on the suer, escaping prison, assault and violence" then with two smashes of hid gavel he said
"Case closed" and everyone stood up to leave but then she shouted
"What was the conclusion of the jury"
"Pardon?" the judge asked
"I know how court cases go and I'm asking you what were the votes of the jury, they are all still in the court and you make a conclusion without the jury placing a single vote in relation to the conclusion of the court, If innocence is a crime I plead guilty" she said and walked away with the evidence she prepared the police without confidence to go after her.
And just like that she pronounced herself not guilty on national television, and people had very little evidence to use against her, but she was not celebrating like her lawyer who was going to be paid for a case he did not attempt to solve, she knew deep down, that she murdered someone but also knew she would have to get over it.
She came home, only to be kicked while she was already down, the house was practically a pig's stein, and it could not be messier than it already was, the door was broken, food was spilled everywhere, the floors were muddy and the kitchen wall was burnt, there were many more noticeable things like the necessary plumbing work than there was before and she came to the conclusion she would live in house that was no bigger than she could clean.
And after her dad's disappearance all the staff were on strike, she could not clean this mess by herself, after all that she went through in the court that very day, and just when she was lamenting over her problems heather mythically appeared right behind her.
In clothes messier that all the dirt holder in a washing machine could hold,
"Oh, strange girl is back, and it turns out my family is not even in the least bit concerned about me, what do I do about that"
"Face it, that's just the cruel reality we come to realize and alongside that is, we have to clean our messes"
"I don't clean, look at me I'm a princess"
"Well, you certainly look and act nothing like one"
"Give me a moment to do my hair" then heather took a fork and started playing with her hair. Serena critically observed that fork looking at every detail and telling herself never to use that to eat again.
Then she took the fork from the delusional little girl and said,
"Even messy princesses need to learn how to clean" at that moment she hated the fact that she had no money and two criminal records, meaning she could not get a job either, how would she pay this mansion's tax, which she perceived was no laughing matter, and Seraphina was somewhere in the woods, with her credit card, like seriously who takes a credit card to that place.
Serena was just getting depressed and at that moment wished she was more of an extrovert that way she would have more friends to ask for help, Trisha was off the list, Sophia too, way off, Lance was the one person she could think off but she could not just call him and ask for help with something like this.
In the end she just cleaned her room and locked herself inside it allowing that girl to wreak havoc in the house, luckily the basement was magically sealed off to she did not have to worry about that mirror hurting the little girl who was now a member of the house, in her room she took out parts of broken data storage units and made a perfect low end nano chip with a cost price around 8$ and it could store 1GB of memory it was way better than the market price of other units so she decided to sell for 10$ .
She took a picture and posted it on her net leaving an address for people to come pick it up at the location of the house but she made a makeshift shed and settled into it, as relaxed as can be.
Surprisingly she had many followers, perks of having two criminal record and an international unfair court hearing that was currently trending news, and being sued by such a promising CEO at that, Caspian in the end he served as clout, business was good and she made around 272$ in profit that day, if she made more copies it would have been a mass sale, at first no-one was coming Afterall a deal that low on a data storage unit with that capacity was surreal but after her first customer tried their luck and said it was real, more and more people joined.
Soon she began to think of a brand name and settled with Serene Wood Technologies, SWT. And made that her account name, then on the next day she set up a proper shop and stocked up on snacks, ready to make big buck she hadn't slept all night making those data storage units now she was done, and ready to get back every penny she spent.