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Lizzy blushed angrily and gently pushed Heather's hand away, stepping back to put some distance between them. She didn't like how her ex-girlfriend was looking at her, or how her looks made her feel. "I've been fine. I'm living with my steady girlfriend..." Lizzy lifted her left hand and saw Heather's eyes harden. "...well, my fiance, now. Which reminds me, I should be getting back to her, so if you'll excuse me..."

As Lizzy went to turn away, she felt Heather grab her wrist to keep her there. "Wait, please don't just walk away, Lizzy!"

"What did you expect, Heather?" Lizzy said sharply, jerking her hand away as her anger reached its peak. "You crushed me, yes, but did you really think I would pine for you forever? Did you think I'd be happy to see you, fall right back in your arms because you deigned to show up?"

Lizzy hesitated a few seconds before nodding curtly and following her ex-girlfriend into the darker part of the parking lot. "Geez, how far out did you park?"

"Oh, not much farther." Heather stopped and waited until Lizzy was beside her to start walking again. Lizzy refused to look at her, so she wasn't watching Heather's face when she asked, "So um... This girl of yours... Is she nice to you? Is she pretty?"

"She's beautiful, and very good to me." There was a longer pause before Lizzy finally sighed and inquired, "Do you have a girlfriend yet, Heather?" She glanced at the girl, trying to read her expression.

Heather laughed and shook her head, setting her ponytail swinging. "Nope. About five minutes after you went off to that college, I tried to call your house, but the number was disconnected. I drove over, and there was another family living there. And then, when I went to the college, you weren't there. It was like... You'd vanished. I've spent the last year trying to find you. And now I have... Lizzy, I really miss you...."

That hadn't been the answer Lizzy was expecting. She blushed and returned her gaze to the pavement. "Well, sorry you didn't find me sooner." Lizzy checked her phone for text messages and found one from Harmony asking where she was. She was about to reply when she felt Heather's hand grip her wrist. "Hey, let go!"

Heather laughed and pinned Lizzy against the black van she had been led to, slamming the hand with the phone in it against the van repeatedly until it slipped from her fingers. The little black phone clattered to the ground, and Heather stomped it to bits with her heavy boot. She also yanked Lizzy's purse from her grasp and tossed it aside before pressing her body against Lizzy's.

"H-hey! Heather, stop it! Help! Somebody help!!"

Heather smirked and clamped a hand over Lizzy's mouth, easily keeping her pinned with the other hand. "Enough chitchat. It's my turn to do some serious talking. I know what you are, Elizabeth Green... Or should I say, Arietta Lee. I've always known what you are. From the beginning, you were meant to be mine. And you will be."

Heather smirked as she watched Lizzy lose consciousness, then climbed in the van behind her, quickly sliding the door shut. "Go," she ordered the driver in a harsh voice, her eyes still on her blindfolded, bound, and gagged ex-girlfriend. 'It's for her own good... Lizzy, you'll be happy soon, I promise...'

'Oww... My head... Ugh, I'm so sore... And it's dark... What the hell happened to me?' Lizzy moaned softly and stirred, then gasped when she felt her hands tied behind her back, the blindfold over her eyes, and the duct tape still over her mouth. She remembered everything, and the memories sent her mind reeling again.

When she could think straight, she forced herself to accept each new fact one at a time. 'Heather's an Angelic... She knows I'm an Angelic and the heir to the throne... She kidnapped me... Harmony has no idea where I am...' Tears pricked her eyes and she blinked them away impatiently. 'Now is definitely not the time for crying...'

Lizzy squirmed a bit and processed that she was lying on something soft. A bit more squirming left her sitting upright. Through the blindfold she could see a faint, flickering light. 'Where have they brought me?' Lizzy heard a door open and turned blindly toward the sound. Footsteps came toward her and she edged away, reaching a wall. She gritted her teeth as the duct tape was ripped from her mouth.

She heard Heather chuckle and felt the all-too-familiar lips press against hers. Lizzy turned her face away and struggled against the ropes, feeling Heather's mouth move to her neck. "St-stop it," she commanded in a hoarse voice, shuddering and trying to lean away. "I don't want you touching me..."

Lizzy quickly took in her surroundings as soon as her eyes adjusted, in case there was a nearby escape route. She was in a very large, well-furnished room, kneeling on a soft four-poster with her back to the wall. A fire crackled in the fireplace, the floors were a very plush looking blue carpet, and the walls were painted in light, cheerful colors. It would have been a nice room if Lizzy hadn't been there against her will. She looked back at Heather and frowned. "Where am I?"

Lizzy shivered again and tried to move away from Heather, keeping her face turned away so she couldn't get at her lips. "Don't touch me, Heather! I mean it." When Heather had withdrawn and she calmed down a bit, Lizzy turned her eyes back to her ex's. "Explain, then. I really don't get any of this... How can you be an Angelic? Why did you pretend to be a human?"

Lizzy shifted and hugged her knees to her chest, slowly drinking in what Heather was saying. 'So... Heather's always been my enemy? She was pretending to love me the whole time?' Even though she loved Harmony with all her heart now, the thought of such a deep betrayal stung.