*Author's note/ Context*
Datura, also well known as devil's trumpet, moonflower and devil's weed, is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family. This plant can cause hallucinations, depression, psychosis and even death on consumption.
Brugmansia, also known as angel's trumpet, is a relative of Devil's trumpet. It is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. All parts of Brugmansia are potentially poisonous, with the seeds and leaves being especially dangerous. Dry mouth, poor coordination, delusion, visual hallucination and death are caused on consumption of any part of this plant.
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*6th Jan, 2018*
It was the day where Anne would go to her mom's biggest rival's house, Cristina. Lucy was nervous and overwhelmed about the entire situation. But, she made sure to take all the necessary measures to protect her dearest daughter. She stitched her drss with a tracker and voice hacker underneath and also gave her a phone, which allows her to listen to the conversations and track her location for additional safety. She also gave a device which Anne can press if she's in any difficulty.
Lucy : "Anne, remember to never turn off your phone, also if you are facing any difficulties, you can just press this button, okay?"
Anne : "Okay mummy."
Lucy : "Good. Don't tell anyone about this, promise?"
Anne : "Promise. Now let me go mummy."
Lucy : "Sure honn. I will be dropping you off."
Lucy then drove to Cristina's house and knocked the door of her house. Cristina opened the door with delightful smile and welcomed them in.
Cristina : "You guys are finally here! I was waiting for you both since a while. And Anne, Ziva told me that you really like chocolate cookies, so I made few of them for you."
Anne : "REALLY?? THANK YOU SO MUCH AUNTY CRISTINA."
Cristina : "That's fine, Anne. You don't have to thank me. I am glad this made you happy. Ziva is in her room, you can go to her room and have fun. I will send the cookies in few minutes, while your mom and I are gonna have some talks. Right Lucy? We have so much to talk about, don't we?"
Lucy gave a fake smile and nodded her head with a hum. Then, Cristina took her to her private garden. As soon as Lucy entered the garden, she was shocked and speechless by what she has seen. The garden was filled with datura and brugmansia plants. She was stunned by the visual and tried to back off.
Cristina : "Why are you so shocked Lucy? This isn't even something which you have never seen. Ah! Did you remember something from the past?"
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*Dec 24, 2004*
Lucy : D-dad, d-dad, I t-think I j-just killed s-somebody. Dad w-what am I s-suppose to do?"
Said Lucy in a fainted voice. She was so scared of what she has done. As soon as she told this to her dad, she recieved a slap from him.
Lucy's Dad : "Oh you did this to that poor girl, didn't you? YOU are nothing but an insult to me. Because of your irresponsibility, I had to take care of your wrongs. Do you even know what will be the consequences if media gets to know about it? AND NOW ON TOP OF THAT YOU KILLED THAT GIRL! SHAME ON YOU. YOU CAN'T EVEN BEAT A GARBAGE GIRL AND YOU EXPECT ME TO MAKE YOU THE HEIRESS OF LEYIN GROUP OF COMPANY."
Lucy fell on her knees and begged for forgiveness with tears flowing from her eyes.
Lucy : "I am sorry dad. I know that I am not yet a perfect daughter you expect me to be. But I am trying on it. But please dad, please please please help me this time. I promise this would be the last. Please!
Lucy's Dad : "Do I look like I have any other choice than helping you out? I can't go down just because of you and your silly mistakes. Now get out of my sight."
Lucy, then went out of his sight. Her dad immediately arranged everything for Cristina. He immediately asked one of his guards to take her to the hospital and conclude the situation that she intentionally did it for herself because she couldn't win the prize.
*Next day*
Thankfully, Cristina was alright, but the medical reports told that she will never be able to sing or speak in a high voice ever again. Her parents were more concerned about her mental health, as they were sure Cristina is going to have a hard time. They went to Cristina and tried speaking but Cristina started shouting and crying.
Cristina's mom : "Oh my God! My love, stop crying. You won't be able to speak ever again if you do so. Don't worry everything is going to be alright."
Cristina : "How mom? She took everything from me. How can I not worry. And what's the use of having voice when I won't be able to sing ever again."
Cristina's Dad : "Well angel, this isn't everything. At least, she didn't take us from you, right? We will always be there for you. So don't worry. We will try finding evidence about everything and we will go through this together."
By saying this, both her parents hugged her and comforted her even more, though it was really hard to do so. Then, they all stayed like this the entire time. Cristina told everything and cried in front of her parents, while they listened to all her sorrows and complaints while patting her head.
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*3 days later*
Cristina was better now. Her parents didn't let her out anywhere as she needed complete rest. She wanted to go to school today, but she was sure that her parents would not let her step out of the house as she was not completely alright. So she sneaks out of her house and goes to school. As soon as she entered the school, everyone started staring at her with a weird disgusting look on their face as if she is some sort of alien.
"Hey garbage, go back to your house, you don't fit in here."
She heard someone say this.
"Yeah! She's completely right. A coward like you never deserves to be here."
"I can't believe she legit cut her throat because she couldn't win the pri-"
Cristina : "WHAT DO YOU MEAN? SAY THAT AGAIN IF YOU DARE!"
"Oh, calm down girl, why are you getting so offended for something which you have done? We all know here that you cut your throat because you couldn't win."
Cristina : "WHAT DO YOU EVEN MEAN? IT'S ALL LIE. WHERE'S LUCY?"
There entered Lucy with her group.
Lucy : "Girl, why are you shouting so much? Didn't doctors tell you not to do this?"
Cristina : "Oh really Lucy, how do you know about that?"
Lucy : "I-i am Lucy, the princess of Leyin group of company. I obviously kno-"
Xx : "Just stop it Lucy!"
Lucy : "Huh? What do you mean Alex?"
Alex : "Why are you even paying so much of attention on this low class girl. She isn't even worth it."
Lucy : "Oh, you are right. Good bye Crissy"
With that they all left while slurring about Cristina.
Cristina was heartbroken. She rushed towards her house and said while crying-
Cristina : "Mom, dad, why didn't any of you tell me what was going on. You guys knew everything, right?"
Cristina's mom : "Cristina, calm down-"
Cristina : "How can I? What are they even speaking about me? What am I supposed to do now?"
Cristina's dad : "Cristina, I promise you that I will get the evidence of their wrong doings and get you back your name. I promise, honn."
Cristina cried all day. 5 days passed. Neither did Cristina eat something properly nor did she get out of her room. She only ate food when her parents forced her so much. It was evening, around 5. Someone knocks through her room window. She gets kinda scared, but still opens it. Then, a boy speaks-
Boy : "Hi Crissy! I am Alex's friend. He sent me here. He wants you to be in crystal park right now. He told me to tell this to you. You will have to come, no matter what. Or else, he would provoke your family's creditors and send them here."
Listening to this, Cristina decides to visit Alex. She reaches the park, but doesn't see Alex anywhere around. She waits for him for an hour and decides to go back as he is nowhere to be found here. Then, she hears a voice-
Alex : "Where are you going, darling?"
Cristina : "Looks like you are finally here. What do you want?"
Alex : "Woahh! Did you really cut that", he says and tries to touch her cut, but Cristina backs off.
Cristina : "What do you even want from me?"
At that right moment, Cristina gets a message from her parents saying, "Angel, we found the evidence, everything will go back to normal. We will give this to the media and come home soon honn. Love you."
By reading this, she was so happy, but something in her mind and heart told something doesn't feel right. She ignored it. Then spoke Alex.
Alex : "Nothing. It looks like you won't be attending school anytime soon, so I wanted you to right and give me assignments and homework of next 2 days. Also come to me for stationary shopping right now. If you refuse, you know the consequences."
Cristina agreed, after thinking about the consequences. After an hour, she gets a call from her mother. She answers the call and then speaks her mom with a fainted voice-
Cristina's mother : "M-my dear a-angel, r-remember, your dada and I will a-always be here w-with you. W-we won't g-go anywhere l-leaving our pr-precious daughter. We love y-you honn."
By this, the call ended. Cristina called her back but her phone was switched off. Cristina then started crying.
Cristina : "Mom, Dad, what's wrong? What happened? Alex, I am sorry but I have to leave."
By saying this, Cristina rushed towards her house. As soon as she saw her house, she was blown away. The house was set on fire, while fire extinguishers were trying to stop the fire. Cristina tried to enter her fire caught house, but a fire extinguisher stopped her.
Cristina : "My, my parents are there. Let me go in."
Cristina then saw around and witnessed Lucy's parents getting inside the car right in front of her house. She was quick to understand, but late to react. The car started driving, but she runned towards it. She started shouting at them to stop the car, but unfortunately she couldn't catch them.
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*Few hours ago in Lucy's house garden*
Secretary : "SIR! WE ARE IN TROUBLE! CRISTINA'S PARENTS FOUND THE EVIDENCE THAT YOU PLAYED THE SONG IN THE BACKGROUND AND LUCY LIP SYNCED TO IT IN THE COMPETITION. THEY WENT TO THE CONCERT ROOM AND COLLECTED ALL THE EVIDENCES. THEY WILL BE GIVING THIS TO MEDIA ANYTIME SOON. ON TOP OF THAT, THEY ALSO COLLECTED EVIDENCE THAT LUCY CUT CRISTINA'S THROAT. THEY HAVE WITNESS FOR THAT."
Lyncon Leyin (Lucy's dad) : "Hmm, do you this boy, these plants here are datura and brugmansia. They are also called as Devil's trumpet and angel's trumpet. But as pretty as they are, each part of their is deadly poisonous. Just by taking tiny bit of it, you will start hallucinating in next level. And on further consumption, they cause death. You know what to do, right?"
Secretary : "Yes sir!"
Lyncon : "Unlucky parents cut their child's throat and killed themselves as they couldn't pay their debts back. And you told me that they've got witness, right?"
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Xx : "Sir, Ma'am, here! Take it. It's an orange juice.
Cristina's mom : "Thank you. Um, can we know when will he come?"
Xx : "Soon ma'am, sorry for our inconvenience."
Few minutes later, both Cristina's parents started getting headache. Their vision became kinda blurry. The glass of orange juice looked bigger than them to them. Their surroundings got weird and weird. They were not sure what was happening.
Xx : "I am sorry sir and ma'am, but sir can't meet you right now. But even more bitter news is that, your house caught fire and your daughter, Cristina is in there."
Cristina's dad : "WHAT? OUR PRETTY DAUGHTER IS IN THERE. COME FAST, WE MUST HURRY AND SAVE OUR DAUGHTER."
Cristina's mother : "YES! YES! WHAT ON EARTH HAD HAPPENED?"
Xx : "I have arranged a car. We must hurry."
The entire drive was crazy. Cristina's parents started seeing weird stuffs like dinosaurs attacking the city, Cristina singing on top of fire etc. So, the driver gave them sleeping masks. They finally reached the house.
Xx : "You can remove your masks now. See, the house is set on fire and your daughter is begging for help."
As they removed their masks, they imagined whatever that man told. They rushed to save the daughter who was never there.
Cristina's father : "Crissy, my angel, you don't have to worry. We are here. We will save you honn."
As soon as they entered the house, it was set on fire. Due to the hallucination, both the parents lost their life in the world of fake colours.
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*Present*
Xx : "Sir, you have a meeting in an hour."
Lyncon : "Cancel it, I didn't have my lunch, so I will first have that.
Xx : "Sure sir. I will make a reservation of a table in your favourite restaurant."
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*At the restaurant*
Alex : "Welcome to our restaurant uncle. I am glad you are here."
Lyncon : "Haha, every time I come here, I feel so happy because of the yummy food. I must bring my family with me more often. Especially my son in law."
Alex : "Sure you can do that uncle. Ah! I will keep going now. I have some important work."
Lyncon : "Sure, son. I will enjoy my meal now."
*Few minutes after faving few bites*
Lyncon : "Ah! What's happening? Why do I feel so dizzy?"