The alarm rings, waking Flower up. She sighs in relief; she can control her body. It was just a dream. A horrible horrible dream. Images flash in Flower's mind so quickly that she can't hold on to them for more than a second. Suddenly her head aches so bad and the images completely disappear. After the pain dies down Flower looks around her room and is shocked by what she sees. The room is messy and everything is thrown around. Both her bag and its contents are all around the couch and floor. The plates of food sit untouched at the counter's edge. When did this all happen? A notification sounds on Flower's phone, but the girl can't check it just yet. Her whole body itches to get up and clean the place, but when she tries, she sees that her feet are glued to the bed. She pulls and pulls but to no use; her feet won't budget. Flower is tired of it and decides to rip her feet away. She falls off the bed rolling on the ground. When she looks up, however, she isn't in her bedroom anymore. Instead she is by the mall walking with her group. Flower looks down at herself; it's like she is a ghost watching the past. She isn't restricted to anything and can watch things the real her didn't. Or.. was she the real her? This is too confusing to think about. Flower is so mesmerized by this ability, she doesn't see when the man comes and everyone freezes. She watches confused as Macy pulls her arm and hides behind the wall. Flower moves her perspective to see what happens next. She watches the two girls, horror written clearly on Macy's face. After everyone unfreezes from whatever spell they were cast under, Macy talks.
"That is one of the members of the Five Families. They made my family's life hell. The highest and most powerful and wealthiest families that have control that stretches farther than we can imagine are called the Five Families. It is better if you never see one or catch their attention. The five families are Doofa, Menuus, Velos, Kasteel, and Tarlis." Macy says in a rush like she knows she doesn't have enough time.
"They have minion families. Ones they use for their own purposes and convince them that they actually mean something. The biggest ones are the Baha and Mel families. If you gain the FF'S attention, you will never be able to avoid trouble again. Trust me." The way Macy says it makes Flower feel like she's talking based on experience. How bad could they be? She again looks into Macy's worried eyes. More than enough apparently. But the girl doesn't stop there.
"You can ask anyone in this building, rich or poor and they will know every single member of the Five families. If there is one thing I can advise you. If you see any member of the Five Families: run. You never know which ones are nice and which ones will rip you apart." Then everything goes downhill from there. The girls try to get out but are mobbed away. A memory snags at Flower's mind and the girl knows with certainty what is going to happen next.
Then it's like a volcano erupts and hundreds of people coming all the way from the western gate run like a crazy mob after the strange man. Flower can barely breathe and the oxygen isn't reaching lower levels. All the girls in her group have run after him like mindless zombies. Macy trips and falls and to Flower's horror she watches people stomping over her.
"MACY. MACY." Flower shouts but her voice is less than a whisper in this hurricane. The girl tries to shove and push people away and not get hurt but she is tiny compared to them and they pay her no attention. Someone shoves her from the back but Flower has no time to scream before she flies head first into a pole. And this time, everything goes black. Flower sees herself lying on the floor, head leaking blood. That happened. Flower thinks while holding the back of her head. The girl wants to stay and watch who took her away afterwards, but the memory shifts into something else and she finds herself standing in her room looking at her unconscious body on the bed. She turns her head and finds the nice well dressed lady from the first day. Again, the memory hits her of what happened between them. What did she mean by "good"? But that didn't matter because now she can see what wasn't said between them.
"She's fine. She needs to be fine. This girl is our key right now. How did you fail to protect her Ky?"
"What was I supposed to do," comes a male voice from over the phone. "I needed to check up on their progress and see if they acquired any new information that could help us. Besides, isn't this girl supposed to be strong? How did she fail to protect herself? Are you sure she is the right one, Kate?"
"Yes, Cindy already told us that she is the one we are looking for"
"Cindy only said that she most likely is, but she could be wrong."
"Yeah, well Ray and Macy both befriended her. That must mean something, right?"
"Ray will befriend anyone who isn't a blind fool. We know that already." The past Flower stirs in her bed and Katt smooths her face into a smile. It looks so real.
"I have to go. She's waking up. Don't mess it up this time. I'll do my part, you do yours. We need her to be mindless for some time." Flower doesn't even have time to gasp before she's back in her bed lying down, feet glued to the sheets.
What is going on? The people in her memory…or whatever that was talked about her needing to be mindless for a period of time. Well, looks like they got what they wanted, because now she is conscious again. They must have finished what they needed to do with her. Flower hopes she will never see them again but with Macy's warning still in her head, the girl doubts it. What was the point of all this? They didn't seem to do anything to her. Or maybe they did something that Flower doesn't remember. Until she remembers everything, she won't be able to judge, though she already has some new thoughts on a couple of people. Flower finally tries to get up to clean the mess but again her feet are glued. Are you kidding? Flower tires again but her movement causes everything to go blurry then black.