The Beginning: Tanya

Tanya was the last child of the Sylvester family.

As the last girl child in the family, she got everything she wanted from her four elder siblings. Money, jewels, free passes to important places and even popularity in school. That made her spoiled and very pampered and soon the spoiled princess added two more titles to that – bratty and mischievous.

Tanya was never home for family dinners; she didn't care less what happened in her absence at home and she was sure as hell that whatever happened wasn't her business as long as it wasn't impressionable.

Tanya was disrespectful, picky, irritable and nosy. It was with that attitude that Adam took notice of her – the last and spoiled princess of the Sylvester family.

Tanya and her siblings all went to a military based academy. It was a necessity, considering the fact that her family were public servants who worked in the logistics department of the army. Not only was there a discount for the kids over there, considering their parents occupation, but their parents also had a hope - a vain dream of some sorts - that all their children could be public servants like themselves and probably better the society when the time came. All of their wishes were, of course, against the personal doctrines Tanya practiced.

Tanya, who had been spoiled by her family - stuck out like a sore thumb. She, who had always gotten everything that she had asked for just at her words, found it tiring to live the same way over and over again. She knew that she could always follow in her siblings footsteps and actually work and find something credible and worthwhile to do while finding fulfillment in it but Tanya won't be Tanya if she actually went along the line to follow in precedence.

So she started with small mischievous pranks like: gluing a teacher's head to her desk in her sleep. Tying the shoelaces of the security guards while they scolded her gang and then provoking them to run so she could watch them fall. Stealing lunch boxes, stealing lunch money, playing truant and even replacing her principal's mint cigar for paper wrapped weed. Where she had acquired the stash, no one asked and no one could've know even if they tried anyway.

Soon, Tanya so got carried away with the pranks that one nearly killed someone who was asthmatic because Tanya thought it was funny to switch the original inhaler with one filled with laughing gas. The poor child nearly died in her hysteria.

Soon Tanya was rusticated from the military school and was sent to a private school but little did they know, that was a huge error on their part. Tanya instantly clicked with the wrong crowd on her arrival and soon, her reign of terror continued in a new environment but in a more terrible manner.

Tanya's immediate elder siblings, who were twins, were concerned about this and used their connection to bring a friend to the new school that they had sent her off to.

It was Adam.

Apparently, he was doing an annual safety awareness campaign where the police force would send rookies or cadets from the police academy to schools and educate them on what to do in various scenarios. After which, they would temporarily take over and oversee the security arrangements for a while in order to ensure the kids are safe and assure the parents for a month and then they'll leave, bringing in a new set of rookies and cadets the next session to continue the cycle.

Apparently, since Adam was an outstanding student with a high chance of graduating early and with honors to top, he had every right to go to Tanya's school. Especially since he was planning to be posted in the locality after he had passed the exams.

It was there that Adam grew to hate and despise Tanya.

Adam would have originally had nothing to do or comment to Tanya if she had done her pranks and took full acceptance of the consequences. But, not only did she refuse to do so, she also used her parents name and position in the government to push her weight around.

Now, not that her family were politicians or bigwigs in government but her parents were actually has quite the reputation. With one being the national security advisor to none other than the head of state and another being a warfare strategist for the army, Tanya's threats really held power. Well, to an extent it did.

Adam always made sure to tell Tanya off more times than once and since he was actually closer to the family, he was able to call her bluff on more occasions than once to the gratitude of the teachers, easing their burdens a bit.

They say that if the sea is blocked from flowing into the river from one side, it would find another way to vent and Tanya did just that. She waited till she was an adult and became a total menace to society and to Adam.

She dropped out of school and lived the life of a miscreant. And although she did all that to get under Adam's skin, she never killed or stole. Everything she ever did ended up in misdemeanors and property damage at least. The most was harassment of a police officer. Sexual harassment was what was specified in her record.

But something happened and Tanya had sold her parents national treasured secret to a friend but not on purpose. She never knew what was where in her home but she knew one place that even her siblings were stern about her going there and she had nonchalantly given the information to a friend who had said she was asking in passing.

The nation ended up in a threatening situation that nearly led to war but unfortunately, genocide was unavoidable. Both properties and people were destroyed and their lives changed. The enemy camp has taken Tanya's name as the one who had given them the information in exchange for a good position in the new administration and that was all it took for them to lock her up and torture her till insanity.

Her parents and family ended up being victims to the revolution and people gathered at the place where she locked to rally and ask the government to kill the 'stain of Sylvester'. The protests were increasing while the force was in the midst of getting a name for the investment to proceed smoothly.

Soon, news came that the one who had been sold the information had been killed in the enemies threshold. It was almost a sympathetic story since the one who had sold the information was in dire straits and was desperately in need of the money as she had a sick brother who was in need of an operation to clear the blood clotting in his heart but they both ended up dying for reasons linked to the same problem.

This incident led people to partially blame the government for the genocide since it was a problem they could have solved if the healthcare system had been a bit meticulous and had provided healthcare services to those who couldn't afford it, especially to those under eighteen but what was done was done and there was nothing they could do.

But the public still blamed Tanya and soon they demanded blood in compensation to the unjust deaths of many army personnel and people. Something that could have been avoided if she were not in the picture.

Now, here Tanya was. In front of the public, in her dirty prisoner's outfits preparing to be hung in front of the public.