TWO YEARS PASSED AND ELLIANA WAS NOW THE YOUNG AGE OF TWELVE. She hadn't heard back from her adopted siblings at all and got worried that they never even received the letter. The crickets and cicadas from outside were shaking their antennas, making a constant sound and the moon shined on her full length mirror, making a glare onto her wardrobe. As she sat on top her bed crisscross, hands in her lap, she watched as Mace admired himself in the mirror.

"Elli, darling," he called to her, not bothering to take his eyes of himself. "How in the world am I so beautiful and handsome? I mean, I feel like I'm extremely special or something."

Elli sighed. "Don't you think you're being a little too, what's the word?" Elli placed a finger on her chin, tapping it repeatedly as if she were thinking. "Oh, self centered much?"

Mace scoffed. "Oh, whatever. You're beautiful too, Elli. I don't know why you have all of these insecurities and such."

Elli shook her head, hugging her stuffed animal from when she were younger close to her chest. She had insecurities, yes, but everyone does. It's a natural human thing. She would go up to her mirror sometimes and look at her stomach, sucking it in then blowing it back out. Elli once starved herself for almost two weeks to get the body she wanted. She hated her nose, her posture, her smile, her everything.

She would always remember how beautiful her mom was or even how beautiful Grace is, but she wasn't even close to compare. She would look at people outside her window who would walk on the streets. How they had a perfect smile, perfect nose, perfect. . . well, everything.

Shaking her head of the thought, she turned her head back to where Mace was before, but he wasn't there. Thinking he would probably scare her, she leaned off her bed and made her way to the tall dresser she had. "Oh, I do wonder where Mace is," she carefully placed her hands on the two knobs of the dresser. "Is he in," she ripped the doors open, "here!" she scrunched her eyebrows to see him not there.

Mace would usually hide there and scare her. Maybe he was in another room—one that's not to far from her. She made her way to the hallway, creeping as quietly as she could so he couldn't hear her. She went into the bathroom. Nothing. Diego's room. Nothing. Allison's room. Nothing. Every room on that floor. Nothing. She made her way to the grand stairs, passing by Reginald's office when she bumped into Grace.

"Oof," Grace grabbed onto Ellis arms to steady herself. "You scared me, honey. What're you doing running around? You could get hurt," Grace worried.

"Sorry, Grace. I didn't mean to run into you," she leaned her head down, gesturing Grace to do the same. "I'm trying to find Mace before he scares the living heck out of me." Grace chuckled as she shook her head.

"Don't worry, peanut, you'll find him," she pinched Elliana's cheek before patting her shoulder, telling her to run along now. As Elliana wasn't in her sight of view anymore, the happy smile was slowly replaced with a dead look as she made her way to Reginald's bedroom. There, Pogo stood in the doorway.

"Is she distracted or away from the room?" Pogo asked. Grace nodded with the same no emotional look on her face. "Good. Now, we shall commence the plan." Grace nodded as she made her way to Reginald.

"Are you sure you want to do this, sir?" Grace made sure of the situation.

Reginald nodded. "Yes, as for the fate of the world depends on it. We must act now," he instructed.

"But," Grace interrupted. "what about Elliana, sir? She hasn't even met any of them yet? Do you think they'll trust her, let alone, let her help?"

Reginald nodded. "They need to band together. Without her curiosity, bravery, and kindness, they won't last one day." Grace nodded at Reginald's orders with a small, faint smile. Unbeknownst to the three of them, Mace stood at the doorway, watching everything take place.

As Elli still searched around the house, she recited back to her room now giving up. "Okay, Mace. I give up. Just because you're a ghost, doesn't mean you can just disappear and go away like that for," she look at the clock that sat on her night stand, "thirty-eight minutes!" she announced aloud. Sighing out, she face planted onto her bed.

"Elli!" Mace yelled, walking right through her door.

"Jesus!" Elli yelled as she practically jumped three feet into the air. "Mace Acker, I hate you so much!"

Mace shook his head and bent down to reach her eye level. "I need to tell you something, it's urgent," he breathed heavily.

"What? And why are you breathing so hard? Did you walk here? Or run?" Elli was about to ask more questions, but someone knocked on her door.

"Ms. Elliana," Pogo called out. "May I speak with you?"

She looked at Mace with a confused look before getting up to open her door. "Yes, you may," she allowed him in and he stood in her doorway as she sat on her bed, Mace sitting close by.

"I have something to tell you Ms. Elliana," he announced. "Master Hargreeves has just recently passed." Elli looked down to her hands as Pogo continued, "His funeral service will be in two days time. I have notified the press about the occurrence so your siblings should be here for the service." Elli looked up at Pogo with a soft look in her eyes.

She was finally going to meet her siblings. She was going to talk to them, learn more about them, and maybe even become friends with them all. As she shook her head of the thoughts that clouded her mind, she gave Pogo a pitiful look as he then nodded and exited her room.

"Wow, Elli," Mace laid down fully on her bed. "You're actually going to meet your siblings." Elli was still shocked at the fact that for after five years, she would meet the full family she dreamed of meeting. "I can tell that since you're not saying a word, you're excited," Mace deadpanned as Elli grabbed a pen from her night stand and threw it at him. It just phased through him.

"Oh, please, Elli. You've tried that before. It won't ever work, got that?" Mace gave a smile as Elli rolled her eyes then laid next to Mace. "What do you think they'll be like?" Mace questioned, turning his body towards Elli as she did it vice versa.

"I don't know. Also, I feel like I should be the one asking questions. Not you, you annoying short stalk," Elli leaned up onto her elbow as Mace gasped in exaggeration.

"Elliana Bennett Hargreeves, how dare you insult me on such manor," he pouted as Elli stuck her tongue out at him. He gasped once more, "That's it!" he turned over as Elliana let out an absurd laugh. "I am not talking to you anymore, Elliana," he spoke her name with attitude as she laughed her socks off.

Elli laughed so hard that she fell of the bed, leading Mace to lean over and see if she was okay. They ended that night laughing aloud, forgetting that Reginald died. But, remembering that she would meet her new siblings in two days time.

As two days time passed quicker then expected, Elliana got ready to meet her siblings. She was nervous. Antsy even. She couldn't stop fiddling with her fingers, biting her lip, even biting her nails, remembering how her mom would do that if she got stressed. It was five o'clock in the evening and the service didn't start for another hour and a half, so it was just her continuing to pace over and over and over and over again in her room.

"Stop it," Mace hissed.

"What?"

"Stop it," Mace spoke again.

"What?" she continued pacing.

"Pacing," Mace stood up from his spot on the bed. "You're wearing a whole into the carpet."

"Sorry, I just," Elli sighed as she moved towards her window. "I don't know about today. What if they don't like me? What if they didn't even receive the letters and have no clue who I am? What if—" Elli went on and on. When she wrote the letters, she wrote six of them. She knew that Ben was dead, yes, but she still wrote one for Five and slipped it under his door. Just in case if he were to come back future reference and somehow find it.

"Elli!" Mace shouted, causing Elli to turn towards him. "You need to calm down. Take a deep breath," he then took a deep breath, motioning her to take one as well which she did. "Now, exhale," he breathed out as she did as well. "See, there you go. You're all better," he smiled to her.

They both heard a car pull up to the mansion and turned towards the window. The saw a orange taxi door open up to reveal a woman dressed in all black. She had black hair that was pulled into a pony tail on the back of her head. She wore gloves, a heavy coat and a scarf. She took a glance at the huge mansion before shutting the door of the cab and it drove off. She made her way to the gate, pushing it open then walked in the front door.

"Okay, Elli. Go introduce yourself," Mace stepped back from the window as she was still scared. "I'll go with you if you want. No matter what, sadly, I'll always be by your side," Mace chuckled as a small smile started to appear on her face. "Come on, hun. Let's go meet the fam," he placed a hand out to the door that was closed. Elliana took a deep breath before grabbing the door handle, twisting it and walked out into the hallway.