#heavier things

At first she kept him at a distance (with Hana and Maxwell’s aid),

But he was a vile impatient King that would not be delayed.

Our heroine evaded him with jaunts to places yet unseen,

Sneaking in some tenderness, some moments in between.

 Yet at a ball with fireworks the world exploded fast.

Drake took a feral gunshot wound as guests were left aghast.

But in the quiet of the safehouse, a vow was made anew,

“No matter what they throw at us I will end up with you.”

 On a Unity Tour in Fydelia there was further folly

As Madeline grew reckless and dosed all her guests with molly.

Oliva banged Liam and the other guests got high.

Maxwell confessed he loved Savannah (while drugged he could not lie).

 Back in Michael’s chambers, Madeline had her own jig,

Seducing crazy Michael in a cheap “Alyssa” wig,

The wig fell off, but Mike decided not to steer off track

And back at the party Hana became a pyromaniac.

 Maxwell woke up with Adelaide (the memory was uninviting)

Alyssa woke up with Drake (who she’d spent the evening biting)

The Unity Tour soon went awry with everyone feeling poor

And Madeleine spilled secrets to the tabloid rag “The Core”.

 Then Justin moved in for the kill (he saw a chance arise) -

When a group is full of secrets you can weave a web of lies.

He wanted to remove the King and the weapon picked was Drake

But it was the heroine Alyssa that this villain tried to break.

 Yet from the ashes of brutality, Alyssa only grew,

From little wolf to phoenix, she made herself anew.

But Drake was over everything, was well and truly done.

“It’s time to leave,” he told Alyssa - but they walked when they should have run.

 Tragedy befell his family and he rushed abroad on Alyssa’s orders

And at that time, Michael pounced and swiftly locked the borders.

No one in and no one out, Cordonia isolated.

But our hero and heroine had a love that endured and waited.

 The following days were torture: endless, raw and rough.

Drake missed Alyssa (and Olivia and Madeleine were up the duff).

Michael did do one thing right (although not motivated by purity),

He hired the indefatigable Enrique to oversee Alyssa’s security.

 Leo fell for Olivia, who rebuffed him at every turn

But the more that she protested, the more his heart did yearn.

Hana fell for Enrique who excelled in protecting and serving

(His precision and intensity was really quite unnerving).

 While Michael was an evil King, he wasn’t very smart

(and Maxwell had persuasion down to a perfectly fine art).

Young Beaumont convinced the King to relax the laws that plague us

And let Alyssa party as a bachelorette in Vegas.

 Drake drove across the country, his heart awash with hope

as he met up with his lady love and asked her to elope.

Leo officiated and the ceremony was a delight.

Everyone got jiggy on the special wedding night.

 Drake thought the wedding ended an ordeal that had been gory

But Alyssa said: “No freedom ‘til I can tell my story!

I want to know it’s over and that I don’t have to hide,

So we’ll make sure we live stream it so we get the world onside.”

 Alyssa’s voice rang loud and true, it soared across the nation

(Drake jumped and shouted “That’s my wife!” with pride-filled pure elation).

Madeline went crazy and tried to shoot Oliva Nevrakis

(but she was a clumsy shot and instead snagged Michael’s carcass).

 Finally our heroine and hero could stop and breathe easy

Gone were all the villains that had served to make them queasy.

Then began a time of peace and weddings and fluff we crave

All because a sunny girl decided to be brave.

 So in fair Cordonia they still sing this lengthy tale,

To remind us that when things get rough, goodness can prevail.

At times they might be heavy, at times there might be pain,

But beyond the trials and suffering there’s love and light to gain.

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