The narrator tells us that this story is nothing more than a "plague" of a story. He says that there's no intention to make any real events or characters out of the setting of the story. The narrator says that she's chilled out by what's going on around her. She's been burned to death in her stepmother's apartment by her fiance and her stepmother. She can't figure out who this guy is and where he's hiding the heirloom of her family. She says that if she doesn't give him in, he'll make her wish she were dead. She wants to know why she looks the way she does. She asks where she hid the heirloom and the narrator tells her that it belongs to a wealthy family in the city. The