With a heavy heart, Jeff stood in front of his father with his twin sister, Kayla, on his 12th birthday. Looking back, the twins had accomplished a lot in their short years: learning to read, playing piano, befriending the birds in the garden, and excelling in academics. Jeff smiled faintly as the memories ran through his mind. Clutching each other’s hands one last time, he and Kayla waited to hear their fate.

“Happy Birthday, my children. It’s time you heard the ultimatum I have for you,” their father announced solemnly.

Kayla and Jeff looked up, both wearing matching expressions of horror as their father revealed the decision he had made: before their 13th birthday, Kayla and Jeff were to conceive a child together, or else they would be painfully beheaded.

“It’s incest,” Jeff and Kayla said in unison, their eyes wide with terror.

“It doesn’t matter,” their father growled. “If you do not comply, I have no choice.”

Jeff let go of Kayla’s hand and spun around to face her.

“Kayla, please. We have to at least try,” Jeff begged. “If we’re successful, we’ll be spared.”

Kayla shook her head firmly. “No. It’s wrong, Jeff.”

The twins’ pleas and protests went on for months until their 13th birthday finally arrived. With Jeff’s face still etched with desperation and Kayla’s with a determined courage, they both stood before their father naked. Jeff’s penis was fully erect due to his fear.

“Have you produced a child?” Their father asked, his voice completely void of emotion.

Both Jeff and Kayla shook their heads.

“Very well,” their father sighed, pulling out a kitchen knife. “I must do what I must do.”

With that, he went behind Jeff and put the knife at his throat, slowly beginning to saw off the head. Jeff stared at Kayla in anger, silently blaming her for his death.

“Jeff!” Kayla screamed, tears in her eyes as the blade began to pierce his skin.

But it was too late. Jeff was gone, leaving Kayla alone with her father.

“Now,” her father said, “your turn.”

Sobbing, Kayla faced her father with shoulders back and proud. She accepted her fate, standing straight and tall as she waited for her inevitable death.

Suddenly, just as her father was about to plunge the knife into her neck, he stopped and laid Jeff’s body on top of Kayla, Jeff’s penis still erect. As the ultimate insult, her father forced Jeff’s penis inside her. He then proceeded to behead Kayla, as she was sobbing both in fear, and the needlessness of her and her brother's deaths.

As she died, Kayla looked into Jeff’s lifeless eyes one last time as her own life slipped away.