I wore a pink gown, not bothering to check how it looked. I know I look like a mess, whatever guests she has, I don't know them.
I sighed walking out of the room, I mobbed to the sitting only to see aunt smiling widely at two men standing in front of her.
"Of course! She would love to go now! Cara!" She called beaming, Cara is her only child and daughter, she is a year older than me.
Cara waltzed in, her face was heavily stashed with makeup, I'm, I'm not surprised.
"And, there's my niece, Tessa, she's just like a daughter to me." She motioned for me to come closer.
Just like a daughter to me my butt.
I walked closer, don't know Why But I already hate the two men in front of me.
"Let's sit down."
I sat down on the seat next to Cara, I noticed the side glare she was giving me, she has never liked me.
The rest was a blur, seriously, I wasn't even listening, my mind was on so many different things.
I felt someone's eyes on me, looking to the opposite side was one of those men, why was he looking at me? Is there something on my face?
I quickly looked away from him, and when I earned a glare from an aunt, what was this all about?
They talked a bit more, besides me was a blushing Cara, I shook my head sighing, and let this be over.
It was finally over, and those men left, I went to my room and closed the door behind me, I went to where I placed the pregnancy kit.
I can't believe there is an actual human growing inside of me, it felt so unreal. My room door suddenly opened, revealing my aunt
"I need to talk to you." Was the first thing aunt said immediately thereafter entering the room.
"Okay," I replied.
She smiled at me. Weird. "Here, sit down." She motioned for me to sit down on the bed, I sat down and she sat down with me.
Her smile got wider. "I had always known you'd bring nothing but good luck." She said.
Okay, this is weird, she had always called me bad luck, what was she talking about?
"W-what do you mean?" I asked curiously. "You see those men? The one who came earlier? Well, the one who was staring at you, he's interested in you, I told him that you're single." She said, where was she going with this?
"What do you mean by that?" I asked again. "He's interested in you, and he would love to make you his wife, isn't that great news?" She said, giggling.
Why would he be interested in me? I barely know him and neither does he, he barely knows me and he would love to make me his. wife. It sounds stupid.
Was she being serious? "I am not interested," I said and she gave me a deadly glare.
"I'm doing something great for you right now, you should be grateful, and you're going to get married to him, you have no say in this, you live under me, you are my responsibility." She scolded. Okay, this was insane, she was insane.
"Are you being serious right now? I'm not getting married." I said standing up, she was doing this for money.
She has always been obsessed with money, she could even sell her right now, but not limited to a child for money.
"Listen to me young lady, you're going to get married to him, if not leave my house! And I assure you, you're going to suffer out there I'm doing this for your good." She snarled getting up from the bed.
For your own good? She was doing this for her benefit and if I have to leave this house, I'm so not getting married, ever again.
"I am leaving," I said going to where my bag was, why did I even come here in the first place? Because I don't have any place to stay...? "are you kidding me? I told you! You're going to suffer out there!" She shrieked.
What's up with eating? I ignored her, packing my stuff, I know I'm going to suffer out there, but it's better.
Nope, it's not.
Pushing the thought out of my mind and walking out of the room. "You're so stubborn, just do what I say and your life would be great." She said.
Great? More like hell.
Going out of the house, I didn't glance back, but I could hear her shouting. Where would I go? Why can't my life be normal? I'm the with child.
Oh god, could it get anymore worst? Thrashing my hair and arranging it back, I walked off.
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After walking for what seemed like hours, I got tired. I walked towards the left side of the road, bending down, and I cried.
The world sure hate hates me. I cried for what seemed to seem like hours, well it was hours, I looked at my phone. 4 pm?? drops of water hit me.
It was going to rain. I looked up at the sky, and just then the rain started, I stood up and ran to the nearest building.
I tried to enter, but the door was closed, I'm sure it's not a house, at least it does not look like one.
The door opened revealing two bulky In, I gulped, they look so, scary.
Aye aye young lady, you got a card?" One said, card? What were they talking about? "Card?"
"Oh, it's a beautiful young lady, oh just let her in! Look at the storm coming!" A lady said smiling. She looks nice.
"Please come in, dear." The lady said, taking me by the hand and leading me in.
to Inside was so warm, there were lots of people, girls with almost nothing on.
Everyone looks expensive, what did I get myself into? I gulped again.
"It's okay dear, loosen yourself, you're fine!" She screamed over The loud music, I managed to nod.
"Come with me," she said. Should I go wither? I mean, I'm still scared standing here alone.
I followed her and we stopped at a place, "I think she'd be great tonight." She told a man, the man wore a suit.
Was she talking about me?
The man surveyed me with his eyes, and I felt highly uncomfortable. He smirked. "Yeah, she looks tasty." He said making me gasp.
I looked at the lady. "Oh, don't worry, it's not what you're thinking and oh dear, you look so tired, come I can offer you a room tonight." She said it felt, sincere.
"Okay," I said and trailed behind her. We walked till we reached a door, "here is it! Go have your bath and relax dear, here is the key." She said handling a bunch of keys and left.
Oh, thank god! I opened the door and entered, I locked the door with the key room was nice and dimmed and Lighted. Should I have my bath? I mean, I'm really dirty right now.
I went to the bathroom and quickly took a bath and threw on some clothes to were going out.
I saw a man, well that man of earlier. "Awe, I was expecting you to come out only with a towel."
How did he get in here?
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I gulped looking at the man before me. It was a setup! What an idiot am I, I should have known. A huge grin plastered on his face. He walked closer to me. "Don't come closer!" I screamed at him, but he didn't even seem to hear what I just said. His grin was sickening, I looked around if there was anything I could use to protect myself when he suddenly jumped on me resulting in the two of us falling on the bed. "Help! Somebody help! Please!" I screamed for help but no one came. The man pressed his body against mine, he brought his head to my neck and started kissing it, my effort to push him away was in vain. He was so much stronger, tears spilt out of my eyes, "stop, please, don't do this, I beg of you!" I cried. He stood up from me, he quickly unclasped his belt I thought this was my chance to escape, but his arm suddenly wrapped around my waist pulling me back. Kicking and screaming did nothing to him. I spotted the vase on the stool behind the bed, I stressed out to reach it,
"I'm pregnant." I blurted out. Hoping that would stop this madness. "What? You're lying." She replied. "I'm not. I'm pregnant and it's my ex-husband's." She started pacing around the room. "You're going to abort that bastard." "No. You don't tell me what to do." I snapped. She turned to look at me, the last time she looked at me like that was when I was 16, I had broken an expensive architect, by mistake. "You bastard! I've had enough! How dare you talk to me like that!" She lunged towards me grabbing my hair, tightly. "Stop!" I cried, but she didn't. "You're going to abort that bastard, do you hear me?!" I managed to push her away, resulting in her falling to the floor. Cara came rushing into the room and saw her mum on the floor. She glared at me, helping aunt up, I thought she was going to stop, but she didn't. ~ I cried, trying to clean myself. My body hurts so much. Cara had joined aunt earlier. I can't believe this is happening, it has to be a dream. A bad dream. Afte
I don't think I can reach out to him with a problem like this, I don't even know him. Yeah. You don't want to involve him in a matter like this. I think you should reach out to him, who knows, he might be able to help you. Two voices argued in my head, I don't think it's proper to reach out to him with a problem like this. Okay, watch yourself getting married... Or signed off. I don't want that! With shaky hands, I took my phone and typed the number on it. The phone rang, but then it was sent to voicemail. This might be a sign that I shouldn't call him. Throwing my phone frustratingly at the other side of the bed, I lay down. What an ill fate I have. I shouldn't have come here in the first place, if I hadn't, I would have been living in more proper life. Tears streamed down my eyes, with a headache coming along with them. Suddenly my phone rang. I stretch out to take my phone and looked at the caller's id. No name. I tapped the accept button before putting it close to my ear
"Tessa, I saw what happened earlier." I turned my head to look at Yvonne, she was giving me a weird look. "What do you mean? And stop with that face, it's creeping me out." "Don't pretend that you don't know!" "No, seriously, I don't know what you're talking about." "You and Jake! The way you two held each other's hands today, the way you two looked at each other..." She said dreamily. Oh god. She was talking about what happened earlier, I had incidentally slipped and Jake caught me. I and Jake have been friends for two years now and nothing is going on between us. "I told you, Jake and I are just friends., I said and she scoffed. "That's what you always say, even when you know it's not true, just- fine, but that won't stop me from shipping." I rolled my eyes mentally. "Did you hear?" She asked. "Hear what?" "About the boss, he's going to come to our branch tomorrow, I gotta go do my beauty treatment!" The boss, he was coming? I've never seen him personally, I have only heard
"Are you okay? You look like you've seen a ghost." A voice said the person waved at my face, and I turned to see Yvonne. "I think I'm in trouble." "Why?" "He asked for me... Mr Kings." I said and her mouth formed into an 'o' shape. "Remember? I came late today, what if he wants to fire me-" "It's okay, calm down... Maybe... Well, he might just want to know why you were late, I don't think he would fire you and I could escort you there if you want." "Yes. Please do." "Okay." She chirped with a huge smile on her face. She entangled her arm in mine and we walked towards the elevator. We entered and the door closed and it started moving. "Relax, you look tensed." I heard Yvonne say. I sighed. Soon it stopped and we stepped out and walked towards the reception. Yeah, there was also a reception here for those waiting to see him. "Thank you so much, you can go now-" she cuts me off. "It's okay, I want to be here for you, what are friends for?" She said with a friendly smile. "Thank
I looked at the paper in my hands again, you know, just to know if I had read right. Transfer?? Why would they transfer me? I mean it's not yet time to be transferred. I'd have to go resume there tomorrow. Oh god and it was not just any department, the boss' office was there. I would have to do my work strictly and make no mistakes. There, I won't be able to get any help from Jake or Yvonne because it's a bit far from their offices. My alarm suddenly went off startling me. 06:00 pm I kept the paper back in the envelope and placed it inside my bag. I stood up and arranged my things before going over to the curtains to lock them. I took my bag and walked out of the office, I'm going to miss it, I can't believe this would be the last time I'm going to be here. "Hey, my car broke down. Can you give me a ride?" I heard Yvonne say, immediately after I got out of the office. "Sure," I replied with a sly smile. "How was work today?" She asked as we walked towards my car. We got in befo
I sighed swirling around with my office chair. it's been a boring day, I must say. I haven't done any work because Mr Kings is not at work, and there was no paperwork for me. My office phone rang, I picked up the phone to answer it. "Yes-" the person cuts me off. "...file 245." He said and the call died. Rude. But when did he get there though? I could swear he wasn't in his office 10mins ago. I stood up and walked to the filing cabinet. After a minute of searching, I found it. I got out of my office to Mr King's office. He sat on his chair, his eyes solely on the paper before him. "Here's the file, sir." I gave it to him, and I turned around to go back to my office. My computer beeped, and I looked at it. Oh, thank god! At least, I've got something to do. ~ I looked at the time. Noon. I sighed. My door opened, revealing Yvonne, I beamed. "Oh thank god you came," I said and she giggled. She sat down in the chair opposite me. "Did you get his call?" She asked I raised an eyebr
I sat down on my office chair and Yvonne sat on the chair opposite me. My heart was still beating fast, I stood up to go take a bottle of water before coming back to sit down. "Are you sure you're okay? You look..." "I am. Anyways, thanks for coming." I said smiling, and she returned the smile. Like that, we talked, exchanging stories and all. "Did you hear about the party Mr Kings is holding?" She asked. I didn't hear about it and even if I did I wasn't going to go. I know she would go. "No, I didn't," I replied. "Now that you heard, are you going to go?" "No, I'd rather stay at home, wait... Is it a day party or a night one?" "A night party and it's okay, I understand why you can't come so I won't pressure you." She said giving an understanding nod. "Thank you," I muttered. This is so unlike her though, being her normal self, she'd give me reasons to go. But I'm glad she understands this time. "No problem, so... How is your job here?" She asked. "It's okay, I haven't had much