Chapter 100: Chapter 100
"Please dear you’re not going to get married now" Mom said with a roll of her eyes "His family is very important and marrying him in the future will make you look good."
"Shouldn’t it matter if I love him or not? I don’t even know him he’s just in the same school as me" I said angrily "I’m not going to date him, and I’m not going to marry him Mother"
"Oh you should be thankful Nate" My mom said "a handsome, young and respectable man like Mr. Bayne, Luke’s father, shouldn’t even consider marrying you to his son in the future. There are millions of girls prettier than you he could have chosen from. You should be thanking me; this is the only way you’d ever get married"
"Wow Mom thanks for the confidence boost" I said sarcastically but I was used to her remarks. I was never good enough, something was always wrong with me.
"If I don’t tell you the truth then who will? Everyone knows Grace is the beauty and you’re the brains even though I’ve told you innumerable times that men don’t like smart women."
"I will not date him now and I will not marry him when I turn eighteen Mother no matter what you do"
"Oh yes you will" My mom said sternly "Or you won’t have your inheritance"
"I don’t want it" I said smirking "you can have it" I stood up to leave the room and go to Gabriel
"I’ll have Nurse Sasha take care of Gabriel" My mom said making me freeze in my tracks "And I’ll make sure you never step foot in that room again"
I turned around, eyes blazing with anger "You would do that? You know Nurse Sasha treats him roughly. You’d do that to your son for me to agree?"
"I’m doing this for your own good. You’ll thank me later. I’m ensuring you don’t live the rest of your life alone"
’You’re ensuring you get rid of me and gloat about it to your friends’ I thought to myself. I stared at her in silence before nodding "Okay" I said as I fought back the tears "I accept"
"Wonderful" My mom said "Now I’ll have to get you on a diet for you to lose weight and maybe talk to a plastic surgeon about that godforsaken nose you got from your great grandmother. We could dye your hair but it wouldn’t work blond isn’t a good color for you so we’ll have to stick with that plain brown you have...." I spaced out as my mom kept talking.
My future was decided for me. I would date Luke for the next four years and when I’d turn eighteen we’d get married, I just hoped he was a good guy.
I shook my head, clearing away the memory. That’s why I hated sitting alone without having anything to do but think, it brought back too many memories. When I was still at home that wasn’t a problem, taking care of Gabriel was a full time job and I loved every minute of it. It was a usual occurrence for us to sit for hours and talk, he was smart for his age and we discussed anything and everything, from the books we read to mother and fathers recent lectures about how Grace was getting modeling offers while we sat at home doing nothing.
I decided I wasn’t going to sit around and do nothing. I needed to get some stuff for the apartment and got out of the house. I really didn’t care that I was a mess; I was going to clean the house some more when I came back anyways. Plus nothing I could do would ever make me look better and I accepted the fact that I wasn’t beautiful.
I went to the grocery store I had spotted while I was in Patrick’s car and got a few things to eat for dinner knowing Patrick only ate junk food.
I was just picking out some plastic forks, cups, and plates, since I couldn’t afford proper ones, when suddenly a guy crashed into the shelves making various things fall. I let out a yelp of shock and stepped back.
The guy looked up and his eyes widened in fear. I looked at what he was looking at and saw a very angry looking girl walking towards him with two guys following her, trying to muffle their laughter.
The girl was beautiful; she had black hair and red lips. Her blue eyes were blazing, indicating her anger and she was wearing black skinny jeans, a purple shirt and a leather jacket.
She grabbed the guy by the collar and raised him easily, making me stare wide-eyed at her, while wondering ‘How was she so strong?’
The girl smiled and looked at the guy calmly "May I ask why is it you felt obliged to slap my ass?"
"I-I..."
I just continued to stare in shock as the girl was holding the guy in the air effortlessly while he seemed to be scared out of his wits.
I noticed the two guys following her were standing almost beside me; they looked exactly alike, twins of course.
The girl pulled her hand back and punched the guy right in the face sending him to the ground.
"Shouldn’t you stop her?" I whispered to the two twins, fearing for the man’s safety, he was bleeding already.
One of the guys chuckled "No let her kick his ass. Better him than us, she tends to hit things when she’s mad"
"Plus he deserves it" the other guy added "Everyone around here knows not to mess with Lily and he goes and slaps her ass and offers her a good time." he shook his head "Idiot"