Blended

Chapter 8

"Who are you?!"

"What do you mean by that?!"

"Look, you don't need to act now, you're a great actress, perhaps as good as any Oscar nominee, let's get straight to the point."

"I really don't understand what you are trying to say but behave, behave, behave!! I am your MOTHER!"

"Excuse me, what did you just call yourself? My MOTHER?"

"Why, yes."

"From the beginning there were many clashes between us but I didn't know it had any sort of link with you being my step!"

"What the hell are you saying!!" Tara's mother growls.

"Now you have learned to yell, mother...or should I even call you that?!"

"You think I am your step-mother?"

"I know that."

"Who told you that?"

"My best friend."

"What, who, Lucy or Kiley?"

"Neither of them."

"Wait, don't tell me that all this has to have some link with Bella?"

"She told me everything....every single thing...she even showed me proofs."

Tara's mom bursts into giggles.

"Let me guess, she showed you those old snaps, in which you both are playing, hugging, laughing and smiling etc...don't tell me you believed her..."
"She is my bff, why won't I believe her, she told me in an accident I lost my mom and my memory and then she was angry with me and she became my foe and you came in this house."

"Since when did you started believing your enemies....let me tell you something, she is right about you two and you losing your memory but she is wrong about me..I am your mom..and there's none who can love you more than me, remember that.

Before your accident, you were a really sweet and darling but soon after that one day when you were crossing the road with your friend Bella, suddenly a car came from nowhere and Bella cunningly threw you in front of it, you badly injured yourself and after that you were to stay in the ICU for 6 months approx.

I cried very much and prayed for you all day and night..... and when you woke up at last, you didn't recognize anyone not even me, then after time you started to accept things the way they were and even me.

You started to behave badly with me from then on....and I was able to do nothing....oh my love, Bella was just jealous of you because you were such a nice, loving girl a that you had such a loving mother...she herself has a step-mom who beats her...and isn't good enough...I really can't believe that you thought I was your step mother...after all the world isn't a wish-granting factory. Now please excuse me."

Tara was left agape.