No Explanations - ONC24

Chapter 12 - Look What You Made Me Do

"The world moves on. Another day, another drama, drama. But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma. And then the world moves on, but one thing's for sure. Maybe I got mine, but you'll all get yours." - Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift

"Don't blame me for what you made me do," I said to my parents. Our carriage had already arrived and we should have been leaving. But that meant never seeing Ebony again, and I couldn't do that. I loved Ebony and I wouldn't let anything get in the way from that, not even my own parents.

"The old Arora would never use that tone to her parents," my mother snapped.

I sighed. We were already arguing for thirteen minutes and I was getting very angry. "The old Arora can't come with you right now," I said.

"Why?" my father asked.

"Because she's dead!" I shouted. "I'm not the same person that arrived here, I have changed. I'm no longer the perfect golden princess you raised, I found another version of myself."

"I don't like this, Arora," my father said.

"I don't like your little games, your titled stage and the role you made me play. I was a fool. No, I don't like you," I said, now getting really angry.

"Arora, we care for you and your feelings. Stop this drama and come home with us," my mother said.

I just laughed. "You can't be serious," I said. "I don't like your perfect crime, how you laugh when you lie. That isn't cool. No, I don't like you."

"This only proves that you shouldn't be with that Keeling girl, she has changed you," my father claimed.

"Ebony has nothing to do with this. This is me. I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time. I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time."

"You're not going to leave us for that Keeling girl, are you?" my father asked.

"I love her, father. She is the only one I ever loved. Of course I would rather go with her instead of you."

My mother stepped forward and laid her hand on my arm. "I thought we had been clear about what would happen if you still decided to stay with the Keeling princess," she said.

I nodded. I remembered. "Take my crown away, if that's what you want. Strip me from my titles, give the city to Feyla, I don't care," I said.

Feyla looked up in shock. She had been standing there, silently the whole conversation. "Are you giving up the city, Arora?" she asked. I saw the realization in her eyes, she would become queen if I passed the title.

"If that's what needed to be with Ebony, I will," I told her. Feyla was only two years younger than me and we basically grew up together. I knew she would be a good queen.

I saw my father looking between my sister and I. "We have been clear, Arora. We hereby disown you. You're stripped of all your titles and assets in the city. We wish you the best of luck on your own," he said.

"Arora, no," Feyla whispered.

I only nodded, still angry. "Look what you made me do!" I shouted. "I'm not your golden princess anymore, I changed. And I don't want to go with you if that means I won't be with Ebony ever again."

"You won't go with us. You're not welcome in the Golden City again, I hope you will find a new place to live," my father said in a tone colder than I had ever heard from him.

I wanted to say something, but my attention was directed to the doors of the palace to my left. They had opened and a figure came running towards us.