SuperCorp - Arranged Marriage

Chapter 5

Kara's pov:

The first 10 or so minutes of the car ride was spent in awkward silence. I turned to face Lena from my seat beside hers. 

"I can't take this anymore. Why are you acting like this?" I blurt out. I see my mum look at me weirdly in the review mirror but she stays silent.

"Kara, I promise I won't act like this forever. You know how Lillian is, you may not know first hand but I have told you enough about her that you should understand I have my reasons..."

"You promised me answers. Lena I have spent years wondering and worrying about what happened to you. Where you went, you left so quickly, no goodbyes, nothing. Just *poof*, gone!"

"You are right, I did. Kara, when Lillian first told me about me being married off, I was furious...-" I smiled because I called it, I knew she wouldn't have been happy. "-by that smile, you already knew that" she says smiling a little herself.

"But when she told me I would be marrying a Kara Danvers, I felt relieved. Nervous because I didn't know for sure that it would be you, I was scared it was going to be a different Kara Danvers, but relieved. I couldn't let Lillian see the hope I was feeling though. Kara, if she finds out that we know each other before we are married, she will cancel this whole thing. Lillian thinks that by marrying me off, and please don't take any offense to this, but she thinks that by marrying me off to a poor family on the rough side of Midvale that she is punishing me"

I held my hand up to stop Lena for a second, I was also trying not to laugh, I covered my face with my hands trying to calm myself.

"Kara, I promise, I don't care about where you live or your families inco-"

"Lena... Does she really think that?" I ask amused. Lena looks at me, clearly confused. I guess what she just said was a bit offensive but as it isn't true I have no reason to be upset.

"Before accepting your marriage proposal Lillian would have done a very intrusive background check on you all to make sure that in her opinion, I would sufficiently suffer and be unhappy. So yes, she does think that. Although, I am feeling a little confused, you seem to be amused by that... Am I missing something?" 

"Would it bother you, living without all of your money and in a rough area of town?" I ask in a serious tone curiously.

"Of course not! It's not like I actually get to spend any of my money, or my father's money. Lillian controls all of the accounts. You saw my bedroom, It contained mostly books. I have never had the joy of luxuries, how can I miss what I never had to begin with?" she says truthfully but you can hear the sadness in her voice.

"Okay, well that doesn't matter anyway. You will see for yourself how we live after the wedding, you will see first hand just how poor we are" I say, trying to keep the amusement out of my voice.

You are probably wondering why I am amused. I am amused because Lillian is wrong, very wrong. Her 'intrusive' background check shows that we are a poor family and that we live in a crappy part of town, that is not exactly true.

My adoptive father and sister Alex work for a government agency known to only a selected few as the Department of Extranormal Operations (DEO). Due to that, all of our personal information has been tweaked for safety reasons. However, we do live in a crappy part of town but what Lillian clearly doesn't know is that we have on of the best security systems in the world and whilst our house might not look like its all that from the out side, it is actually pretty nice on the inside, even if I do say so myself. Once we are married, Lena will be fully made aware of our 'situation'.

"I hate to interrupt this weird little reunion thing you two have going on but Kara we have arrived" My mother says with a smile.

I look outside and we have arrived at a small restaurant that is owned by a close friend of the family. The food here is my favourite so I figured it would be a good place to take Lena.