Perfect Mistake ✓

One.......My Marriage.

I sat down with tears in my eyes. I couldn't believe what had just happened. This was really happening. Then I heard those words of mine again in my head. I had really said it. Two words that had now changed my life. As little as they seemed, they meant a lot.

He was staring at me, his eyes never leaving mine. I am sure he must be very happy. I, on the other hand, felt like killing myself. Why I was doing this, I still didn't know. Marrying someone my heart wasn't with was a big mistake but I didn't know just how terrible a mistake it was.

Then he kissed my cheek and pulled away. I heard some whoops as my sister finished her speech about me. A speech that I heard nothing of. She took her seat beside me.

"Congrats. I can't wait to see little Rileys running around.", she said and I smiled, a fake one though. I never liked Daphne, my step-sister.

She was older than me by three years. Ever since she and her mum came into my family, my dad always treated her with more love than me and when I decided to talk to him about it he simply said that he was trying to show her the love her own father didn't.

Theresa's husband was a brutal drug addict who from what I knew would sometimes hit her, especially when he was high on drugs. But after two years of marriage, she wanted out.

I was the third out of four. I had an elder brother, Caleb, my mum had died after giving birth to me. My brother told me when I was five and ever since I always blamed myself for her death. Five years later and my dad married Theresa who already had Daphne. One year after Theresa gave birth to Derrick. My dad was happy even my brother was happy, but I wasn't. How could they be?

Theresa was a gold digger. She was only with my dad for his money. Though she would deny it every time saying she loved my dad but I never believed her. I had caught her one time on the phone with someone, discussing how she would start swiping my dad's account.

I confronted her about it and she just went and cried to my dad that I was being extremely rude to her. Since then my dad would always scold me for the littlest things so far they involved Theresa, cliché right?

I decided to find a way to expose her so that everyone would see her for the gold digger she really was. Ever since then, I have been looking for a way to expose her and now I was gonna leave the house.

Then she stood up. I hope she didn't want to say something, what did she know about me, plus there was no need for another speech, especially from her.

My dad had already spoken, Ansel's mum, Natalie spoke, Caleb spoke, and Daphne also. What in the world was she speaking for? This was gonna be one long ceremony.

"I wasn't in the early years of Riley's life.", she started and I immediately wanted to tell her to stop, but luckily the hatred I had for this woman was less than the love for my dad.

And that was why I consented to their marriage when I was asked, something I had always regretted. I have done so many things that I regret, and now I add this marriage to that list.

"The day I moved into their house, she was just by the corner of the living room playing with her fingers. So I went over and we talked, then she became my close friend, and from that moment onwards she felt like my very own daughter.", she continued.

Yes, I remember that day, she was nice until I found out her true motives.
"Theresa is a very good woman and I'm sure she makes a wonderful mother.", Ansel said to me.