Because You're Mine

Chapter 2

'Veronica claims that her father, James D'Costa, is dead.'

A full front page story of bullshit again. Veronica picked up the newspaper that lied on the floor after she take a step inside the house. The house that once become her favourite place for comfort. The Paradise. It's sound nice but no one really know the bitter inside it. She had to come there that morning after she got a call from her mother, Elena D'Costa. Veronica read the news and laughed on herself reading some drama that's been printed up on the newspaper. She just answered their questions with four words yet they can make it become four hundreds words front page story.

"What is all that, Veronica ?" asked Elena, her mother, furiously.

"I don't know." answered Veronica, without guiltiness.

"Your father is not dead, Veronica."

"He is not my father ! James D'Costa is your husband, Ma. My father's name is Marcus Martin..."

"And he's dead ten years ago." interrupts James, Veronica's step father. He walked down the stairs and approached Elena. Veronica glared at James. She never like him. She never even consider James as her father even though she had to change her surname from Martin to D'Costa. For her, Marcus Martin is her father and James D'Costa is just a stranger who get married to her mother.

"Let's sit and discuss about this, Veronica." ordered James, walking down the stairs and approached Elena.

"I'm not interested to have any discussions with you, James." said Veronica, rudely.

"I don't care whether you're interested or not but we need to make this thing clear, Veronica. I want you to make a press release saying that you've apologised for what you had said about James." scolded Elena.

"And what makes you think that I will do that ?" fumed Veronica.

"Veronica ! Lower down your volume when you're speaks to Elena. She's your mother." said James.

"Oh, yeah ?" said Veronica before she takes a few step closer towards James and continued, "She's your wife and why don't you explained to her about your scandal with that Russian model, huh ?!" said Veronica, in a clear angry tone before James slapped her face.

"James !" shocked Elena. She never thought James will slapped Veronica.

Elena was trying to take look at Veronica before Veronica brushed her mother's hands. Veronica holds her cheeks and tears started stream down as her eyes become reddish, full of anger and disspointments, withstand the pain she felt. Veronica looked at her mother. Her eyes was telling Elena the pain that she felt and showing Elena the disappointments that she had when her own mother just let the person that she hate the most, slapped her. Then, Veronica wipes her tears before she looked at James. She gave James a glare of contempt before saying,

"You're pathetic."

Veronica turns and walks out from the house furiously before she get into her car. She heads towards her house without paying any attentions on the speed of her car. At the same time, she tried to call Kabir but he didn't answer her call. She tried again and again but Kabir still didn't answer her calls.

"Pick up the call, damn it !" said Veronica, bored when her call got no reply.

When arrives at her house, she parked the car and get into the house. Her body was trembling as she was trying to holds her anger. She slammed the door once she's got into the house. She throws the keys at the sofa and rushed into the kitchen to get herself some plain water for drinking just to make herself calm down but instead of choosing a glass of plain water, she choose to drink a glass of champagne. Whenever her emotions is not stable, Veronica usually chose to drinks alcohols because she believed that once she's drunk, she'll able to forget about her problems. She still can feel the pain of the slaps at the tip of her lips but it doesn't stops her from drinking more glasses of champagne before her phone starts ringing. She grabs her phone and looked at the caller ID. It was Kabir.