SuperCorp - Arranged Marriage

Chapter 11

Lena's pov:

I quickly walk to the bathroom because thanks to Lillian I am dripping blood all over the place. When I get there I enter and lock the door behind me, I then grab some toilet roll and hold it over my mouth (because I'm not sure which part the blood is coming from yet) whilst I get the medical kit and bring it back over to the sink. 

I open the medical kit an lay out the medical tape strips and the rubbing alcohol out by the side of the sink. I then pull the blood soaked toilet roll away from my mouth wincing again as I do so, I quickly grab some more and wet it with a little water so that I can try and get rid of some of the blood to properly assess the damage.

Once the blood has mostly stopped I look in the mirror to see that it was coming from my bottom lip. In movies the after cut of a split lip looks rather small and clean, looking in the mirror at my bottom lip, it is the complete opposite. 

Lillian split my bottom lip just past the middle on the left, and I must have been caught by one of her rings because there is a deep cut that is a dark red and starting to turn a dark purple due to bruising. I reach for the rubbing alcohol and sigh because I know full well that what I am about to do is going to sting like a bitch.

I was right too. Cleaning an open wound with rubbing alcohol hurts almost, or if not, just as much as the punch itself. So much that I have tears running down my face mixing with the smeared dried blood on my chin.

When I finish cleaning my wound I stick one of the small and thin medical tape strip over the cut to help prevent it from re-opening and stretching. To say I look a mess is an understatement, my cheeks are stained with blood and tears, my lip has an easily noticeable split on it and I have light bruising from my lip to just under my left eye. 

I'm sure this is the look every bride wants for their wedding day, hopefully I will be able to cover it all up with makeup although how dark the bruising is becoming I am not so sure that will make much of a difference...

I sigh again and pack up the medical kit but instead of putting it back from where I got it from I take it back to my bedroom with me.

I sit on my bed and look out of my window. I don't have much of a view from here, I can just see a tall tree line and a pathway leading to garden beyond. I hope my face doesn't take too long to heal. I can't have been in my room for longer than 20 minutes before I get a quiet knock on my door. 

"Come in" I say, damn, who knew a split lip would hurt so much, everytime I move my jaw or lick my lips I get an intense throbbing in my lip. 

When my door slowly starts to open, Jess pops her head in before the rest of her body follows, as she looks at me her face visible falls, sympathy showing in her eyes. "Oh Lena... Did she do this to you?"

"It was my fault, she said that Lex couldn't come to the wedding because he is considered "a high security risk" and she didn't like it when I pointed out that he is actually a high security risk. I love Lex, I do but he made his bed, now he has to lay in it. So yeah, she punched me and then proceeded to tell me that I'm not family and basically the usual. She had been throwing digs at me all morning" I say nonchalantly.

"You are entitled to your opinion but maybe you shouldn't have voiced them to Lillian, that my dear was a little silly" 

"I have never been entitled to an opinion and you are right, it was very silly, I couldn't help it though, when it comes to Lex, that woman is delusional. I guess an extremely stupid part of me just wanted her to hear the truth in the hopes that she might realise that he is in fact where he belongs and whether she likes it or not. Maybe then she would get him the professional help that he so desperately needs"