A ROYAL SURPRISE

🎀Chapter 16🎀

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

-Dr. Seuss

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The doorbell rings, pulling me out of my slumber. I wanted just a few more minutes of sleep, is that too much to ask on a Saturday morning?

I slip out of bed unwillingly, heading towards the bathroom to wash my face.

The ringing of the gets persistent, and I yell out, "I'm coming!", wondering who could be so persistent this early.

I open the door, but before I'm able to get a word out, a slap lands on my face.

What the actual hell?

"What do you want this time Auriana?" I ask my mother, turning around to take a seat on my sofa.

"Hmm" she scoffs, "So nothing fazes you anymore huh?"

No shit Sherlock, I was raped. I'm pregnant with a child I don't even know, of course nothing else fazes me.

I roll my eyes at her, "I ask again, what do you want?"

"I came here because Scarlett called me, crying" she says and I shrug, raising my eyebrows, as if to ask her, "So?"

"She said that you called her a bastard!" She yells "How dare you call my daughter names?"

"So that's what you're here for? To make noise and scream because Scarlett called you and told you I called her a bastard?" I chuckle humourlessly "Auriana, you may have nothing doing, but that's not how it is with everyone"

"You owe me an-

"I owe you no explanation!" I yell, sprinting up from my seat. "I called my mother, when I needed her, because I had just received news that would change my life forever. I was pregnant, meanwhile, I've never been with any man. That night, I was raped!" I scream, tears welling in my eyes, and sliding down my cheeks "In the cold night I was taken advantage of by four men, none of which I knew. I now have to care for a baby at twenty going twenty one, I now have to care for a child whose father I don't even know. That too when my life has just began, I called you mother, and you disowned me! You didn't even allow me to explain myself"

"I'm sorry Lov-

"Don't!" I raise my hand, stopping her mid-sentence "Don't even think about it. That didn't end there, then you call Scarlett, and you rat me out to her. You call the same person that was never there for you. Scarlett is your daughter, but she treats you as though you're a stranger. All my life mother, all my damn life I've tried to fill in the gaps of Scarlett, I've tried to fill the empty holes Scarlett left inside of you, to love and obey and respect you, so you wouldn't feel alone and neglected, especially after father's death. But one thing I should have realised is that no matter how hard I try, I'll never be enough for you. You'll always find a problem, you'll always find an issue with me. So you threw me out the second you got the oppurtunity."

"Lovy I'm sorry"

"Scarlett called me. She called my child a bastard, I told her to look in the mirror first before she goes about insulting others. I didn't do anything wrong mother, I just defended my child, something you don't know how to do. There, you got your explanation, now get out"