What is Love?

Mad Mama

NICHOLAS

Those two idiots just had to ruin a perfectly good argument! I swear she was about to say I was her king!

"Now I really want to meet this woman. If Alonzo's afraid of her, she must be fun." Diana says shovling past the two scaredy cats.

"Diana, wait!" I shout at her, but she completely ignores me and runs out the doors towards the elevator. Where my mother awaits us in the livingroom.

"It's a good thing your parents don't get along, otherwise she'd be dead." Says Alonzo laughing. Vanessa glares at him then hits him at the back of his head.

"Dude your mom is here! I thought she was in Russia! How come no one told me she was coming?" Says Ryder running up to us.

"We didn't know either." Says Van cradling Lucas in her arms.

"Van, why are you watching Lucas? Where's Faith?" I ask. Faith has never let anyone hold Lucas besides Jack. But I think that's only because she's afraid of what he would do to her if she refused him.

"Um. Yeah about that. Faith is never coming back. She tried to run again last night and Jack kinda....killed her." I sigh.

"Where's Jack?" I ask. Totally forgetting the fact that my fiance and mom are in the same room. Or about to be atleast.

"He locked himself in his room after disposing of the body. I think he just needs time to mourn. I highly recommend no one bother him for atleast a couple weeks." Says Alonzo. We all nod in agreement.

I look over at Ryder and suddenly get curious as to how he's even up and walking. "How are you feeling, Ryder? Do you need the day off as well? I know you didn't sleep well last night." I say smiling at him. I see Van snicker beside me and stifle a laugh.

"Yeah, about that man. Could we just pretend that didn't happen? I, uh, please?" He asks, not looking me in the eyes and blushing too. I laugh at his reaction to my question.

"Relax! I was just teasing. I always knew you were a masochist."

"I'm gonna kill you!" I laugh and rush down the hall to the elevator. I keep pressing the button but it's too damn slow. Oh fuck it! I instead starting running down the stairs.

DIANA

When the elevator doors open on the main floor, there are dozens of people rushing back and forth. If I didn't live here I'd think this was normal.

Some of the maids that were passing by me were even crying. Why hasn't Nick ever mentioned his mother? From what I can see she's definitely queen material.

"Where is the Queen?" I ask stopping one of the gaurds.

"She's in the thone room. But if I were you I wouldn't go in there right now. She doesn't like to be bothered while planning a party. Is that all you need, Donna?" I stare at him shell shocked by what he just called me.

"I-uh, where's the throne room?" He chuckles at my reaction to the name.

"It's down this hall third door on your left."

"Isn't that the ballroom?" I ask.

"Yes, I guess its both."

"Thank you." I say. He bows to me in response and leaves to do whatever his duties usually are.

I walk in the ballroom to see a beautiful woman giving orders left & right. She's about Vanessa's height and has long thick brown hair. How could a woman that good looking marry such a horrible man?