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She Is The One

"Why do women have to belong to them?" She was looking outside of the small window. "Why do we have to be someone's lover?"

"It's the world Audrey, I can't do nothing about it."

"It's your world mom, not mine, not even a little mine." Her eyes were gazing to the pale shimmer of moonlight, creating forms with the clouds.

She saw a heart, but then it turned to a ball and now it was nothing. Audrey used to think if they were meaning something, trying to show her what would happen in the next day.

"You know, it's a shame to have a single daughter, or you go to a convent or you become a whore." Her mother was sewing a new dress, in a black cotton fabric, which the girl loved to wear.

Audrey laughed. "A vampire in a convent? That's fascinating, and no, I'd rather be a slave than a whore."

Her mother's hand stopped, and she glanced at Audrey with disdain. "Do you think that it's good to be a slave, Audrey? Do you?"

"No, I don't, Cassie, but being a whore would make me lose my rights and control of my body." She sat down at the table.

"You're right, it's that why you are going to marry that guy." Audrey cloud up. She thought she was getting out of that conversation and pretending to care about another one.

"No, I won't."

"Yes, you will." Cassie refuted.

She wanted to burn herself and put everyone on fire. She was having the idea, hating her parents for a good reason.
Audrey stood, making obvious of how enraged she was feeling and then went out of her cottage.

She felt invaded, like the sun when the moon appears shining in the daylight. Begging for the words her mother had spoken weren't true. She does not have to marry, even knowing he's wealthy and handsome. It does not matter right now.

She was not ready to live a life of submission, doing everything he wanted to with her and not having right time to make sex.
She didn't want to live this life, not yet, perhaps never.

She glared at her father. He was outside cutting some plantations. And she waited for some answer, but clearly, nothing he said. They knew what she was thinking about. Regardless of what was going to happen to her, they wanted the girl to get married.

"You are going to marry him!"

"I said no! I don't want to get married." She turned to gawp at them. Why? Why?

"But Audrey, you need!" The woman embraced her, trying to unruffled Audrey.

"I don't need Cassie! You need" Now her eyes were glancing at the white man, then the black woman again, who drew just some inches away.

"If you don't get married, we'll die!" Cassie bit her lips, but in request of mercy. She was starving, indeed, they all were.

"But mom... I don't want him and I'm not ready to it." With all the anger calming down, she drew herself up.

"But he is the guy that every girl dreams of." Cassie held up Audrey's hands, grasping them firmly.

"So call me other thing, because I'm not one of these girls." Audrey left, entering the small cottage again.

And as she was looking at the dark rotten furniture, two hands gripped the both side of her shoulders, murmuring, "Look around you, this is not the place where you want to live for the rest of your life." He turned Audrey around to face her.

"But dad... I promise I'll find a way to gain money, to keep us alive!"

He shook his head in disapproval.