Chapter one
As soon as I woke up I realized that this beautiful sunny day, that could have been the highlight of my whole week, was about to be ruined. Everything seemed great in my life until you looked inside my mind and desires to realize to all that I had didn't make me happy at all. Huge white mansion with plants foods and animals that you could only get with a huge chunk of money wasn't what I desired, unlike other people.
Still, I had to pull my back straight and place a fake smile on my face as I got ready to see my parents before I did anything else.
As soon as my feet touched the cold wooden floor I went to my closet that was like a separate room and clearly around the size of my huge bedroom. It was filled from bottom to top with neatly placed clothes that my parents had caught for me as most things in my room but unfortunately for them, I used only a small portion of what was inside.
Around ten minutes after stepping inside the huge obnoxious white room I settled on a white puffy dress that came right above my knee that was covered in white crystals. To be honest I wasn't a huge fan of dresses let alone the ones that were short and that had the potential to rise up in the wind but today I had to settle on it.
As soon as I was done I went outside in the huge hallway and slowly went down to the huge living room on the first floor. As rude as it sounded I despised my parents. Unlike other families, this one never gave me love or attention. Every emotion was shown only by giving more and more pointless gifts that after years held no dear emotions or feelings at all.
I hated using the word ditch to describe myself or my family since my parents probably worked hard on where we are now and this word is overused in a mean way in my opinion, but that's what we were. We never lacked money and because of dads huge business, we had a lot of it. They used it to spoil me but after the age of 13, I started to hate it.
It was always the same. If I asked for attention my mum would just silently point to our safe and say 'take as much as you need' and then leave the room.
Of course, I couldn't walk thru the hallways slowly forever and after some time I finally got to the living room. Inside my mum and dad were already waiting but they weren't the only ones there. Right next to them on the sofa was sitting a young and seemingly happy couple that as soon as saw me smiled even brighter.
It was hard to tell if they were faking the smiles to appeal to my parents as most people did or if they generally were happy to be here and see me entering the room.
"You were right Rachel! She really is a beautiful and stunning young lady."
The woman said as soon as I stopped in front of the door that loudly shut behind me.
"Am I interrupting something...?"
I felt extremely unsure if I needed to be here or not but my mum shot on her feet as soon as I finished saying that and immediately came up to me pulling me to the sofa and sitting me down right between her and dad.
I was so confused and for a split second, I looked around trying to find an explanation for why I was called here. While I was doing that the couple that was seated right in front of us with the smiles that were radiating happiness kept starting at me scanning every inch of my body.
"Alica, meet mister and miss Min. They are other huge companies CEOs that have agreed to have a partnership!"
My mum seemed so excited saying that, but that still didn't explain why I was brought here. Usually, I have never included in my parent's trips or work or anything like that so this seemed weird. Still, I couldn't ask them because that would seem rude in their opinion.
"It's really nice to meet you both."
The woman sharply and happily noted her head and then shook my hand as a polite gesture but it seemed like she was over excited to do it slowly and carefully for me to not to hurt my arm.
"I'm sure you will love our sun! He's a real charmer. Sometimes he has his temper but I'm sure you two will get along."
At this moment I felt how my heart was starting to speed up a notch hearing her say that. I was hoping so badly for this to be like 'oh you can be friends with my son as we work with your parents' kind of thing. Still, out of confusion I lost all my makers and had to ask.
"What do you mean...?"
She still didn't let go of my hand and I felt my mum painfully squeezing my other one because of a 'rude question' i asked. I ignored her reaction to me speaking and continued to look at the woman in front of us who got even happier from my question.
"Well, you two will be getting married!"
...my heart seemed to have stopped...
I didn't hear what she said further but at this point, I didn't care. I couldn't say a word at that moment since I just couldn't dare to numerous my parents but at the same time... I couldn't believe. I never expected my parents to actually except a political marriage for me.
I slowly got up, politely excused myself and slowly left the room not blinking once...
Where was I pulled in now...
