PROLOGUE

...WARNING...

This story is fiction, everything you’ll read is made up. All the characters, what happens to them, and the places in this story come from the writer’s imagination, and aren’t real at all.

Please be careful when reading. There may be disturbing scenes and language throughout the story. It also touches on heavy topics like arguments at home, people being hurt, deep sadness, and someone choosing to end their own life. These things can be upsetting, and might not be right for young readers.

Zyrille's POV:

I’m looking at the man who married me out of nowhere, and even my parents agreed to it. Did this old man put some potion in my parents? He’s been my husband for three days now, but he never looks at me or talks to me. I’m always alone in his huge mansion.

I look at him like I'm so weird.

"You're always starring at me." he said

He was busy in his laptop and doing something that I don't understand.

I just stand up to get food in the kitchen, but he stopped me.

"Where are you going?" he asks

"I'm going to kitchen, I'm hungryy"

"Your hungry but you didn't eat lunch."

I rolled my eyes on him, I just went outside in his office. He had a big office in his huge mansion, whenever he goes home he immediately goes to his office and work again. He always works that he does't have a time to eat and sleep, sometimes I feel bad for him.

The day he suddenly married me, I had just gotten home from school, was completely shocked. I was the only one caught off guard because my parents had known about the marriage all along; they’d been talking about it without telling me. Of course I was furious back then, but in the end, I agreed to it. They might think I’m dumb or childish, but I know I’m not. I’m smart in my own way. I’m just innocent and still have so much to learn about the world. Sometimes when I ask questions, they laugh, and I understand why. My mouth never seems to stop moving because I’m always so curious about everything around me.

I really hate my parents a lot. They look like nice angels when they’re with other people, but deep inside, they’re so bad. They’re violent too. Whenever I make a mistake or do something wrong, they slap me. From when I was little in childhood all the way up to now that I’m a teenager, they control everything I do. I don’t get to have any freedom at home. The house is always full of yelling, hitting, and bad words. I like being at school way more because I can get away from that awful place. I don’t want to hear all those mean things they say. That house isn’t a home, it’s just a freaking jail.

But in my husband house, I feel like I'm free from my parents now, and I'm glad that I agree to this marriage.

I can do something with mistakes now without punishing me, I'm finally free... But my childhood trauma will remain, I got childhood trauma though my violent parents.

I just kept on walking through this huge mansion, I didn’t even realize I’d gotten lost! This mansion is so huge! Is this a maze or mansion? I don't know.

I'm so hungry now but what I am going to do? I'm lost, I hope there will be a maid that will walk near this place.

I look everywhere and found a maid cleaning nearby! Yes thank you!!

I walk towards to the maid and greet him. She was beautiful and look young!

"Good afternoon maid...?“

"I'm Regina. By the way Mrs. Montigo what are you doing here?" she asks.

"Hehe don't call me Mrs. Montigo it doesn't suit me"

"But Mr. Louise said that we will call you Mrs. Montigo because you are his wife now. But Mrs. Montigo what are you actually doing here?"

Gosh...

"I got lost in this mansion hehe... C-can you bring me to the kitchen? I'm hungry" I said shyly.

"HAHA, okay I will Mrs. Montigo. Follow me"

I followed maid Regina. Yes! I can finally eat now! This hunger will fade now!

"Mr. Montigo married a beautiful girl. You look young Mrs. Montigo, are you still in high school?"

"Yes I'm still in high school, I'm grade 12 a senior high school and a graduating student soon!" I happily said when maid Regina asked.

Of course who wouldn't be happy that you're going to graduate high school and be a college soon. Imagine spending 6 years in high school and can be finally be college next year. I bet college is harder and stressful, but it will be worth it soon if you graduate and have a stable job.

"I'm jealous of you, Mrs Montigo. You've manage to finish high school soon while I'm not, I'm now 25 but I didn't finish high school and college due to money problems."

I look at him, I feel bad for the people who didn't get finish school because they don't have money. Sometimes, I wish I'm the president of this country to help people who didn't finish school, but it would be totally impossible.

"It's okay to be jealous with me, I know how you feel... I know the feeling when didn't you finish school and doesn't get a job"

I didn't even experience it, but I know how they feel. Imagine your friends finishes high school and college but your the only one who didn't, because you chose to work and help your family.

"If only I were rich, I would have finished high school and college by now and become a doctor. I wanted to be a doctor to help my dying mother with her illness. But I was already too late. My mother died because she took her own life, she did it because she didn’t want to be a burden to us and thought her hospital treatment was costing too much money, so she chose to end her life for good."

Maid Regina was tearing up, but she chose to hide it and wipe them. Her story is so emotional... It's like a daughter who gave up her dreams and chose to work to save her dying mother from illness.

"We're here in the kitchen now Mrs. Montigo"

I happily smiled and open the fridge, it was full of foods and sweets!

"Pick what you like maid Regina! We're going to eat together!"

"No Mrs. Montigo, Mr. Montigo will probably be angry"

"Come on he won'tttt, I'm his wife now. Don't mind him."

She slowly nods and reaches to pick something from the fridge. She takes out an ice cream, only ice cream? I copied what she did and took one too.

My flavor of my ice cream is cookies and cream while maid Regina's ice cream flavor is vanilla.

The two us happily ate together.

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