An Arranged Marriage - Episode 15

 

I know they are waiting down stairs for for me to make an appearance and explain whatever the hell that was last night.

But I'm hiding, I don't have it in me to try and explain anything, whatever might have happened between me and Kane, I don't have the strength to explain.

After he brought me and the girls home last night, (after taking me to a pharmacy to get I and Aroos'a drugs, drugs I insisted on paying by myself, since he obviously didn't let me pay for the hospital bills, he owns the hospital, FYI.), I had sequestered myself in my room, leaving Anaya to take care of the twins, I was tired and also running from them.

I can see the questions in their eyes, how did I get involved with the King? How did he come to be our night in shiny armour yesterday?

But no, I'm not going to answer, answering means I have to think deeper on that kernel of emotions that had unfurled last night.

Since I was born, not once, not once in my life I've I ever seen a guy and immediately liked him, liked him enough to consider having s*x or a relationship with him.

Remember when I said I was going to die single? I actually believe that, but yesterday, seeing Kane King taking the reins and helping me to let go of a little bit of control? It felt great.

Too great.

And feeling great for me is not good.

Not good at all.

I close my eyes against the morning sun as I begin to contemplate what he had meant by him wanting to see me by 3 today.

Why?

What more do we have to talk about?

I shake my head to dispel any or all fantasy that is trying to spring up, he isn't interested in me, not like that.

I roll my eyes and I get off the bed, twisting my ankle this way and that to make sure it's okay, it is, the drugs I took last night must have worked like a charm

I remember the incident then, the one where Kane almost exposed my deadly secret, I shudder to think what would have happened if my sisters had found out.

It's not as if I willingly kept it from them, it's just a lie that got spun wild and I couldn't rein it in.

As my eyes land on the drugs on the table my mind goes back to the good doctor, doctor Jenny, after much thinking it wasn't hard to understand why there was tension between them.

She was pretty, shouldn't be more than 32 and he shouldn't be more than 27, 30 at the extreme, it was so obvious whatever was between them was sexual tension, if only on the side of doctor Jenny.

I blush to think about that, I shake my head as I go downstairs and I see the whole cadre is there.

Okay, they aren't going to go easy on me then.

As soon as my butt lands on the seat Aroofa lights into me. 

"Why? What happened last night?" She asks, and I don't have to ask what part of last night she was referring to. 

"Nothing" I say, reaching for the plate of pancake in front of me, seems Anaya made breakfast today, yum. 

"Bullshit" Anaya says, my hand pauses on its way to the jug of maple syrup. 

"He was all over you" Aroos says, her eyes bright but her stance a little subdued. 

"Are you okay?" I ask her. 

"We are talking about you right now" 

"Can we just drop it? Nothing happened, I Went to him to see if we could negotiate about our land but he says there's nothing he can do" I say and that effectively stems the flow of conversation. 

"But.. Without that land you won't get the box mum asked the bank to give you when you turn 26"She says and I nod. 

The mystery box, that's supposed to solve all our problems, I don't know anything about that box but if what I guess is right i think it contains mum's final words to us. 

I really wanted to know what her final words were, why she thought it was okay for her to waste away after asaali killed herself, why she had to be so selfish. 

I shaken my head to dispel those thoughts and I try to eat my breakfast. 

"Are you going to go see him today then?" Aroofa asks and I pause. 

"You should go" Aroos says. 

"Why? I and him have nothing more to discuss" 

"What?" Aroofa says, baffled. 

"Have you met you? You are the prettiest thing to ever walk the earth, with your hair and your smile, you have the innocent doe thing going for you" She continues and I roll my eyes, I might be a little pretty but if I was to weigh that on a scale of 10 I would be a 5 but the way Aroos and Aroofa and sometimes Anaya exaggerate they believe I'm a solid 11.

"What are you trying to say?" I ask. 

"Maybe he is interested in you? Have you thought about that?" Aroofa suggests and I snort.

"Forgive me if I refuse to be another notch in his bedpost, he definitely cannot be interested in me, me?" I ask, fake amusement clouding my voice, I just hope they can't hear how fast my heart was beating. 

"Why? Why would you think that way?" Anaya asks softly, deadly

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. Everyone pauses, even me. 

"Do you think us Razaq girls aren't good enough for the likes of the King's? What's so surprising if he is infact interested in you?" she asks and I shake my head, refusing to gulp the spit that fills my mouth. 

"Why? What? Does he get to you too? Is he making you feel something? After you've closed yourself off for the whole of your life?" She spits and I flinch. 

"I've not closed myself off" 

"Bullshit" She says again. 

"What?" I echo. 

"I call Bullshit, you've hardly dated anadia, you are a 25 years old virgin for the love of God, don't your think perhaps that points to you being..." I cut her off with a hand even as Aroos asks in disbelief. 

"You are a virgin?" 

"Well duh.. Isn't it obvious?" Aroofa asks, sipping her tea. 

But I only have eyes for Anaya. 

"You are one to talk" I say softly her eyes flashes. 

"I don't see you parading guys around, I don't see you fucking everything that breaths, do not point accusing fingers at me" I say beyond reasoning. 

"I've tried to keep this family together, working myself to the bone, loosing my music and my dancing together, I do not have time for dating" I say, silence reigning at the table. 

Anaya does not shut up, she continues, ripping away my shield till I'm left bare. 

"Yes, Yes, Anadia the matyr, we appreciate what you've done for us, we regret the loss of your music, but don't do that shit, don't point accusing fingers at us because you are too weak to let your self go enough to fall in love, you are too scared, you are too cowardly, you hide beneath taking care of us but we never asked you to do that did we? "Anaya says, she might as well have punched me because her words hit me like a punch nonetheless. 

" Anaya.. "Aroos and Aroofa say in rebuke, I feel my eyes get wet. 

I blink it away, she watches this before hissing and getting up from the table,but not before adding. 

" What ever you do with your life in none of my business Anadia, but I do not ever want you to think we made you not live your life, because, right now, you are making all the decisions by yourself" She says before walking away, to her room. 

"We don't think that you aren't living your life Nady, we just want you to be happy you know?" Aroos says but I don't say a word, I just try to breath around the pain and the fact that maybe Anaya is correct. 

But I know she is, I don't know what wil happen if I let someone in. 

AN

Thank you for reading. 

I'm sorry for the late update but as you know school session is starting soon so I read all the novels I couldn't read during the holidays into the night. 

So during the day I'm very lethargic. 

I'm sorry again. 

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