She stepped down from her car and locked it afterwards with the car remote as she headed straight to the door of her house. She pressed the bell and soon after the door opened.
"Welcome ma" Lina their one and only maid servant greeted her and offered to carry her handbag but she shook her head at her and headed to the staircase. All she needed was to lie on her bed and for a single minute and forget everything that just happened to her today.
" Sis" she heard Ana call her and she turned her head to the direction of her voice. Her seventeen year old sis was in her last year in high school. She was the same height with her the same skin colour and hair colour, just that hers was weaved, people always say they soo much look alike just that Maya is the older version of Anna.
" Maya " her mum called her as she came out of the sitting room and the expression on her face looked different from her cheerful face, her eyes suddenly told a tale of sadness and her mum looked at her with pity. Her dad suddenly came out from the sitting room also and they were all starring at her with the same look. " Oh! now I get it! Dad must have told them everything" she whispered to herself. "
" Maya honey are you okay? her mum asked as she walked up to her and took her hand in hers, Anna and her dad followed behind her. She hated the look they were all giving her. " Don't worry Maya, if you don't want to marry him then you don't have to... pls think about this very carefully Maya " her dad cuts in. Then her mum turned to her dad, " how can you dare say that to her Ethan? You want her to marry a man we totally know nothing about? " it's not that i want her... It's just that we have to say everything we can at this point and... " Mr. Ethan replied her, "And you want to sell my daughter to keep your riches!" Mrs Ethan suddenly sounded mad.
" Am not selling my daughter, I don't know what else to do to save us all, he has threatened to do a lot of harmful things to our family " Mr Ethan said.
" I will like to see him try" Mrs Ethan replied harshly.
" I'll marry him! " Maya finally yelled in the middle of their argument. Everyone became silent, they stared at her with the same look and it was killing her, she just felt like crying but she's tougher than being a cry baby. She promised herself a long time ago never to be a cry baby, she can't let that man defeat her self esteem at this point. "I will marry him because I love you all and I don't want to ruin our lives, I don't want to live for the rest of my life with the guilt that I had the chance to save us all but I deduced because of my own selfish reasons. Besides I have no boyfriend or fiance, I am neither in love with anyone so it's cool and everyone shouldn't worry about me, I will just look at this situation as a challenge." She told them and tried to smile to assure them that she was okay. They stared at her blankly. " I'm tired, I'll just retire to my room." She told them then slowly turned still somehow expecting them to say something but they didn't and that was good, so she took off to her room.
She finished her bath then changed into her pyjamas, and sat on her soft bed and stared around her room. Her room wasn't actually looking like the fantasy princess room to her anymore, everything looked old and appeared strange to her. There was a knock on the door and she yelled come in!, then the door gently opened and Anna stood there staring at her. " I'm allowed to come in right? " Anna asked in a cute manner with her hands behind her back. "I already told you so and besides you're already in" she told her tiredly as she rested her back on the head board. She smiled,then walked right in and sat on the bed beside her.
"I came to tell you something that I think make you feel better" Anna told her with a smile and she managed to smile back. She then brought out a magazine she was hiding in her hands behind her back. She rose it up to her "Here.. take a look..." she told her and she looked at the magazine. That good for nothing jerk who wants to ruin her life was in the cover page of MEN magazine. He was dressed in royal blue suit, white shirt and black tie. His black hair was in a nice kind of sexy mess and as usual he wasn't smiling and smirking. He looked soo focused and the annoying part is that he still managed to look soo good.
He's Logan Jack, one of the youngest richest business men in the world... He's your husband to be." She told her then giggled and raised her eyebrows at her.
" what? " She asked her not exactly understanding what she meant.
" Oh come on sis! are you telling me that you're not at least turned on by his looks? The guy is damn handsome, many women would give anything to be in your place" she told her wide eyed.
" And that is supposed to make me feel better? Anna you have no idea what his personality is like... no matter what you tell me about him, I'm never going to feel good about marrying him... all he has is money and his good looks, besides that doesn't really matter" she told her the honest truth. Anna stared at her blankly without saying a word. " Wow... You've got some serious issues, I know what we could do... let's switch so you marry him instead of me since you like him so much"
"No thanks sis" Anna said to her as she got down from the bed. " And don't forget am your one and only chief bridesmaid " She added.
" Goodnight Anna" She told her then she smiled and headed to the door.
" I left the magazine so that you can at least drool for him " Anna said to her again " what? No take your magazine with you! " She yelled at her but she had giggled and quickly left shutting the door and leaving her back to her thoughts. She slowly looked down at the magazine on the bed beside her and she picked it up.
" What? what are you staring at huh? " she saw herself talking to the magazine. This feels strange why does he look like he's staring at me? what? do you think you can manipulate people all the time? where on earth is my scissors? She wondered as she searched through the bed side drawer and finally found it. Well let's see how strong you're... Just try and stop me now let's see! " she spoke to his image as she cut it off and tore it into pieces, then she laid down on her bed still in thoughts and slept off.