"Ezrine...!" I heard a very familiar voice from behind as I was running and I didn't know what I was running from. The place I was in was a strange place as if it was built with rocks and there were even stranger words on the walls.

I decided to stop and look back and see what I was so afraid of. Before I could turn a group of rocks headed my way and before they could crash me I woke up from this terrible dream.

"Ezrine stop this childishness you are old when you're like this. My dear you are 22 years old stop worrying too much about this" mom said after I told her about my dream .

"Look at her cursed fate , she had gotten married 10 times already but none of those marriages lasted even a week" Meddy criticized at the water tap.

"Do you think your eleventh marriage will work out" Meddy teased as I burst into tears and ran back home.

"Mom what is wrong with me I got married numerous times already but none of my marriages worked , now I got an alliance in a reputed family , what if something goes wrong" I said crying kneeling down Infront of my mom.

"My dear I never supported any of your past marriages but I just went with it because of the society's pressure but this one I was the one who approved it and there's a reason for it."

"But mom why is our society like this , why are girls supposed to marry old rich men at the age of sixteen , Meddy is 23 and she has five children nobody knows who their father is and she's not married but no body questions her , why? Because she's the mayor's daughter?"

"My dear there is also a reason why people never talk about the mayor's daughter didn't get married yet ,just focus on your upcoming wedding my dear."

"But mom I don't even know how the boy looks like , we already had the traditional wedding but I couldn't see his face and we're about to get married in 3 days "

"You have to understand that this is an arranged marriage and it was not easy to convince him to agree to this alliance"

"But why did you have to convince him to agree thou , what was the need to convince him when he doesn't want to be in this marriage " I said trying to control my anger.

"There's a reason why the situation is like this , try to understand my daughter" mom explained.

I just went straight to my room leaving mom outside . I started wondering as to why was life so unjust to me.

Two days went by and tomorrow was my wedding day with the stranger from the Smith family . I wasn't excited as I was when I got the alliance. I now realised how obsessed I was with the idea of marriage.

"Tomorrow is my wedding day mom" I said to mom sitting outside under my favourite tree.

" I know and I'm very excited and very sorry that I'm putting you in a difficult situation" mom said it was clear in her voice that she was controlling her tears.