It was a beautiful, sunny Tuesday morning. This was Valentine's day. A girl was lying on a bed wrapped in a gray and white duvet covering her up to her cheeks. Her beautiful dark long hair was spread across the pillow, from afar; someone might think that she was wearing a wave because her hair was very dark long and beautiful, complementing her pure white skin.

The sun shone beautifully on her face through the glass door from the balcony that was facing the ocean. She had forgotten to close the curtains the night after she returned to her room.

Due to the sun rays on her face, Elsa was awakened from her beautiful sleep. She rubbed her eyes trying to adjust her ocean blue eyes to the ray of light reflected through the ceiling glass wall in her white, gray, and black villa.

She smiled and jumped out of bed when she realized that it was Valentine's day.

Valentine's Day is a day of love. This day is celebrated worldwide. Elsa always dreams of experiencing love. She had always wished for someone to be her "Val" on "Valentine's Day."

Throughout Elsa's life, she had never experienced love from the opposite sex. She had never lived in a family full of love, fun, or happiness. All she had experienced during her parents' years of marriage were fighting, crying, pain, sorrows, and heartbeat. She had experienced all the adjectives describing a broken home.

Elsa's parents were not the parents that were in love. They were not couples that people normally read about, who fell in love after marriage. This is a forced relationship. This was a love-hate marriage. Her father had hated her mother. They were forced to marry because Elsa's mother, Mirabella, became pregnant with her after a one-night stand with her father, Zealous. Elsa hated that she was a child made from a wild night of just pleasure, but what could she do? She was already made.

Mirabella thought that during their marriage, Zealous would fall in love with her, but she was wrong! She thought she was going to experience what she had read in books and watched in movies; she realized that before her death; "real life is different from fairytale."

"Life is not a fairytale!"

In life, there can be tragedy at times. Some love stories don't end with "and they lived happily ever after" because she didn't receive that.

Mirabella admired Zealous from afar and she was "the girl he never noticed." The girl he did not wish to notice until that drank wild nights. She was so much in love with him, and she lived with him in a loveless and abusive marriage for ten years.

Zealous hated Mirabella because her condition was poor. The patient's condition was very poor. She also had a mixed race. Her mother was from Liberia, and her father was from America. Zealous parents are typical traditional Greek families. After they discovered what happened between Mirabella and Zealous, he was forced to marry Mirabella. He not only deflowered her but also became pregnant. The marriage made him angry, which grew the hate he had for Mirabella.

He hated her because she was mixed-race. It was never his dream of marrying someone with an African background, and it was not only that she was poor. Poor beyond his imagination. The only reason they attended the same school was that Mirabella received a scholarship in Greece.

During their decade of marriage, Mirabella had all she could for him to love her. She was willing to bear the abuse she had received because she wanted love. He would rape her every night, beat her, and bring in his mistresses, yet she still took it all because she loved him.

The author's question: "Is love? Why will someone go through all of those things because of love?"

Elsa hates her mother for what she has done for herself. She believes that her mother is obsessed with her father. Elsa believed that love was neither abusive nor painful.

If her mother had loved her dad, she would have placed herself first. She would have loved herself. Her mother never loved herself, so that did not love Elsa.

People fall into love when they love the creator.

A person who declares that they are in love and does not love themselves is not in love.

You can not say "I love you" to somebody; when you cannot say, "I love me!" You are either obsessed with it or lusted.

Mirabella worked hard to prove herself to Zealous people. She was able to acquire wealth during her marriage to Zealous. She was able to acquire success, because of her linkage with the "Emeritus family."

Due to the toxic relationship that Elsa grew up in, she concluded that she had not experienced the meaning of love. Her mother did care for and support her, but she did not refer to it as love.

She believed that her mother did not love her, as she claimed. If her mother loved her enough, she would not have died, leaving her alone in this world, when she was just 12 years old. The man her mother had called husband and father to Elsa did not even care for. He did not appear at her funeral. He did not care about Elsa's existence. He was married and was happy with his new family.

Elsa wanted someone to love her.

She got up from bed, running her fingers through her dark black waist-long hair, which had turned into a bird's nest when she was asleep. She pulled down her black silk nightgown, which rolled up to her mid-thighs. Black perfectly complemented pure white skin.

She walked to the balcony to enjoy the cool ocean morning breeze. The breeze kissed her pure white cheeks; her hair that she had just fixed a few seconds ago was flying all around as the coconut trees breeze and ocean breeze passed by.

She closes her eyes by inhaling a salty sea breeze. She closed her eyes to make a wish "I wish today I experience love," she said smiling as she imagined kissing.

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