"What! What did you just say Amya? That you and David are in a relationship and you have been seeing each other for four months now!" exclaimed Amber who could not believe her precious daughter's confession that she was in a love relationship with her boss and have been dating for four months.
A month had already passed before Amya, finally decided to spill the beans about her relationship with David to her mom. It was a long struggle to find courage to face her. So she was determined to win this battle no matter what, even though she could see that her mother was flaring with anger due to her confession. But she decided to grab the bull by the horns and will face the consequences later.
"Yes mother! David and I are in love with each other. I know that it's sounds a little unexpected and sudden but mom…" she did not get to finish when her mom's angry voice piped in. " Sudden!! Really Amya!! Well, its more like an immature decision made by a naive little girl!!" Roared Amber at Amya. " Mom please! How can you say that! I love Dave and he loves me as well. Believe me when I tell you that there is no other man in this world that has ever treated me the way he does. He is so sweet, kind, generous, strong and jovial. I believe that if you get to know him mother you will get to like him very much." Replied Amya. " Oh please Amya, my god! Do you even know what love is!! I mean, you barely even know the man! How can you possibly know if all those so called good traits that you claim he has are genuine and true! My goodness Amya, you have only known him for four months and you already claim to be in love!! How could you be so naive my dear! No! No! I am not going to accept this nonsense! You better break up with him right now! Otherwise I'll....." Amber was interrupted by Amya saying,
"Otherwise you will what mother!! Huh! What will you do? Are you going to keep me locked up in my room? Or are going to beat me up lile you used to whenever you heard that I interacted with a boy at school? Are you going to make me watch long documentaries for hours about women being abused, harrassed and assaulted by men, so that you could brainwash me with your unseething hatred for them! No mom! No! I am no longer that little girl whom you can control however you like! I am a grown woman now! Who is more than capable of making her own decisions without anyone else controlling her! I am tired mother, I am tired! For twenty- three long years I have been living under your control, your pestering and your overprotectiveness! I am sick and tired of you controlling my life! When will you get the fact that I am not you! I am not Amber but Amya! And I am never going to relive your life. And also make or encounter the same mistakes or bad experiences that you had in your life! Dad didn't hurt me but he hurt you! I wasn't even born when you experienced whatever it is that made you hate men so much mom! So please I am begging you! Don't impose your life on me! Let me live my own life, let me make my own mistakes and let me have my own experiences about life please! Either good or bad, I don't care just let me experience it mom please. I need your support not your judmental criticisms. I need to feel your love, care and affection not your control mom! I love you but if this continues I don't think that I can stay with you anymore....I don't think I can....", said Amya in a broken tone whilst tears were a river on her face.
Amber felt her heart squeeze in immense pain inside her chest, on seeing her daughter breakdown like that in front of her. She never once thought that her overprotectiveness and control over her daughter's life were actually breaking her instead of keeping her safe. But keeping her safe from what..... For the first time in her life she did not have an answer to that question. Could it be that she was cocooning her daughter due to her own fears, pain and regrets because of that horrid past experience that she went through. If that is the case then...oh no! What has she done. All these years she has been making her daughter live her life instead of her own. But either way, she is still not happy with her daughter's decision. So leaning towards her she said in a soft tone,
"Amya, my darling. I am sorry.. I am so so sorry my love. I swear that I never intended to take control over your life. I thought that by doing what I did I would be protecting you.. Protecting you from the harshness and cruelity of this world but instead I was limiting you from learning and making your own experiences in life. Please forgive me my dear. And I promise to stand by your side and support you. But concerning your decision. Don't you think that you are taking this too fast my dear? I mean… I understand that you are in love with him but my dear please don't mistake love for friendship or lust because if you do that then believe me my girl when I tell you that your heart is going to be broken in the end and I don't want my daughter's heart to be broken. I don't want that at all. I want my daughter to be happy and get married to a man that will love her and cherish her forever rather than a playboy that only wants pleasure instead of love my dear."
"Mother please don't worry. I promise you that David is not like that. Even though I haven't been dating him for long but I know that he is a good man and I am sure you are going to like him as well. I promise." Replied Amya whilst sitting on the couch and taking hold of her mother's hands. " Alright, if you are so sure. I am not going to stop you. Not that I approve it but I will think about it." Said Amber. " Thank you Mom. I hope you will accept this", asked Amya. "We will see about that. And if he does prove to be worthy then I will accept. But if not... I will make his life a living hell. Believe me I will ", replied Amber.
" Well I do hope its not going to be the latter. Thank you mom. Thank you for understanding me", said Amya whilst she enveloped her mother in a brief warm hug and then standing up from the couch and she further stated, "Well mom, I am going to work now. I promised David that I would talk to you about our relationship this morning before I go to work even if it meant I would be late. Mom please try to understand my situation and I hope you will accept David. Well I am going now, I will see you tonight." And she kissed her mother on the cheek and left the house.
Amber watched Amya leaving for work. She still was not strongly satisfied with Amya's decision. She just cannot bear to see her daughter's heart get broken or experience the same misfortune that she encountered in her past. So she was going to make sure that doesn't happen.