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THIRTY TWO
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2025-04-22 23:15:16"Aren't you going to meet your mom?"
"You know what going up to meet her means," Lila took a deep breath. She knew that there was no way she was escaping it but still, she wanted to delay for a few minutes before she faced her mom. She knew the reason she was there and most of what she was going to say to her. She did not need any of that in her life at the moment.
"You cannot escape it; you do not want her to come down and drag you by the ears."
"That is true," Lila said, standing up as she walked away. As she walked to the room, moments of her mother filled her thoughts. She knew how difficult her mother had been while she was growing up, and she thought that she would get better, but it seemed as if she got worse after each year.
She braced herself and knocked on the door; she stopped before she could knock the second time. "This is my room, so why am I knocking?" she asked herself. Knowing she did not have an answer she took out her card and opened the door. She stepped in to see her mom had made herself comfortable at the edge of the bed.
"What brings you all the way here?" She asked, trying to act as if she did not know the reason her mother had taken a plane there.
"Are you going to play dumb with me?" Eleanor asked with her lip in a thin line. She looked around the room and stood up, crossing her hand over her chest. Lila knew she was about to go into ranting mode and it would be impossible to stop her unless she had exhausted herself.
"You know, after all we did for you and your sisters, I thought you would be a little more like them and get married without any stress," she started. Lila rolled her eyes. She balanced her weight on both feet and pressed her hands on both sides. She knew that they could be there for an hour with her mom running her mouth and actively comparing her to her sisters.
"Your sisters Elizabeth and Victoria also got married as you did; they were never in love with the man they got together with but not for one day have their names entered the news because they are busy doing everything in their power to destroy the nation their father had built for years. Why can't you just act your age for once? Elizabeth has been married for six years now and there has not been a single count of scandal and Victoria." She paused as if she wanted to ask her a question; she barely allowed her to squeeze in a word before she continued. "Victoria has been married for four but it's been barely two weeks and yet all the media keeps reporting on all day is you. What the hell is wrong with you?"
"If you did not push me into a marriage of convenience with our enemy, then this would not be happening." The words left Lila's mouth in fear. She was tired of hearing this lecture from her mom and decided that it was time for her to stand up for herself.
"What was that?" Eleanor paused, reeling in shock. Never once had Lila spoken back to her when they were having a conversation like this; she would have stayed quiet with her head down and then after a while, she would apologise and promise to do better.
"I mean, you can't even stand the sight of a Beaumont yet I am supposed to be comfortable with living with one and everyone is expecting this magic from me, like I am the chosen one to make sure the family does not go bankrupt. Why on earth is such a pressure on me? I am the youngest."
"Shut your mouth," Eleanor screamed at her and frowned. "What on earth have you done for your family? You have done nothing for them, nothing at all, and yet you think you can open your mouth and talk however you want?"
"I have done everything for my family."
"You would not interrupt me when I am speaking," Eleanor said, pointing a warning finger at her. Lila knew her mother was angry but since she had begun to air her opinion, she could not stop; she had to see it through to the end.
"Can I at least talk about the pains I go through for once? You asked me to marry him and I did that; you asked me to move in with him and I did that; you asked me to come on this honeymoon and I did it even when you set up all of this paparazzi and expect me to act perfect twenty-four hours a day!" she barely calmed down from her rising tone before a hand crossed her face.
She held her face and tears streamed down her face. "You slapped me?"
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Lila staggered her hand, still clutching into her cheeks. It was strange that her mom was lifting her hands to her face and even going as far as hitting her across the face. She had always been vile with her words but never had she hit her before.She turned her hand, still clutching her face. "Where do you think you are going?" She heard her mom's voice ring but her legs were doing the work for her.Her hand gripped the door handle, and she pulled it open. She walked out of the room—it was her room—and she knew the right thing to do was to throw her mom out and lock herself in there, but her brain seemed to be coordinating on its own. She dropped her hands to her side, clutching the parts of her clothes she could hold as she walked wherever her legs could carry her."A young woman should never eat like that." She pressed her eyes together before she pushed it open. Her childhood was filled with various phrases like that.Eleanor had been obsessed with raising the perfect three girls.
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A woman came to address all of the couples who had shown up. After speaking at length, she asked them all to come back the next day, as that was when the competition was going to begin. After that, she disappeared, and the room began to clear out. Weaving through the crowd, both of them found their way out of the place."I can not believe that I am doing something like this," Levi said as they walked to the elevator."We already wrote down our name and attended the first meeting. I don't think there is any need to not believe it anymore," Lila responded. She also could not believe that she had willingly tried to put herself in the eye of the public but all she could think of was the prize attached to this.Her phone began ringing in her hand, and somehow she feared it was her mom. She looked at the screen and felt a burning, bitter sensation rise up her stomach as she stared at it. It was her mom, and she never once had a good conversation with her mom over the phone. It was always so
