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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Anna! open the door!" Catherine's voice escalated as she kept calling and banging at her daughter's bedroom door.
Anastasia cupped her ears, burying herself under the sheets. "No! I don't want to get engaged to him!" She cried in a shrill voice.
Catherine stopped pounding at the door, relieved that Anastasia was still there, alive. "Anna, dear, please open the door. I just want to have a talk." Her voice softened, like when she used to coax her Anna when she was still her little girl.
Slowly, the door opened. Catherine gasped and cupped her mouth. "Gosh... you look terrible, sweets." Anastasia's snowy pink skin lost its color, cheerless honey-brown eyes staring pensively at Catherine, and she was still in her nightdress.
"Tell her to get ready! He'll be here any minute!" Gabriel shouted from downstairs.
"It takes time to get ready!" Catherine yelled back.
"Make it quick!"
Last night, they had another fight. It was regarding An
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