THE GIRL HE MARKED Chapter 7

{ His Human Mate }

Written ✍️: Cisca. H.

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” You’ll have to put on something more shorter than that. ” I stared at myself at the mirror as Mrs White said that. ” It’s an advert, sweetheart, it needs something catchy. ”

I changed to a shorter white sleeveless gown, with a long V cut which exposed the middle of my breasts and a two openings at it’s both sides.

” Now, that’s catchy. ” She gave me a thumbs up.

We always had photoshoots within the company but this time, Mrs White decided for a change of position.

I had my bracelet on, it was wide enough to hide the mark but this time, Mrs White insisted I take it off.

This is an open photoshoot, what am I going to do?

The mark is still the same as twelve years ago, I’ve tried every cream possible to hide the mark but yet, it’s all in vain.

I really don’t know what to do now, I mean… I’m fucking hopeless right now.

I almost had it off when the directors requested for a more fancied one.

I sighed in relief, God knows how he does his works. I quickly changed to a new one, but I made sure no one saw it.

Why am I too secured about this mark? Because it’s a secret and it needs to remain a secret.

The photoshoots went well and we were able to round it off in the evening.

I changed into my normal wear, driving back home.

I had my hot shower and a brief rest which didn’t last up to thirty minutes.

Aunty Tracy was cooking dinner and uncle Kelvin wasn’t back yet but I could hear Queeneth’s voice from my room.

I went downstairs, waiting for dinner to be served. Max and Ruby were in their room playing video games and Queen was coming from her room with her tablet.

Just the usual…

” Hi, Queen. ” I waved a smile at her but she looked at me and took it off. ” How was school today? ”

” You should ask that to the headmaster. ”

I smiled, trying not to look offended by her response. ” Okay. So, how is Stephanie and Andrew? You know, it’s been awhile since you talked about them. ”

” What do you care about them? You never asked of them for a long time, why now? To show how concerned you’ve suddenly become? If you desperately wanna know how fine they are, them you should come over to my school. ”

I know she’s still angry about earlier, and it’s not my fault. She would have considered the fact that I was late for work, I didn’t mean to do what I did.

” Look, Queen, I’m very sorry about earlier and… I didn’t mean to act so rude to you. I was only trying to keep up with my time an… ”

” You know what, I’m not interested in your stories. As you can see, I’m busy. Look, I know you aren’t my sister and you were brought from a poor helpless village because your parents couldn’t afford your school fees. ”

” Queen, that’s enough. ”

” And that doesn’t give you the right to act like we’re related in life. So, if you’re looking for someone to play your poor lifestyle games, I’m in no position for that. ”

” Queen, I know we might not be blood but that doesn’t mean you have to talk to me that way. ”

” What, isn’t it the truth? You were picked from a wretched family, because my father decided to help your pathetic life. ”

” Shut up, Queen. ”

” You managed to drive a car is because of my father. What has your father done for you, huh, that I have to tell you to drive me to school before you do. ”

” I’m not your driver, so you don’t expect me to drive you to school like one. ”

” Of course, your’e not my driver because having a driver is a lot better than having you!! You’re so annoying. ”

Aunty Tracy walked out of the kitchen, dusting her hands on her apron. ” What’s going on here? I can hear you two’s voice from the kitchen. ”

” It’s nothing serious. ” I said but Queen had to spit the whole thing out.

” Is it? ” She rolled her eyes at me, scoffing. ” Mom, she’s lying. ”

” Queeneth, mind your mouth, will you? ” Aunty Tracy warned.

” I’m saying the truth, mom. You were able to hear our voices because she was abusing me. ” She lied.

I stared surprised at her, she was twisting the whole thing. I looked at aunty Tracy who threw a confused face at me.

” Diana abused you? ” She asked.

” Yes, ”

” Aunty Tracy, that’s a lie. I never abused her, I’ve never done that before. ” I defended.

” Stop lying! ”

” Queen, Diana can never abuse you. You two have been friends since she came here, why would she do that now? ” She defended.

” Are you siding her now? ”

” No, sweetheart, I’m not siding anyone. I just wanna know what happened. ”

She stood up, picking her tablet from where she had kept it. ” You wanna know what happened? Then you and dad shouldn’t have brought here here at the first place. ” She left to her room.

I stood up too, about to leave to my room when she stopped me. ” What’s going on between you two? ” She asked.

” It’s nothing. ”

” This doesn’t look like it’s nothing. ”

” She doesn’t want me anymore, she doesn’t want me here, that’s the problem. ” I told her.

” I don’t understand, what really brought about all this? ”

I sighed, ” I was running late for work and she told me uncle Kelvin asked me to drive her to school. When we got there, she didn’t want to go to school, she was playing games. I pleaded for her to go to school so that I can go to work but she ignored me and made me look like a fool. ”

” I decided to drive out of the school when she started screaming that I should let her go. I don’t see anything annoying about this that she… ” I sniffed, ” that she could insult my parents for being too wretched to take care of me. That I was born poor and.. and if it wasn’t for uncle Kelvin, I won’t be what I am today because I have parents who can’t afford my school fees. ”

I wiped my rolling tears, sniffing hard. ” Maybe she’s right. Maybe I don’t belong here. ” I left to my room, and I didn’t mind if she believes me or not. ”

Uncle Kelvin returned not quite long, and aunty Tracy called us all for dinner.

The atmosphere was quiet and silence took over. I held my spoon but I haven’t touched my food.

Queeneth rested her head in her left hand while the others slowly chewed on their food.

Aunty Tracy would look at us, then back to her food. Max and Ruby did the same thing too but decided not to talk about it.

Uncle Kelvin seems not to have noticed it but when he did, he trailed his gaze at everyone of us. ” Why is everyone so calm? ” He asked.

Max and Ruby shrugged while aunty Tracy rubbed the back of her head.

” Queen, why aren’t you eating? And you Diana, you haven’t even touched your food yet. What’s going on here? ”

No one said s thing to him, he directed his gaze to his wife. ” What’s going on here? ” He asked again.

” Uhmm… Diana and Queen had a little misunderstanding. ” She replied.

” What misunderstanding? ” He asked. ” What really happened? ”

” Queen yelled at her. ” She wasn’t trying to hit to the point and it was getting uncle Kelvin curious.

He looked at Queeneth who didn’t realize that her name was being mentioned as her head still rested on her hand.

” What did she say? ”

” She addressed Diana’s parents as wretched people and that you had only picked her from her pathetic life to come over to New York to live with her. ” She didn’t want to go further than that but he insisted she continues.

” And… ”

” And that Diana is what she is because of your help. ”

His face turned red. Dropping his spoon on his plate he focused his gaze to the less concerned Queen.

” Is that true? ” He asked angrily. She said nothing, this got him more annoyed than he was. ” I’m gonna ask you for the last time, is that true? ”

She reluctantly looked at him, ” Isn’t it true? Acanda is a pathetic village which accommodates pathetic people’s. ”

” We’ve been living happily since she came here, why does she have to be so pathetic to you now? ”

” Because that’s what she is. ”

He grabbed her hand, dragging her to her room. ” You’re done eating for the night. ” We heard him say.

” But I haven’t eaten anything yet. ”

” You decided not to eat, who’s fault is it? ”

” I’m hungry. ” She cried.

” I don’t care how long you cry, but I’m gonna promise you this, no more birthday party for two years. Unfortunately, you birthday is next month and you’ll have to celebrate it like an ordinary day. I’ll forgive you when you when I see that you’ve really learnt how to position your mouth while talking to your elders. ”

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To Be Continued…