Chapter 1
Nina is a typical girl who likes being with her friends and school mates.
Her every day life is at school and home since she started going to school.
At the age of 18 years old when she's still in Grade 12 in her senior high school her adoptive parents Marsha Mason and Primitivo Seder put her in a difficult situation as to marry their business partner's son. Because their company is struggling financially.
Everything is fine until they manage to drag her into this marriage.
She can't even refuse the decision they made for her. She didn't know what to do to anymore.
I feel like I just want to die.I'm dying inside.I feel so small, I feel like I've been snared by the people I expected to love me and protect me. I feel betrayed. I feel trapped to this situation that never in my life I imagine that this would be happening to me.
It's difficult for her to process everything through her mind what's going on and what's going to happen to her and what's the decision she's going to make, she's only 18 and can't manage any decision herself because she's dependent to her adoptive parents,she can't even afford to make a living for herself coz she's still studying and she's so young, she has no one but these people that are going to ruin her whole life in just one snap of their fingers.
They can do whatever they want to her because she owe her life to them.
If not with her adoptive parents she's nothing but an orphan she didn't even have relatives to go with in times of her struggles and difficulties in life. She has no one to lean on.Sh has no one to cry on. She's fine physically but damage emotionally.
She can't even feel the love of her adoptive parents she feels like an animal in the cage they are giving everything to her anything that she needs and when the right time comes they are ready to sold her anytime that they want.
Oh! how she's going to escape from this embarrassing moment of her life.The moment and the decision her adoptive parents are going to ruin her life.
"Nina?" Her mother Marsha calling her,
Yes mom? "She answered."
Your father and I need to talk to you,
about some important matter.
But mom, I have group projects with my classmates by 5pm today.
Our deadline is by the day after tomorrow so we need to finish it until tomorrow. Can't that important matter that you're talking about wait mom ?
"That can wait nina." This one that I'm telling you about, it can't wait.This is going to ruin our company and your father.
Nina this is very important to this family and to your father you have to talk to us right now! "Her mother scolded."
We are struggling financially so if you're gonna ignore having this conversation with us,sooner or later we cannot afford to pay for your school tuition and your other school needs. "Do you understand nina ?"
Your father will be here any minute.
Don't do anything stupid just listen to your father. Don't say anything. It's time for you to repay what you owe to us. Don't make me repeat myself nina.Do not make any scene.
" Yes mom." she answered,
She didn't know what to do.
She didn't even have the guts to fight for herself.
She didn't know what to feel.
It's like her world is falling apart.
She didn't know what she mean that it's time for her to repay what she owe to them.
She's like a robot.
Nina your father is here.
It's time to talk.
Go to the living room right now.
"Yes mom coming", she answered
Come here nina sit down. "Her father said."
Dad? "Is it very important that I have to sacrifice my group project just to talk about it right away?"
Yes nina I thought your mother explained the rest of the details to you earlier?
Yes dad,she explained it to me.
That it's time for me to repay what i owe to this family.
Good, I guess it's time to
announce the news.
What is it dad ? ,"she ask"
You're going to get married nina.
You're going to get married to our business partners son Jacob Almeda of the almeda group of companies.
She was shocked by what her father said, she could barely grasp what she's going to say, she was stunned, shaking and dumbfounded.
It's like a puzzle to her.
She's going to get married to the man that she didn't even know.
What will happen to her.
What will happen to her studies.
What will happen to her dreams.
Plenty of questions running through her mind right now.
How could they do this to her? Why ???
She couldn't scream to her parents what's on her mind.
She could barely speak.
My god she's so young to get married.
She has dreams to pursue.
She is studying so hard to achieve what she wants to become someday.
You are going to get married next month.
and there is nothing you can do about it even if you cry your heart out.
So you better prepare yourself for your upcoming wedding.
This conversation is over, you can leave.
She can't even stand up,
She can't even walk but she manage to go to her room.
When she finally entered her room,
she can't hold back her tears.
She couldn't stop crying.
She cried silently.
They ruined everything.
They ruined everything!!!!!
She's screaming on her mind.
She even think of escaping but where she's going. She didn't even have a relatives to go with. She's by herself since birth.
She couldn't get away it's like she was chained her whole life.
She's not yet finished with her studies how could she even have a job.
And wherever she go they will find her.
"Don't you even dare think of escaping nina", her father said.
Wherever you go we will find you.
Even having a job you are not going to have any job. You cannot find a job anywhere,I swear it to you.
You cannot even get a food even the food in the trash I will promise you that nina,I promise i will do everything to ruin your life if you dare to escape from us.
Don't you dare escape from us.
You owe everything to us.
You are nothing without us.
Do you understand?
She's still hearing her father's voice while uttering these words earlier at the living room.
She feels like her world is falling apart.
This is so inhumane.
How can she escape to this kind of life, how ??
I really don't know what to say or what to do in this very difficult situation I am with right now.
My world is turning upside down.
I don't know what to feel anymore.
I don't know.