Antanasia

Chapter 2 - My dear family

    I took a moment to breathe and clear my mind, something I started doing before meeting my family, it usually helps me ignore my mother's murderous look every time she lays her eyes on me or my sister's judgy faces as if they were thinking that I had no right to be there. You would think that it gets easier, but believe me, it doesn't. After the last moment, I finally decided to go in without knowing that it was the beginning of what I would later call "La cage doré"* 

The two guards in front of me opened the door while announcing my arrival: 

Guards: the third princess has arrived.

    As I entered, every single person was looking at me, we were in a big ballroom or as my mother likes to call it "le theatre", a french word that basically means the theatre because according to her this is where you can observe the best plays hidden behind the guests fake acts.

"Well, thank you for finally joining us Antanasia she said while approaching *her sarcasm was unnoticeable for others, but I was immune after all this time," said my dear mother.

"Oh, I am sorry mother, you see I had very important things to do. I had to do finish reading my book, cleaning my room, thinking very hard if I really had to come here I said while looking up while using my fingers to count the reasons." I knew she hated it when I acted like that in front of guests, and that was exactly why I always enjoyed doing this. I mean you know what they say, to each their little pleasure.

    clearly, her hands were itching as she was dreaming of beating me once again, but she would never show that face to her estimable guest

"hm, Antanasia is our little clown," she said looking like a mom mocking nicely her daughter, but hey she might be fooling them but I know the truth. "Everyone, please enjoy the evening and have fun she said turning to the guest." 

As they went back to their gossips, she grabbed my wrist and proceeded to take me to a corner in the room.

"Listen, you ungrateful little b***h if you create any problem tonight I'll beat you so hard that you'll wish you were dead. Tonight is about Daphne meeting the prince and important figure in our world, don't do anything to compromise that or I will kill you"  *she then left to greet her so important guests*

  Antanasia POV

    All you could see in her eyes was pure hatred and I had no doubt she'd put her threat into effect and gladly. It's not like I actually cared about any of them nor was I interested in the prince in anyways, but I heard before that the prince heard the rumors about my beauty and he wanted to own me. It's your typical handsome and loved prince that hid his true nature. Just another perverted and cruel werewolf who wanted to own me. Nothing more nothing less. 

    I was so absorbed by my thoughts that I didn't see Daphne walking towards me, she was with Bella, my second sister. Daphne was a voluptuous blonde, very tall, blue eyes, smart, and very jealous of anyone prettier than her. Very shallow huh, Daphne was named after a flower, as a matter of fact, both my sisters were named after flowers, Bella's full name is Belladonna, you probably heard about it in those police shows where they use it as a poison. They are both very beautiful flowers, but also very deadly. I honestly couldn't agree more, they might look fragile and pretty for others, but I saw how cruel and deadly they can be if they don't get what they want and in this case, I would have to guess and say to see me dead or for now out of the room. 

 "Who said you were allowed to look at me with those eyes? I told you to look down whenever I'm talking to you," said Daphne

" But I would hate to miss the opportunity to see your beautiful face, my lovely sister. *I know what you are thinking, I am annoying but I mean can you really blame me? It was a personal satisfaction to see that it pissed them off that much" said Antanasia  

"Don't push it or you won't like the results. today is your lucky day, lifechanging I would say she said with a disgusting grin on her face," added Bella with that face as if she was just wasting her time.  

 "I can see on your face that you are curious, do not worry little sister you will love it, I can even say that it is like you were born for a second time. Let me introduce you to someone " said Daphne while pointing to a man standing next to her. 

     I didn't even notice him before, he was not your typical handsome guy but the man had charms. Black hair, crooked nose *probably someone who fought a lot when he was a child*, tall, piercing black eyes, I just could not figure out what he was. Usually, it was easy to determine at least from which category he was, vampire, werewolf, or others, but he was just so hard to read.

"This is Andrei, I hope that you will great him with respect, he is a very important guest," said Bella 

Antanasia: Why would I care sister, I mean if he was that important you wouldn't bring him to talk to me, would you? 

 "Shut it, what Bella meant was to pay your respect to our valuable guests. So be good and smile " added the oldest sister with that twisted smile of hers.

 Antanasia POV

    Something is wrong, that sick face of hers is telling me that something big is preparing and that I won't have any chance of getting away from it. And as I feared, something did happen and it happened sooner than I expected. If I believed that living here was hell, then I did not know the real definition of hell. 

What I had yet to live was nothing one can ever imagine.  

* Cage doré= Golden cage 

*Théatre= Theater