Echo

Chapter five; Betrothed

Betrothed

Betrothed refers to a couple who are formally engaged to be married.

Was I expecting this?

Well I never gave it a thought to find someone I’ll get married to, the process of finding someone involves speaking to a lot of people.

Becoming Olivia 2.0.

I wasn’t interested in such.

I knew at one point I’d be required to do an arranged marriage or so but this early is quite something.

‘Father you can’t be serious’ Andrew argued

‘You really want to bind me to some brat at 18, I have a life you know, one that doesn’t bend according to the mistake you made’ he continued.

‘You’re my son after all, you shall do as I say, if the company falls because of some stupid scandal, what would be of your inheritance or future’

‘Why can’t you be like your sister, at least she understands this is necessary’ father said.

‘Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I agree, I know nothing will change your mind so I’d rather not get into a pointless argument’ I said.

‘Well that’s still something, some will think you’re older than this boy sometimes’ he replied.

‘Do you even know their age?’ Mother added.

He ignored her and said

‘You’re getting betrothed and that’s final, I already chose perfect suitors for you both and I’ve arranged to meet them this weekend’

‘You’re staying for a week?’ Andrew asked in surprise.

‘Yes I am, is there any problem with that’ he replied bringing out his phone and started texting on it walking upstairs.

I went back to the snacks I originally came downstairs for .

He didn’t come home because of the scandal,

He came home to expand his alliances by betrothing me and Andrew.

I have no idea why he’s in a hurry to get this done but this was the quickest way he could have done it.

Father was not a careless man, his cheating scandal coming out of the blue like that was suspicious.

He had married mother for almost twenty years and nothing of sort ever got to the internet, not that he didn’t do it or anything.

‘Mother, you can’t let him take over my life for his mistake , what will my mates think of me that I’m getting engaged at 17’ Andrew started.

‘I don’t know what to do, Andrew, what can I do, after all my reputation is also at stake’ she replied.

She never had been the smartest.

All the brains we got was from our father. Mother couldn’t c***k what I just did in this lifetime and her next even if she was given a hint.

I decided to go to my favorite spot which was a hill located in front of a waterfall.

The driver drove me there and I sat down munching on my snacks and just staring ahead towards the waterfall.

I wasn’t always like this, always this dissociated.

Nothing really happened to me, I just wasn’t interested anymore.

A lot of bad things that are happening in the world was because a lot of people are overly interested.

Some want to be successful, some famous, some liked and some want to just survive.

All these are used as excuses when you call them out for something terrible they did.

I don’t even want to think about what my parents or their parents had to do before they got to where they are.

A hand touched my shoulder bringing me out of my thoughts and I looked back at the person.

‘Hey loud girl’ he said……..