Sixteen
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When I woke up in the morning I felt a soft hand holding mine tightly and the person was sniffing and when I opened my eyes I saw Amanda with red swollen eyes and her lips quivering, she looked miserable and I didn't like that look on her as I held her hand tighter squeezing it
"What wrong?" I said with my groggy voice, hoping I didn’t have bad morning breath
"I'm sorry, I know I must be here for you, supporting you, and I here putting more problem your way, but I don't have anyone to talk to about this, nobody will understand except you since you will understand what I'm going through" she said in one breath and was surprised she didn't sniff yet again, and I wondered what she was talking about but one thing was clear my husband was being all of this
"It's okay, I need the distraction from my horrible life" I told her smiling but her eyes got even sadder, but I squeezed her hand tighter to show her that it’s okay
"I'm sorry about my brother, his an asshole for hurting you like this and I'm sorry about the baby" she said looking at her hand that was holding in mine
"It's okay, now spill, what's wrong with you? Stop deflecting" I told her not ready to talk about the child I got to know about for five minutes before I lost it but I feel like I lost my heart and soul with it, how can something so small be your whole life when you barely knew about it days ago
"Sam is getting me married off and my parents approved of it" she sniffed again
"What? But why?" I was shocked to hear Sam can do such a thing to his own sister, I always thought she was the only one he hated
"Pay back for getting involved in your marital issues and befriending you, when all of them already hate you" she said all this looking at floor and I wondered why all of them could hate me when she's done nothing wrong and the last time she saw the queen, they got along just fine unless she missed something but she knew this was not about her and she put her feelings to the side to attend to the crying princess next to her hospital bed, sniffing and she didn’t want the same fate to fall in her, damn she will never wish this life for her worst enemy, even though she had none
"I'm sorry, I don't know what, I did but I'm sorry for dragging you in my problems" she was married for month but it felt like years after all the things Samuel put her through and she cursed herself for even coming to the choosing that day, or falling and saying yes, but for some reason she didn’t regret loving him, giving him her innocence and it hurt but she still loved him so much, what the hell was wrong with her?
"Not your fault and I'm sure his not bad as people portray him to be" she said still sniffing, how can she say that while crying if she believe what she was saying, I don't know who she was trying to convince me or herself, and I wondered who was this man that they got her engaged to?
"Who is he?" I asked knowing well that she was hesitating to tell me, and that made me even more worried, why wouldn’t she tell me, I was here for her, and I didn’t need her to protect me
"The king Maximus" my eyes went wide no, that can't be true his was crazy, not him not the king of the Dark Tower, his was married before and rumour spread like wildfire that he killed his wife for disobeying his orders and she was only twenty five and they married for six months before he apparently died
"But they say he killed his wife, and his older than you by fifteen years, they can't do that" she told her in one breath forgetting to breath, and a sudden pain erupted from her abdomen reminding her where she was, and why she was there in the first place
"Look who's talking, you're eighteen and married to my brother who's thirty-five" said Amanda giving me a small smile that didn't reach her eyes, she was trying to make light of the situation
"Look how that turned out" I told her sadly, I'm eighteen, married and lost my first child all because I said I do to that monster, my husband
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.." I cut her off because I really didn't want this conversation to be about my miserable life this was my life now and I accepted it and I had a plan to run away, now was the time for me to console the only person who seems to care about me in that castle
"It's fine, when is the engagement?" I asked changing the subject yet again
"Actually they sending me tonight to his kingdom, everything is already packed that's why I'm here, I came to say goodbye" I don't know what came over me but hearing that she was leaving scared me and I blurted out the only words that came to mind, it was wrong of me to put that pressure I get but I count help it, that was my only way out, the only way I could escape Samuel without being caught, the dark castle was far from this kingdom, and far away from my husband
"Take me with you" I breathed making her eyes go wide in shock, I know she isn’t expect it neither did I but I meant every word!
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