TENSION
We sit down on the couch, trying to process the portions of this impasse. Well, it's me and Andy who have to absorb everything, because this bitch can not me one bit that she didn't know all this. She is affirming she and Damian 't together, but she can't lie to me. On top of that, she is asking to stay and be her child. Ridiculous, right? If she has no ill motive at all, why ask to stay ? Why return only on the night of our wedding? She doesn't seem surprised by me in Andy's house at all, and the way she is swaying her hips and walking the kitchen is a mocking gesture on my part.
Can someone wake me up from this nightmare again? It's eight o'clock at night, I am supposed to be happily resting waiting for my big day tomorrow but here
I am, nursing a headache and unsure about tomorrow. What kind of game is this?
"Babe, relax. I will fix this, okay?" Andy consoles, but unfortunately, tonight his don't hold that convincing and relaxing power in them. I would want to him, but I know this bitch never backs down. She won't leave until she gets she has come here for. But what is it? What does she want? Because I doubt 's just Angel she wants to get close to.
Before I could speak to Andy, Maria returns from the kitchen, munching on a piece chicken and a glass of juice on the other hand. The audacity of the bitch! She 't been welcomed yet but she has already made herself so comfortable.
I understand this was her house before it became mine, but now it's mine, right? It mine the minute Andy and I became a couple. No matter how familiar she with this house and everything, she should show some respect to me. She has the to walk to that kitchen and grab a bite? A kitchen she never used when she Andy's wife? When I came here, that kitchen was abandoned, Andy and Angel forgotten the taste and the aroma of homemade foods. I am the one who them of all she had made them forget, even the feeling of love. And now, shows up out of the blue and acts like she just went for a two days vacation and back, or like she just had a long walk to the park and returned? Seriously?
"Well, Adrian? What have you decided?" She asks after finishing the chicken, on her juice peacefully and comfortable like a queen in her palace.
Everything about her annoys me.
Andy throws her a glance, and then he turns to me and I swear, I saw her roll her .
"Go on to your room and rest, babe. I will fix this." He says, giving me a peck on cheek.
"No, hun. I will stay. I am as much involved here. Besides, I am sure your EX wife not be bothered by my presence." I insist on the word ex and made sure to at her from the corner of my eye.
"Are you sure? I don't want you to be stressed. We have a wedding tomorrow, and bridal team will be coming in by six. You need to rest babe. I'm not shutting off this, okay? I'm just concerned." He insists.
"Yes, cousin. Adrian is right. You have quite a long tiresome day ahead. You need , lots of it. So, listen to your..boyfriend." The bitch airs her unwanted opinion.
I'm glad she spoke though, because the sarcasm in her tone of voice suggests .
"My place is here beside Andy. I'm staying. I can handle everything." I mutter.
"But babe..." Andy starts, but I cut him off.
"It's alright, love. I got this. I'm alright." He gives me a suppliant look, and I give the same look. Well, I think today is unique in its way because it is the first I'm winning a stare challenge against him.
"I didn't come all the way here to learn how to be romantically sweet to my , you know?" Maria snobs. "To the point, Adrian. What's your decision? I have you know right now that I am not giving up my rights to my daughter ."
"Angel knows only one mother, and that is Tania. I can not put her through the of telling her that Tania is not her mother, but rather someone else is. Tania I went through a lot explaining to Angel why she didn't have a mother. Tania tried and fixed the mess you left behind. She had to try and fill in the gap you in your daughter's heart. Now Angel acknowledges Tania as her mother. My is happy. Do you want to ruin that for her? Do you want all the efforts Tania put to make your daughter's life complete to go to waste?"
"Tania! Tania! TANIA! My God, Adrian! This topic is about our daughter, Angel!
Not this f..."
"Watch it!"
There! They are at each other's neck again. Is this how they were even when they married? I'm afraid that their barking will wake Angel up. Poor kid! I hope won't be caught up in their fights. But is she even safe, given that she is the for this fight? Maria calms down a bit. It's not like she has a choice though.
She is standing before the fuming devil and I know her sore cheek is a good of what can happen if she keeps yapping.
"You don't need to keep mentioning her name in every sentence. She is right there you. I am not blind, I can see her. You don't need to keep wrapping it to my that she took over my place and my rights too. She can be anything but
Angel's mother. I am not going to hand over that right to her even if it means up a fight."