It was suffocating.

Watching them speaking about their business and her.

Like she wasn't even there.

Marly's hands tightened in her lap as she listened to Father and Mother talk to the biggest customer about possibly a union between the two.

Marly's Father and Mother ran an oil business. They'd made good friends with the Kelley's. The Kelley's owned quite a bit of land in the own. And from what Marly's Father had heard, a lot of that land was ripe for drilling. So here brought around the meeting for some kind deal to be struck between the two families.

Mr. Kelley was willing to let Mr. Holmes drill on his land in exchange for something else in exchange, and so far the popular choice for it seemed to be that Marly married their son. Kyle Kelley Jr.

Now Marly didn't think was a good idea. Not because she didn't like Kyle or that he was horrible person. Infact he was actually really nice. Pleasant to be around, smart and pretty handsome. But the fact was Marly didn't know him. At all. And she really didn't have any interest in the things he did, Kyle liked things like cars and machine and how they moved and worked. He wanted to become an engineer some day.

Marly hated machines. From the noise they made to the things were used for. Ever since she was old enough to read and she'd found out what the machines her Father had were used for she'd hated them.

Marly loved animals. She'd had quite a few of them growing up. Dog, Cats, Hamsters. Her Father and Mother let her have them because they kept her happy and quiet. She wanted to grow to be something like a Veterinarian or maybe an Animal trainer.

Her Mother had told her it wasn't happening. She was to grow up and become a good lady for her husband, who would inherit the company someday.

Mrs. Holmes wasn't a pleasant woman. She had deep brown hair pulled up high into a tight up do. She wore quite a bit of make up making her look a clown more then a lady. She also never smiled, Marly thought it was abit odd seeing as when she was a child her Mother had smiled all the time.

But it seemed as when she got older she'd forgotten how…. Instead replacing that knowledge with how to be terribly strict parent. And it was true her Mother terribly strict. Everyday she yelled and screeched at Marly to finished lessons and eat all her food.

Marly was beginning to think the woman had never learned how to whisper. Her Father on the other hand was better. He wasn't always smiling, but he was pleasant to his daughter, on occasion. He was a small portly man balding. He'd once had thick black hair, long and curly, but he'd lost it years ago.

Marly had learned when he was it was usual because he wanted something from her like money she'd saved or a favor she owed him.

She frowned deeply as she stared at the hard wood of the table her hands clenched so tightly she could feel a thin river of blood coming from her fist.

A quick sharp call of her name brought her back. Marly looked up recognizing the voice as that of her Mother. She looked over to her to see a very glare being directly at her. "Marly, it's rude to daze out when people are speaking."

Marly looked down her eyes narrowed slightly moved set in a thin line. "Forgive me Mother but the conversation wasn't directed at me so I felt so no need to listen-"

"You spoiled child! Just because you weren't part of it does not mean-" "Mrs. Kelley it's alright really. I'm sure she's just tired from being cooped up here all day." Kyle sent her a sympathic smile. Marly gave him a grateful one back but her Mother, who'd gotten angry enough to rise from her chair, caught the look.

She sat back down not saying a word as Marly went back to staring at the table leaving Kyle looking wistfully at her.

A few hours later everything was set. Marly was to marry Kyle at the end of the month. Which was only two weeks away. Marly followed her parents quietly home. They only leaved down the street from the Kelley's.

Marly's father walked in speaking happily to no one about wonderful it was that he'd managed to get both access to the land of the Kelley's and find himself a good heir. Marly just ignored him walking up the stairs to her room. She slammed the door to her room shut and walked to her bed sitting down. She ran hand through her hair sighing. She could hear the faint murmering of her parents about what was going to happen, the wedding, the movement of the equipment to the fields.

Suddenly she felt all of her hate and anger boil up inside her. Marly stood and quickly walked to her closet. She grabbed a bag grabbing whatever clothes she could get her hands on and shoved them in the bag. She ran over to her bed kneeling down pulling out a box she'd been saving some money in and threw that in the bag as well.

Marly pulled the bag onto her shoulders walking to her open window. "There is no way I'm going let the two of you continue to control my life…." She stepped out the window walking down the stair case that connected it the house.

Marly really didn't have a plan, she just wanted to get away from her family. Her horrible controlling evil greedy family. So, as she ran away, heading towards that giant valley in the distance, she really didn't care what happened now. So long as she never had to see her family again.