"But I love him!" Veronica yelled.
It made a loud sound as her mother's hand connected with her cheek.
"You don't know what love is," her mother hissed.
"I do. Me and Dean love each other," she cried.
"He's no good for you and now you've gotten yourself into this mess," her mother said.
"You can't keep us apart," she said.
"Watch me. He's already gone. Sent to military school," her mother said.
"How did you manage to do that?" She asked.
"His father is always in need of money," her mother answered and smiled.
"So you paid him to send his own son away?" She yelled.
Her father entered her room. He looked really mad.
"Everything is fixed. Randy and his family has agreed," he said.
"Agreed to what?" She asked scared.
"Next week you'll marry Randy," he answered.
"The hell I won't!" She yelled.
"You listen to me, little missy. You'll marry that boy. He comes from a great family and he'll take care of that bastard baby as if it was his own," her father growled.
She put her hands on her stomach.
"But it's not his," she said.
"Don't ever mention that again. From now on it's Randy's," he said.
"But I don't love him! I will never love him!" She yelled.
"It doesn't matter what you want," her father said before turning around and walking out of her room again.
"Mom, please," she tried.
Her mother walked over to her, grabbed her face between her hands and looked her straight in the eyes.
"You'll marry Randy and you'll learn to love him. You see, this will be good for you in the end," her mother said.
"But I love Dean," she cried.
"In a couple of months he'll only be a distant memory that you'll laugh about. Randy is a good boy," her mother said.
"And by good boy you mean he comes from money just like I do," she said.
"Yes. This marriage is the best thing that can happen to both of our families," her mother said.
"And it doesn't matter what I want. All that matters is what you want, that dad gets a new ally in his business, right?" She spat.
"Everything will work out just fine," was all her mother said, then she walked out of the room as well.