~Destined Love – Chapter 1: Marriage?~
Amu's POV
"What?" I blurted out in disbelief at the dinner table with mama and papa and Ami, my younger sister who is now fifteen years old. I couldn't believe mama and papa had just said. Literally. "Wh-What do you mean there's someone I'm already going to get married with? You both arranged a marriage for me without even asking me?"
"Amu-chan," mama spoke calmly, "You're old enough now to get married and you should get a husband as quickly as possible."
"But I'm only twenty-one right now! What is there to hurry about? I'm still in college and haven't even got to get my own place to live in yet!"
"That's because you need support from someone, Amu. And I figured, maybe you should get married, it could help you. I'm just worried for you, Amu," mama argued back.
I refused to back down, "But at least let me marry someone I know or actually like!"
"But you've never even dated one boy before! That's why I'm worried for you!"
"That's because...!" I was completely speechless now. Mama was right, but that was because there was no one that I ever found the least bit of interest in. Well, maybe I would think some boys actually were cute from time to time, but that was totally different from what she thought was love. There simply was no one that was perfect with me at this time, and the person that mama and papa had already chosen for me to marry definitely would be disappointing to me anyways.
I just noticed papa had stayed quiet through the whole argument between me and mama.I turned to papa with a pleading look. "Papa..."
"Amu,... mama's right. I have trust in this man that you're going to marry will take good care of you," he replied but his eyes shown that maybe he was unsure. My heart dropped even more. How could he say that? I had always thought that papa would always want me to stay with them as long as I could. It felt as if they didn't want my company anymore. But I am not a child anymore either.
I couldn't take any of this anymore. I stood up from the table, not looking at any of my parents, not even Ami who looked at me sympathetically, not able to do anything about it. "Well, thanks for the food," I muttered before running up the stairs to my room, slamming the door behind me and flopping myself on the bed, feeling more miserable than ever.
How could they do this to me? Don't they know that arranged marriages is something people never do anymore nowadays? I did know that one way to get out of this would be to run away somewhere far or threaten to kill myself. I shivered at the thought of committing suicide. No, I could never muster up enough courage to do that. And if I ran away, where would I go? What would I do? I still need to graduate from college. There was no way I could survive on my own. I couldn't even cook anything good for anyone or myself, for that matter, to eat.
I rolled onto my back and hugged a pillow close to my to chest. 'Even marrying Ikuto is better than this someone I don't even know,' I admitted grudgingly to myself, remembering about the navy blue-haired boy that kept flirting with me whenever I would walk back home from school way back when I was still a fifth grader. He still did that now, just to annoy me and kept telling everyone else that she was his girlfriend.
I got even more frustrated thinking about that stupid, annoying cat. Whenever I see him, he always reminded me of a sneaky, sly cat. How did I even got to thinking about him anyways? He was definitely not my type and always pissed me off. Maybe it would be okay to marry this unknown person... as long as it isn't a real marriage. Suddenly, an idea started brewing in my mind and I started smiling to ,myself as I thought of something brilliant.
~Destined Love – Chapter 1: Marriage?~End~
