Disclimer: I own not one single part of The Vampire Diaries.
SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING SOONER! My laptop broke and I had to send it away to get fixed and I started school again(senior year! whoop whoop!) Again I apologize for the delay, hope you enjoy this chapter.
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(Esmeralda's POV)
"I am here to DEMAND that Elijah MARRY Esmeralda." Said my father. When I heard this, I gasped out of surprise, marry Elijah, I thought, to be his wife, I got up and ran to Elijah my eyes bright with happiness, "Elijah" I managed to say as I grabbed his arms, he looked so happy, his eyes shining and his lips pulled up into a smile. "It would be great honors to have Esmeralda join our family, Aarón," said Mikeal, "Papa" I said, "estas hablando en serio, am I really to marry Elijah?" I asked him with eagerness "Si, Esmeralda" he told me "gracias, papa, muchas gracias," I said to him as I hugged him. He did not return the hug and instead pulled me away from him and said, "No, Esmeralda, do not thank me, I am not doing this to make you happy, I am doing this so you will not be branded a whore." My father told me, with a cold look in his eyes. I stared at my father with tears brimming my eyes, I never thought my father would address me in such a way in public, my mother stood from her seat and said, "Aarón, how dare you speak to our daughter in such a way?" "I speak to her, in this way, Analia, because that is what she is, a whore, who allows herself to be fondled by the first boy that talks sweetly to her." I was crying by the time my father finished, never in his life had he talked to me in such a way, I ran out the door, I saw Elijah starting to follow but I heard Mikeal say, "No Elijah, you will not follow her," "but father," said Elijah "No boy, you will stay here at that is that." I ran towards all the way back home, I got my room and locked myself inside. My father hates me, I thought, he thinks me a whore, my own father, the person who is supposed to love me regardless of anything. I stayed in my room, crying, when suddenly I heard the voices of my parents walking into our home. "Esmeralda." I heard my mother call out to me, I cleared my throat and said, "Estoy en mi cuarto mama" seconds later, my mother was in my room. "Esmeralda" my mama said, "mija,do not cry, your father will come around, he is just angry right now, give him time to get over it, now dry your tears, I have news about your engagement." At the sound of those words, I instantly got happy and said to her, "What is the news mama, please tell me" "We will have a dinner in 2 weeks time, in which the rest of the village would be invited, during that dinner, Mikeal and your father will announce your engagement to Elijah. You will wed 2 months and 2 weeks after your 16th birthday, do you understand?" A year, I thought to myself, when my mother told me this, I am going to have to wait a year to marry the love of my life. "Me parece perfecto mama" I said "Bueno Esmeralda, then we must begin to prepare everything, we have to make the gown you will wear the night of your engagement, Dios mio espero que 2 semans sean suficientes," said my mother "How do you want the dress you will wear to the dinner to be Esmeralda" she asked, "Something simple yet beautiful" I replied "A red and gold color, perhaps? "Of course mija, and that color will suit you lovely." My mother said, smiling to me, "Esmeralda, you have no idea how much you mean to me, you are the only daughter I have, it hurts me so to think that I will lose you." "Mama, you will not lose me, I will always be with you no matter what, I am sure Elijah will not mind you going to our home or me coming here to visit you." I said. "Yes, I am sure he will not, Elijah is a wonderful boy, Esmeralda there is something I must ask you, and I beg you to please answer me with the truth." My mother said, suddenly growing nervous. I looked her in the eyes and said, "Tell me mama, whatever it is, I swear I will answer with nothing but the truth." My mother looked at me nervously and asked me "Esmerlda, have you and Elijah done anything else together?" I looked at her, confused, "What do you mean mother?"I asked, "What I am asking you Evangelina is if you and Elijah have been together, intimately." I felt my face burn bright red as I realized what she had just asked me, "No mama I said, me and Elijah have never been together in that way, today was the first time we even shared a kiss." I replied. She looked at me with relief in her eyes. "I am so glad to hear that Evangelina" said my mother while caressing my face. "Bueno, ya es tarde, goodnight Esmeralda, I hope you sleep well" said my mother as she got up to leave. "Buenas noches mama" I replied back. She left my room and I got up to change into my white sleeping chemise that my father hated because it only reached just above my knees and had no sleeves but thick straps. As I blew my candles out and crawled into my bed I thought of the kiss I shared with Elijah. It was so passionate and loving at the same time, I did not want to stop it, I had made a bold move when I took his shirt off and wrapped my legs around his waist, but I was just so full of desire for him. I remember how his muscled chest felt beneath my hands and how he pushed my body closer to his, I know that if my father would not have gotten there at the moment he did, I am certain that something would have happened between me and Elijah. I knew I loved him with every part of my body and soul that I would do anything for him no matter what it was. I do not know when my feelings of friendship turned into romantic feelings, it just happened, but I knew that it was real love, not just a childhood thing that would erase. This was real, it was pure and it would last forever.