Chapter 54
(Ammy's POV)
These four days had been the best and yet worse of my days.I know it's quite confusing, but I'll explain how.They were my best because I was always working out and running around and swimming so that I could loose some pounds for my wedding dress and I really loved it but they were my worse because I did all that alone most of the time.Milady was at work and I don't know where Maya was always off to and mother's company was just one that no one would want to have though it wasn't that bad.I loved it when she would tell me about Max's childhood but it became a nightmare when she began teaching me of how to leave with Max when we are married.Like seriously this is the 21st century.Who teaches a lady on how to live with her husband?..Who does that?I was really glad when it was my wedding eve.Some of closet relatives and friends to the Storm began filling the place.Beautiful and expensive men and women and cute kids were around though not many of them but there was no one I knew except for mother, dad, uncle Mark and aunt Cynthia, even after the introduction.I was walking from the final workout section I just had with my coach from the mansion's gym when one of the women called to me.
"Ammy...come here,"one of the 'aunts' called to me as I walked passed the lounge to my room.
"Yes aunt?"I responded as I walked towards her.
"What's this you are wearing?"she asked me when I got closer.She could see that I was on sports wear so why was she asking me that and that infront of everyone present in that room.
"What's that supposed to mean?...she is from working out so what's up with what she is wearing?"mum came to my rescue and asked her instead.
"Milla don't tell me you aren't seeing what your daughter in law is wearing...she is a visitor in this house not a daughter of the house so she should dress up well,"the woman spoke sizing me with her eyes.I gulped and held my breath so as to hold the tears that were already filling my eyes from falling off.
"Listen,Ammy is my daughter and you are the visitor here...and you have no right to talk to her in that manner,"mum Camilla responded to her, sounding irritated.
"Both of you can stop that!"I heard Mr Storm speak from where he was seated."Ammy, you can go your way now."he finally spoke what I was waiting from someone to say.I turned and walked away.So I was a visitor to these people, those words made my heart really heavy and painful.The hot tears I had been containing broke their boundaries and started washing my cheeks as I ran upstairs.I got to my room and walked to the bathroom though the tears were now blinding my vision.I prepared my bath sobbing uncontrollably.Just then, Milady and Maya walked into the room calling me.I couldn't even answer them but I guess they saw the bathroom's door open or they heard my loud sobs so they walked in.Milady grabbed a towel as she walked in side.
"Hey ...why is your bathroom door open?"she asked as they came closer to me.I remained quiet as they spoke trying to control my sobs as I wiped off my tears.It seems they saw that and they both squatted beside the tube looking at me with concerned eyes.
"Hey what happened?"Milady asked.
"N-nothing,"I responded with my shaky and breaky voice.
"How can nothing make anyone cry babes?...comeon, tell me what's wrong?"Milady persisted and that made me break down again.I shook uncontrollably as I tried not to sob loudly.Milady took me in her arms and hugged me tightly after covering me with the towel she had grabbed when walking inside.
"Calm down now...okay?"she continued coaxing me while caressing my hair affectionately.I really wanted to but I couldn't even get myself to stop my sobs let alone my tears so how could I calm down!I sobbed loudly and cried all my pain out and finally calmed down.
"We will wait for you in your bedroom..."Milady spoke calmly to me when I finally calmed down.I finished my bath when they walked out and I also got out of the bathroom.
"What do you think happened to her?"I heard Maya ask as I approached the bathroom door.I stood there to eavesdrop on their conversation.
"I don't know but am sure it was your mum,"Milady responded to her question.
"Won't be surprised if she was the reason why..."Maya responded arrogantly.
"Why do you hate her so much?...I mean she is your mother,"I heard Milady ask again.That also got my attention because I had always wondered why she did.
"I don't hate her Milady...I just dislike her character that's all,"Maya responded calmly.I grabbed the door handle and opened it.I walked passed them and I could feel them looking at me.I got to my closet and grabbed my nighties and wore them.I dried my hair and tied it into a ponytail.I walked back to the bedroom and joined the girls on the bed.
"We had plans for the night.A bridal eve party for us,"Maya began after a while of silence and looking at each other.
"I don't think am interested in that....I will just go to bed,"I murmured my response and got into the smooth bed covers.
"Why...it's your last night of being single.Lets do this,"Milady persisted.I didn't want to and why couldn't they just take that.
"I don't want to do it....I don't and you know what...it's all true.What they say is true.Am not one of you guys.Not even one of my family members are here, not even my friends am just stuck in the middle of people who hate me, despise me and treat me like a nobody....people who think that I am just visitor of which it's true but the fact that I am not and will never be a daughter of this family is the bitter truth I never wanted to hear it from anyone.And because I was raised by a poor single mum.So this being my last night for me to get away from all this and go to another person who would treat me in the same way is nothing to be celebrated,"I bursted out not able to hold back my tears and my anger.Both Milady and Maya just looked at me shocked by my outburst.I was as well shocked by my own outburst.
"Hey...hey...just calm down.Whoever said that your are a visitor here and that you will never be a daughter here are just trying to convince themselves because they can't accept the truth but the truth is you will soon be the wife to the owner of all this and you will be the first daughter of this family, so let their words not bother you,"Milady tried to easen the pain I was feeling but I don't think it was working.
"That's true Ammy.Let them make their poor selves feel better but what Milady said is the truth,"Maya joined.
"You will never understand any of this because you don't know anything about me or my situation,"I tried to get them off the hook but it seems I got them on the hook with my statement.
"Then make us understand,"Milady on got on my neck again.
"I can't...I can't tell you any my issues right now because if anyone else heard this then it will again be used against me,"I tried to explain but they wouldn't give up on persisting.
"You are telling us so no one else will know any of what you will tell us today,"Maya picked the persistence from where Milady had stopped.I exhaled sharply and parted my lips to tell them what happened.
"My sister, Andy hates me because she thinks I killed our mother,"I started looking down to my entwined fingers.
"You killed your mother?..."Maya asked , shock written all over her face.I nodded my head in agreement.
"No Maya...she said that her sister thinks that she did, not that she did,"Milady corrected her."So why does she think you did?"she asked me.I was quiet for a while and the whole thing played in my mind, the memory of that night was as fresh as if it just happened a night before.Tears welled up in my eyes and my heart ached like never before.
"It was on a summer night...we had just had dinner and my mum was sitted at the dinning table doing some stuffs and Andy and I were sitted outside,"I began,hot tears rolling down my cheeks.
"Then all over a sudden, she had an asthma attack and it was very intense and her inhaler was empty so I asked Andy look after her as I went to get the inhaler but I was knocked down on my ways back from the pharmacy and I never saw my sister again after that incident,"I finished my statement my whole face washed with tears.