40 The Original Elena's Memories
That day was not the same as usual. It was my 22nd birthday. I didn't know why did I feel so happy like it was the best day I ever had. My whole family came to celebrate my birthday party.
Our relationship is not harmonious. My parents are always busy. That day, we sat down as a family for the first time in my life. I was overflowing with happiness that I couldn't describe.
It was a happy event, yet, the atmosphere was far from the meaning of happiness. It was a birthday party, yet no one was happy except my twin brothers.
Their face was full of impatient, and the happy atmosphere was nowhere to found. I couldn't contain my smiley face. I wanted to cry instead.
It was a graveyard instead. It was so stiff like all of my limbs turned cold. If I knew this would happen, I didn't hope much.
They acted like it was a business. We were closed, but it was so distant. This family suffocated me.
They gave me a gift like it was nothing. It was just a business trip no more or less.
There was a cracking sound within my heart. My face distorted, but I hold my tears.
My twin brothers couldn't keep their compose atmosphere. My parents got married without love within their hearts.
It was a curse in our family for a long generation. I didn't know what happened at that time. No one got their happiness in my father's bloodline.
I knew it from my great grand mother's diary. It started in ancient times.
A story about a man and a woman who fell in love, the couple didn't have enough money. Wealth was not everything for the pure girl.
But she never knew that her husband had a first love that he couldn't forget all of his life. That girl was a noble girl that had money and status.
Her parents opposed their relationship. It was the reason why she left him.
He was also powerless at that time. When his heart hurt, he met his nominal wife.
There was nothing that happened after they got married for two years.
His wife never knew this fact. Then she continued her happy life. She never knew that there was a storm after the calm.
Her husband's first love came between them. She lost her parents in the plane crash. She never forgot her first love with him at all.
Her husband finally realized this. Then they continued their old love. She never knew her husband's affair at all for two whole years.
He didn't want to let go of one of them. His girlfriend was not smart and an overbearing noble girl that never worked hard.
One day her company collapsed, then she was not a noble anymore. It was the problem raised in their triangle relationship.
His wife knew him cheating on her. She died in a grievance. Then their baby was gone too. She was pregnant for two months at that time.
He was sad to lose his wife as the world collapsed. His girlfriend was pregnant too. She loved him heartedly, but she was unwilling to have no money.
She was a princess in the palm of her parents, so having no money was a crime. She ruthlessly left him with their baby.
He kept alive but not happy. He realized that he loved his wife more than his first love.
After his son turned adult, he taught him that love was not everything in this world.
He became rich. Then his son turned cold. His son realized that he couldn't trust a woman at all.
After that, all of my family had political marriage without love. Marriage is not that important. But having an heir is necessary.
That was the reason that family just a business to have baby no more or less, including my parents.
Family is just for formality. Marriage was like a business. Even though I lived in this kind of family, I tried hard to change it. Of course, my work hard was futile.
My parents hated me. They didn't care at all. They thought gifts were enough to give me happiness.
What I needed was their time, not their money. What was the meaning of money? Could it give me happiness? The answer was not.
Without my concern, they talked about something I always feared about it. It was a political marriage.
They should say happy birthday to me, but they replaced it with something that I didn't want to hear.
"We already prepare your marriage agreement."
My father spoke in an indifferent tone that broke this silence room. He was not in a hurry, then turned his gaze at me coldly.
My father didn't continue his speech. My mother said: "He is a nice guy and has a bright future."
They talked like it was a business matter, and it was not a business at all. It was my marriage matter.
It was not a request but an order from my parents. It meant they forced me to marry. My opinion didn't matter at all.
I already knew their character was like this, but Reo didn't seem to accept this.
"What do you mean? My words are clear that Elena's marriage settled."
"I object."
Reo glance was cold at father.
"I don't care about your opinion, a son who doesn't have ambition is worthless."
My father valued his son's skill more than anything. A daughter is not important in his eyes. So, choosing my husband was just like choosing a new project for him.
He didn't love any of us. Even my mother didn't get his love. I tried hard to hold Reo's hand as hard as I could when He wanted to talk more.
My parents never knew that my twin brothers were capable more than my two older brothers. Reo wanted to refute, my father's words, but after thinking a moment, he chose to close his big mouth.
