Rose (old version)

19. meeting in-laws

Rose POV

Rose come on don't be so nervous" Oscar said as I am still scared

"what if they don't like me? I mean look at me, there is no part of my body which has no scars present on it, I am not beautiful like others and most importantly I am frisking pregnant with a child that is not yours" I said looking out of the window as we go to his house

"I don't care if your body has scars, each scar has a story, a story that you survived through the pain of that scar instead of giving up, and that is my child" said Oscar squeezing my hand from the driver side and I gave him an honest smile and went back into looking outside

"Is there anything I should know before handed?" I ask Oscar 

"Oh, fuck how did I forget such thing? my mom may not be the most welcoming person in the world as she had a miscarriage after me and has not been open to me and father since then" he sighed

"She spends most of her time in the backyard and crying for no reason, we tried many physiatrists and many things but each time we tried she seems to have gone deeper in her shell" he finished with a single tears rolling down his eyes

"Is there any topic I should not mention in front of her?" I ask

"I don't know, just be careful, ok?" he said and I nod

After a few minutes of driving, we came to a stop at a big mansion

"Woah you are rich" I said

"I did not become the CEO of the largest company for nothing" he said with smug smile on his face

"Come on let's get this over with" I said with a nervous yet confident tone

Then as we were about to knock on the door the door opened revealing a man in his forties

"Glad you are back son, I was going to come and get you from office, get in we have something very important to disgust and who is this?" he asked referring to me with disgust in his tone

"Pa, meet my girlfriend Rose and Rose my dad" he said

"Nice to meet you Mr. Knight" I smiled politely but he looked t me with disgust and then looks at Oscar with disappointment in his eyes

I look down knowing that I was expecting too much

"I need to have a talk with you, son, right now" he says and goes inside without sparing me another glance

"don't worry he will come around" he says and lead me inside

"That piece of thing can wait in the living room while I have a talk with your son" he said and went into what I guess is his study

"Sorry about him I don't know why he is acting like that" he says looking sincere

"it's ok just go I will be in the garden it looks beautiful" I said and he left me giving me a kiss on forehead

"DAD WHAT THE HELL......" I hear him screaming at his dad but I quickly went out

As soon as I am out, I see the most beautiful garden I've ever seen

Then I see a woman sitting on a garden chair staring at a beautiful Rose plant

I recognise her as Oscar's mom

"Beautiful, isn't it?" I ask slowly no to scare her

She just looks at me then looks back at the plant again

"You know Oscar misses you, there was this time when he just came and hugged me tight, I asked him what was wrong and that resulted in him crying like there was no tomorrow" I sighed sitting at her feet on the ground as she looks at me blankly but her eyes held curiosity

"He said he missed you, he said it hurt him whenever he looks at you being so cold and yet he managed to say the one thing that broke me for him, the said he was guilty, guilty for letting you suffer when he was out having his way with life" I say laying my head on her lap

"I never had a mother growing up, sure I had a woman to call herself my mother but she was never my mother, she was a monster, a monster who abused her own blood, a monster who sold her own daughter just so she could have drugs" I say as I grip her leg tighter as I let tears fall making her dress wet

"she sold me not once but for my whole life to a very dangerous monster, and then I managed to escaped the monsters but only to find out that I have no time to enjoy my childhood as others, I had to take care of a four year old girl who was living with that women and her husband, I had to start working at the age of 10 so I could let my sister eat like a normal human" I said as I sobbed hard

I was startled when I felt her lift her hand and cease my head which was at her lap and then continued

"Then I got my little ball of sunshine, Noah, my baby brother, I taught having a kid might make my parents realise how kids were supposed to be brought up but I was proved wrong once again" I sobbed harder remembering the times of abuse I went through because of my mother and father

"Then my monsters found me again" I said referring to Oliver and his men "they took me back to hell making me leave everything behind just when I taught things were going to be ok"

"The monsters tormented me for a whole two years before they left me like some piece of trash, then I found out that the did not leave me, they left a part of them with me" I said as I stood up wiping my tears with the back of my hand and looking at her

She was looking at me with tearful eyes then I took he hand and placed it on my one-month stomach

"the left me with this little one inside me" I said and she gasped

"y-you were r-raped?" she stuttered letting tears fall from her eyes

"Every month, every week, every day, every hour" I replied and sobbed harder

"Oscar doesn't know that, all he knows was I was raped few times and not everyday" I sobbed

"I never had a mom growing up neither do I have any knowledge about how to raise this child, I don't want to kill an innocent life for all those memories of the monsters, I also don't want to destroy the life of an innocent one by bringing him in this world and not knowing what to do next" I sobbed harder

"Oh dear, I am so sorry" she said and hugged me tightly

Then I felt what I never felt in my life before, the warmth of a mother's hug

I just cried harder

"Oscar told me you had a miscarriage and I know it's bad of me to ask but can you help me raise my child like it is yours and you never had a miscarriage just your baby got into me, I am sorry if you don't want to..." "I would love to dear" she cut me off

"you went through all of it and yet are standing strong, reminding me of how awful It was to push my loved ones away when it was hardest time, you made me speak which I haven't done in years and by raising this child with you, I think I would not have anything else to regret" she said and hugged me

Then she sat on her chair and I took my place near her feet laying my head on her lap as she creased my hair I didn't even knew when I was asleep