Survivors

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

-V. K.

"What are you doing here?" I face my parents, forcing to sound the least bit hostile as possible. The director left us to talk in private but I wish he took my parents with him.

"I think we should be the ones asking you that." My mother's words are cold, as they always have been since the day the world turned to hell.

"I came to get away from the both of you. Why'd you come here? Are you trying to drag me away from here?" I wont go. I refuse.

"And what if we are?" My father turns towards me, his voice is calm but I know he's trying to keep his anger under control.

"I wont go back. I'm not going anywhere with either of you." I cross my arms over my chest and stand my ground.

"Do you think you actually have a choice? You will do as I say, I am the king and I am your father!" He's officially lost his temper now.

"Tu sei il re, o mio padre. Non puoi essere entrambi." You're either the king, or my father. You can't be both. Its the truth. He's always either one or the other.

"Не разговаривай с отцом!" Do not speak to your father that way!

Great. She's yelling in Russian. This should be good.

"You can't control me! I'm not a toy, I'm not some princess, I'm an actual person! I'm your daughter! And until you start treating me like it, I will keep running! I will always run until you finally realize that I'm not just somebody you can use for your benefit!"

"Oh here we go again! He was a great guy, your engaged and technically you still are! Yes, he may be used for his benefits and resources that we need but he likes you Val. You ran away from the only person who would want to have a life with you. I know you the marriage was an arrangement bu us but thats the world we live in now. That man can take care of you. If you had stayed, you would have realized that." Of course my mother would bring Michael into this. I didn't just run away from them, I ran away from him. He's short tempered and a horrible man. But he has very valuable resources that would benefit my parents and the rest of us and so my parents arranged a marriage. Binding me and him together, so he'd have to share the resources. Of course he was all for it, I on the other hand was not.

"He is not a good man! He was horrible! I'm not going to marry a man I hate! I didn't run away from just him, I ran away from the both of you!" I'm tired of the same fight with them everytime. It all just never ends. So I leave again, like I always do.

"Get back here, we are not done talking!" My mother screams after me but I slam the door behind.

Sighing, I turn but stop in my place. Carter crosses his arms over his chest. "You're engaged??"

"You were listening to my conversation?" I mock his stance, crossing my arms over my chest defensively.

"Kind of hard not to when you're all screaming so loudly. So you're engaged?"

"No.. Yes.. kind of. I don't know. Not really, I left him and them behind. Pretty sure that means the marriage is off."

His eyes are cold when he looks at me. "You lied to me, Valentina. Katrina. Whatever your name is."

"Its both.. Valentina Katrina DelliBovi. I didn't want to have to lie but I didn't want anyone knowing who I was and telling my parents. I didn't want them to find me.. You have to understand," I take a step toward him but he backs away. "Please.."

"Just leave me alone." He leaves and I'm left with nothing and no one now.

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