Pain
1533 Words
"Phelicity Adams, listen and listen well, there is no room for you in this house. After you and your mother robbed everything of my daughter and, I let me warn you, I won't give you a single reason to stay here and enjoy a peaceful life", Beatrice said with a hint of hate and regret in her eyes.
"You have had everything since young. How about me? I had nothing.
You schooled in the most famous schools. How about me? I didn't know the good sister that you are. Could you please allow me these things?" Michelle asked.
"Or do you want us to help you get the hell out of here?" Beatrice asked.
"Well, mother, it seems we have got work here. We will have to help her get out of here", Michelle said.
After sometime, the phelicity still couldn't understand what these two were talking about,
She has been nothing but polite to those people. What has she ever done?
"Mother, sister, what are you talking about? Have I done something wrong?"
"Yes phelicity, you have done everything wrong.
Why must it always be you? Why does dad dote on you more than me?
How long has it been ever since your mother's death? 9 years, but your dad, my father, never treated my mother as a woman.
All he can do is to hang your mother's pictures everywhere. Tell me, is it fair? " Michelle has been brainwashed by her mother completely.
"Elley, I have been nothing but a good sister to you, and have always washed your clothes with my bare hands whenever told to by mother,
In this house, I have always prepared your meals for you. I am more of a maid in my father's house when dad is not around. Have I ever complained about these things?
When your mother forced me to drop out of school, I did it gladly. I was just a 12-year-old girl back then,
Does dad know about this? You say I'm his precious daughter, okay, does he know that I am your maid? Does he know that I am a grade 7 dropout? " Phelicity couldn't help but ask.
Hasn't she given everything to them? Do they really know what she really looks like? Do they know her appearance?
She puts on a mask every day just for them to be satisfied and yet it's not enough for them. What else?
"Aaah..! Phee, do you think that we wronged you? Take a closer look and look around you, things have changed", Beatrice said.
"Your dad no longer comes home, because he doesn't want to see you, you don't resemble your mother and you don't resemble him.
Do you think that all this your dad didn't know? He knew everything. You are not our Adams blood,
And here are the DNA test results. You can have a look, you are not our blood. So wake up,
The reason why we brought this up is for you to realize that it's your time to move out and take care of yourself " Michelle said.
"But why now?" Phee's weak voice asked.
"Because we are tired of feeding a dog in our house " Michelle said.
"Your mother didn't tell you who your father was but I will tell you, your father, maybe, was a r****t, a thug or anything that can't be said or to be proud of something, and now I want you out of this house " Mrs Beatrice said.
"Okay, I will pack my things" her voice was weak and trembling.
Things had come to this point. What can she do? She can only leave the house, at least to gain her freedom.
But now one thing she is sure of, the man she has always called father and has always pretended to love her as a daughter was not her father.
And she also made a decision not to look for her real father and to focus on the things she had always longed for.
She had been studying online at one of the best universities in the imperial city and, therefore, she had to see what her university looked like. She was now a third year student. Thanks to her step - mother, she dropped out of school,
But she could still sneak to the nearest cyber internet to do her studies online.
She was well known on the internet and she always had her seat well reserved for her, and her specific desktop.
"Phee am an old woman and I can see you have dropped out of school. I won't ask why, but if you are serious about your studies, this desktop is all yours and this silent corner is also yours" old madam Lucy said.
All these years, she has achieved many things and, with different identities, she has met potential masters all over the world, but she was too scared to meet people.
But now she has found reasons to be herself and never to hide in the shell.
"Phelicity, I hope you are not taking anything from our family with you?" Beatrice asked.
"Don't worry, I won't and I hope you are not hiding anything that belongs to me" she asked.
"What can we take from you? Phelicity stop wasting time though it's late at night we only wish for my father to came back home today and nothing else therefore excuse us" Michelle said.
"Well, thank you for telling my deepest secret and for helping me with a place to stay all this time. I mean no one can do that to anybody,
And tell dad that I appreciate his love for me even if he pretends not to love me, tell him that I appreciate it, thanks for food.
As for education? I wanna say thank you because you have helped me understand that I could owed you people a lot, but since school is out of the picture, I owe you people nothing.
With the help of the lawyers from the Adams, they will help me and you to sign this document that we owe each nothing and when we meet in the future we won't call each other sister, mother or father and you too will not mention how you took care of me", phelicity said.
And immediately, the door was pushed open and three lawyers were standing right there.
"Hello, miss phelicity you called?" One of the judges asked.
"Yes, I want you to witness this today, since they are not my family and am just a grade seven dropout, I owe them nothing.
I want you to witness them signing this confidential agreement that states I owe them nothing and in the future we will be strangers and if any of them call me intimately like their family member
This person will have to pay a fine of one billion dollars" phelicity said as she read the paper loud and clear.
"What do you mean, Miss Phelicity, by saying that you are a grade seven dropout? Aren't you studying with your sister at the same university?" One of the lawyers asked.
"Exactly aren't you studying with your sister? And your father, CEO Adams, said that your university allowance is much higher than your sister Michelle", another lawyer said.
"Hahaaa, look at me. Do I look like someone literate? My step-mother, my sister and my father forced me out of school 9 years ago,
And since I have realized I am not an Adam, I want us to draw a line peacefully " she said.
"We didn't know about that. We are sorry. "
"In that case, your mother left you something, she knew a day like this would come, and when you called we decided to give it back to you.
This jade pendent she left for you, and those are the words written on it", the lawyer said.
Adams signed the agreement of not wanting to do anything with her. phelicity and the documents were sent to her and the rest were taken to court.
"At long last I am free," she said thoughtfully.
She walked out of the Adams residence step by step, she was leaving the compound,
This is a place she has called home for 18 years, this is a place where she had the perfect picture of a family and this is the same place that her world crashed into.
This is a place where she lived like a slave and, as a servant, all the love they showed her were all fake, this is a fact that is hard to believe, but it's reality.
She walked to the cyber internet. She knew it was very late at night, but she had to come here and pass her night and travel to the Imperial City tomorrow morning.
The old lady had gone home, so she couldn't bother waking her up or troubling her.
At the Adams residence***
"Where is phelicity I haven't seen her around" Mr Adams asked.
"Dad, we threw her out as you wished", Michelle said.
"And she won't be a problem for us anymore," Beatrice said.
"Okay, I just hope she won't cause us problems in the future."
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