His Bride

Chapter 1

My alarm went off, disturbing my sleep waking me up from one of my dreams. I roll over and slam the snooze button on my alarm clock; I stare at the ceiling annoyed that I was awoken so early in the day. Then I quickly remember that it's Monday, I groan and roll over pulling my blankets over my head hoping to get a little more sleep before I absolutely have to get up. Right as I'm falling asleep, my door slams open and the light gets turned on.

"Come on Ashley time to wake up, there's school today" mom told me, I lift the blankets and looked at her and shook my head. I pull the blankets back over my head hoping that she'll go away, but as usual she walks over to my bed and rips the blankets away from my body and grabs my feet, pulling me off the bed. I don't know why I would expect a different reaction from my mom, this happens every morning during the week.

"Ashley Nancy Williams keep your butt out of your bed and get ready for school!" I groan instead of saying something back. Knowing that, I wasn't going to say anything else at the moment my mom walked out the door. A minute later I heard my mom yelling at my brother for not being dressed, she probably woke him up first.

I got up and threw my blankets back onto my bed and walked into my bathroom; I turned on my shower, undressed, and hopped in. After washing my body and hair I got out of the shower and dried off. When I was dressed I put my hair up in a towel, I went to the counter and picked up my toothbrush and toothpaste and started brushing my teeth.

I walked out of my bathroom and went to my vanity; I took my hair out of the towel and dried it with my blow drier. I started doing my makeup and hair while listening to songs on Pandora, When I finished I looked at my work. My makeup wasn't anything crazy I just made it look natural, just some eye shadow and lip-gloss. I try to stay away from foundation because I don't want my skin to break out and I've gotten pretty lucky so far in that department and done wanna jinx that.

My hair was done in a waterfall braid; I look at myself a bit more deciding whether or not I was ok with the result. My hair was a dirty blonde color, reaching just below my shoulders. My eyes are a dark green color almost like grass but not quite. I walked away from my vanity and grabbed my bag from the floor by my door and walked out of my room.

I walked downstairs and went into the kitchen, the kitchen had white tiled floors with dark grey granite counters. The cabinets where a dark colored wood and the stove along with the fridge where silver, there was in island counter in the middle of the kitchen with tall chairs on one side of it. My mom was cooking breakfast; she was humming while she was cooking, my mom had long blonde hair that reached the middle of her back. Today her hair was up in a ponytail, she wasn't very tall but she wasn't short either. Her eyes where a dark brown almost like chocolate, she wore glasses most of the time but only when she goes out on special occasions does she takes them off

Mom turned around and had a plate of eggs, bacon and hash browns setting them down on the counter, she smiled at me and turned back around to the stove. I sat down in front of the plate of food and started devouring the food, just as I was about done I hear my little brother Max come down the stairs. Max was 16 years old and was a sophomore in high school; he was born about 2 years after I was. That's right people I'm a senior yippee, most people would be excited that their almost done with school but not me. When I'm done with school my mom and dad revealed to me that I had an arranged marriage to someone I have never met.

All that I know about this future husband of mine is that his name was Akela, which was the only thing that she would tell me about him. My parents told me on my 16th birthday that I had an arrange marriage to him, if you ask me that's the worst birthday present ever. Naturally like any teenager would do, I threw a tantrum.

After 3 months of ignoring my parents I decided that instead of taking it out on them, which I had no problem with. I decided that I should take karate lessons, so that way I took it out on my opponents and not the parental unit. Even through it's completely their fault; I will not yell or say hateful things at my parents.

On the day of my 18th birthday I'm supposed to meet my future husband... my birthday is in 3 days. Well there goes my freedom before it even started.