Alicia Dreams

       

🎼Cloud rumbling, me going gaga🎼

🎼Me going crazy, for your love🎼

🎼Baby touch me as I touch you🎼

🎼Baby love me as I love you 🎼

🎼Cause I want you tonight 🎼

🎼 Fireworks in my stomach....

"Alicia! Alicia! Alicia!." Alicia stopped singing and playing her guitar, when she heard her father's voice. She stared at the door, wondering what the old man wants from her, this time around.

"How many times Alicia. How many times I've I warned you to stop playing this guitar and stop singing such nonsense songs in my house!." He bellowed, grabbing the guitar from her.

"I bought that guitar with my money, so you don't have the right to break this one." Alicia yelled standing up from her bed abruptly. Her chest heaved up and down, ad she returned her father stare.

"I am your father young lady, and so you talk to me with respect." Mr Williams raised his hands up to slap her, but Alicia held onto his hand without fear.

"I will treat you with respect, the very same day you start to treat me like your child and not some damn furniture." She spat out, her eyes holding nothing but hatred. Hatred for only her father. 

Her father chest heaved up and down, his eyes glaring holes at her but she refused to back down, she refused to bow to him. Her father, pastor Williams Roberts, amongst the biggest/richest pastors in New York. He is the worst father any child could ever wish for.

He tries to always control every of his family members life. Both his children and wife, are all under his command. But not every family is free from having a black sheep. Alicia Williams, fourth and last child, second daughter of the Williams family, is the black sheep of the family.

Alicia wants to be a musician, maybe if it was a christian musician, then her father might not have anything against her. Maybe if she was in the choir, and respect his every decision, then he would treat her the same way, he treats every of his other child. 

"You wouldn't be treated like a furniture, if you did everything I asked if you. You would be treated like a human, If you agree to drop this insane dream of yours, and do as I say!." 

To her father uttermost surprised, Alicia started laughing. With her hands on her stomach, she started laughing so hard. "You call how you treat my sister and brothers, human treatment. Are you kidding me. Just look at them, you control every single aspect of their life. You turn them into loyal dogs and me.. I will never treated like that. If you need sir Williams, I will be in victors house." Alicia takes her guitar forcefully from her dad, walked right past him and left her room.

Mr Williams glares at the empty room, turns around and leaves the room.

"Martha!! Martha!! Martha!!." Mr Williams growls. He's shoe stomping really hard on the ground. 

Martha who was in the kitchen, directing the maids on how to prepare lunch for her family, trembled on hearing her husband's voice. She sighed heavily, "Yes honey, I'm in the kitchen." She yelled.

"Come to the living room, we need to talk." Williams yelled back.

"I will be back guys, just follow the procedures I've already given to you." Martha said to the maids, they replied with a *yes ma'am.*

"You called for me darling." Mrs Martha said, walking into the living room.

"Who is the father of that child." Mr Williams asked his wife. 

Martha sighed staring at her husband. The question wasn't new to her, and she definitely know who the *child* he is referring to. "We have talked about this Williams. Alicia is your child, she is our child."

"Well.. she doesn't behave like one. My members are laughing at me, cause of her rebellious attitude. If she goes on with such character, I would have no other choice but to disown her." His nostrils flared in anger. 

"No, you can't do that. She still your daughter, no matter the choices she makes. You can't disown her." Mrs Martha cried out.

"I can do whatever I want with her Martha, and you better do not stand in my way or you will leave with her. I know you are still very aware of what life is, without money." He knew he had hit her weakness point, being without money was a weakness to her. And this is why her dear husband, has control over her bank account and every single money that goes in and out of it. He knew that she could decides to go against him any day, and money is the only way to keep her in line.

"Ofcourse my husband, I will not against you but support you in your decision." Mrs Martha said, giving in. She's not fit to be called a mother and she knows it. A mother is supposed to be able to stand for her children, but she can't. She wasn't able to stop her husband from getting her first daughter/first child, susan, married to a man she doesn't love. She wasn't able to stop her husband, from sending their first son, Austin, to a medical school. Eventhough the boy dream was to become an artist. Her son is so good at drawing, painting, making portrait, but the father thinks is just a waste of time. Her third child john who wants nothing to do with being a pastor, is now forced to follow in his father footsteps. 

This is Martha life, a helpless mother.

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"Hey Victor." Alicia, greets her friend, who is currently sitting on a couch, playing a video game.

"What's up Alicia and what is with the face. Fought with your dad?." Victor asked, though to Alicia's ear, it sounded more like a statement than a question.

"Yeah, what else do you expect. I can never go a day without fighting with that man. He will not just leave me alone and my dreams." Alicia replies her friend, plopping down on the couch next to him.

"What did you expect Alicia, your dad is a pastor and ofcourse, he would not like his daughter being a worldly musician." Victor said sighing, removing his eyes from the video game for only a brief moment.

Alicia rolls her eyes, "Is not called worldly musician Victor, is called secular musicians. Gosh." 

"Yeah, yeah, whatever is been called. Alicia, if you don't listen to your dad. He might end up, disowning you. What if he sends you out of the house." 

"I don't care, I don't care if he decides to send me away from his house. I will not bow down to that man's will." 

Victor drops his video game pad, with a sigh. He has always loved Alicia, and he has always hope that she would take the right step in life. Because he loves her, he has to always support her, even when he feels she's taking the wrong step in life.

"He is your father Alicia, and not that man." 

"Whatever. Do you have anything food in this house, I couldn't eat breakfast, because of my dad." Alicia asks already walking to the kitchen.

"Don't you even dare eat my food Alicia, don't touch my food." Victor yelled after her, getting up from the ground.

"Yeah, watch me walk into the kitchen and eat all the food you have." Alicia yelled back smugly.