***6months earlier***
[ Melissa pov]
"Pa!" A slap so loud echoed through the deadly quiet village.
Its impact made me lose my balance but Joshua my 'twin' brother held me, breaking the fall.
"Papa! why on earth would you slap her?" Mama said, her voice laced with anger but papa didn't care, he just gave me a disappointed look.
I held my burning cheek which was probably red because my skin was on a lighter side just like his.
A tear threatened to fall but I pushed it back. I wasn't a weak little girl, only the weak cried
"Alyssa, Start preparing for the ritual. Dan come with me, we are going to talk to the chief about her marriage before she disgraces us any further." Papa said without any remorse.
"What?" I let out a whisper not believing what I just heard.
Marriage? I was only fifteen, haven't even had my first period yet! How can papa think of marrying me off??
"What?! I'm doing no such thing, Papa! she is my child, I raised her and I won't allow you to marry her off!" Mama defiantly stated.
"She came out of my loins Alyssa, you only did me a favour of raising her, now do me another favour of teaching her everything she needs to know about marriage! I've already made a decision and I'm not changing my mind.
Dan let's go!" With that papa and uncle Dan left while mama chased after them begging him to not marry me off."You okay?" Joshua asked and I nodded my head dusting my clothes.
" I won't allow papa to crush my dreams by marrying me off. Come on teach me more words." I said to him siting on the mat.
I picked up my books and continued learning more English words.
You must be wondering who I am and why I am suddenly getting married. Well, let me introduce myself..
My name is Melissa Lou from a small remote village that's located below the Victoria falls.
I am considered as the eleventh child who killed her mom. Reason being is that she died while giving birth to me and my eldest sister Alyssa who I call mama is the one who breastfed me and treated me like her own child.
At the time when I was born, she had also given birth to her second child Joshua and raised us like twins.
Anyway coming to the reason why I'm suddenly being forced to get married, well the thing is that everyone in this village hated me, reason?
Because I was considered to be the most beautiful girl in the village and for this reason, I was every man's dream and every girls nightmare.
Every man wanted me and every girl was jealous of the fact that I was getting all the male attention which I didn't want at all.
So to get rid of me, one of the villagers lied to papa and told him that I was caught red handed with a boy doing the deed which was all false because I'd never been touched before not even a simple kiss on the cheek much less the lips.
When Papa heard this, he became very angry and wanted to get rid of me by marrying me off because if it so happened that the rumour became true about my v card being taken, I would be considered not worth paying for which would be a loss for him.
Greedy old man who sells his daughters!"I won't let papa get you married off okay?" I heard mama's voice, I turned my head and she was standing there furiously pacing around.
She came close to me and cupped my face in her hands, "just like I helped your sisters leave this village and escape papa's greedy hands, I will also help you escape." She assured and I nodded my head smiling warmly at her.I wasn't the first person to go through this but my other sisters also did and lucky for them, mama was able to help them escape the village.
" I promise you--" mama's sentence was cut off when five women came out of nowhere and one of them grabbed my arm in a death grip.
"What are you doing? let go of her now!" Mama demanded but the woman just smirked,
"We have orders from the chief, she is going to be his new bride." My face contorted into one of disgust when I imagined myself being the old man's wife like eww that's so gross! Yuck!
I felt like puking all the breakfast I ate a few minutes ago."What?! You can't marry my child off to that old man, like come on he is five times her age!!" Mama threw her hands in the air in exasperation voicing out what I couldn't.
Papa wasn't being serious now, was he?! If he had chosen the chief's son then it would have made sense but the chief?! The man wass seventy-five for goodness sake!
He couldn't even walk properly and his eyesight was very poor, they didn't expect me to take care of him now did they?!
Dang it! that's so gross! I would prefer marrying a man my age thank you very much!
"There is no way I'm marrying that old man, I don't want to take care of him! I can't even take care of myself!" I defiantly stated but it's like they were all deaf.
"Alyssa," we all turned our heads towards the source of the voice and saw papa standing there with joy written all over his face, "I have arranged for her to marry the chief in three days. He has agreed to pay five female cows and ten bulls for her dowery. now hurry and prepare a feast we are going to celebrate!" He happily said and my stomach turned feeling like I was going to have explosive diarrhoea.
My father sold me off to an old man for fifteen cows! Could my life get any worse?!
"Papa you can't be serious right now! she is just a fifteen-year-old girl with a mind of a twelve-year-old child, she doesn't even know how to cook, clean or even do laundry and on top of it she is so lazy that she can't even carry a small bucket of water, how do you expect her to take care of that old man who can't even stand on his own two feet?!" mama questioned with anger. She was really bold talking back at her father like that.
"You don't have to worry," Papa brushed her off with a wave of his hand, "the only thing the chief wants is a handsome son which I'm positive she will provide judging by the fact that she's got a pretty face. So hurry now and prepare the feast I'm going to announce this to the villagers."
With that, papa left again and mama turned to face me.
She opened and closed her mouth like a fish out of water, speechless!
"Come on kid, let us ruin your innocence." the woman who was holding my arm said and they dragged me into my hut to teach me things I was too young to know.
I was laying on the simple makeshift bed with my eyes fixed on the thatched roof above me.The five women were also in my hut, keeping an eye on me so that I wouldn't escape and to top it all off there was a guard just outside the door also keeping watch.It was almost dawn and today was the day I was officially going to get married off for fifteen cows!I was thinking about the various ways I could get out of this but the only way was to either die or fake having a stomach ache and stay in the toilet the rest of the day.The first option was a big fat no because I loved myself too much to even think about death and second, I'm a terrible actress everyone would know I'm faking it.The only option I had was to wait a bit then run for my life or when the old man tries to touch me, I could just push him away and run out of the hut screaming in horror.That will make him feel embarrassed and deem me as a little child who doesn't understand a thi
" Melissa is actually two months pregnant and the reason why she fled from the village was because this lady wanted to see her and take her away." Joshua dropped the bombThe entire crowd gasped and so did I!Since when did I become pregnant?I looked at uncle Dan and he gave me death glares but me being the innocent little girl I was, went and hid behind the girl Anna who seemed to be my way out of this marriage." Melissa! I swear I'm going to---"" don't even think about killing her uncle Dan," Joshua interrupted, "This woman is from a rich family in America and her brother is the one who got Melissa pregnant. He loves Melissa a lot and if he finds out that you killed her and his baby, he will put you in jail for the rest of your life!"Hearing this, everyone else who had come to drag me back to the wedding took a step back from me including uncle Dan."Is it true, are you really pregnant?" He asked and I nodded my head shyly hiding be
***Six months later***It's been six months since I met the mermaid I mean Anna whose real name is Kaira and so far life has been pretty great even though I still don't know what happened to her and how she ended up drowning in the river. Everyone already found out I wasn't pregnant and luckily I didn't get married off because the chief died a day after our supposed marriage. If I didn't run away and meet kaira then I'm pretty sure I would have been called a black widow because my mom died the first day I came into the world and my husband would have died the second day of our marriage. Anyway five months ago me and Kaira left the village and was now living in the city.It has been so much fun except for the fact that I have to work for everything!A few months back Kaira a
"Please don't kill me," I said in tears, thrashing around trying to free myself from her grasp. I wanted to scream again but she placed her warm hand on my mouth silencing me. "Keep quiet!" she ordered and I nodded fearing the worst. Kaira was a ghost? But how? How is it possible that I've been living and sleeping next to a Ghost for the last six months, but how can a ghost also have babies? "I'm going to take my hand off and you better not scream got it?" She ordered again and I quickly nodded. She removed her hand from my mouth held my hand and led me to were her dress was laying including the stuff we bought. "Don't run." She ordered again letting go of my hand.She picked up the dress, dusted it a little then wore it.
"So mama, I was thinking," kaira voiced out her thoughts once we were done with dinner. "Yeah?" mama asked "Well I wanted to ask if you can let Mel come with me." Mama stopped what she was doing and looked at Kaira, so did my other sisters. "I promise she will be safe mama. You all have been very kind to me for the last six months and I just want to say thank you by helping Melissa get the future she has always desired." Kaira explained. "I don't think that's a good idea kaira." mama responded. "You don't have to worry about anything, I will take care of her just like I would take care of my own kids. I just want to help her that's all." she said again. "I need to think about it first plus we haven't even met any of your family members and we still don't know you very well and how you
[ Third person point of view ] "Wow!" Was the first word that Melissa spoke once the plane landed in Carlifornia. The airport was way cooler and prettier than the one back in her home country and everything here looked so beautiful. "It's beautiful, isn't it?" Kaira asked equally happy that she was back but her joy was mixed with dread. She had no idea what happened after the war and whether her family was okay or not. She had once tried to contact them through their social media accounts but neither of them responded which made her stomach turn inside out but now that she was here, she would know what happened and whether they were okay or not. "I've never seen a place this clean and beautiful before." Melissa said in awe as both girls with the ba
Hours passed by until finally he received a mindlink that Kaira was at the southern border. It was now time for the war to officially begin. "Shift into your phoenix and create a distraction that will lure all the rogues to you, giving the pack members who can't fight a chance to go into hiding." Dean told Kaira and she did just that. She shifted into her phoenix and flew above the pack making sure she was seeing by everyone who was still awake. Davis let out a loud howl communicating the message to his fellow warriors who also responded with their own howls shifting into their wolves. They attacked and killed each and every rogue that was near them and Kaira did the same by shooting fire balls at the rogues. Monica had also heard the howl and she did as told.
It was the biggest fight of all time. The rogues kept on pouring out in large numbers and everyone was getting tired with each passing second but they didn't stop fighting for their home. They were all determined to fight and take back what was rightfully theirs. Seeing that the battle would be lost if he didn't do something, Kaden scanned around until he finally saw the person he was looking for, Derek who was busy dodging the fireballs that phoenix Kaira was throwing at him. He momentarily got distracted by Kaira's beauty and a bite on his back leg brought him back to reality. He kicked the rogue off of him, but three more came charging at him at the same time. Luckily he was trained for this. He bite one on the neck killing him off instantly while the other two sank their claws and teeth in his back. He howled in pain and tried to throw the Wolves off of him but that only made them bite him harder. Luckily, Dean