"Why is it that I no longer get greeted by you? Am I suddenly insignificant or is it you who has grown wings all of a sudden. " Amelia started talking before even locating my face.
"What brings you here mother? It has been a while. " I said and feigned a smile at her. I was just trying to be friendly but by Amelia's expression tells me my gesture is not appreciated, I guess.
"You seem to have gotten a mouth now, talking back to me! " Said Amelia, her eyes wide with her disdain for me.
"I am merely trying to entertain my mother, what is it about my tone that makes you upset mother? " I asked giving her a pitiful expression.
"Who are you calling your mother? " Amelia said and grabbed my hand aggressively, her grip is strong it hurts like hell. " I am not your mother! You are not worthy of being called my daughter. " She said while her grip remained tight just as before.
"Well it's not like I am dying to be called your daughter. I would rather call a bitch my mother! " I said in a tone only she could hear and this was her breaking point.
Her face turned visibly red and she then pushed my hand making me stumble back on my steps.
"What rather? Your mother is a bitch! A bitch who left her daughter alone , left coz she wanted freedom. You don't have to assume. "
Amelia's words were like a knife through my skull, her words tore something deep inside me and I don't know why? The woman she is talking about is not my mother.
The child she left wasn't me, but still something inside me was telling me to react to her words. Make her shut her disgusting words about my mother.
My mother? Why am I feeling like she is my mother? She is not! I.. I am not the real Isla! I am not even from this world,I just want to live my life here without any attachment.
I don't know why but it was as if I was drowning in emotions I can't even fathom. Why am I here? Why do I want to pull out the tongue that says anything bad about the woman who isn't even my mother.
She left Isla when she was just a little child, yet I don't know why I feel so attached to her. I looked at my hands and they were shaking. My gaze fell around me, Amelia was smiling, may be at my condition.
She then came towards me and grabbed my chin making me wince "What happened now? Your tongue got tangled?" She said, and was looking at me with nothing but ridicule.
I then grabbed her hand which was on my chin and yanked it making her eyes widen. "It would be better for you if you keep your filthy hands to yourself! " I said and just left from there not looking behind.
Was I running away? Running away from her? No, I was trying to run away from myself. The self which was feeling things I don't know about.
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"My lady, here I brought these pastries for you. Please have them, you will feel better. " Sasha said and I nodded and she smiled.
"Sasha, can I ask you a question? " I said and Sasha nodded. I then grabbed her hand and made her sit on the chair opposite to me.
" What do you think about my mom? How was she? Please tell me everything you know about her. " I asked the question which I wanted to ask her from the moment I came to know about my mom, but I was always dismissive about it thinking she isn't my real mom so why bother.
But now the way I am feeling, I can no longer be dismissive about it. It is as if she is my real mom and just I didn't know about it earlier. Why I have a feeling like this I don't know but now I won't run away from the things I want to know.
I will find about my mom and about why I am so attached to Isla's parents. It is as if I am really their daughter.
"My lady, you mother was like an angel! She was kind to everyone and the happiest soul one would ever see. "
"When Lord got married to your mother I was 10 years old and was brought here along with the many maids ment for serving your mother.
That is when I saw lady Isabelle for the first time. "
"Even though I was just her maid, just because I was the youngest among her maids she would always give me breaks for rest, she used to give me candies because I liked them. "
"For those two years when she was here, Lord was the happiest man on earth, and when lady Isabelle came to know about her pregnancy she and Lord we're thrilled, they threw a huge banquet and everyone was invited "
"Even lady Amelia was there with her husband, she was pregnant with Lord Edward so she became a good friend of lady Isabelle and would always come to talk to her and give her some tips."
"Just two months after the banquet one day lady Isabella started searching for some necklace of hers given to her by her father. She was really anxious about it getting lost, the whole mansion was searched but we never found it. "
"After that lady Isabelle started getting weak, she would get infected even if a little speck of dust came near her. Lord was really worried about her, many physicians we're called but nobody knew the reason. "
"When you were about to be born lady Isabelle became so weak that everyone was worried if she would survive during the delivery, Lord was so frightened that he fainted. But somehow lady Isabelle survived the delivery. "
" I remember after she fed you and you slept in her arms she called me and gave you to me and said, be with her always she is my precious daughter, her eyes we're filled with tears. "
"I nodded and then left with you to keep you in the nursing room, the next day when I woke up the mansion was on a turmoil, Lord was devastated and when I asked, I was told that lady Isabelle left Lord and you."