Carla lay on her bed, still feeling numb about the news that she had been given. She felt as though everyone in the world had known about her husband being a prince and she was the one left on her own in the corner so that they could whisper their secret around without her asking questions that they wished not to answer .
That was what had attracted Carla to Jason, not him being a prince, but his coolness and his confidence, and features that were indeed different to the boys in the area, with that perfect face and a smile that looked too beatific to be real.
Emma had noticed him first, his golden hair blowing as he ran kicking a ball around with a few other teenagers his own age, on the grass, in the park. Carla could remember all the gushed up comments Emma was saying, about how she’d do anything for him to ask her out. But before Carla had chance to say a word, the ball had come flying at her, almost knocking her off the swing. Carla was ready to shout at the boys who had laughed out loud at what they had done. However, when Jason came over with an apologetic look showing on his faultless face, Carla could not utter a word, only gaze fondly at the boy, who bent down to pick the ball up, after asking if she was okay.
After that, she always seemed to see him around, whether in the park, shops, or walking to Emma’s, he always seemed to be there. She did not mind, of course, as she found him charming, funny and very polite, something she had not seen in the boys from Westwood.
They began speaking more, walking together in the streets with their friends, with Emma still trying hard to get him to pay attention to her, but it was always Carla he was attracted to, always looking at her with awe and wanting to know more about her, w...
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...had happened.
Carla laughed sarcastically to herself thinking of this. All that time she was with Prince Josiah, and their child was someone very special who would have a future where she would be the ruler of a land.
And what of Carla? Where did she stand in all this? What would happen if Zantha died and Alison was given the royal title, what would happen to her? The mother who had bought this child into the world, and then have no choice but to let her child be snatched from her arms? Was she supposed to just give her daughter away as though she was nothing to her? Or should she fight for her daughter’s life, refusing them to take her away?
Carla cried. She was so confused. There was so much to take in, in such a small time. She needed to protect her daughter; she could not let her daughter be taken away from her —not until she knew the time was right, to do so.
'For all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled up in me and burst-the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and both at once, the fear unleashed by my father's tears.'
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