Chapter 7: Chapter 7

"Isabella, let your sister have some rest. I will talk to her, okay. Get back to your room." Mom orders her as she makes her way in.

Isabella hits her feet on the ground to protest and whines out.

"Don't worry. I will speak with you later." Everette assures her. Isabella rolls her eyes at them and walks out of the room. She was just asking a harmless question. Is it wrong to be curious? Like something big just happened in their family, she deserves to ask questions and know about it. But here, mom is treating her like a baby which she dislikes.

"Take." Mom hands the tea over to Everette and she gulps it down instantly.

"You should sip it gently instead of gulping it down. Isn't it too hot?" Her mom says to her. Everette nods her head negatively and drops the cup back to the tray. She is feeling so cold that she didn't know the tea was that hot.

"So what happened to you? What happened today as a whole?" Her mom asks her. "Did you go on to meet him? What were his reasons?"

"I went to meet him but they didn't open the door for me. They left me outside." Everette replies to her. It's better she tells them what really happened. They will later know in the end. Jim's parents will either tell her mom if she walks over to confront them. Everette just hopes her mom will take it lightly with her and not discriminate against her. Her mom has always been someone who values self respect and dignity. How will she feel to know her first daughter disappointed her. She knows her mom will behave irrational but hopes she will take it lightly with her. She regrets it and owns up to her mistake.

"What did you do to him? Jim can't just abscond from the wedding. He is not someone like that." Her mom says, murmuring out the last statement. "You said you guys had some issues, tell me what it is all about. You two just made a joke out of us on the altar." Her mom complains giving her a hard stare with an expression that indicates for her to spill it all out.

Everette gulps down nothing and feels her throat dry all of a sudden. She looks up at her mom and closes her eyes tightly. "I was raped mom. I was raped." She says to her with a shaky breath.

Everette opens her eyes slowly and meets her mom's gaze looking at her. Her expression is unreadable and Everette can't guess what she was thinking.

Her mom scoffs out loud and looks straight at her.

It's better she gets speaking now. "The bachelorette party, I got drunk and retired to my hotel room. When I woke up the next morning, I saw blood all over me and… I'm disvirgined. I didn't even know who it was. I didn't know the man and I didn't know how it happened. I'm sorry mom." Everette confesses on the verge of tears. Her voice is shaky when she speaks. She doesn't know her mom's next line of action. Her mom can be strict if she wants to, especially to a matter like this.

"What?" Her mom scoffs out loud standing up abruptly. "You were raped by someone you don't know? Are you a kid, Everette." She screams at her and Everette can't help but fear her mom at that moment.

"Why do you have to shame me this way? Jim admires you and your virginity. I rant on to them about how responsible you are and you sit here telling me you got raped four days to your wedding?" Her mom raises her voice at her. "Is there something more to it, Everette?" Her mom asks calmly while staring at her.

Everette stands up in a jiffy. "No, mom. It was a mistake. It feels like…. I was hot." She stutters. "I feel so hot. I think I was a drunk and drugged mom. I was drugged."

"Shut up! I'm not your mom. Not to an immature lady. Are you still a child? You are drugged? Can't you just own up to it that it was your fault?" Her mom screams bitterly at her. Everette's heart breaks with her mom's words.

"I owned up to it. It's my fault. I made a huge mistake. I shouldn't have drank too much." Everette says.

"You…. You just stained the respect I have upheld so high. How could you? You brought shame to me in front of the guests and in front of Jim's family. You are impure. I am a woman of respect and dignity and I'm expecting you to be too. I trained you well and you just have to do this to me. Not only did you bring shame to me on the altar by getting jilted by your fiance, instead you held more despicable secrets." Her mom spats at her and does not care whether she's hurt or not.

"You know what, get out of my house right now." She pulls her by her hands and leads her to the entrance.

"Mom, please. I'm begging you. Don't desert me." Everette begs her mom. Her worst fear has come true. How will she cope without her mom? She has stayed with her since she was a kid, how will she cope without her?

"Mom, please stop." Isabella begs. She hears the commotion and screaming or she had stayed in front of Everette's room and heard everything that was said between them.

"Isabella, we don't need your sister anymore. She is a disgrace to our family. Get out Everette! I don't want to see you ever again."

"Mom, please forgive me. Don't send me out of the house. It was a mistake, a grave mistake I own up to. I regret it, I really do." Everette cries bitterly and holds on to her mom's feet.

"You slept with an unknown man. A man you know nothing about. A man you didn't see. What's the difference between you and a prostitute? You are a prostitute! Go on! Go and look for that unknown man and live with him. You could not control yourself. Just four days to your wedding, four days to getting married to Jim. Four days to get into a respectable family and be upheld with respect forever, you destroyed it with your own hands. Not only did you bring shame upon yourself, you brought shame to me and my family. Get out! I don't need you anymore." Her mom screams at her and pushes her away with force.

Everette stumbles back as the words her mom said to her hits her deeply. Tears streamed down her face, tears of pain and unknown speech. She turns and walks out of the house.

"Everette! Please don't go." Isabella says and wants to go meet her.

"If you move an inch Isabella, you are moving out with her." Her mom warns. Isabella choked back on her tears as she watched Everette going out into the street.

"Mom, please don't do this." She begs her mom. She hisses and walks back inside leaving Isabella in the sitting room. What just happened? How did it turn to this? She was so happy the past week and made the wedding dress for her sister. How did it turn out this way? Getting jilted on the wedding day and mom sending her sister out. She hopes nothing happens to her sister and her mom comes back to her senses soon.