Chapter 99
Freya
A week later
“So technology has come so far that you’re pregnant?” my mother asks Jayla in dubelet The three of us drinking coffee inside the kitchen.
“Yes,” Jayla smiles sweetly, and I return it even though I don’t ware to. She still hasn’t sold our mother for the hatred she is pregnant like she claims she is belongs to Clark, my ex–husband,
sure? “Woah…that’s amazig, but. My mother blinks repeatedly with furrowed eyebrows. “But are you were fryla, you were bom as a man, and I just I just don’t think technology has come so far
Jayla gasps. “Are you calling me a liar?” Her eyes narrow before my mother can respond “And I wasn’t born as purely a mun I had two genders and chose-
“Jayla, you have a dick,” my mother deadpans after her interruption, clearly not about to listen to jay’s Ses “So, this pregnancy I assume you’ve found a surrogate and that your bump–she nods down at Jayla’s tiny stomach. “Is actually a chicken burrito or your poor attempt at pretending to be pregnant for the eye of society. Am I correct?
Jayla’s bottom lip starts doing that wobbling thing it does whenever she is upset, and then she stands up. Tm going to talk to Dad
She storms off after that, leaving me and our mother alone inside the kitchen.
My mother sighs. “Jayla, Jayla, always so dramatic. I love her, but this? This is too much. I mean, change your gender, identify as a cat if you must, but to be pretending you’re pregnant when you don’t have the parts?” She mors “Please, I’m not stupid, and I don’t want to be made a fool either.”
I’m about to open my mouth but fall silent when my mother narrows her eyes at me. “Not that you’re any better. You’re almost 20, and you still don’t have an education or even a plan for the future. When you married Clark. I warned you that it was a mistake. He only wanted you for your look, so you know, and look at you now,” she gestures at me. “Older than the street and expired. What are your plans now?”
“Don’t listen to her, Freya. She is just trying to get under your skin and ruin you since she is so bitter!” I hear Jayla call from the hallway. I might hate her for having slept with my ex–husband and for now wanting to start a family with him, but if there is something we have in common, it’s that we were both raised by our fucked up
“I’m actually trying to get a job, I tell my mother, not afraid to hold her gaze as I say it.
mother
In the past, I barely dared to look at my mother since I was afraid she would bite my head off–I still am, but a girl needs to face the music sometimes, right?
“Hmpt!” My mother lifts her pert nose into the air. “Well, I hope that you get it because your father and I can’t have you living in our basement forever. It’s embarrassing enough as it is that you’ve lived there for what is it now? A month? Two months? Anyway, we can’t wait for you to move out.”
Her words hurt on a deeper plane, but instead of tears, it’s anger that flares up within me. This woman has done nothing but break me down since the day I was born, but I’m tired of just taking it like a bitch.
Today, I will show her.
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“Is that so!” My mother asks in a rather condending one bee lifting her ass from her wet “Well, if that’s the case why don’t you lease tonight?”
1 get up from my seat as well. “You know what? I think I will”
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“Perfect,” she shoots those cold egyes at me. They are ready lasing their way into my son. “Are we done here, or is there anything else you with to tell me?”
“No, I’m done”
“Excellent,” she begins to turn around bot stops to look at me with a rather sy expression. “Oh, and Freyat I hope your job will be a dignified one. It would be rather embarrassing to see you working at the local grocery store. Then again, I suppose any job is better than being a trophy wife” my mother finishes with a sneer.
Her words hit like a slap, but I refuse to let her see how much they sting. Instead, I plaster on a fake smile. “Actually, Mother Leave an interview at Steele Hotels. For a housekeeping position
Her eyebrows shoot up, genuine surprise flickering across her face before she schools her expression back to disdain. “Housekeeping” Well, I suppose that’s something Though I can say that I’m not disappointed. You had so much potentia Freya. What happened to all those dreams you had as a giris”
I clench my fists, fighting back the urge to scream. How dare she bring up my childhood dreams when she was the one who constantly shot them down?
“Life happened, Mother,” I say.
She sports. “More like a man happened.”
Something inside of me snaps when I hear her condescending tone. “And so what?” I ask in a hurt voice, not caring that yo can tell I’m close to tears. “I fell in love and took a chance. Is that such a
But my mother is already gone
A bitter laugh escapes my lips. Will I ever get a chance to speak my mind? Better yet, will I ever be able to make my mothe listen to me and understand what a shitty mother she has been Probably not…
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