Cruel Arrangements

Prologue

"Absolutely not!" I sat bewildered staring at my mother thinking more than once that she must have gone insane. Crazy, what was she thinking? I looked to my father, whom was bent over his cigar looking pitiful.

Shit, no this was not happening to me.

"The paperwork has already been done up, we just can't afford not to. Your father's company has gone under and with all your medical bills…" As usual she finds some way to blame someone else, even though we all know she had gone shopping last month and bought a whole new wardrobe for herself. "Well we just can't get by unless we agree to this."

I'm not agreeing to this in anyway. It's just not fair to do to a person, especially one such as me.

"Besides it's not as if it's a total loss. He isn't ugly or anything and the two of you don't even need to be intimate in anyway. Just live together for five years and then if it's a divorce that you want then feel free." One day I'll feel free to strangle her. Psh! Not a total loss, it's a HUGE loss. I'll have to spend five long years with a man that I can't stand. Argh! Put me under now.

"Dad?" I pleaded for his help but instead of coming to his daughter's aid, he just looked at me with solemn eyes, picked up his wine glass and walked away like the coward that he was.