Chapter 1
Third Person's POV:
Today is suppose to be her sister's wedding day it was supposed to be a day that she finally resigned to her fate and move on with her life but I guess destiny had something else plan for her.
She was walking down the aisle towards a man that doesn't want her, towards a man that doesn't know who she was.
He doesn't remember her, the little girl he tried so much to please, the little girl that he was so madly in love with her sister and couldn't recognize her feelings for him.
you might want to know why she would be getting married to a man that doesn't want her butts it happened just like this.... 18 years ago she met him as a teenager.
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO......
Kate Stanton walked out of her room in her princess like dress, she was excited about going out to play with her and Elena's friends.
Elena is her elder sister, four years older than her and the favorite child of the family, but little Kate has no idea.
When she walked inside their living room, her parents were sitting down on the couch and discussing.
"Mother, " Kate called. Her mother looked up at her and raised her eyebrows.
"Kate, why are you wearing that dress and what for?" Her mother asked her.
"Mother, sister and I are going out to play." Kate responded.
She was confused as to why her mother was so mad at her for wearing a beautiful dress.
She did nothing wrong or did she?
"Mother! Look at my dress." Elena shouted as she ran inside the living room.
She was wearing a beautiful golden dress that complements her skin.
Her mother smiled brightly and grabbed Elena's hand.
"You look beautiful, my dear. Very beautiful. Don't you think so honey?" Her mother asked.
Kate stare at her mother in confusion.
Her mother was angry at her for wearing a beautiful dress but compliments Elena who wore a more beautiful dress than her.
What is going on?
"She is." Her father chirped in.
Kate's eyes welled with tears but she closed her eyes, fighting it back.
She didn't want to cry in front of them, Elena will only make fun of her.
Kate turned around and walked out of the living room, leaving Elena behind.
Yes, she is the unloved child.
The least favorite.
The runner-up.
An hour of playing, Kate was already exhausted.
She sat down on the ground and looked up at the sky.
She wished that her parents would love her as much as they loves Elena.
She doesn't understand why her parents seems to hate her. She has done nothing wrong to them except being born.
Someone sat down beside her and she turned her head to look at the person only for her eyes to meet with that of a boy.
A very handsome boy.
Kate was speechless as she watch him quietly.
He is older but he seems nice.
"You are Kate." It was not a question so she didn't see the need to answer that.
"Why didn't you join us? We're playing a fun game." He said, Kate glanced back at where Elena and the rest of their friends are and she shook her head.
"What is your name?" She asked in a whisper after a while.
"Julian. I am Julian Shawn, Elena's friend." He introduced himself.
Kate fell in love with that boy she met that sunny afternoon.
She fell in love with everything about him even though she knew nothing else except his name.
She fell in love with an older boy.
"Do you want to play with me, Kate?"
Kate raised her eyebrows at him in confusion. He is a older boy, why will he want to play with a little girl like her?
Boys his age doesn't like being seen with little girls.
"Why will you want to play with me?" She asked him.
"Well, because you are Elena's sister." He said almost immediately.
Kate looked away hurtfully and bite on her lip.
He didn't want to play with her because he wants to but because she was Elena's sister.
Always the second best.
"No, thank you." She muttered and stood up from the ground to walk away but Julian quickly grabbed her hand.
"Are you angry at me?" He asked innocently.
Kate forced out a smile and quickly shook her head.
"No. I'm just tired." She responded with a nod before slipping away.
Julian Shawn
Their fate has been decided.
*****
Nine Years Ago;
A huge bomb just landed on Kate's head and she just doesn't know how to react to it.
Marriage.
When she had been hoping to work hard and go to the school which Julian graduated from; Harvard business college, her father was busy arranging her marriage for her.
"I don't want to marry him, father. He is older than me and I want to go to college." Kate cried out.
"You are lucky that he wants to marry you, Kate. Do you know who he is? Do you know which family he comes from? You will live a better life and your sister can finally go to Harvard. You love her right? You have to do this for her." Kate was speechless.
They were busy thinking about Elena's well-being over her own.
They wanted to force her into an arrange marriage because of money.
She felt disgusted but she couldn't do anything.
She couldn't do anything but cry.
She was going to marry a man she doesn't love and she would lose Julian forever.
She doesn't know which one is more hurtful.
Her marrying a man older than her or getting married to a man that is not Julian.
She doesn't know what to do or how to react.
How could they do this to her?
She knows for sure that her parents doesn't love her but why will they be so cruel to the extent of destroying their future for their own selfish reason in other to please the my sister.
