Mia arrived home at the Anderson house, entering into the house, she saw her dad, step mom and sister sitted at the living room.
Hello Dad, she greeted passing them heading towards the stairs.
Mia, is that your attitude towards your mother? Is that how you greet your elders, Brook Anderson , Mia's father yelled at her.
Mia stopped in her track turning around, she's not my mother, she uttered.
You.... You are such a disrespectful brat, Beatrice, Mia's step mother said.
I heard from your sister that you caused trouble at the company today, how could you? How could you tamper with the design drafts when you know that they would be used for the company's monthly launch, Mr Brook said.
Mia scoffed, is that what your good daughter told you ?
Isn't that what you did, you knocked into Rose at the lobby and stole the design draft, you just want me to fail at this month's product launch so I would look bad to father, Helen said.
You already pushed the blame of the missing design draft on me, now you also want me to
be blamed for your imminent failure.
You wild child, how dare you curse my daughter to fail, see the ungrateful brat you brought to this house,she has the guts to curse my daughter, Beatrice whined at Brook Anderson.
Mia, I don't care what happens, you must produce a design draft for the company's product launch in a week, if the company should incur any loss from this then you will bear the responsibilities, Brook Anderson said.
"Mia's voice cracked with emotion as she exclaimed, 'You're really my good father, aren't you? You've already convicted me without hearing my side of the story! You're so quick to believe your daughter Helen and heap all the blame and responsibility on me. It's like you've already assumed the worst about me.
The pain and injustice in her voice were palpable as she felt betrayed by her father's hasty judgment. Mia should already be used to her father's bias but each time he did it, she felt an ache in her heart, she was also his daughter, why the different treatment? Was it because she was born by a mistress?
Mr Brook felt a pang in his heart when he heard Mia's statement. Alright I want to hear your own version of the story, he said looking at her.
No need, you won't believe me even if I said it wasn't me, I am already working on a design, I i will make sure to produce a masterpiece design before the week ends, I won't let the company suffer a loss, it's my mother's company after all, Mia said going upstairs to her room.
The trio watched her as she went up to her room.
Who does she think she is, saying that the company belongs to her mother, we have been taking care of the company all this years while that bitch is in coma and have also payed her hospital bills, that company should be ours as compensation, Beatrice said.
Mr Brook heard her but kept quiet.
Brook! Why aren't you talking? Are you feeling sorry for that bitch and your wild seed? That company belongs to us now and will be inherited by my daughter Helen in the future, don't even think of returning it to that brat, Beatrice continued.
Mom, it's ok, Dad knows what he's doing, let's go to your room so you can get some rest, you don't have to be so agitated, Helen said taking her mother away from the living room.
Brook stayed at the living room deep in thought.
In Mia's bedroom, she went straight to the shower after coming in, after the shower, she changed to her pajamas and sat on her bed, she opened her drawer bringing out a box which contained a book. It was her mother's sketch book, it contained different designs of jewelry, the ones that have been launched and unlaunched ones, her mother sketched every of her designs in the book, flipping through the pages of the book, Mia saw many uncompleted designs by her mother. She also saw her mother's masterpiece design "endless yearning", it was a pair of ring designed by her mother, she probably wanted to use it for her wedding but with who. Her mother and Brook had been childhood friends and they were still friends till he got married to Beatrice, she had known that Brook Anderson was married but still had an affair with him, her mother was a good and virtuous woman and didn't seem to be some one who would break another person's family but she was the evidence of her affair with Brook Anderson and she couldn't help but wonder why her mother did that, she hoped that one day her mother would wake up so she could ask her this question. Her mother had been the most caring and loving mother, she had loved her so much. She wondered if things would had been different if her mom was not in coma.
Five years ago, Mia's mom was involved in a car accident, it was a hit and run incident and since then she has been coma.
Mia has always had dreams of the accident scene and vowed to get revenge on the culprit who had put her mother in that condition.