RISE OF THE SON-IN-LAW

4.Suffering

“Well, well, well. You’re not here just to lie down and sleep all day long, people. Wake up!” Lady Vilma shouted.

Dion, Georgina, and their parents slowly woke up and yawned. 

“Mom, what’s going on?” Georgina’s dad asked her.

Lady Vilma scoffed and rolled her eyes.

“Don’t ask me that, my son. If you all want to eat for breakfast, you have to clean the yard.” Lady Vila awfully said and smirked.

All of us were shocked. We’re still part of the family and yet she was treating us like maids and helpers.

“What?! That’s not fair! We already spent our one-night sleeping in this cold and uncalmly place. Why do we need to work to eat?” George Sr, their dad asked.

Meredith, their mom, agreed with her husband, but Lady Vilma just laughed at them.

“We all know we are working our butts for us to have something to eat, am I right? So, that is what I am going to make you do. If you want to leave this place and not work to eat, then, make your daughter marry Ronaldo.” Lady Vilma firmly said.

Georgina held Dion’s hand and couldn’t stop trembling. Dion held her hand tightly like he wasn’t going to let go of her. Meredith and George Sr. Both looked at their daughter and sighed.

“Mom, you know she doesn’t want to. She kept on refusing to.” Meredith mumbled.

Lady Vilma scoffed and shook her head.

“Then, I don’t have anything to do with it. Now go and clean!” Lady Vilma yelled at them and left.

Their parents were very hopeless.

“If it wasn’t for you.” Meredith told him.

“Thank you for this, Dion.” George Sr even told him.

Dion closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He doesn’t want them to suffer just because of him. Georgina just looked at him and smiled.

“Come on, let’s go and clean.” she told him.

Dion doesn’t know what to say. He knew that they’re not used to cleaning because they’re rich. He just sighed and nodded.

“I am very sorry, Georgina. I guess if I leave you and this place, your life be like this. I wish I was rich.” he sadly said.

Georgina felt very bad for what he said. She doesn’t want him to blame himself for what was happening to them.

“Gosh, Dion, come on, don’t blame yourself for this one, okay? We’re all in this together and I will do everything or suffer but please don’t leave me.” she said.

He could see that she nearly cried. Dion was just so lucky that she wasn’t like her family even though they just married because of her grandfather, Don Ben Beiber. The reason why Don Ben made him marry Georgina was that he helped him when he was being ambushed by his rivals. At first, Dion doesn’t want to accept the marriage because he’s just poor, but Don Ben wanted a guy like him to be part of his family. Lady Vilma and the others hated him when Don Ben took him at their mansion, but Don Ben always told them to treat him as their family not until he died, everything went upside down, their true colors toward him came out and now they were all kicking him out.

“Faster! Aren’t you used to cleaning because you were poor before you married our daughter? Come on, I am already hungry!” Dion’s dad-in-law shouted at him.

He was always being humiliated.

“Y-es, dad. I will finish it right now.” Dion slowly said.

Georgina didn’t hear what her dad told him because she was with her mother weeping at the entrance while he and their dad were fixing the flowerpots broken along the pathway. He was just sitting there while Dion was working.

“Dad, why can’t you help me for us to finish and you’re going to eat.” he firmly told him.

George Sr was very shocked with what he told him. Dion knew that he was already mad, but he didn’t care. It was just very unfair for him. With that, he slowly walked toward him and punched his stomach. Dion groaned and eased the pain.

“You don’t have the right to tell me what to do, Dion. Remember that if not for you, we weren’t here. Now, are you going to complain again?” he asked him.

Dion just closed his eyes and swallowed hard. As much as he wanted to fight back, he couldn’t.

“Yea-h.” he nodded.

“Good.” his dad said and went back to his seat.

Dion just swallowed his pride, but he couldn’t bear it anymore. Until he remembered his grandfather. He wanted to take the offer and he wanted to avenge everything they had done to him but first, he was going to take Georgina with him because he knew that her life would be miserable without him.

“Hmm, better, you can now go and eat.” Lady Vilma said.

After ensuring that they had done their chores she wanted them to do, she allowed them to eat but as they arrived inside the dining table. Dion’s plate was just placed with bread and butter while his parents-in-law and Georgina’s plates were full.

“Wow, I guess you are going to survive with that.” George, his brother-in-law teases him.

Georgina just glared at him, and he left. Wondering why George didn’t sleep and clean with them was that Lady Vilma favored him because he always does what she told him to.

“Dion, we can share my food. You know I can’t eat all of it.” Georgina kindly offered him.

Dion just smiled at her. 

“Thank you.” he said.

Their parents just groaned and ignored them and went eating while they shared Georgina’s plate even though the food wasn't really good for them.