71. She lost her sanity
'I'm sorry to say this, Mrs. Lorenzo, but you're not pregnant," said the doctor examining her.
'What? How can I not be pregnant? I've been delayed for a month! No! You're just saying that to continue that crazy person's plan to imprison me!" she angrily exclaimed at the examining doctor.
'Ma'am, I've accommodated you with three repeated examinations, but the results are consistent. If you want, you can undergo a more thorough examination. We can check if—"
'No more! You're just going to extort money from us!" she interrupted.
The examining doctor frowned and, without a word, turned away from them along with her mother.
'I can't be imprisoned, Mommy. My husband must be looking for me by now, and he'll be furious if anything happens to our baby," she almost cried.
Her mother remained silent, seemingly losing hope of ever being freed. Meanwhile, her father was talking to an acquaintance of a lawyer to see if they could post bail and return home. They had been hiding from reporters who kept coming back and asking if they could be interviewed.
'Mom! Are you okay? Why have you been so quiet?" she asked, feeling puzzled by her mother's silence.
'I'm sorry," was all her mother said, tears streaming down her face.
She furrowed her brow, unable to understand why her mother was apologizing to her. She understood what her mother had done before, and even if asked to choose, she wouldn't hesitate in her response. For her, it was only practical for her mother to be cunning and destroy Briella's family; if she hadn't done so, they probably wouldn't have tasted the luxury they now enjoyed.
'Sorry for what? And why are you crying? Don't tell me you're giving up already and won't fight anymore?" she demanded.
Her mother shook her head, and she became even more puzzled when she saw her crying.
'Mommy, please! Please don't add to my worries! What if something happens to our baby with Gerard? You should be the one strengthening me, not the other way around!" she snarled.
'I—I'm sorry, my child... I really didn't mean to," she said, still unable to stop crying. She was beginning to get annoyed with her Mommy as if what she did was heavy because it was evident in her continuous crying.
They returned to an empty room where newly detained prisoners like them were being held.
'Mommy, what was that about? Stop making me think more! Just spill it out!" she exclaimed.
'I—I'm pregnant!" she said.
'What?" she asked in shock, immediately focusing on her mother's belly. 'How..." She couldn't finish her sentence because she was so shocked. How could her Mommy be pregnant when her parents hadn't been together since Jeydon was born? She had her room, even her Daddy.
'W-Who..." She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself. If her Daddy found out about her mother's infidelity, she couldn't imagine what he might do to her mother.
She took a deep breath and wiped the tears that wouldn't stop flowing from her eyes. 'T-The truth is... y-you're not really pregnant, Megan."
'What?" she felt like banging her head against the wall because of the torture her mother was subjecting her to. 'Damn it, Mom! What do you mean I'm not pregnant?!"
'I-I'm the reason you're always feeling dizzy and sleepy." Her mother, in tears, said to her.
She stared at her in disbelief, unable to speak, unable to understand why she was doing this to her.
'T-There's s-something..." She stopped speaking and looked into her eyes. ' ... happened to us, me and your husband. H-He's the father of the child in my—"
She didn't let her finish speaking because she quickly slapped her mother's cheek. Startled by what she did and the force of her slap, her mother lost her balance and fell to the ground.
'Megan!" she intervened when she saw her rushing to her and about to slap her again. 'Listen to me first!"
'You damned sl*t!" Megan yelled at her as if she had forgotten that she was facing her mother, and she was filled with intense anger and resentment in her heart. 'How dare you do that to me!"
Her fist struck again, and slapped her mother. Tears continued to flow from her eyes. It hurt more than being crushed by a boulder. She was her mother!
'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. We both like—"
'Fck you!" she yelled, tightly gripping her hair. She straddled her and didn't stop pulling her hair and slapping her fiercely. 'You damn shameless animal! You fck my husband! Your daughter's husband!" She cried and screamed at her mother in a rage.
'He doesn't love you, my child, and he intends to—"
'Shut up with what you're saying, and don't you dare call me your child! I don't have a wh*re mother!" she yelled.
The door opened, revealing her father. He quickly intervened and pulled her away from her mother.
'What's going on with you two? You're just now deciding to fight? You're not helping at all!" her father angrily shouted at her.
'Don't stop me, Dad. I'm not done with that woman!" she angrily said, pointing at her mother.
'She's your mother!" her father exclaimed.
'Mother?" she bitterly laughed and spat on her. 'I don't have a wh*re mother!"
'What are you talking about? Is there something I don't know?" her father asked with raised eyebrows.
'Megan, don't. I'm begging you, don't say—"
'Begging? You're a fucking idiot, you shameless btch! You should've thought about that before you slept with my husband and not content with fcking him. You got yourself pregnant!" she angrily yelled at her.
Megan felt nothing but anger and hatred at that moment; she didn't care about her surroundings, and all she could think of was to strangle the woman in front of her. She didn't see her as a mother but as a parasite unable to settle in one place.
'What the hell are you talking about?" her Daddy asked in a dark tone.
'She's pregnant! She admitted she's pregnant, and the father is none other than my good husband!" she replied to her Daddy.
It seemed that was all her Daddy heard, and he clenched his fists as he approached her mother. He mercilessly kicked her mother's body, and instead of stopping him, she fueled her own father's anger to make him beat her mother even more. Her mother screamed for mercy and help, but she just laughed at her.
Soon, the police came in and restrained her father while she laughed and cursed her mother alone. The police quickly took her weak mother away, and she saw her bleeding profusely. There's no doubt she had a miscarriage.
It served her right! A child conceived in a great sin could not be born!
Her father was taken to jail, while she was left alone in that room. The silence of the whole room had a different effect on her. Her mother's voice begging for help and pleading kept echoing repeatedly. She covered both her ears, but it seemed her cries only grew louder.
'Leave me alone! I'll never help you! Die!" she shouted while covering her ears with her hands.
'Help me, Megan. The child... m-maybe something happens to your s-sibling!" her mother pleaded.
'Fuck you! I will kill both of you! Sibling? Are you crazy? My sibling is my husband's child? You're insane!" she screamed. Her words echoed in the four corners of the room and repeated in her ears.
Soon, she burst into laughter.
'It suits you! Die!" she said, pointing to where her Daddy was pounding her cheating mother.
****
When Kimineah saw the news about the commotion, she immediately called Jeydon and asked him to accompany her to the precinct where her parents and older sister were taken.
She wasn't angry about the humiliation Briella's mother inflicted because, from the start, she prayed for that turmoil in her family to end. She and Jeydon were the only ones who agreed in their family because they shared the same perspective. They didn't rely on the money their father gave them because they could earn it through their jobs.
Upon arriving at the precinct, they quickly searched for their parents, but they were both shocked to learn what happened to them. Her father was in a cell, handcuffed due to his beating of their Mommy, who was critically injured due to the beating and the miscarriage she suffered. Meanwhile, Megan was left in a room, waiting for their lawyer.
Kimineah and Jeydon looked at each other and then asked to visit Megan. A police officer escorted them to her ward. Before they could approach the door, they heard Megan's loud laughter and talking as if she were talking to someone else.
'I thought she was alone here?" Kimineah asked the police in surprise.
The police just shrugged and then opened the door.
Megan's loud laughter became clear to them. Kimineah covered her mouth when she saw her. Megan was disheveled and slumped on the floor, laughing to herself.
'Megan..." Jeydon called out to their eldest sister.
She turned to them, and goosebumps ran down their spines at the sight of her smile.
'Jeydon! Kimineah! Are you here to beat up our slutty Mommy?" she jokingly asked them.
'What happened to you?" Jeydon asked, ignoring Megan's question.
While Kimineah just stared at her, unsure of what to do or think.
'I was the first to ask, so you should be the first one to answer!" she snapped at Jeydon, then her gaze shifted to Kimineah. 'Will you help me kill the baby in Mommy's womb?"
'What? Mommy's pregnant?" she asked weakly, but Megan still heard it.
'Yes! She's pregnant, and do you know who the father is?" she asked, smiling sweetly. 'Guess," she said and burst into laughter.
Kimineah and Jeydon exchanged looks, knowing they both had the same thoughts. Something's wrong with her.
'The father of our new sibling is... drum roll, please?" Megan said, pretending to hold a drumstick and banging on the imaginary drums. 'None other than my wonderful husband!" she said, then lay back and continued laughing.
'What the hell?" they both almost said simultaneously.
'Can't believe it either? How about me? The man I love and chose to marry and our mother, who is one of my inspirations in life, had a relationship. What's even worse is she got pregnant before me. I'm in pain right now, and I don't know if I can still handle this," she said weakly.
They remained silent, agreeing to approach and calm her down, but they were immediately interrupted when she burst into laughter again. Kimineah tightened her grip on Jeydon's arm and couldn't help but cry. Even though they were not close, she couldn't help but feel sorry for what happened to her.
She lost her sanity due to the consecutive revelations she learned, and her mind couldn't handle the result. Suddenly, she felt scared for herself. What if she ended up in her position? She didn't know what else she could do except contemplate suicide.