"Alright, Aria will stay with me and that is final."
"No. You can't take my daughter away from me. Please, I beg you."
"There is no need to beg. Aria choose me herself. She will go with me."
....
Aria can feel her head explode from pain.
The noises outside were making her even more frustrated.
Rubbing her head, Aria forced herself to open her eyes.
Looking at the ruptured ceiling above her, Aria was shocked.
Sitting up, Aria looked around the room she was currently residing in.
Staring blankly at the room, Aria felt a strange dissonance.
"What is happening? Isn't this my room before my parents got divorced. How come I am here again?"
Before Aria could ponder further, the door was clicked open.
A man walked in first, smiling gently at her, though it didn't reach his eyes. Wearing a wrinkled shirt, he stepped towards her, his posture very rehearsed. Following behind, a woman entered with a gentle smile but her red eyes clearly told a different story.
Kneeling infront of Aria, the man moved his hand, slightly rubbing her head.
"Good morning sunshine. Missed daddy?"
The woman didn't speak, just staring at Aria as if she is her entire world, and maybe she is.
Aria didn't speak. Looking at the two people infront of her, she is completely dumbfounded. Her heart banged loudly against her chest.
She recognized the people infront of her. How can she not. They are her parents; her father, who for his second wife and children, entirely ruined her, and her mother, the only person in the world who loved her wholeheatedly, but she betrayed her.
"Mommy!" Aria recalling every mistake she had made and the things she had done in the past can't help but pounce over and hug her mother, wailing louldly.
Both parents her flabbergasted at the sudden change of events.
Aria's mother, Sophia gently patted her daughter's back, trying to calm her down.
"Alright, alright, don't cry. Mommy is right here. My Aria is such a strong girl. Don't cry..."
After a while, Sophia noticing that Aria's emotion had gragually calmed down, tried to separate herself from her, clearly remembering how Aria didn't like her coming close to her but Aria refused to budge, tightening her wrap around her mother.
Aria's father, James, watching the scene infront of him is astonished. As soon as Aria calmed down, he stepped forward and asked,
"What happened sunshine? Why are you crying like this? Did someone bully you?"
A look of hatred fashed Aria's eyes as she remembered the betrayal she got from him and tightened her hold on her mother, completely ignoring James.
"Did daddy made his sunshine angry? Is it because daddy didn't bring the candy sunshine wanted? How about it, daddy will take you to buy the candy right now" James said, as he tried to make Aria look at him.
By now, Aria had realised she is not having a dream. This is all real. She had truly been reborned on the day her lifed changed completely. This time, she won't make the wrong choice again. This time she will never leave her mother alone.
Leaving her mother's warm embrace, she looked at her so called father with extreme hatred and disgust in her eyes and quickly disguise it with a smile.
"Nothing daddy. It is just that I had a nightmare and was scared."
James sighed in relief and happily told her,
"It's ok sunsine. It was just a nightmare. You get ready. We have to go to the town's Mayor house as well. From today, my sunshine will live with me forever." and leaves the room.
Sophia opened her mouth mutiple times, trying to say someyhing, but in the end just sighed and also left the room, giving Aria her space to get ready.
Looking at her mother's back as she locked the door behind her, tears started to fall down Aria's cheeks.
How long has it been since she last saw her mother.
Aria lived in the West Town, a small area in country M. Her father worked as a worker in a factory while her mother was a housewife. Her parents had a arranged marraige as decided by the elders of both side. Since both belonged to a single child family, they had a very grand wedding.
Soon after the wedding, Sophia got pregnant with Aria.
Aria had always been closer to father than her her mother. She was truly a daddy's princess. Therefore, when her parents got divorced in her previous life, she chose her father without hesitation. She always thought her father will love her the most but it all changed when James married Charlotte who worked together with him at the factory.
Charlotte was 4 months pregnant when she married James and also brought along with her, her daughter Eliana who was similar in age to Aria.
Aria didn't bother with it much as her father's attitude was the same as before and even Charlotte and Eliana were quite nice to her. She spent a very happy time with her new family but that all changed when Charlotte gave birth to a son, John. She went from a princess to a maid. Under her step-mother's plotting, she began to do all the household chores; from cleaning to cooking, from washing clothes to serving everyone. Slowly she lost everything.
Aria shifted from from princess room to a small store-room, barely having anything for herself. James, who during this time, got promoted as the deputy director didn't have time for her at all. Slowly she became a forgotten part of the house.
Soon Aria got admitted in a school with Eliana. Wanting her father's attention, Aria, well aware of how much James gave importance to his face and reputation, started to work very hard, focusing all her attention and time on studies.
No matter which subject it was, Aria always aced it. From academics to extracurricular activities, she was brilliant at everything. Charlotte upon witnessing this, started to manipulate Aria, telling her that the worst she performed, the more attention she will get but didn't stop her from studing. She even didn't let her do anymore chores and shifted her back to share a room with Eliana and spoiled her even more than John, her precious son. Instead she told Aria to write Eliana's name on her papers while Eliana will write hers. Because of this, Eliana became the perfect top student while she became the perfect spoiled brat. Somehow, James also started to pay attention on her once again which made Aria trust Charlotte even more.
Just before the college entance exam, James got promoted to City B, a first-tier city and the whole family shifted to the city. This is from where things started to go south. Just as they shifted, Charlotte under the pretense of a caring step-mother guided Aria to do the same in the entrance exam. This resulted in Eliana becoming the top student in the country and got admitted the best university in the country studying fashion designing not because she liked it but because Aria was talented in it.
Aria continued to design and Eliana continued to claim them as her own. Soon Eliana became one of the most famous fashion designers in the country.
Aria was not only an excellent fashion designer but also had a great business acumen. She helped James become one of the best businessman in the country but also helped John taking over the business.
They shifted to the Capital City and became the part of the high social society. Eliana and John became the perfect rich heir while Aria became the rotten brat of the society.
In one of the social gatherings, Eliana introduced Aria to Liam Lewis, a rich second-generation heir. Liam had a very complicated family structure with several competions against him for the position of the heir of the family. They started to meet again and again and soon fall in love. Aria started to help Liam in business as well and Liam finally succeed as the heir as well.
Soon after he took over the company, Liam proposed Aria and they started to prepare for their wedding. Aria always thought she was the real winner in life, having everything she wanted but on the day of the wedding, she realised how wrong and stupid she was.
Giving up on the one who truly loved her, she choose those who only used and later discarded her.
"James, Charlotte, Eliana, John and Liam; Be ready for my revenge bacause, I, Aria, am back." vowed Aria as a vicious look passed her eyes