Daddy, Margaret Is The Usylon Girl

“Dad… Daddy!” Constance, Margaret’s foster sister had attended the much talked about union, and she almost dropped dead when she discovered who the long awaited maiden of the Princes was.

“What?” Constance father, ever so drunk struggled to keep his eyes open as he tried to match the urgency with which his daughter called him with.

Constance stood in front of her father, panting greatly after running miles back home just to report what she had seen.

“Are you okay? Is anyone after you?” Constance father asked as he tried to make sense of why his daughter was acting so urgently.

“I would rather that someone was after me, dad. You will never believe what I just witnessed.” Constance appeared as of she saw a ghost.

Her father sat up to listen.

“Dad, guess who I just saw.” Constance started with riddles.

Constance father rolled his eyes.

“Did you run all the way here just to ask me to play a guessing game with you?”

“Dad, it is not a guessing game.” Constance shook her head and smiled sarcastically.

”Okay then, tell me who you saw if it’s not a game, because I can’t…” Constance father was saying that when Constance interrupted him.

“I saw Margaret.”

The atmosphere became silent when Constance said what was on her mind. If a pin dropped on the floor, everyone would hear it because of how quiet the place suddenly became.

“What did I just hear?” Constance mother came out of the kitchen when she overheard what Constance told her father.

“Mom, I saw Margaret today.” Constance confirmed.

Constance parents were staring at her, confused about what to say.

''Where did you see that ungrateful idiot?'' Constance's father eventually spoke with a low tone, his eyes instantly became clear from the alsohol that he had been drinking all day.

''At the union...'' Constance was taking it easy to reveal who Margaret really was to her parents.

''And you didn't come to tell me earlier so that I can round her up with the police?''

''Dad, you can't round Margaret up with the police. As a matter of fact, you can't touch a hair on her head.'' Constance assured her father that Margaret was untouchable.

''Excuse me? Did you drink so much ale at the union, you have lost your mind?'' Constance' mother asked her.

''How dare you speak low of your father in that manner just because you went to the union?''

''Mom, Margaret is the Usylon girl that got married to the Vandersar Princes.''

When Constance broke the news to her parents, their eyes widened in shock.

For a long time, nobody said anything in the living room, instead, Constance' parents stared at her in shock, which was later replaced with doubt and annoyance.

''If you know what is good for you, you had better go to bed and sleep off the excess alcohol in your system, because I can see that you have lost your mind. Since when did you start drinking this heavily?'' Constance father asked.

''Dad, the union is still on. We can take a taxi there and we would arrive in less than an hour. You should see for yourself so that you can believe me. Seeing is believing, right?'' Constance replied.

At that point, Constance father started to believe what his daughter had told him because, what were the odds that Constance would have him go all the way to witness the union just as a prank, knowing how hot tempered he was.

''I will go with you. Let's go, Constance. I will see who the Usylon girl is and come home to tell your father.'' Constance mother went in to get dressed, but Constance father got up as well.

''Don't bother about it, I am also going with you people.'' The man entered his bedroom to change to a proper attire for the union.

It was funny how every iota of drunkeness cleaned out from the eyes of the man.

Within a short while, the family had stepped out to head to the union ground.

''I think my car can carry us. There's no need to waste money on a taxi,'' Constance father suggested.

''Dad, you might not have the strength to drive us back after seeing Margaret in her new outlook. Dad, I suggest that we got with a taxi so that you won't have to worry your troubled mind after we are done and are returning.'' Constance made it clear to her father that Margaret no longer looked anything like the Margaret that they knew about, and he might have a panick attack when he sees her.

Constance father stared at her quietly. Was it that serious? Had Margaret undergone such drastic change enough to give him a heart attack when he saw her?

Well, the answer was yes, and the reason that Constance father would have a heart attack was because he always beat up Constance and maltreated her with his family, so seeing her as a quuen-to-be will bring nothing but shock to him.

''Okay then.'' Constance' father stopped a taxi and they all entered, heading back to the union.

''Going to the union ehn? Finally, the Kingdom of Magus would be redeemed from the shackles of the Prince Of Persia, Prince Bane. The long awaited Usylon daughter has been found and brought to get married to the Princes.'' The taxi driver was so excited, he offered to take the family to the union for free.

Constance father and mother exchanged glances at each other when the taxi driver offered to take them for free. It meant that indeed, and Usylon had been found. But, Margaret?

Constance father secretly hoped that his daughter was telling lies. He had already decided that if he got to the union ground and saw that Constance was playing tricks on them, he would forgive her.

He preferred that to the fact that the Usylon girl was actually Margaret.

''Here we are,'' the driver pulled up at the busy union ground and everyone got out of the car.