CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
A very important part of this journey was the plan to make life better for my species but none of the responsibilities Marina had outlined for me included them.
I watched her rattle on about organizing meetings, facilitating diplomatic meetings between the seven regional heads of the world and their spouses, overseeing the SOS experiment event and so many other alien-related responsibilities but nothing for the humans.
I guess I now understood why things were so bad for us.
“So I'm guessing the King is in charge of women and children as well?” I asked, indirectly trying to get more information from her.
“Oh, that's actually another part I forgot to add but it's not really necessary because we've set up a functional system that helps our young ky’rhans develop properly and the women are fine, I think. If you don't want to work, there's a monthly bonus given to everyone from the state that should help give you a normal lifestyle until you get married,” she explained with a smile, this time it wasn't fake.
“That's great but I was talking about human women and children. I haven't seen anything about them and from my studies, that's usually the job of a queen. You don't have anything about that?” I asked and her reaction was wild.
She quickly rushed over to me, shaking her head in disapproval
“You can't say that out loud, Ma'am. You are already hated, the King can't protect you all the time so you have to make sure you don't overstep your limits. If the King wants to do anything for your people, he won't do you the dishonor of even informing you about it,” she said in a hush tone.
“I didn't know you cared about me that much and I'll talk to Xavier about it. Building one hospital for one small city isn't enough,”
“Oh, that was you? The hospital was quite important considering the whole point of Zorvathians on earth is for the humans themselves so it went unnoticed but talking about schools and more jobs is completely out of it. I mean, you're a classic example of why humans must never be educated, y'all begin to feel too important and difficult to control,” she said, her usual bored and condescending tone back in full swing.
Zorvathians and bipolarity seemed to be a thing but I wasn't going to focus on it. She wasn't my focus and she was just sharing her opinion, I didn't care for it either. I'll just have to figure out a way to make Xavier stop treating me like trash if I can. And if he doesn't, I'll look for bargaining chips. There must be a difference, that's the only consolation I get for being put in such a difficult place with people who thought just because their color was blue, they were better than everyone else
“So are you going to be working with the both of us or I'll get my own assistant? I'm not afraid to admit I need help,” I asked, effectively changing the topic.
“Yea, sure. You'll start working on the world summit that's happening in two months. It'll be your way of showing the ABCs that you are worthy of the title and not just because you're his Luminari. I'm currently interviewing people for the role and you're going to get one by the end of the week so for now, just familiarize yourself with the basics so you don't have to look too confused. You're the queen and we don't want that image to be shaken up by anything,” she said and even though the girl was trying to make me feel bad, I couldn't help but like her.
She's the type of woman you want on your team because she gets the job done but then, she's not an object and her personal feelings will come into play, making it impossible for me to want her anywhere near me.
She left me in the amazing office that was now mine and I began feeling a massive wave of imposter syndrome.
I was just a little girl who was angry at the world I was born in. My father, who was confined to a wheelchair because proper medical care was only for aliens, created a world where his children were different from the rest of the world but being here as a Queen to a species that didn't even like me, I felt like a joke. Maybe no one would ever take me seriously and Xavier made sure of that. He wasn't out here trying to make people like me or prevent them from seeing me as an enemy.
The position I occupied probably belonged to some ABC woman who was bred and prepared for this position and wouldn't need a whole week to learn the ropes so she wouldn't be insulted by the assistant she'd get.
Another thing that scared me was the possibility of said assistant being one of those ladies that felt I'd taken their life and would make my life hell. I couldn't rely on Xavier to sack anyone considering he insisted on Theresa staying back after I'd told her to go for her disloyalty.
At this point, I was losing my mind and I couldn't help crying out in frustration.
I stood up and went to the bathroom of the office and looked at my round shaped face, my full lips looking pale from all the crying and my eyes weren't any better.
The crown on my head looked like a joke and I had no business wearing it
I was still a little girl and I just wanted my Momma.
So I picked up my phone and called her.
The phone rang for a while and I was about to give up when she finally picked up.
“Chris! It's Tessie!” I heard her scream for my dad, making me smile genuinely for the first time today.
“Hey Momma,” I said into the phone.
We'd all gotten the phones as a gift from Xavier when he was still trying to get me to fall in love with him and sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I'd gone against my instincts and done that. Would he still have turned into this monster that he was now and thrown my heart from a mountain down its slippery slopes, shattering it to pieces or would my feelings for him have been the anchor for his attitude towards me?
Both questions made me feel sad so I always focused on something else.
“We're doing great my baby. Your Mom bought a new car today and she's teaching me how to drive again,” my Dad said into the phone, and I guessed they'd discovered how to put it on speaker.
I haven't.
“I'm so happy about that. Don't strain yourself though, take it one day at a time, alright?”
“Tell him! He's hell-bent on learning how to do everything at once but he needs to take it easy,” she scolded him but I knew it was all love
We were all so happy that my Dad could walk again but my mom is the happiest of us all. It's the consolation she gets for her children all leaving at once. She's decided to treat this as her little honeymoon.
“Your mom is just being a bully. She won't let me drive for more than thirty minutes,” he whined in a way that I knew had my mom melting.
Their love made me feel so happy, yet sad because I'll never have anything remotely close to it.
“Fine, you'll get one more drive and I'll time it. Thirty minutes and we'll go to the store for supplies. The shop is looking empty after the revamping we did,” my mom told him and I could hear them kissing in the background
“Eww! You too get a damn room!” I screamed at them, laughing.
“Don't worry, you'll be falling head over heels in love with your man soon. What did you want to talk about though? You sounded sad earlier,” my Dad asked me but their display of affection had succeeded in changing my whole mood and I didn't feel like diving back into it.
“Don't worry about that, Papa. I'm fine. Don't give Momma anymore gray hairs, she hates them,”
“I'll simply buy hair dye, haha! Ouch! She smacked me! This is what I'm talking about, so much abuse from my own wife,” he laughed and I could hear my mom doing the same thing.
“I'll talk to you guys later, okay? Have a great day,”
“You too, my love. Make sure you don't allow anyone to look down on you just because you're human. Remember they're the strangers, not us,” my Dad said to me in a more serious tone.
“Yes Papa, bye,” I said to them before cutting the phone.
I took a deep breath and turned around to leave the bathroom but Xavier was standing by the door probably listening to everything we'd been saying.
“Shall we?” He gestured for me to come out, his tone flat.
I did but deep down, I felt like I'd done something wrong even though I didn't.
I just wanted to get this whole rally thing over and done with so today would come to an end, I'd had enough of it.
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