Karamel: Before Earth

One

"Mother. I am not going to do that!"

"You must my child. It's the only way."

"No mother! They are sour creatures."

"Just eat one!" Me and my mother sat on the couch while she was forcing me to eat a lemonhead. "You never know unless you try..." She says laughing.

"Oh I know..." I say pushing her hand away. We both look back at the screen. The phone starts to ring so my mother picks it up.

"Yes, this is her. Uh, yeah. Oh, okay one second." She disappears into the hallway and starts to whisper. Her face looked concerned. She looks at me with sadness and worrieness. I mouth to her "what?" she holds up one finger to tell me one second.

"Okay. We will get back to you on that." She hangs up and puts the phone down.

"What's wrong mother?"

"Its uh, Daxam has agreed to a treaty."

"Oh my Rao! That's amazing!"

"Yes but they need something from us. More you my child."

"What?"

"They want you to marry. Marry the prince." I instantly feel myself tighten up. I couldn't talk or anything. I was in shock. "Kara, sweetheart are you okay?" She puts ger hand on my shoulder and I immediately stand up and walk away from her.

"Am I okay? Hell no! I cant go through with this! They were Daxamites! Fleas!"

"Yes but you could save millions of lives. Doesn't that mean more to you than who you marry?"

"I guess, but-"

"Then you have your answer my child. I'm sorry it has to be like this. I understand your anger. I'll let you think."

"I've thought, and I don't want to do it."

"Kara, you must. You have no choice."

"Mother-"

"That's enough! You'll marry him! I'm sorry."

I just looked at her. I didn't want to cry because that wouldnt helped anything. Instead I just walked outside and tried to clear my head. I slammed the door behind me.

I walked through the garden in my blue dress. I picked a rose and smelt it.

"You must be Kara Zorel. Daughter of Alura?" I looked at the man who had just appeared.

"Uh, depends. Whose asking?"

"Me, I am Monel."

"Uh, yeah. I'm Kara, why?" I said as I crossed my arms.

"Okay, this is going to be weird but I'm the Prince of Daxam. The one you're marrying."

"Oh Rao. I'm not marrying you!" I uncross my arms, turn around and walk away.

"You have to. Trust me kryptonian, I don't want to marry you either. The last person I'd want to marry is a stuck up-"

I turn around. "You better shut up before you say something you'll regret."

"I regret trying to reason with you."

"I thought you didn't want to do this either, and where are your body guards anyways?"

"I don't want to do this but I know that if we do this then we could stop this unessesary war!"

"Oh shut up! Your planet is just trying to fix what they started!"

"We didnt start this!"

"You stole from us! You stole minerals. Illegal minerals! So screw you Daxamite but I don't want to marry a criminal!"

"I'm not a criminal. Let's go sit."

"No!"

"You have to marry me! I dont want to do it but I can't just sit back and watch more people die!"

"Yeah, I get it. I'll marry you. But I will never love you." With that I walked to the coffee shop down the road. I could feel him following me.