Toujours Pur | Euphemia Black

Chapter 56 | No Way

Mia had thought it had been bad enough when the Rosiers and Blacks had married Druella and Cygnus when they were only in seventh year at Hogwarts but Euphemia would only be in fifth year!

Yes, she would be going into sixth year if it was happening in the summer after fifth year but Mia still didn't want to get married to Orion at such a young age.

She didn't even want to get married at all - the fact that her family were forcing her into an unwanted marriage was actually cruel, even for them.

They were trying to trap Euphemia in the family with no escape and Mia felt the panic rise up in her as her mother stared at her, waiting for a reaction.

"Well?" Cassiopeia prompted her daughter, seeing Euphemia's wide, scared eyes as she took deep breaths to try and avoid convulsing into a supreme panic attack.

"I don't want to," Mia replied defiantly, feeling braver than she had ever felt before, "I don't want to marry Orion and you can't make me!" she yelled at her mother, internally alarmed at her own nerve.

Cassiopeia's eyes widened and her mouth parted in shock - she was not used to this kind of rebellious attitude from her daughter of all people.

Euphemia had always been well behaved and she had always done what Cassiopeia had expected of her, she had even stopped being friends with scum so that her mother could be proud of her.

And yet, now she was actually standing up to Cassiopeia and the woman was taken aback before anger consumed her and she took another step towards her daughter threateningly.

"You will do what I say, Euphemia Cassiopeia Ophelia Black!" Cassiopeia hissed at Mia, using her full name to try and intimidate her.

Cassiopeia didn't like how she had lost the power that she had had over Mia and she stepped towards her daughter even more but Euphemia didn't cower, she didn't even flinch - she stared back at her mother, her jaw set in determination.

Internally, Mia was freaking out and alarm bells were ringing all over her body but she wasn't going to let her mother walk all over her anymore, she was going to at least try and stand up to her.

"Will I, though?" Euphemia challenged Cassiopeia, "If I'm old enough to be married, I'm old enough to make my own choices and I say no! There is no way that I am marrying Orion and there is no way that I am going to listen to you anymore!"

Mia stood there, breathing heavily as Cassiopeia tried to process her daughter's words, not really believing what she was actually seeing, what was actually happening.

"How dare you talk to me like that!" Cassiopeia hissed, anger emanating off her in huge waves that Euphemia could practically feel, she could sense just how enraged her mother truly was.

"Oh, shut up you bitch," Mia spat at Cassiopeia, still hardly believing that she was actually talking to her mother like this, that she was actually risking her own safety for the sake of actually standing up to Cassiopeia for once.

Cassiopeia gasped and grabbed hold of Euphemia's wrist tightly, digging her nails into Mia's skin so that she almost bled but Euphemia simply raised her other hand and slapped Cassiopeia right across the face.

Knowing that she had practically just signed a death contract, Mia quickly ran past her mother, whilst she held her slapped cheek in shock, and tried to escape via the door.

Euphemia knew that she wasn't going to last long after that moment but it had felt so good to finally shout at her mother and to finally hit her, to finally defend herself instead of giving in.