Laila was only fifteen when they married her off, she was old by the standards the time, but in the end she was just a child. She had lived all her life in a cabin log on the mountains with her widowed father and her older brothers, after her mother died in childbirth along with her unborn sister. Living alone with five men made her determined to the point of stubbornness, and also hard as a rock. But it also made her be completely unprepared for the life she was supposed to live as a wife. Her father had treated her as he had treated all her siblings, and they all learnt to fish, to hunt, and to split logs. She wasn't treated different until the day Devin, the lumberjack, showed interest on her. Luke and Liam, her two older brothers, had already formed families of their own, but Leo and Leighton were still living with their father, and no one had considered that their younger sister might be starting a family before they did. The way they saw her changed, she was no longer a little girl, she was a woman. She was not eager to get married, yet she knew that was what she was supposed to do. So, in the end, she accepted, what other choice did she have?
The day Laila wed was the first time she wore a dress, she was used to dress on hands-me-down clothes from her brothers and she was amazed to see she actually looked girly. Some women from a nearest town helped her comb her hair. Everyone told her she looked gorgeous, but she just felt nervous, she wasn't herself, and she wasn't sure about what was about to happen. She didn't remember almost anything about the wedding, she was confused and there was so many people around. Laila cried for the first time that day as she waved farewell to her family.
Marriage wasn't as bad as she had expected, for sure there were some strange parts in it, but her husband loved her and she started to feel comfortable around him. Yet, she wasn't prepared for some things. When she started feeling unwell she just thought it was a stomach bug or something, however she soon discovered it was something completely different. She was pregnant, and she was terrified.
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