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“Hey!” Costanza cut her off, “You must have finally lost your mind!”
“Yes! I’ve finally lost my mind!” Rhea retorted, staring at her straight in the eyes. She was done putting up with their bullshit! Yes, she has had enough!
“Anyone who has lived with you devils in this hell hole should have lost their minds already!”
“How dare you!” Costanza shouted and tried to slap her once again, but Rhea grabbed her hand and instead, slapped her on the face. Twice.
Costanza saw her world swirl and she almost stumbled to the ground. The instant she recognized where she was, the girl let out a high-pitched screech that was capable of even waking the dead from the grave.
“Mother!!!” She howled, clutching her face.
As expected, no sooner had she screamed, her mother rushed into the room as if she was being chased by the devil himself.
“Costanza!” the woman shrieked, rushing over to her daughter, “What happened?”
“She slapped me?!” Costanza pointed at Rhea with tears-filled eyes, clutching one of her cheeks, “Rhea slapped me!” She howled like a kid.
“What?!” Rhea watched a look of shock cross her aunt’s features. The woman turned to her with red, wide eyes, “You hit my daughter,”
“She hit me first, I was just defending myself,” Rhea told her firmly. What did the woman expect her to do? Sit still and watch her assault her? Oh please, she wasn’t that same kid they maltreated because she couldn’t defend herself. She has grown. She was an adult.
“You witch!” Her aunt bellowed like an injured beast, “Why don’t I just kill you today?!”
And just like that, the crazy woman pounced on her, grabbing her hair with the intention of pulling out her roots. She was going to teach that witch a lesson.
“Aunty, stop it!” Rhea cried out, trying to loosen the woman’s vice hold on her hair. Her scalp stung with sharp pains and her head throb.
Meanwhile, Costanza who had been crying moments ago now had a smile on her face. She made no efforts to separate nor calm her mother, that bitch deserved whatever comes to her. Who does she think she is? In this life, Rhea would always remain beneath her!
“I should stop it?! When you wanted to kill my daughter? I’m just showing you how murderers are treated! They’re not supposed to live!” the woman grabbed a fistful of Rhea’s hair, increasing the pain.
Unable to take the pain anymore, Rhea pushed at her aunt with all her strength, the woman bumped into the wall and fell.
“Aiyo!” her aunt screamed dramatically, “You now want to kill me as well?!”
“How dare you hit my mother!” Costanza rushed at her.
However, before Costanza could touch her, Rhea had already grabbed her baseball bat on the wall and pointed it threateningly at them.
“Touch me and I’ll beat the life out of you!” Rhea roared a warning to them. She looked like a madwoman as her head was disheveled; her eyes completely red and wild; her body was taut with tension. Like a cornered animal, she looked ready to attack for her survival.
Costanza took a step back, she was not a fool to run into danger – she could feel the murderous intent reeking off of Rhea. The bitch must have lost it.
“Come on! Come and touch me!” Rhea dared them. This battle has been held off for a long time and right now, she is ready for war. She had endured long enough.
None of them dared to take a foot further, instead, her aunt wailed further, “I said it! This is why you shouldn’t raise another person’s child! They end up as ingrates!”
Rhea turned a deaf ear to her aunt’s hysterics, her aunt has always been a drama queen. Even though those words stabbed her, she ignored them.
“Now, get out of my room this instant!” She ordered them.
“Hey, Rhea! Don’t be so cocky! This house belongs to us! You don’t get to tell us -”
Costanza didn’t get to finish her words because Rhea swung the bat violently at them and both mother and daughter fled for their lives. That stupid girl has finally lost her mind!
“Rhea, just because I covered up for you the last time doesn’t mean you can take advantage of my….” Mimi, who had strode over to Rhea intending to give her a piece of her mind, halted in her tracks as soon as her eyes landed on her.
“Holy mother of God,” Mimi cursed as soon as her gaze landed on Rhea’s face. The girl might have covered her red eyes with makeup but Mimi was her best friend and could see through the disguise.
She grabbed Rhea and pulled her into the back room, away from the customer’s eyes and the annoying boss.
“Did that witch and her daughter hurt you again?” Mimi asked in concern.
Rhea simply nodded. She was mentally and physically tired to say a word; remembering what happened this morning was like a sword piercing through her heart.
“Gosh,” Mimi exhaled angrily through her nose and clasped her face in her palm, “How could they do that to this pretty face?”
Rhea smiled at her, feeling better. Mimi was her best friend and one of the few people who helped keep her sane throughout her ordeal.
…..
They had met the first time her uncle took her to this city after her father’s death. Rhea became withdrawn and quiet after her father’s death and when her uncle put her in the new school, she talked to no one.
But her silence was short-lived. Hardly had she sat down, Mimi turned to her and introduced herself, displaying those perfect white teeth – that still gleamed till now. As expected, Rhea ignored her, expecting her to move along like the others she snubbed, but Mimi did the opposite. She went ahead to talk about herself, her hobbies and all, that if it wasn’t for the teacher’s presence, the girl would have talked on.
As soon as class was over, Rhea left the class without a word to Mimi but the girl persisted and followed after her, still talking. Her unappreciated discussion irritated Rhea so much, couldn’t the annoying fly understand the fact she needed no one.And then, Rhea pushed her.
Mimi staggered back, knocking into the lockers and drawing attention from the crowd of students in the hallway. Rhea hated their stare, she was not a circus, why were they staring at her that way?
Then she wanted to hide away from their stare. She didn’t their pity! Their sympathy! The daughter of a mogul suddenly becomes an orphan! She didn’t need their fake compassion! She had seen enough of that at her father’s burial!
Rhea stood, attempting to hide away from their prying eyes when she received a hard shove causing her to fall to the ground on her bum. Then she looked, it was that girl again and the crowd was cheering her on. Something snapped inside of her at that moment. It was that girl’s fault, the reason the crowd were pitying her.
Without warning and with great speed, Rhea tackled the annoying girl to the ground and they began to fight as the students cheered them on. They clawed at each other, grabbed and pulled on the hairs, and shouted at their faces until the teachers arrived and separated the both of them.
The both of them got detention which was quite a shame to Rhea since this was her first day at school. She’d probably be tagged a trouble maker from now on. None of them talked to each other at detention till it was time to go home and that was where the strange part began.