Susie fell flat, the impact of this hit being stronger than the first.
"Let’s throw her in the pot already." Elias said, irritated. "She does not have anything useful to say."
Sienna tapped his arm slowly. "I know. But I still wanted to hear her out for a mont. Call it closure for any residual feelings." She looked at Susie without any warmth in her eyes. "Did you have to take it this far? Did you have to target my child?"
Susie laughed, laying on the ground where she had landed. "How else was I supposed to make you feel pain?" Her voice beca shrill and loud, "Why? Why did you get lucky? Your family was the poorest in our neighborhood. Your mother was a farm worker that earned pennies. Other children were unwilling to be your friends.
Only I opened up to you. I invited you into my ho, let you sleep over when your mother was working night shifts. My parents fed you." She cackled, twitching as if her body was being shocked by lightning. "And you...what did you do for in return? Even if I was not the perfect friend, I still lent you an umbrella when it was raining on your end. How did you repay for my kindness? You stopped answering my calls as soon as you tied the knot with a fox lord.
You couldn’t even spare a job for in your new ho or the businesses your husband’s family owns. I called you when my mom needed surgery and you blocked directly. You are the worst person in the world, Sienna Miller. So, why can’t I hate you? Why are the gods so unfair? Why do good things happen to a wretch like you?"
She broke down in tears, screaming loudly, unleashing so much pent up anger from the depth of her heart.
Sienna straightened. "Now that you have finishing airing your grievances, I will tell you why I cut you off. Yes, you are the only person that bothered to befriend , but it was not because you wanted to be my friend. It was because you wanted to bring down. My family was poor, but I have always been pretty. Everyone around us knew it. And you, Susie, always hated it.
After befriending , you went around introducing to everyone as your poor friend, stomping on my self esteem bit by bit. If you gave a dress or a hair clip, you practically scread it from the balcony of your house. You always made sure that I dressed in dull colors while you wore bright ones to appear more attractive than .
Any boy that liked , you would go around my back to ruin my na and image and take their affection for yourself. When I got good grades, you hinted to others that I might have cheated, making them loathe . When I decided to dance my way out of poverty, you tried to talk out of it. When it failed, you decided to start dancing as well.
You didn’t have natural talent like , so your mother signed you up for classes I could not afford, and bought you outfits and shoes that you rubbed in my face pretentiously. Still, I trained day and night, acting blind and deaf to your actions. When I started live streaming myself dancing, you did the sa. But your popularity was not as high as mine, so your hatred for deepened. So much so that you put a nail in my shoe to cripple !"
Soone gasped.
"Let go of ." Mrs. Miller scread.
When Sienna looked back, she saw her mother tightly gripped in Jorik’s claws.
Susie’s manic screams ca to an end, replaced by laughter. "You knew..." she said in disbelief, in a low voice.
Sienna nodded. "Of course I knew. But when you are poor, it is not as if you have many options. I needed nutritious food in large portions and you provided it. Even if I had to tolerate everyone knowing that it was charity, I didn’t care. I needed new clothes and you provided them. What did it matter if they were dull colored? At the end of the day, I didn’t have to wear hand downs or patched ones. My mother could also save more and pay other bills that mattered.
All those beautiful hair clips, shoes, bracelets....all of it. I accepted them because I wanted to. When you realized I could get good grades, despite telling everyone that I cheated, you went ahead and asked to tutor you privately so that you could surpass . In return, I asked for text books I could not afford and you provided them. I even let you get better grades than so that your mother could increase the tutoring fee she was paying .
Do you know why I played along when you suggest that we start dancing as a duo?"
Susie’s face had a look of shock and despair. But it was nothing in comparison to the flabbergasted looks on the people around.
"Wow...who was playing who?" Corven Junior whispered.
Soren sniggered. "Of course it was my sister. I love her just the way she is. But she should co with a warning label for those who think they can destroy her. She is selfish and always puts herself first in every situation. Her selfishness was limited to , whatever she took from the Wiener’s I also got a share. My sister used to say that a starving dog has no right to reject free at." He raised a finger. "Unless its going to kill you."
Soone laughed.
anwhile, Sienna delivered the final blow to Susie. "Signing up for the contest needed money, costus needed money, good shoes needed money. I needed to look presentable. If I was dancing alone, it would be hard but with you, a foolish cash cow, things would be smoother. You rubbed it in my face as you swiped your daddy’s card and bought what I needed. You even told thank you in front of the saleswon just to humiliate . But like I said, I didn’t care about that, only the end results.
Tickets for the ship taking us out of Lost-born city to Clawspire were expensive and you Susie, just had to have the best. You didn’t pay for just any tickets but first class ones. So what if you made push your suitcase as if I was your servant? So what if you shouted at to hurry up or sneered at ? All I needed was a way out of Lost-born city and you provided it."
Sienna leaned back in the chair, and Elias put a cup of tea brought by Shalin into her hands. "Do you get it now, Susie? You were not the hunter, I was."
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