12th Dîsciplê Episode 36

Danica

I woke up the next morning, took my bath and got ready for school. Getting to the sitting room, I found grandma setting the dining and went ahead to meet ger.

“Good morning, granny”, I said lightly, my eyes surveying the dining. It was just scrambled eggs and bread.

“Good morning,,darling. You ready for school?” She asked and I nodded.

There was a brief silence.

“Could you get your mum for me, please? She should be in her room. Tell her to come down for breakfast”, grandma said and I felt a little twitch.

“Um….okay”, I replied nervously, dropped my bag on the table and left.

I knocked on the door of her room, but there was no response. Then, I opened the door slowly and had a peek before walking out.

“M…Mum?” I called with a crack in my voice, but she didn’t seem to be in the room.

Huh? Where could she be?

“Mum?” I called again, walking deeper.

Then, I found spotted something on the bed – a photograph that was laid downwards. It looked so familiar like it was rhe same photograph I’d caught mum staring at the other day.

I walked closer to it and picked it up. And my eyes drooped when I discovered it was Bitna’s picture.

Whaaaat??? Bitna?? What is mum doing with her photography?

I arched my brows as I stared at it, feeling confused and surprised. Why would mum have Bitna’s picture with her? And the way she’d been staring at it…so enthusiastic.

I sure heard footsteps from the bathroom and quickly, I dropped the picture back on the bed and moved away from it. The door opened immediately with mum walking out.

She seemed to had just taken a shower as she looked wet and had a towel around her neck.

“What’re you doing here?” She asked, her voice as hard as usual.

I lowered my gaze.

“Good morning, mum. Grandma asked me to call you down for breakfast” I replied lowly and could tell she was glaring at me.

“Fine. You can leave” she said grumpily and I turned around and left the room.

I returned to the dining and took my seat quietly, next to grandma.

“Is she coming?” Grandma asked and I just nodded.

Thinking of the fact that i was being hated by my own mother, hurt me so much.

Mum didn’t show up until I was done eating. And when I’d stood up with my bag, that was when showed up.

“I’ll be on my way now, granny. Bye” I mumbled to grandma after taking my bag.

“Bye dear. Take care of yourself”.

“Make sure you’re home early today. Remember we have something to do”, mum suddenly said from the stairs and I turned to look at her, tears burning the back of my eyes.

Oh God!

I just sniffed and nodded and walked out of the house and as I did,,I heard grandma asking “what’s that?”

Well, I was sure she’d either ignore her, or lie to her.

As I gor far from the house, a tear came strolling down my cheek. How can mum do this to me, huh? How? How can she just give me away to the ruthless prince?? All for money??

I felt cursed,,rejected. What did I do to deserve such a mother? I loved her, but she doesn’t and it was killing me slowly.

Good lord.

I got to the roadside, boarded a cab and in a short time, I was on my way to school.

I leaned my heas on the hard window and continued thinking – thinking about a lot of things. I tried as much as possible not to weep anymore. I had a presentation with the prince and needed to put on my best mood.

I tried to detach my mind from my present condition and after a long while, I was there in school.

Ah! At last.

I got off the cab and continued the rest of the distance to the gate.

The earliest trick seemed to have helped me as I felt a lot better. I got to the gate, showed the security my pass and walked into the building.

I was on my way to class when suddenly, two students, holding a rubber of whatever, ran towards my direction and seemed to be fighting over it.

“I said let it go!”

“Let it go!”

“I’m going to smack you in the face, Jeong!”

Hold on….I recognized them very well. They were Bitna’s companions.

They ran towards my direction with the argument and as soon as thy got to where I was, they poured it on me.

Oh my…..God!!!!!!

“Ahh!” One of them shirked.

I opened my mouth agaped as the entire paint poured on me. It was pure paint, and stained from my hair down to my skirt.

Holy Christ!!

“You caused this, Hana! I warned you, didn’t I? You caused this. Look what you’ve done to this poor lady”.Jeong squealed, but I was speechless.

How could they….

“Oh! Danica, we’re so sorry. It wasn’t intentional. Please,,forgive us”, Hana said apologetically.

“Was this really necessary?” I snapped.

“Please, it wasn’t intentional. You can make use of the bathroom. We’re so sorry”.

I glared hard at them. Gosh! And the presentation was just a few minutes from now.

I huffed and walked away, headed for the ladies’ bathroom.

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