
BRAKKK!!
I slammed the door of my house. Everyone inside the house was shocked by my rude behavior. They were also no less surprised to see my messy appearance.
“What kind of rude behavior is this?” ask Lucy's mother.
Even though she was officially married to my father, I never once wanted to acknowledge her as my mother. Moreover, I knew that before she became my father's wife, she was only a mistress.
“Shut up!” my snapping.
“Will square this rude behavior of yours to your father!” Lucy's mother pointed her index finger at me.
“Just throw! You think I'm scared!”
My voice was blaring in the living room. I'm really wrathful. My guess is that Lucy spread such absurd rumors.
“What is this?”
Plaque!
A slap I slapped into Lucy's cheek as soon as she emerged from behind the door behind me. My emotions have reached the crown.
Lucy hit the door behind her. He fell down and sat on the terrace.
The people inside my house looked at what I had just done. I, who had always been a good-natured child in the house, suddenly behaved very rudely today.
“What did you just do?! Lucy!”
Lucy's mother ran over to Lucy who looked very surprised after I slapped her. The woman even nudged me and didn't feel guilty at all.
“What is this storm?”
My father walked into the courtyard. He was surprised to see the atmosphere of the house that looked tense. He looked at me and Lucy who was sitting on the floor holding her cheeks that looked flushed alternately.
“It-“
“What is this Alicia? Explain!”
Not yet had Lucy's mother told her what had just happened, my father immediately cut off her words and asked for an explanation from me.
The tears that had stopped coming out of my eye suddenly came out again without me holding back. I tried to explain it, but my voice shook and I stammered.
My father's previously hardened face suddenly panicked as soon as I saw me crying so pitifully. He walked past Lucy and her mother, and took my hand to get out of there.
“Get drinking water!” tell Dad.
He led me to sit on the living room couch.
The maid at my house, came with a glass of water on the tray not long after.
“Drink first.” My father handed me a glass of water.
***
After calmer, I looked back at the cynical Lucy and her mother who had entered the house. They were still not allowed by my father to speak.
“Now explain, what is it exactly?”
“Lucy spread rumors on campus that I'm not Dad's biological son and just live in this house as a parasite. He's spreading that he's actually Dad's real son. The people at the college are so sorry for him and back me.”
Everyone in the room was really shocked to hear what I just said. No one, maybe except Lucy and her mother, knows about the bad rumors that are spreading on my campus. They probably never even imagined I would tell my father.
“Who are you calling Dad?!”
My father's voice was high, his face was hardened. He seemed very upset by what he had just heard.
Lucy was silent as soon as she heard the screams from my father. He does not defend himself. His mother even looked terrified at the look on my father's face right now.
“I've been kind enough to accept your son in this house, but look what he just did to my daughter! If I knew this, I would never have accepted you both in this house. You think I don't know how you've been doing all this time? Berfoya-foya spent the hard-earned money I made every day. Here's the reply?!”
In my heart I am relieved. I don't really want to expect much from my dad. Moreover, I still remember how it felt when he slapped my cheek until it was swollen. The corner of my lips even to the point of tearing it made.
“Son, if tomorrow you still receive the same treatment, Father himself will intervene to your campus and humiliate the girl does not know himself.”
At first glance I could see Lucy biting her lips while staring in anger at me. I don't care so much because it was his fault.
“You!” Show it to Lucy.
“If tomorrow I still hear the same thing, don't expect you to set foot into this house!”
“Mas!”
“No rebuttal!”
My father went into his room, leaving us in the living room in a tense atmosphere. I know my father's threats never play games.
“Your satisfaction?” ask Lucy's mother.
“No! You think I'm happy to be treated like that? You think I'm afraid of you! Just look at tomorrow. I also have my own way to humiliate you both!”
I left Lucy and her mother still standing in the living room. I could see flashes of hatred from the gazes of the two. But I will neither fear nor retreat with the threat I just threw out of my mouth.
I was determined to change and wanted revenge. Things like this are not extraordinary but things that have been done right from the beginning.
“They should know the place correctly.” Kulirik cynically both of them before turning towards my room.
***
I lay my body on the bed. I really feel tired today. All the energy I had felt was drained with my emotions.
“I still can't believe Alexander didn't say anything earlier even though he already knows the truth of the rumor.”
My heart was worried about getting close to the man. But I haven't found a suitable candidate to break off my engagement to Timothee.
“What company is equivalent to JJ Group? With single men whose age is not much different from me.”
I was pensive for a long time, but there was no answer I got. JJ Group which will be inherited by Alexander Jordan will be even bigger in the future. It's hard to find a candidate on par with Alexander to get Timothee out of my life.
“But what if it turns out that Alexander is a worse choice than Timothee?”
Various bad memories of Timothee flashed inside my head. About the man's affair and Lucy, I caught both of them, until I was killed by the man.
Bad thoughts about what I'd experienced if Timothee was Alexander kept flashing through my mind. Alexander is smarter than Timothee, it's not a good thing if I'm hostile to him.
But still I still keep the heartache on that man. He could have defended me, but he didn't.
Tired of thinking, I decided to close my eyes. I'm really exhausted.
“Let's think about it.”