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I love to hate you Chapter 24
Saturday had finally arrived with the house as quiet as Cold Spring's graveyard. Apart from Mimie and Adam's midnight calls of boisterous wishes, there was nothing. Nothing else felt birthdayish. Disappointed, neither Seth nor Julia called or messaged. Vexed, her parents must have already left home without a word. Slightly surprised, Kelly messaged her, called, and even went the extra mile of changing the book donation group subject to 'It's our registrar's birthday.' That lashed chains of wishes from all seventeen members. Since the restroom talk, there hasn't been any major encounter, but the nanoseconds they casually met in the cafeteria and involuntarily in the corridors proved that she was recovering physically. She hoped mentally too. And she prayed for that day to come when she'll want Kelly to cool the unattainable itches on her back. Her apple wall clock read 8:50 a.m. She sighed and began to prepare for the first step into the most boring birthday of her life hadn't it be
I love to hate you Chapter 25
"I'm so ashamed of myself. I don't like this. She has to know," Seth spilled through gnashing teeth, immensely ravaged. "Of all places, you think here and now's right for you to talk about it or tell her? Come on, you reason way better than that, Seth. Step up your game and do what you have to do. It's now or never." "Do what?" Gianna intervened after a long ride of searching. "You two just dotted out of the gathering without a word. Is everything alright?" Rigid to the marrow, Julia asked, "Have you been there for long?" "No, why?" "Thank goodness," she pulled her bewildered friend closer. "Seth has a special surprise for you. We're lucky it's not ruined. Go on Seth, don't be shy. With that, lovebirds, I'm out." Gianna shyly turned to Seth swinging back and forth on her heels and toes, waiting. Nervously. So far the most nervous moment of her life. Choked on her lover's silence, she went on with, "so...what is this 'special surprise'?" Seth dug his hands in his pocket and suck
I love to hate you Chapter 26
Gianna was staring at the home party invitation card Elodie had given her before hopping into Gerald's car for home. With her name precisely inscribed on it, nothing bode well. She'd heard about Elodie Jones' house parties, "Hell's bait", organized almost every month and how top-notch, over man's expectations, they often were. Given the constant absence of her parents, Elodie made good use of the opportunity to throw irresponsible parties, regardless, absent or not she still had a party permit with the sole difference being parent's recommended upper-cruster's kids responsibly discussing over tea, cakes, patties, and hired violinists or pianists performances. Modest parties. What a bag of bore. But what she had never heard about was the distribution of invitation cards. Gianna glowered at the shimmery pink card on her study table. It terribly stunk of pungent intentions. Especially if she had to add the girl's uncertainties about her relationship with Sean. Gianna shuddered at th
I love to hate you Chapter 27
The only thing Gianna picked up in Mimie's rants was her partnership with Robin Stewart. She felt sorry for her as Robin was an empty skull but more for herself. Nothing to do with Adam. She'd been detached from her and Adam's gibberish for quite a bulk of a while as they walked out of campus. Her mind was so preoccupied that she almost lost her footing.Noticed but not commented upon, she felt her friend's sympathetic looks on her. Whatever it was that they wished to ask was held back and replaced with occasional mind-changing topics. Yet to no avail."It's the perfect time to consider my invitation," Elodie swatted Mimie from Gianna's side to take her place with a hand on the beaten's shoulder. "You should come, it's going to change your mind a whole lot, even if it's just for a night. It'll be a night to remember."She understood that her skeptical retort to Elodie's invitation was not appreciated but not to the extent of such a bashful attitude. It was unlike her. Even though she
I love to hate you Chapter 28
It was close to eleven yet Gianna's eyes and mind functioned like the day had just begun; fresh and kicking nonstop. She had lost count of the number of times she'd changed positions in bed and the remembrance of the types of positions she'd taken apart from that which she currently was in—her pillow tightly buried in her chest as her back rested on the headboard.She still did not want to reckon.When she finally picked up the phone that had been changing positions with her in her process of intense thinking, her thumbs roamed to Mimie's name in an attempt to call but her time consciousness made her go for the messaging icon instead.Gianna hesitated as the lightened screen dulled to the extent of a total blackout. Gratitude to the calm lightning from the archaic designed bedside lamp.As her chest deflated, her chin rested on the top sector of the pillow, saved from her tight squeeze, deep in thought.She couldn't tell Mimie. However, she had to talk to someone.Her message to Julia
I love to hate you Chapter 29
"No, I'm not," Gianna pinned.Sean's eyes deviated from her to Mimie with a mischievous smile. "Just follow me, Donut van.""Your ears must be clogged, I just said no!"In an instant, his hands clasped her wrist, forcing her out of the seat with her half-eaten sandwich flying on the floor. "Hey! You're hurting me."He paid her no mind as he kept pulling her away. "Sean. Ouch, Sean." She struggled to pry his fingers off to no avail.Mimie who had been petrified by fear the entire time finally depetrified and to her friend's aid she ran. Much to Gianna's surprise, Mimie held the hand that linked him to her friend."Le-let her go!""Le-let her go," he mimicked. "Get the fuck off my business or I get you the fuck off."Mimie's heroism fell, not enough to let her friend be carried away by the psychopathic bully though. She hurriedly scanned the environment. To her luck, she sighted two individuals on the tennis court sauntering towards them. From the way they talked and laughed, from afar,
I love to hate you Chapter 30
"Did I omit anything?" Gianna reflected, "you did not omit but you mismatched some dates." Adam finger-rubbed his eyes towards his nose bridge like little boy. "This is devastating, I swear." "You're almost there. I didn't think we'll get this far before Wednesday." "Am I that lame-brained?" "I didn't mean it in that sense. Ok, let's have a five minutes break," she stretched her arms and waist. "Recreation time?" Petra grinned from the door. Gianna gasped out of fear. "How long have you been there, sneaky piper?" "Hmm, for about 'Let's have a five minutes break' long. Hey, Ad, I brought you some more cookies," she smiled at Adam who uneasily rubbed the back of his neck. "We haven't even finished these." "Huh? Ad?" Gianna selectively echoed, unbelievably. "Girl, get the hell out of my room or I'll tell mum you're being troublesome." "Hmph!" She lifted her chin with an attitude as she struggled to drop the bowl of cookies she'd used as an excuse to see and talk to Adam on Gia
I love to hate you Chapter 31
As expected, the McCoy's arrival shifted her mother into a home news reporter with the headlines being the obvious; The McCoy's in town. The news in full mentioned their visit to the new neighbors on Sunday after church service, baking a cake or a pie— whichever she ended up settling with, and giving her and Petra behavioral lectures. Her, Gianna, most especially, given her striking hate to the family over the weeks. Now she was glad, short-lived but effective; away from her born again McCoy praising mum, where her ears could rest and where she discovered where Petra got her endless blabbing gene from, Gianna checked herself for the nth time in front of Mimie's floor length mirror. Because she wasn't a fashionista or a dress-up guru, she appreciated the little effort she'd made to look a little out of the ordinary. First of all, her curly hair was unusually loose, too voluminous that it made her face almost non-existent and barely recognizable. Incognito mode 1 was checked. Her low
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