NICOLE’S POV
I do not know how to address this feeling that I have, but I am sure that something happened when mom and Sophia had their alone talk together. I am also sure that I am not losing my mind nor simply having this weird intuition. I know I am right, damn it. What I only cannot do is actually pinpoint what is the actual thing that happened.
Pacing back and forth here in my room—I am still here at the mansion because I did not leave—I am taking my time whether I should confront mom or not. I mean, I cannot really confront her, so the proper polite
NICOLE’S POVJean Gilmore is one hopeless romantic man, and it was not a secret on how much he admires me since our high school days. I do not mind it. I do not mind people liking and admiring me as long as they like. It is their choice and it is something that we cannot control If they like me, then they like me. What I cannot do and all I can assure them is that I will not return the feelings for me. Out of the people who had the guts to actually confess to me, this very man can prove what I am talking about.The only difference now is that things have changed. Not
SAGE’S FLASHBACKFour years ago…Death is inevitable. If one would think about it, it is so simple—it is the natural ending for everyone in this world. I am not scared of death because since I was young, I understood and saw death with my own eyes. Not that I am the one who was facing it, but I watched people die at a young age that I even thought that it was dying and killing are the same thing. Death is inevitable. I know that one day I will face my own.
NICOLE’S FLASHBACKI can never understand how one is capable of feeling two completely different emotions at once—I am angry and I am relieved. I do not know how it works, but I am both equally. I am fuming angry for those who cause this and I am beyond relieved that Navier and Sage came back safely.Before I realized it, I was already out of bullet magazines to use. My gun’s muzzle is already smoking from all the bullets I fired just to calm down myself. My obsessive compulsiveness and my anger issues are mixing is all the worst ways possible that I am a
SAGE’S POVI must be losing my mind—or maybe I am dreaming. Either of the two, I just know that this is too good to be true. This is too impossible and yet… even if how much I try to convince myself that this is not real, this is my reality. Our reality. This is really happening like a dream come true. Nicole granted me to do what I have been dying to do.I could easily give in into temptation, easily give in into what this temptress wants to happen. I could effortlessly lose control and yet here I am, trying my best to make this right.
SOPHIA’S POVI was often told by Miss Minchin, our lovely university librarian, that I am a hopeless romantic for all the romance novels that I have read. I would always agree to her because I know to myself that I am indeed what they would call a hopeless romantic.I do believe in all the happiness ever after. I do believe in real and true love and pictures myself that I will have it for my own. I do believe that there will come a time that I will meet my soulmate.
NAVIER’S POVI do not know what exactly happened but there is definitely going on between my older sister Nicole and my best friend Sage. They have been taking turns at all things as if deliberately avoiding each other now. May it be here in the mansion or at the office. In fact, Sage even rarely comes here for the past week and he only reports through calls.What is even more surprising is that somehow, in some miraculous ways, they both arranged their schedules so they would not have to be together as in literally anywhere. It is getting annoyingly shitty having th
SOPHIA’S POVNavier cooked for me… Navier really, really, really cooked for me…I almost cried in so much happiness and appreciation that Navier did all these for me. I know that this is just a simple gesture and that this is not out of the ordinary—and that anyone can literally do this—but this is Navier! Navier really did his best in the kitchen just to bring me this homemade lunch. No one has ever done this for me before.
SOPHIA’S POVWhenever I would read novels—any novels with the element of romantic love—there is no secret that I would also experience what they call second lead syndrome where you will like the second lead guy more than the main lead guy. This happens most of the time especially when the main lead guy is just too toxic and shit, even if it is just in the first part of the story. But what is even more fascinating with us most readers is the way we would hate the lead guy for being toxic and shitty, yet we would deliberately fall for someone who is more naturally toxic and shittier, hence, being what makes him the bad guy.