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My mind was haywire. The bliss and happiness that I felt for the past months left like a blur. Everything was in chaos. I didn’t know how we were able to leave the company with all the chaos that was going on earlier. I still couldn’t believe it. It was like a nightmare, and I just wished that I could wake up already, but then no matter how I try to convince myself, the pain that I was feeling inside my chest was my constant reminder that everything was real. I couldn’t recall how Mommy and Daddy took me out of the building discreetly. I was crying the whole time, while my parents were arguing about how to stop the media from creating articles about this. Yes, it spread like a wildfire. In just seconds, our relatives were calling my parents already, saying that our family was on the frontline of some business blogsite. Wow. It’s amazing how the internet can grab this immediately. Just like that, we were trending in the business world already. Guess, we just have to wait for the broad
Defying the Norm (English) Chapter 49
Troubleshooting the media couldn’t be done in just how many days. In fact, it has been a week already, yet the media still hasn’t stopped about the scandal. “This is unacceptable! They were all at fault!”“How can Karrie be at fault?! She was the victim here, and she was hurt!” “And Felice wasn’t?! She didn’t know! If there’s someone to blame here, it is that professor!”“Felice was the one who got into a relationship with her professor! This scandal is her fault!” “Oh, like Karrie didn’t enter into a relationship with him, huh?! And she was the one who started that scandalous scene in the company!”“Oh come on, what do you expect?! She was hurt by her cousin and her ex-boyfriend!”“Felice didn’t know!” I took a deep sigh and closed my eyes tightly. I stepped back from the staircase and slowly walked back to my room already. The scandal didn’t just damage our reputation, it also caused a rift between our family. My relatives were blaming me for what happened. Wow. I didn’t even kn
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Just like what my parents said, they scheduled me a flight two days later. All the packing was done by our helpers, and my only contribution to be honest was my presence on the flight day already. My flight was at 12 AM, so it was impossible for the media to catch up to me. I didn’t know how my parents did it, but we didn’t even wait for boarding. The moment we reached the airport, we were escorted by security and staff of the plane. I was with Maia and my parents. “Thank you so much, Mr. Hales,” Mom said to the guy whom she was talking to earlier. I don’t know who he was or what his position was, but I guess he was the one who made this happen. “No problem, Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel. No problem,” the man said and smiled. He then shook hands with my parents. I bit my lip and just stared at them. I slightly jumped on my feet when I felt a hand nudging me. I blinked and turned to Maia. She was smiling at me. She’s older than me, I guess mid-thirties. She’s just usually quiet in the house,
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“Are you okay? Are you tired?” Maia asked worriedly. I just gave her a smile. “I’m fine,” I said as I took one of my luggage and went to the house. It was already eight in the evening, and we just arrived here in the house that my parents provided us in Nebraska. We were still unloading our things and the driver that brought us here was helping us. The house follows a gothic revival type of architecture. Most houses in this village have the same style. It has a steeply pitched roof with decorated bargeboard and cross gables, arched gothic windows and doors with arched panels, and a first-floor porch.It was actually big for just the two of us. It was spacious and has a lot of rooms in it. It has four rooms in the second room and also has a guest room here on the first floor. I sighed as I carried my big luggage to my room upstairs. I chose the room nearing the window with a view of the front porch. “Thank you!” I heard Maia say as I was hurrying down to get my other things. When I
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I cried to sleep and it was Maia who stayed with me the whole night. The next day, I woke up very late already. I think I was still jetlagged. I wasn’t even able to do anything the whole day but sleep. I yawned and got up from the bed already. I pressed my lips together before I went out of bed. Slowly, I walked out of the room and went downstairs. I yawned again and looked around it was dark around already and it was quiet as hell. “Maia?” I called. “Here!” I heard her voice from the kitchen. I scratched my head and went there immediately. “Hey!” she greeted. I saw her cooking our dinner. I looked at the counter. It had a lot of grocery bags there. I pursed my lips and went to it. “Hmm, you went out to the store…” I said. I heard her chuckle. “Yes. Hey, I know I told you that we’ll shop together, but you were so asleep, so I just went out on my own. Let’s just go out tomorrow again so you can buy what you want, okay? I only brought the essentials, though,” she said and gave me a
Defying the Norm (English) Chapter 53
Panic succumbed the hell out of me as I was staring at my cell phone. I felt like my whole world just shifted course as I was staring at my phone. I felt like the world just fell on me. No, no, no, no! My fingers were shaking already as I fidget with my phone. I opened my calendar again and re-trace the days that I had my period. Fuck. Fuck! This can’t be! This can’t be! My whole body was shaking already and I just found myself sitting down because I was too weak to even stand. I heard some customers asking me if I was okay, but I wasn’t able to answer them. I even heard some of them calling the guard already, but I still couldn’t move. I just stayed there, staring into nothing. “Felice? Felice?” I was just pulled back to reality when I felt someone shaking me. I then heard Maia’s voice. “Is she okay, Ma’am? Does she need something?” We even heard the staff say. Slowly, I looked around and saw that there were already people looking at us. Unknowingly, we were making a scene alre
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I was dumbfounded the whole day. I didn’t know what to do. It’s like the scandal all over again, but this time I felt fear. I was so scared that I ended up jailing myself in my room. I didn’t go out and eat. It was just Maia who kept on forcing me to eat because she said it could affect the baby…The baby… this baby inside me. My mouth parted as I slowly caressed my stomach. My eyes watered upon the thought that I was growing a human being inside me. I was in a fetal position and I covered myself with a comforter. The aircon was at the lowest temperature. No lights, even a lamp was on in my room. I could still smell the last food that Maia brought for lunch. It was on a tray on my bedside table. I swallowed the lump in my throat as I continued to caress my stomach. Tears started pouring down my face and I didn’t have the energy to even stop it. They just kept on coming, and I let them. I closed my eyes tight and bit my lip when I felt dizzy again. I waited for some seconds for it g
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My pregnancy changed the game big time. All I did that day was cry. Like I didn’t do that the whole time since this scandal started, right? Nothing was new about it already. My parents were just on their phones most of the time. It was Maia who continued to take care of me. I stayed in my room. I didn’t want to go out and listen to how they were planning to take this another scandal with me. Yes. They called the baby another scandal. They said it was another shame for our family, and that hurts me more. I curled into a fetal position again. I took a deep breath and I held onto my stomach. You’re still not born yet, but everyone was so chaotic already. I’m sorry, baby. I-I’m so sorry…“Hey…” I immediately wiped the tears on my face and sat up on the bed. “What? What is it this time?” I said coldly. She didn’t respond immediately. She was just looking at me as if gauging my reaction. I saw her biting her lip as she slowly walked toward me. “They’ll be sending us out again…” she sai
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