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2021-08-11 14:30:53GRACE.
My eyes fluttered open but closed again unable to accommodate the blinding morning light streaming into the room from above.
My head pounded in my skull drawing a groan from me. I tried opening my eyes again this time around but not as wide as the first time before realizing my room never had this much sunlight in the morning. Then the memories of the night before came crashing in on me like confetti. Noooooooooo! I screamed in my head. Shit. Shit. Please be a dream or nightmare, please, please, I begged the embarrassing images in my head.It came in puzzles at first, but as I looked around my environment, I realized, the memories weren’t a dream. They were real, and I was really lying on Connor’s bed, in his room. But he wasn’t here, and I wonder how long I have been out.I was going to take just a glass of drink with Director Lance, but the frustration pushed me to
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AUTHOR’S NOTE.I’m using this opportunity to talk about ‘Cyber Bullies’. It is real and it hurts. A lot of people have taken their lives due to harsh comments from people who they don’t even know on the internet.So before typing and sending those harsh words, think of the feelings of the person on the receiving end. Some persons are really fragile and your words could do more damage than you can imagine.A person can be a murderer even without hurting another person physically. Your words are powerful, use them to do the right thing, use them to heal and not cause harm.You have no idea what the other person is really going through already. Your words can be what would either make them or break them.Stop Cyber bullying.If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. Also, if you're going through any hurt or bullying from people you know or people you don't, I want you to kn
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I picked up the phone and started scrolling through the comments under the video. I was already feeling shitty so I might as well get it over with.“You don’t have to read those, Grace, they would only make you feel worse.” Connor muttered but I simply ignored him.One of the commenter, Alpha Female wrote: “Damn! Connor Shelby be looking so hot even in pjs, I wouldn’t mind having his second child! (Laughing emoji)”I would have laughed but there wasn’t any streak of humor in me.Another commented: “Men are so rotten. How can he announce his engagement only few days ago and be found acting like a knight in shining armor to another woman? He clearly has feelings for her so why get involved with the innocent Angela Zadok?”And I had always thought I was the innocent one.Next comment: I’m dead sure she’s just a baby mama and after hearing the engagement news, she’s trying t
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JODY.My house suddenly felt empty today.I sat in my sitting room, watching a new Korean drama series that I was looking forward to but I couldn’t get into it. My eyes kept going to my kitchen and imagining Marcus there making pasta.He looked perfect that day in my red apron, and the food he made was just as perfect. I thought he was going to spend the night with me that day but he couldn’t because of the threatening text he got.It gave me the chills and I can’t help being scared for him even though he kept telling me it meant nothing. The last time I called, he sounded so busy and I couldn’t even ask him when he was going to come here or if he had the plans to.A loud knock on my door pulled me out of my thoughts. Must be Marcus, I thought as I rushed to put on my robe and slippers. I have missed him too much to make him pissed as soon as he get here.I checked the mirror one more time to see
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GRACE.I prepared my child for school the next day like a robot.My mind was on the verge of exploding. Left for me, I would begin home schooling for Laurel but this was actually the time in her life she needed to learn the basics of socializing with people. After listening to Connor’s reason for trying to stop me from leaving, an unknown fear for my child and Connor started growing on me. Everyone around him and even him was in danger. It wasn’t a joke as I had thought. Because of how things went between us, I had completely forgotten the incident that brought us back together.The assault.And if I hadn’t been at the scene that day, he would have probably died and so would his driver. An assault so horrific, he refused to go to the hospital to get treated.All because of a piece of land and a grudge.And all those times, I believed he was simply avoiding the press and how much damage
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I got up immediately and followed her to her office. I felt speechless. Although I didn’t expect her to act like Michelle but I didn’t see the act of her standing up for me coming. Not only that, she sent Michelle on an unpaid leave because of me.“I’m sorry on behalf of everyone here, Grace,” she started in her regular stern tone as soon as we got into her office, “However, I believe you should take a break. I’m not sending you on an unpaid leave, I’m just telling you to go and have some time for yourself and think properly if you really want to continue working here.”“Ma’am, I love my job, I love working here. I really don’t have to think about it.” I interjected even though I knew she was right.“I know you do, Grace,” she stood behind her desk looking down at me, “But you don’t seem to get my point here. This isn’t about you anymore, Direc
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JODYMarcus volunteered to drive so I handed him my car keys and sat on the passenger’s seat.His car was back at my apartment as I drove us to the date with my own car. We drove to my house in a silence he obviously wasn’t comfortable with as his eyes kept darting from the road to stare at me.“Jody, is something wrong?” he asked peering into my face before turning to face his steering.“We need to talk,” I retorted.“Alright, go ahead.”“I will when we get home.”“Tell me now, babe,” he pleaded giving me the puppy eyes. “How can I concentrate when you’re looking like that? Tell me already!” I was getting angrier already as it stands, so I’ll just go ahead and tell him here.“Fine.” I said. “What are we right now, Marcus? I need you to tell me.”“What are we how?” he ask
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GRACE.Jody was a total mess.Seeing her like this broke my heart and I really crave to do something no one can imagine to the person responsible for her being this way.NK and I sat beside her in her sitting room trying to console her and talk some sense into her as well. We seriously couldn’t understand the situation even though we were trying so hard to.They only dated or better put, saw each other for a month and at some point I even thought they weren’t serious anymore till I saw them together at that blind date.I mean, my friend have never been this broken by any man before. Its Jody, the spunky, spontaneous and you-only-live-once Jody!The person with black eye bags, messy and unkempt hair sitting on the love seat by the fire side was just like a shadow or a demon possessing our friend.But all these simply meant she really did love him because the last time she was this way with someone was back in hi
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