chapter Four

Later. 

When Chloe opened the door, she felt really exhausted, wanting nothing oder than a warm bath and some rest. To her shocb, she found herself face to face with a heavily made up face on the sofa.

 

The sight stunned her so much that she nearly dropped her bag. 

It was the first time she's seeing her after the incident of that day. Just the sight of that face made Ruth to recall the image of them entwined together,and instinctively, she wanted to avoid it. 

Chloe was quicker, grabbing her hand. “Ruth! Stop!”

Ruth stared blankly at the face in front of her. 

“Let go!” she didn't want to get entangled with her. She didn't hate her, she only hated herself for believing a man's sweet lies. 

Ruth's felt none of the heartache she expected. Chloe, red with anger, shouted, “Ruth, you heartless monster! I slept with your man!  I was FUCKED by ur man!. Are u blind or ur just stupid and deaf?”

How could she not feel pain? She had slept with her her man just to make her feel or suffer… ToTo suffer so much that she couldn't breathe, so much that she would scream to the heavens, so much that she would wish for death. Only then would Chloe feel satisfied. 

But things didn't go as Chloe had plan, and her frustration gnawed at her, like a thousand cats clawing at her heart. 

“u've always wanted him , so he yours from now,”Ruth said calmly, her face expression numb as if the matter had nothing to do with her. 

“Ruth, I hate you! I hate you!”,Chloe broke down, sobbing. “You heartless monster, you're the reason mother died and ruined our family….”

How could this cold and unfeeling woman be her sister.? 

Chloe’s tear streamed down her face. 

Mom had always favored her so much when she was alive! But how could she not shed a single tears after causing her death? Chole hated her! 

The boys at school worshipped her sister like a goddess. Men who once fawned over Chloe would abandon her with out a second glance after seeing Ruth. She hated that! 

Chole has always had eyes for Liam since the first day she set her eyes on him, but like the others, he too, after seeing Ruth, no longer spared Chloe a glance. And Ruth proud and indifferent, disdained, any who approached her. Yet these men would still grovel, eager to please her! She hated that! 

She hated how Ruth had stolen all the attention, the love, the glory and the man. She hated how Ruth had killed their mother, and made their father a widower, and brought their once carefree family to ruin overnight. They had to sell their house and move into the slum, and now Chloe was forced to work and endure the scorn of others to survive. 

And throughout all this, her sister remain cold, seemingly unaffected. She carried on with her serene, noble facade. 

Chloe hated it! She hated how Ruth could feel nothing while Chloe suffered so much! 

She refused to believe that Ruth had no heart, that she couldn't feel pain! 

So,she would tear off Ruth ’s false mask of nobility, she wanted to see Ruth's blood from the pain! 

How could Ruth remain so calm after witnessing her man in bed with her sister on Valentine’s Day? 

“Ruth, you're not human…. You're a devil, nothing but just a heartless witch!”. 

Chloe shove Ruth hard and stormed out, slamming the door behind her. 

Watching the door shake, Ruth's lips curved into a faint smile as she walked into the bathroom and submerged herself in the water. 

She wasn't human. She was heartless. She was a devil. 

Maybe that was true. 

She new Chloe hated her. No! Not just Chloe.. Her father and brother did too. 

Their mother, a nice professor at a university. On that fatal night, Ruth was struck with fever, feeling so sick that she cried out, “mommy, I'm in so much pain…. I dying…”Her words had terrified her, knowing that their father had traveled. The mom rushed out into the rain to fetch a doctor. Only to be struck down by a moving car…. 

Since then their world had collapsed. 

Their father lost the wife who had honor and loved him, and the three siblings lost the Mother who had loved them the most. 

In a single night, their once happy family had fallen from the heights of happiness to the depths of despair. 

Their father became a shadow of himself and also withdrawn from Ruth, his gaze toward her filled with sorrow. Her siblings grew up to despise her. 

How did it come to this? How could she kill the woman who had loved her the most? If only she hadn't been so willful, 

 If only she had endured the pain a little longer, would her mother still be alive?