Chapter Twenty Eight - Ordained

~ARET~

“So…why didn't you want to join the other girls?” I asked Venus while we ate our noodles. We were sitting at the balcony with plates of noodles in our hands, watching the stars at night sky.

She sighed, slurping her noodles. “They bully me, make me feel inferior. They say that I'm the cause of my mother's death, and they mock me that I act too interested in manly things because I was raised by my father and elder brother.” she says with a sniffle.

“I-”

“And it hurts so much! Because I don't have any friends, I spend my days either in my father's library or with the elderly, she wolves…” She cries out before staring at me.

“You know, I was also bullied when I was younger, they called me a freak.” I said to her while playing with my beef, taking a bite.

“Why?”

I took off the bonnet I was wearing, none of the girls saw my hair because I had put on a hat all day. My almost white platinum blonde hair cascaded to my shoulders, it was so long it reac