Chapter 2

LARA'S POV

It was almost four o’clock in the morning by the time I finally returned to my my room.

Thank goddess Jeff and Dad haven't wake up yet, perhaps they're tired due to all the celebration from last night. 

The sitting room is a mess and I wonder just how much they both drank and I'm sure the we would be spending the next day to clean.

But I was too hungover and tired to care at the moment, my head is too heavy to carry due to the activity at the hotel earlier and all the stress. 

As I laid in bed trying to sleep, I was kept awake by my regrets. Had I just given my virginity to a near- stranger? All because I had a cup of tequila?

I had never been so impulsive like this, especially when it came to sex related things. Right now, I felt embarrassed and ashamed of this blunder. The guy was incredibly attractive and I stopped imagining him to be Reis the moment he bite my neck. 

The alcohol must have taken more toll on me then, because I don't remember much about the scenerio when he bite my neck and as much as it was painful, I enjoyed it because his dick was still buried in my bossom. 

Anyway... 'Forget this Lara. It's just a mistake I made because of Reis that cheater' I told myself and pulled the duvet over myself, without taking any shower and his scent still reeking all over me. 

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When I woke the next morning, my head pounded and my stomach hurt from all of the alcohol from the night before. I groaned and rolled out of bed, get out of the messy dress and  stumble into the kitchen in the oversized t-shirt and shorts I just changed into. I just needed some coffee, it's January 2nd, I have to start the year decently anyway. 

“You know, you could’ve at least told us where you went last night,” Jeff, my elder brother said from his usual spot at the kitchen. He was busy on his laptop as usual, a plate of chips and chilled coke beside him.

“Just went out to chill” I replied, my face turning red as I remembered what happened when I left home. "I got drank and slept off"

“Why didn’t you tell me you have a boyfriend and that you went to his house last night, Lara?" My dad suddenly said, emerging from our tiny bathroom with a towel around his groin.

My eyes widened in shock, "Dad, what did you know?"

"Don't ask us, he's came to introduce himself this morning" Jeff cuts in, finally exploding shock inside of me. Reis can come down to the extent of coming to tell dad and Jeff about us? Just to seel for my forgiveness? 

Never! He's never getting it! I refuse to be used by a cheated like him. 

I hung my head low as I poured myself a cup of coffee. I tried to hide it as the tears started to well up, but it was no use. Dad rushed over to me and wrapped his arms around me while Jeff watched with worry. 

“I’m sorry,” I said between sobs. “I don't mean to hide it, Dad. I just don't want to hurt your pride and...."

"Who says you hurt my pride? You're free to do whatever you want, Dear" He patted my hair, and I can't help but sob on his chest. What if he heard about the mistake I made last night just because of my insane anger and uncontrolled emotions? 

Will dad and Jeff still support me? 

Later in the day, I sat in my room to study as usual, since that's all I'm good at doing.

Then Jeff banged on my door with all the force in the world that made me wish I could ban him from entering my room for life. 

"What is it this time?" I fired angrily as I work on the algebraic equations before me. He sat down hurriedly and placed his laptop before me, I didn't look up, I just pushed it aside, "Did you see your celebrity crush with a man again?"

"You have to explain this first!" His voice was harder than I thought, he banged the table. I looked at him with confusion, "What's wrong?" 

He gestures to the laptop and I slowly lift my gaze to look at it only to see a video of me, dancing at a party that seems like the party that's going on in front of Reis' house. 

My eyes widens in shock as it finally escalated to the point that I was stripping! Damn when did I do all these? 

Jeff banged the table hard again, "Care to explain?" 

"Jeff, you sew this might be fake. You're a tech guy right? Help me look this up, I really don't do anything like this, I promise!" I cried wishing my brother could believe me at least, but my mind is in haywire now. I really can't gather the idea of seeing myself out here on the internet stripping, when I never done anything like that! 

"You're sure?" Jeff confirmed again, as if he was debating whether to trust me or not. I fired him a glance, "Won't you also trust me, Jeff? You're my only sibling!"

"Lara, calm down..." He started, "Let me consult dad first. But this is already on the internet and the neighbors has seen it. I just need to confirm if you did this or not!" 

Tears danced in my eyelids, is Jeff not believing me too?

I stomped out of the room in anger and flung myself into the bathroom before locking it from the back. With this now, then this years is not going to be any fun I'm pretty sure of that.

Thankfully, I had my phone with me and just as I thought of ordering something yummy, or some novels or textbook just to clear my mind, a text came in.

Not from everyone but from Reis, "Did you like my new year gift, honey? Anyway get back to school tomorrow, Professor Hale says we're resuming earlier as we're now seniors!" 

My breathe caught in my throat and I wish I see Reis right now and strangle him. So he orchestrated this fake news just to do what exactly?

Another text came in again, checking it, he said, "The news could be taken down, Lara only if you concur to help me like before"

My phone slipped from my hand and fell to the ground. Cold sheer of panic rush through my spines and I don't think I've ever experience such shock before. 

Am I getting blackmailed? Just now?