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Chapter 16: Liar
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Julia’s POV “Who is this?” Charles asked me, motioning towards Andrew. “Her son’s father,” Andrew replied coldly. His face was completely stoic. I thought he’d at least show a flicker of emotion, but apparently that wasn’t the case. Andrew narrowed his eyes and looked me up and down, like I was some sort of stranger, instead of the woman who had shared a bed with him for the past decade. Suddenly, a memory came flooding back to me. “Please, just wear this dress.” In the memory, Andrew was handing me a long, floral print dress. “She always wore floral prints,” he sighed. ‘She’ meaning his first love. He didn’t need to say it out loud; he preferred when I wore floral prints because that’s when I looked most like his her. The memory faded as Andrew continued to scan me with his eyes. Unlike the way I used to dress, I was now donning tailored black slacks and a crisp, white shirt. My hair was tied loos
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Charlotte’s POV We were supposed to go to the horse races that morning. Andrew promised me and I’d really been looking forward to it. But then, suddenly, his plans had changed. He walked into the kitchen and declared that we were going to an academic presentation on childhood psychology and education. What? That sounded like a colossal bore. We had a private, VIP box at the horse races. And now he wanted to go to some snooze fest to listen to a bunch of dry academics prattle on about childhood psychology? I asked him why but he was vague. He brushed me off. “I just found out about it and I’m going. Don’t come if you don’t want to,” he said. But of course I went with him. We met up with my mother and step-father in the lobby. I was surprised to see them there too.It wasn’t until we stepped into the auditorium though that I fully understood why our plans had changed so abruptly.
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Julia’s POVI stood backstage, aghast at what I’d just seen.I couldn’t believe this!She’d stolen my presentation! All that hard work I’d done. All that time and energy.And now it was my turn to go on stage.The slides were automated, so as I walked onto the stage, my first slide popped up. Of course, it was an exact replica of the slide they’d just seen.MY stolen slide.My palms were sweaty and my heart raced. I could see the academic panel whispering amongst themselves. I opened my mouth to say something, but my mouth was too dry.“This is academic misconduct,” a member of the academic panel spoke up. “It’s plagiarism. The presenter is to leave the stage immediately.”“I agree,” another professor spoke up, his voice dripping with impatience. “Stealing another colleague's work is irreproachable.” I turned to leave, because what else could I do? I was so humiliated. Yes, he had stolen my work, but that’s not what it looked like. It looked like I’d stolen his work, and the
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Julia’s POV Later that week, I went to the nursing home to visit my grandmother, Clarice. She was bedridden and I wanted to see her. My grandmother was the only one who showed me any warmth since my mother passed away years ago. Charles had asked me to give a presentation at an academic conference next week. It was a big deal and I was really nervous about it. I’d been working hard on the presentation and I’d been neglecting my grandmother because of it. My grandmother had been paralyzed for years. As a result, she could only utter faint, unintelligible murmurs. I fought back tears as I used a cotton swab to moisten her cracked lips. Her hands were soft and her skin was paper thin. “It’s me, Julia,” I whispered, stroking the hair from her forehead. “I’m sorry I haven’t been by lately. But I’ve been given a great job. Isn’t that exciting? Her eyes landed on mine and I knew she would have smiled if she could. Suddenly
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Oliver’s POV Mom and Dad got divorced. The thought ran through my head, over and over again. I was curled up in my playroom with the door closed. Divorce, divorce, divorce. The word made me dig my nails into my palms until it stung. It was raining outside. I wanted to go and jump in the puddles. No, I didn’t. Because Mom and Dad got divorced and now I didn’t ever want to jump in puddles again. I just wanted to sit here, alone, making my palms sting with my fingernails. Why did she leave me? It was just like the time I had a bad fever. It was raining that night too. Mom left me all alone that night too because she was busy with her job. I hated her stupid job. It made her leave me all the time. She told me she only loved me. But when she got her job, she was kind to all the other kids too. Before her job, she only made plushies for me. But after?
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Andrew’s POV I was in my office when my secretary called. She told me the police had left a message for me to call them back. They wanted to know if I wanted to press charges against the man that Julia had been her, her so-called ‘boss’. My blood boiled as his annoying face crossed my mind. He’d had no right to interfere in my affairs. My secretary sent over footage from the party. In the video, I saw the security guards dragging the man away. “What would you like to do?” my secretary asked. “Tell the police I want to press charges. No mercy,” I quipped curtly into the phone. Then I asked her where my assistant, Mark, was. I hadn’t seen him all morning. “He took the morning off,” she said. “He said he’ll be back later this afternoon.” I was puzzled by that, since Mar rarely missed work, so I called him. “I’m so sorry,” Mark said. “I’m at the hospital caring for my mother, but I can come in right awa
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