Lahat ng Kabanata ng I love to hate you: Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 50

With Ephriam and Draken on his tail, Sean joined Gianna where he'd instructed her to wait for him with a bone-chilling authoritative tone. He'd wasted time to show up, or was it her who was too eager to get rid of the leather case, so much so that she'd gotten stuffed with the pungent odor from the garbage dumpster. Good thing she hadn't had lunch just yet as she notified to join Mimie as soon as she'd taken care of 'a little something', as she put it, so she wouldn't worry much.As eager as scared Gianna was, she remembered her last encounter with Sean. She kicked his golden balls for the sake of Christ. There was no way she would go scot-free. And she was prepared to face it as long as he got his stuff off her shoulders.Sean wrinkled his nose. "You stink."Gianna said nothing as quietness reigned. No soul but theirs on the horizon. It was either a lucky day to not have come across the delinquents who perched there to stuff themselves with pot or were warned ahead of time of Almighty

"When you have to start trusting the decisions taken by a teen, Lulu, I will never advise you to do it wholeheartedly. We have this African saying; 'what an old man sees seated, a young man can never see even while standing on the tallest Iroko.' At this age they think they know so much, they live in the spur of the moment, take quick decisions without thinking about the aftereffects. In this case, what you do is give them the silent benefit of the doubt. Ask if you can give your opinion, which of course, the proud ones will turn you down. Assure them that you got their back and will always be there if things don't go as planned. Tell a little story related to that matter, you know, with a little lesson they can learn from it. I don't know if I'm making some sense to you."Louisa nodded."Yeah." She bit on a cookie, her stare distant. "Come, have you ever had a mother-daughter time with Gigi? 'Cuz I recall you mentioning one with Mason before and never with you."Louisa twisted her lip

"Gianna's being bullied," Mason calmly stated. "Did you know that?" "I suspected. You know she doesn't tell me anything."Mason exhaled. "Was that the reason for Sean?"Louisa hesitated, freezing from applying a layer of clay mask on her chin as she watched her husband watching her from the large vanity mirror. "Yeah. I figured he could help, which he did from my observations and his reports until the last incident. And I can't help but wonder what went wrong. I haven't seen him since." She went on with the application. Mason remained quiet, silently putting two and two together. "You're saying you've been receiving reports from Sean all along which no doubt confirmed that Gianna was being bullied and didn't let me know?""Honey, I didn't want you troubled. You already had a lot going on with the vineyard and—""Bullshit, Lou! That's bullshit." Mason tried as much as possible to hold himself from losing it. "Gianna is our daughter. Not yours, not mine, but ours, and I don't mind brea

Adam left the principal's office as fast as he could, tearing past a small crowd heading to their class and dismissing the profanities and comments of those he bumped. Luck on his side, he spotted Mimie exiting the restroom after contemplating whether to call out to Gianna from outside of it. "Where's Gianna?" He urgently and forcefully asked, standing face to face with a pale and beaten-looking Mimie. She looked devastated and at the brink of giving up the ghost. "Is she in there?" Mimie sluggishly shook her head, her sorrowful eyes on him.She'd wanted to wait for her friend outside as planned, but was scared off by Ephraim who guarded the door with diligence."She's in th-the art room, w-with Sean." Her voice quivered as her eyes teared up. But Mimie had barely finished speaking. At the mention of the name, Adam made a U-turn and sprinted to said place.Once at the art room, the sight of the burly dark-haired teen hadn't any effect on his momentum yet, ignoring him wasn't an option

"I got my fingers on Zombie Down III, if you're still interested. Sorry, my room's a mess," Adam picked up some littering pants, boxers, and shirts in his messy room and shoved them into the laundry basket next to the bathroom door. "Been challenged with having to figure out what to put on lately." He explained, looking around for what had to be hidden to make the room a lot more presentable. "Please sit. Can I offer you something?""No, I'm fi-fine." "Gianna said you won't be hanging out with us tonight, why?""I'm not fe-feeling too well." She looked at him for the first time since she entered his room as if she'd opened a page on her face for him to read. "What's wrong?" He sat on the gaming chair in front of his laptop, so concerned that Mimie would've thought it was genuine."Like you care.""Huh? What do you mean by 'like I care'? If I didn't I wouldn't bother asking. You are the one slipping off of me every time I want to care."Mimie looked away to better blink off her tears.