The walls are painted with pink and the ceiling is as neat as a blank paper. Ceiling light placed in the middle but it's too dim to light the whole room. East side where the door is and there is a giant Santa sack hanging behind it but there is nothing to found inside. To the north where is the single-sized bed covered with pink bed sheet and two pink pillows above of it. The west side of the room is where the glass window and beside of it is a pink study table with things on the top. There is a laptop, notes, pencil cases, and beside of the table is a human level bookshelf with different books such as international novels, stories, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and so on. The south side, there is a huge pink closet with different fashion wears inside including pajamas and sweaters. There are drawers under of the hanging clothes and perfect to place some clothes that are not use often. Next to it is a five-layer shoe rack, different shoes were arranged depending on its type and styles. Heels were placed above, next are the sandals, slippers, sneakers and rubber shoes, and boots are on the bottom. In short, this room is owned by a fashion girl who loves pink.
"Zhaira, open your door please! I'm sorry for what Steve told you, he's just tired from work.", her elder brother said while knocking on her door but it seems like Zhaira really hurts. She's very sensitive, she can't control her emotions, it's her innate personality.
She kept her mouth silent and ignoring her brother on the other side of the door. She hugged her knees while crying in tears. After a couple of minutes, Sevi left her because he wants to give time Zhaira.
When she heard the footsteps away, she wiped her tears and composed herself. She looked herself in the mirror, her sweet and innocent face turned into sadness. A few hours ago, Steve, her elder brother next to Sevi, went home with his laptop when she didn't notice that Steve was heading to her direction. Zhaira was holding a glass of water but because of their unexpected collision, she slip off of the floor and Steve fell too with his laptop. Unfortunately, the glass of water poured in her brother's laptop that made her brother scolded her.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD DID YOU DO?! ARE YOU NUTS?", madness in his voice that made Zhaira trembled in nervousness.
"I'm sorry, kuya…", she apologized and tried to help him but he refused and stood up alone. He checked his laptop and it was not working. Zhaira started to feel frighten.
"SEE?! YOU'RE STUPID-", Steve wasn't able to finish his words when Sevi came close to them. He held Zhaira's arm gently.
"Why are you shouting, Steve?".
Steve smirked knowing that Sevi is concern to her. He looked at them seriously, " I know you are concern to this girl but would you please stop being biased?! Look what she did, my laptop is not working!", he madly said while showing to them it was ruined.
Sevi grabbed the laptop and after a minute, the windows started. "Look, it's done. You don't need to yell at her and call stupid. She's our sister.", Steve said and handed the laptop to Steve but the latter didn't show an apology.
He glared at Zhaira while saying these words, "She's not our sister, mommy just adopted a stupid girl. Don't deny it, Sevi she do stupidity most of the time. Remember my business meeting in my office? What did she done? She just opened the door as if there is no one in the room and screamed out loud!", madness in his voice and looked at his brother.
"For Pete's sake, Steve! She needed a help, she was almost beaten by the snake in the backyard!". Sevi was mad too.
"Yeah, I don't care. Tell to your so called sister not to show her face to me anymore.", said Steve in his careless tone.
Zhaira and Sevi stayed in the living room after Steve left them, when Zhaira suddenly ran away from her brother. Her feet leads her to her bedroom and the rest is history.
" Zhai? It's me, please let me in.", Mina asking to enter in her room.
Mina is the mother of Sevi and Steve. She is the bestfriend of Zhaira's mother, named Vanesse. The latter died two years ago and was diagnosed stage three bone cancer that caused her to death. Zhaira was in grief when her mother died, she lost the only family she have. Her father abandoned them when she was born and chose his rich mistress. Little did they know, Vanesse made a will and asked it to Mina. Vanesse's will is Zhaira's better life for her tranquility. Zhaira is now seventeen years old and her debut will be on the next three months.
"Your Kuya Sevi told me what happened, sorry if Steve meant about you. I promised your mother to take care of you and I hope I'm doing it right.", Mina said in her apologetic expression. Zhaira hugged her that made better for the both of them.
"Tita, don't say sorry about Kuya Steve, I understand him. I know where to place myself. Whatever words he would going to say, I'm prepared. I'm just too much sensitive but I can hold it.", she said while wiping her tears.
Mina patted her back and hissed, "Don't say that, you are my daughter too. You are my treasure 'cause I really treasured me and you mother's friendship. I'm happy to see her in you.", they loosen their hug and stare to each other. Mina smiled at her and she did it too.
"Thank you,tita", she hug her aunt again before going out from her room.
"I cooked Chicken Adobo, it's your favorite,right?", Mina told to her and she nodded with a smile.
"Momma used to cook Chicken Adobo with pineapple but so sad that I will no longer taste it but I like your version, tita.", she finished her words as they reached the dining area. They saw Sevi sitting on a dining chair placed to head of a table.
"Let's eat!", Sevi initiate to eat dinner. They get their own food and started to enjoy their meal. Zhaira is conscious because she knew that because of her, they eat their meal without Steve's presence.
'Did I took Kuya Steve's place that's why he hates me?', he asked herself. If her Tita Mina didn't tapped her shoulder, for sure she's still questioning herself.
{Author's Note}
Sorry for deleting my previous chapters. I decided to revise the plot and hope you all like it. Thank you for the patience. If you wanted to drop a comment,please feel free. I'm open to any suggestions or criticism to improve my writing. Please bear with my grammars 'cause I'm not fluent in English sentence construction. Kindly add it to your collection or votes, all of you are highly appreciated. Thank you.