She walked to the tiniest room that was given to her as her room, she entered the room plain blue was used to color the wall of the room, given a mat as a bed, and her cloth was luckily given a wardrobe to place inside when she asked her father.
This was her room, or say her prison in the house.
Her stepmother was able to convince her father saying this kind of living would make her learn about life and not just about riches and her obligate father agreed.
She dropped her bag on the mat, changed her dress, and did the work she was asked to do as punishment, she turned to look at the wall clock, conscious about the time, she needed to read the novel her favorite novelist was going to upload, she was so interested to see the next scene what was going to happen to the villain she had to hurry the dishes.
Just a few more minutes were left for her to be done with the work, she knew that she couldn't miss the three hours of a free chapter and she'd used two hours, just an hour left for it to be free.
When she was done, it was eight pm, she walked to her room to read the novel when she heard a loud sound coming from outside. Curious about where the sound was coming from, she checked the window.
Outside was decorated, neither was she informed a party was going to happen in the house nor did her stepmom look as though she was going to have a party in the house, her stepmother didn't do anything to make her not available for the time being if she was doing the party in the house.
She knew her stepmother couldn't disgrace her reputation in front of her friends, married to someone who has a daughter that was born out of wedlock and looked like her.
She walked outside the house and checked the poolside since the loud music was coming from there. Once she got there, there were a lot of people in the poolside dressed in either bikinis or boxers, it was confirmation that the party was set up by Maddie.
"What-" stunned to see there was a party going on, Maddie came in front of her.
"Hey sis," Maddie chuckled looking at her excitedly, Maddie was never friendly with her.
She knew that something was going to go wrong.
"But-"
"Hey sis, you shouldn't stay here, is a party after all, and you should have some celebration too." Maddie pinched her cheek hardly as she chuckled.
Mira was about to reply but then she held her hand and led her to some of her friends and then she began to introduce them.
"Who's she?" They asked as she brought them towards her friends, Mira could see that they were irked by her appearance.
"Don't worry, you'll see. I'm going to introduce her soon," Maddie would reply.
Mira began to feel uncomfortable with the way she was showing her around even with the sweet words.
Once they got to the front, Maddie asked for her to see on a chair that was at the front of the stage and then she gave Mira nice treatment asking the maids to give her whatever she orders.
"You should drink this, I'm sure you're thirsty," Maddie said with a smile as she handled her fruit juice.
A few minutes later, the party was becoming boring for Mira, she stood up about to leave the party when she heard Maddie speak into the microphone.
"Everyone welcome to my party, you may all wonder why this party was grand just to invite almost the whole school but I'll tell you that this party is not just for me but for sure I could take the credit for the planning of this event. The reason why this party was organized was for the main guest, my younger sister, or should I say my illegitimate sister, Mira Bluen." She spoke excitedly and then her next statement was cold.
"Born out of wedlock, unfortunately for my poor mother, she had to endure the pain and position of being the mother of the child my father cheated her with." She said to the crowd then turned to Mira as the spotlight was shown on Mira for a while.
"Mira, I hope you wouldn't feel shy or ashamed anymore, after all, your secret has become open now. Your burden has lessened now, so there is no need of wondering what you would say to the campus anymore."
Mira whose back was turned to Maddie froze on the spot as she heard Maddie expose her secret turned around slowly to stare at Maddie with shock, her eyes widened, her mouth agape.
Her eyes looked around to see what others' reactions were and then she could see people gossiping about her, some looked at her in disgust.
This was her secret, something she was hoping would be successfully kept away from the campus but now, it was exposed to almost the whole school.
She felt like bursting into tears as she heard the words that were said against her.
"Oh my, I can't believe that she's an illegitimate child."
"Oh my, even she has a secret. I should tell you that she's being the good fellow in our class ready to expose what was not in accord with the school's rules but I can't believe that even she has her own dirty secrets."
"You bent the rule yourself."
"Don't try to be a goody pants behaving you were not planning all of this, I'm sure you are just trying to play the innocent here, is better to put an acceptable face instead."
"You're right, illegitimate children should be expelled from our school, we can't have someone born from wedlock."
"Who gave them to feel normal after causing trouble for those patience mothers."
"I can't help but feel pity for Maddie though."
"Yeah, it would be hard for her. Living with the daughter of her mother's sufferings."
"You guys, can't you see it, maybe that's why she became an ugly duckling."
"That seems true, even if her mother gave birth to a child in a person's marriage, she was given the punishment of her mother. No wonder ."
"Ah yes."
She couldn't handle the gossip and murmurs anymore, she moved backward feeling contrite but then she accidentally lurched into the pool.
"Help! Help !! Help me!!!" she yelled trying as hard as she could swim, even if there was a pool in the house she was never allowed to take training for swimming along with Maddie.
Most of them stared at her struggle, some took video, and some made a mockery, when she was about to drown, someone entered the pool and then took her into his arms.
He came out of the pool with her carried like a petite figure in his arms, unconscious. Everyone in the area gasped in shock as he came out of the water, water dripping from his hair, and his black cloth revealed the abs and figure of his chest.
His blue eyes were glowing like pearls as he came out like a demigod.
This was what Mira had wanted, though saving her while she was unconscious,it was a dream come true.
He noticed.