Jade's POV
I could see pure malice gleaming in Sophia's eyes as she spoke to me.
"I told you. Nobody messes with me and go scot free! And tell you what, Jade, I love paying back in full coins, and would even add some extra coins." She said to me and before I could process what she was going to do, she had grabbed a bottle of water on the table nearby the sofa I was standing beside, and without a word, she emptied the content of the bottle on my face, just like I had done to her, last time.
I knew she wasn't kidding about paying back in full coins.
I flinched a little from the sudden attack but immediately recovered, as I thought that was all she had in store for me.
How wrong was I?
"I guess we are even now! You have done your worst, haven't you?" I asked her rhetorically and wanted to walk away but she stopped me yet again.
She dragged me back and shoved me hard. I fell down to the floor. Then she moved closer to me and crouched down to my level.
"I am not done yet. I told you I love to add extra coins to the payment." She winked at me.
"Okay, before we get right into it, does your mother know about your pathetic crush on Andrew?" She asked me.
That caught me by surprise and my eyes widened in shock.
Nobody apart from my best friend at school knew about it! How did she know that? What gave me away?
I wondered in shock. She saw the bewildered look on my face and relished in that. She threw back her head and laughed.
"I see you don't want your mother to know about it. It is pathetic, isn't it?" She asked rhetorically and peered at my face to study my reaction.
"What are you talking about? Have crush on who? You don't know what you are saying!" I I tried to deny it but she didn't take it. She was totally convinced about her finding.
"Don't bother to deny it, Jade. Your tiny little secret isn't really a secret to people that can observe well like me. I saw the way you were upset when you saw me besides him that day. I wonder how you would have felt when you heard my moaning!" She stated, teasingly.
I pulled a straight face as I didn't want to give her the satisfaction of what she was doing, but I was seething inside of me.
"Jealousy was written all over you, when you saw me." She stated.
"You are pathetic, Jade. Do you think you can have someone like Andrew? Let me tell you, he is completely out of your league, so it would be better if you stop crushing on him, but I doubt your pathetic, weak heart would be able to do that." She told me, and the corner of her upper lip scrunched up in disgust.
I gritted.
"Anyway, good news for you. I don't plan on telling your mother, yet. As long as you cooperate with me. So do well to cooperate!" She told me with a sinister smirk.
I desperately wished I could wipe off the smirk from her face. It was annoying the hell out of me.
"Cooperate with you on what?" I asked her with contempt.
"You would see. Just watch me." She told me.
I was befuddled. I didn't understand what she was planning but I knew it won't be something I would like, with the mischievous look on her face.
She grabbed the glass cup of water that was on the table where she had taken the bottle earlier ...
I thought she wanted to pour it on me again but she surprised me by pouring it on herself.
Then she let out a scream.
"What the heck are you doing?" I yelled at her and stood up, angrily. Then I pushed her by the shoulder.
I was certain my push wasn't enough to make her fall down but she staggered back and fell down, anyway.
My mother appeared at the moment she had fallen down from my push.
"What are you doing, Jade?" My mom yelled at me and rushed to Sophia's aid.
"I only asked her for a cup of water. I asked her politely and instead of giving me the water, she poured it on me. I was even trying to be understanding but she got more furious and pushed me. I don't know what I have done wrong to her." Sophia told my mom and kept sniffling as if she had been crying.
My mother's countenance changed and she charged at me.
"When did you become a bully, Jade? I didn't train you like that. I thought I trained you better!" My mom sneered at me.
I was beyond flabbergasted at that moment. I knew she was always wanting to see the bad in me, but I never knew she would go that far especially in the presence of a stranger.
She couldn't even ask me what was wrong between the two of us. Wasn't that the first thing she was supposed to do?
"I didn't start ..." I wanted to tell her I didn't start the fight but Sophia muttered some words to me.
'Your tiny little secret!'
Then she added a wink and did the keep quiet sign.
I got the message perfectly.
That was how low she was going to be, just to get back at me? I huffed in annoyance.
Sophia smirked at me and began sobbing.
"I don't know what I did to her. Why does she hate me and is so open about it?" Sophia stated, amid sobs.
I was just staring at the scene Sophia was creating. My mother was backing her, as she stared at me with disgust.
It wasn't supposed to be funny but I found it annoyingly funny. I wanted to burst into laughter and tears at the same time.
My mother inhaled and exhaled sharply, in annoyance and she gritted out the words that would never stop haunting me.
"You are so unbelievable, Jade. I thought the wickedness in you had vanished when it led to your father's death but I guess I was wrong." My mother gritted out and I was at least grateful that she had muttered the words to only my hearing.
Sophia wouldn't hear them.
Anyway, tears welled up in my eyes as she reminded me of the words that haunted me.
"How I can get the hatred you have in you, out? Do you want me to die because of you, just like your father? Because you won't stop being wicked! Because you won't stop harboring unnecessarily grudges and hatred for people that are supposed to be your friends!" My mother said to me, again lowly.
Although, the words were low, they were destroying my eardrums. And not only those, but my soul and heart inclusive.
"Why does my mother keep breaking my heart and soul like that? Is she not seeing what that is doing to my being?" I sobbed, inwardly.