I Don’t Need Your Fake Love by Melandia

Chapter 34

“I’m off to my room,” I said, and then I did, locking the door behind me for some peace.

My personality has changed, I wasn’t always this shy. I fought back once.

There was this one time when I pulled Ashley aside, and even though I barely tugged, she hit the desk and started crying.

Just for that, my mom slapped me and made me apologize. She didn’t even give me a chance to explain what happened.

That time, I tried to stand my ground with a hunger strike, and even left home, hoping they’d miss me.

I waited for them at our usual park all day, but they never

came.

When I finally returned, hungry and shivering, they were all snug in the living room, chuckling at the TV. The coffee table was a feast of snacks.

It was enough to make anyone snap.

I lost it, crushed the snacks under my feet, and got a beating for my outburst. After that, they punished me by taking away my lunch money, and forbid me to go out and play with my friends.

Who got out to play with them? Ashley did, and they all loved her.

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They said they weren’t playing favorites, but all they cared about was that Ashley lost her parents. Did they ever think about how her arrival affected me?

It was really sad. In my previous life, I tried to fight and please them, but even when I jumped off the rooftop, they didn’t

care.

their love reserved for their adopted girl, Ashley.

a

miss me even if

the invisible one at home,

attention was on

my favorite dishes, now only had

toys and the best snacks, and I

their eyes, Ashley seemed like someone who was always willing to

but when I asked for a doll, they’d tell me to take one that Ashley didn’t want

doll Ashley didn’t want, but my folks never batted an

If I didn’t

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would be the black sheep. In my previous life, it ruined my childhood, but I wasn’t going to let it affect me anymore.

was over, I would throw myself into studying, aiming for a top university. People might pick their

Dad surprised us with

heading downstairs, Ashley waved the dresses at me. “Grace, which one do you

act from her, because in my previous life and in this one, we never

for Ashley, leaving me with the most used and worn down clothes, becoming a joke throughout the school year. But this time, I nonchalantly chose one of the dresses.

a sad look and said, “If you like

stifle my annoyance at her act.

had her eye on the

from me and held it up to Ashley. “Grace, you’re the

she got. My dad and brother joined in, all pushing Ashley to change into

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isn’t too

brother’s protective instincts kicked in, questioning Ashley if I had bullied

head timidly, her eyes wide

that, Mom turned on me, “Grace, didn’t I tell you to be nice to Ashley?