The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2579

Why the difference in their looks is like night and day?

Mara didn’t need to hear the words. She could read the question in Victoria’s friends’ eyes. Oh, how she’d love to know why life seemed so unfair. Why had the gods showered her sister with beauty and brains, leaving Mara feeling like she got the short end of the stick?

Home wasn’t home anymore, not when her dad wouldn’t shut up about how amazing Victoria was and how good she had been treating Mara.

But the thing was, Mara didn’t want Victoria’s kindness.

Why should she accept hand-me-downs from Victoria who had everything, only to act all high and mighty about it?

To Mara, Victoria’s help was nothing but a show-off move.

How could it be anything else when Victoria could whip through her own homework and still have time to lay out Mara’s study schedule and gather the best resources? That’s not help but a brag in disguise.

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for a party, adults would always flock to Victoria. They’d rave about how she was such a

on Mara? They’d muster a half-hearted, “Well, isn’t she a

could only walk in Victoria’s

haunted Mara more times than she

yet worlds apart in the game of life. Why did she have to be the ugly duckling who couldn’t morph into a

the thought of home souring her mood, but she ha nowhere else to

Returning home meant facing her father’s endless gripes and the ever-present comparisons

presence now crashed over her like a

and she didn’t expect the sudden offer of a handkerchief.

to see a tall figure, immaculately dressed in a school uniform that screamed privilege.

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It’s late. v

puzzled. The person in front of her seemed to know her. She took the

Crying so hard your eyes are

matter if they’re swollen? Nobody cares about