When Fate Decided to Play its Part

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE:

Hostages

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There is one thing that Althea hates the most ever since she was young. And it was: unnecessary attention.

In her younger years, she was constantly inside their home or their backyard, tending the garden. She sometimes helps with their shop and do deliveries but talking and interacting with other more than that? No, she cannot remember doing that.

But for the past two years, she learned how to socialize and talk with others. It was good for her, said her doctor. It was good talking with older people and strangers, but people from the past? She has to think twice before even making eye contact with them.

Standing in front of a room that is full of familiar faces, Althea can feel her chest tightening and her breathing become ragged. Feeling their stares and gazes directed to her, she can feel herself drowning with hatred and disgust.

It was like as if she traveled back through time, 7 years ago.

Although this is a high school reunion and 7 years ago was their college days, most of them also went to the college she was in. Their high school and college were connected, so most students go there after graduating high school. So, basically, most of the people here were the same in their college.

The people who showered her with stares of disgust and mockery. What is worst, the two who was the very reason why she came back home was also here, inside the room, together with the other people who mocked her from the past.

If only it did not happen, she would not go home and experience that shit.

‘No,’ Althea let out a bitter laugh inside her mind. She stared at the shock and awkward faces of the people. ‘Even if I did not get home because of it, that would still happen one way or another.’

“What are you doing here?” Sheryl stood up from her seat and asked her. The party seems to have already came into a stop. The music and the slides already stopped playing, even the lights went still. “Did someone invite you here? Did someone tell you about this?”

She asked that in great disbelief. Her eyes were wide in shock as she looked around, trying to find who the hell invited the ‘uninvited’ person. None of them tried to clash wit her gaze, they looked away except from the very girl who really invited her, April. Sheryl looked shock before furry made its way to her pretty face. “April?”

her. This made her even more mad, she stepped out from the table and began to advance towards where the five are standing. Althea raised her eyebrows and said, “I apologize for going her without an invite. I did not know

Sheryl, looked at her in shock. She finally spoke! And it was really her! They

sighed and shook her head before staring at Sheryl- who has her face red in anger- again in the eye. “ But I guess you are not the one to talk about dropping uninvited either. Since you just suddenly came to my shop, issued a heart-to-heart talk, but who disappeared after without even the talk? Is this perhaps the topic you want to have a hearty talk with?” Althea raised a brow.

speak to her about not going here before Tyler or anyone say it to her. She cannot afford to see the two again in the same room. It was enough

will. But April really had to ruin it all. Now the three of them is in the same

mortifying

you not to bother them anymore? Is the ruckus you made that day not

from embarrassment and

since this is not really the place I should be in right now, also about that, you have nothing to worry about. She had already…” Althea hesitated, trying to find the right word about it. “Sincerely apologize about

one, even April and Aaron have a visible shock on their faces.

She has a son?

that perfectly matched the lock inside their minds, they remembered the rumors that Sheryl spreads about Althea faking pregnancy just to get Tyler back, this earned a lot of criticism and mockery, but the subject of the rumors was gone. The other one

Could it be?

just a single word, she turned her

under

when they retrieve back their souls and small murmurs begun

where she went and without a single word, he stepped outside, trying to run after her, but he was

his arm and pulling him back. “Where are you

back cautiously to not step on her before looking at her coldly. “Do I have to tell you

was furiously red, she shouted again, silencing the others. “Of course, you have to! I am your

go of me, Sheryl.

you like this? She just came back, and you are already treating me

silence continued between the two and It was like as if they completely forgot where they