NovelEnglishThe thought that strangers would be commenting on her appearance and deeming her unworthy of Lucas was too heavy a burden to bear for her. "Claudia, please! I admit that I was wrong! Please just letsee what was written in the forum! Please! I don't even know Lucas that well. I just..... I... I....." Thalia could not muster any more lies. She genuinely liked Lucas and could not bring herself to say that she 'hated him'.
"You? You, what?" Claudia asked. "You don't know Lucas, and Lucas doesn't know you. I don't even know how you managed to fall in love with him. My advice to you is to just give up. Lots of people have a crush on him. You're not the first, and you're not special, so there's no point losing sleep over it. Everyone's going to forget about it anyway. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill." She then continued, "The person who took the photo didn't capture your face anyhow, and no one in our school knows who you are either. Just bear with a bit of this torture, and you'll be fine," Claudia said, feeling that there was no need to go easy on Thalia since Thalia showed little intention of apologizing.
"Huh! What are you trying to gain from this, huh? You've taken everything from me! Why do you have to depriveof my right to have feelings for him just because you think you're prettier and better than me?" Claudia stopped as she was about to leave and turned to stare at her sister in disbelief. "What are you blabbering about? I'm only punishing you because you lied to Dad! He scoldedbecause of your lies, and you're not showing any remorse!" Thalia gritted her teeth. "I didn't do anything wrong! Why should I apologize to you? If anyone should apologize, it's you! You did plenty of terrible things toover the years." Claudia found it a bit amusing. Thalia was delusional for thinking that Claudia had treated her badly all this while and claiming that Claudia owed her an apology.
"Fine. Let's not talk about what happened today then. I'm curious to know which one of us has treated the other badly. Let's settle the score here and now. Why don't you tellall about the horrendous acts that I've done to you?" Thalia's face soured. "Your whole existence is a bane! Do you know how much I've had to suffer since childhood because of you? I'm a very beautiful woman, but people only have eyes for you whenever I'm around you! Everyone's praising you! And everyone criticizes me! Why?!" Claudia was perplexed by that statement. "That's your reason for saying that I've been bad to you? Are you crazy? We're sisters! Those who praiseare indirectly praising you too. And it's not like I can control what they think! Are you simply trying to make excuses from nothing because you have nothing more to state your case?"
The exasperation in Claudia's voice grew increasingly evident. "In case you haven't realized, I becyour elder sister from the moment I was born ten minutes earlier! I took care of you for Dad's sake all these years! I made sure you were well-fed when he was away, and I did my best to help you in your studies too. Have you ever heardcomplain?
"No. Not once. I never asked to be given this responsibility, and I want to have my space too! Take today, for example i didn't 't want to bring you to my school at all. You don't know anyone here, not even my friends, yet you insisted on followinghere!"
Thalia smirked. "Aren't you complaining now? It's fine if you don't want to take care of me. I never asked for any of that anyway." X
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