Both Amanda and Marie looked at her as if they were looking at clowns cause who would dare believe her? But Amanda looked at Marie and wondered whether she was really as innocent as Damien always said because if she was, there was no way she would have led Eunice into saying that making her make a fool out of herself.
“Do you think that we are children and don’t know what you are doing?”
“Young girl, I thought that you had a chance to change your fate if you stopped staying with this mistress but I didn’t expect you to be foolish.”
“How can you say that you don’t know her when you are the one who called out her name making the two ladies stop?”
“Even though they are poor as you claim, at least they are of good character. Their parents really taught them well.”
“Pfft. Parents? She is an orphan! Her parents abandoned her cause they did not want to see as she only brought misfortunes to them,” Eunice said as she mocked Amanda.
Amanda's eyes turned cold as if she could kill someone at that time. Even though they were in the mall and there were a lot of people making the atmosphere warm, it started being chilly, making those around look around as they wondered where there was a sudden change of weather.
“You girl. I am even ashamed of being in the same mall as you. How can one be so ignorant and hateful?”
“You speak as if you knew her parents while you clearly don’t.”
“You just said that you don’t know them yet you say that she is an orphan?”
Hearing the last person’s words, people started murmuring as Eunice wished that the ground could open up and swallow her. She clenched her fist as she blamed Amanda for everything even though Amanda had not spoken since she arrived.
Elsa stood up and looked at Eunice coldly.
“You claim that I am an orphan? Why don’t you first look at yourself and rethink who is an orphan between the two of us? You neither resemble your older brother Damien nor your father Mr Scott. Maybe you should go back and ask whether you are really from their family,” Elsa said, making Amanda chuckle but taking a closer look at Eunice keenly, she neither resembled the Scotts.
Eunice's face turned pale white as she knew that they didn’t have any resemblance but she had never thought too much of it. She wondered whether what Elsa was saying was true or not.
“You say that others are orphans when there are possibilities you are the real orphan between the four of you.”
“How can you call the young miss of the Flores family an orphan? Young girl, are you looking for trouble?”
“So what if she is the young miss of the Flores? I am the young miss of the Scotts!” Eunice said arrogantly, shutting everyone up as they understood why the young lady was so arrogant.
“Well, you better go back and ask whether you are really Scott's young miss before claiming to be her. Also, your friend is just an illegitimate daughter. Her mother was also a mistress just as she is. Guess the mistress' blood ran deep in your veins,” Eunice said, making Marie’s face turn pale cause Eunice had hit her sore spot.
She has always tried to get rid of that title but it was always impossible for her since what her mother did in the past was deeply rooted in people's minds. Every time they saw her, they were reminded that her existence was a result of breaking someone's marriage.
“Eunice let’s leave,” she whispered to Eunice as she pretended to cry.
Eunice's mind was already messed up as she was thinking about what Elsa had said. Even though they hated each other, she knew that Elsa never lied about anything. When she heard that Elsa was also an illegitimate child, she looked at her with confused eyes as she wondered why Marie had to lie about her family when she regarded herself as her best friend,
After hearing Marie’s words, she knew that Marie was trying to escape as she was afraid of Elsa. That Elsa might say something else about her and ruin her image.
She rolled her eyes before saying, “Why should I leave? Do you think that they can offer anything in this mall apart from some snacks? They can even buy a bottle of perfume or designer clothes. Why should I leave and let poor people like them have their way and make them laugh at us as they think they succeeded? If you want to leave you can leave but I won’t.”
As she said that she pulled Marie’s hand from her arm.
Elsa was enjoying seeing both of them arguing. All she wanted to do with her words was just to make Eunice start to doubt Marie and her family. Even if Marie would later come up with an excuse to justify her lies and her family might not tell her anything, she just needed to plant a seed of doubt in Eunice's heart and watch how things would go.
“Amanda, you haven’t talked since I came. Or are you afraid of me?” Eunice asked her as she looked at the calm person who had been seated silently.
Deep down, Eunice felt bad as she remembered how Amanda always tried to please her. Even when she and Elsa argued, Amanda would tell Elsa to stop as she was hurting her little sister. As she remembered how caring Amanda was always towards her and seeing her being so indifferent even when she was being humiliated, Eunice felt bitter but she did not rely so much on that.
“What do you want me to say to you, Miss Scott?” Amanda asked her calmly.
“Tell her to stop humiliating me!” Eunice shouted, making Amanda chuckle as she shook her head.
“Why should I tell her that? Who do you think you are to me that I would side with you instead of my best friend?” Amanda asked with a sarcastic smile on her face.
Eunice felt as if she was choked upon hearing that. She looked at Amanda and wondered why she had changed so much. Didn’t she always say that she was her little sister? Then why was she asking her that?
“Amanda, how can you say that when I am your sister?!”