Chapter 13: Their Puppet!
Julia’s POV:
Melanie’s giggling voice fumed my blood, but opening the door, the sight in front of me riled my blood in anger. My feet halted at the doorstep when I saw Melanie seated on Marco’s lap on the living room couch, his broad arms embracing her body as if she were the most precious thing to him on earth.
They were giggling at each other and Marco was deliberately leaving hickeys on her neck skin, making her moan again, “Ouu! Marco, why do you keep biting my neck? Are you a vampire?”
“I love to watch you moan for me, baby!” In response, Marco placed a soft kiss on her forehead, narrowing his affectionate gaze on her, “You’re the most favorite thing of mine in the world after all.”
Watching these two shameless lechers behaving in such a sickening intimate way right in the middle of the living room had fumed my blood to the point I lost every self-restraint at that moment. My hand reached up to the flower vase next to me and grabbing it tight, I couldn’t help but throw it fiercely in that direction, aiming to hit both of them!
“CRASH!!”
“AAEK!” When the glass vase shattered into pieces on the floor making a loud noise, narrowingly escaping my targets, Melanie screamed in panic from watching the vase suddenly thrown towards them out of the blue from behind.
Marco immediately consoled and pulled her into a tight embrace. They both jolted up from the couch but when Marco’s eyes fell on me, he gritted his jaws, “Julia!? Are you fuckin’ crazy? Why the heck would you throw that vase at us? We could’ve gotten seriously injured!”
“Yeah, that was my intention after all. It’s too bad already that I missed my target.” I reverted back in a rude voice, calmly walking inside with my arms crossed over my chest. “After all, how can I not go crazy after witnessing you disgusting cheaters at first sight after I come home?”
“S-Sis…why did you try to hurt me like that? D-Do you hate me so much…that you want me dead?” As usual, putting up her victim play card, Melanie quivered in a sorrowful voice while hiding inside Marco’s arms.
But just hearing her voice was making me nauseous from anger and disdain, as I howled at her, “Oh, please…you should just fuckin’ stop with that damsel in distress act of yours if you don’t want me to hit you again! And this time, I am sure I won’t miss my target!”
“What was that loud noise? Did something break in here?” At that moment, I heard Gloria’s voice as she rushed towards the living room, followed by my Dad who accompanied her in slow steps.
He looked a little pale and thin compared to the last time I saw him, but what startled me the most was that I didn’t expect the two of them would be at home, especially after watching those two behaving shamelessly right in the middle of our living room!
But as soon as she stepped in, Melanie continued with her sorrowful act as she rushed to hug her mother, and whimpered, “Mom…Sis threw the flower vase at me…I narrowly escaped it, and I could’ve gotten seriously injured…”
“What?” As expected, Gloria rolled her furious eyes at me and howled in front of everyone, “What’s wrong with you, Julia? How could you try to hurt your own sister?”
I was quite habituated by both mother-daughter duo putting up a show in front of Dad, which had also happened a few times before, especially to ruin my relationship with him even more.
But today, I had my blood fuming with rage already and this was the perfect chance to expose all the dirty deeds Melanie and Marco had been committing behind my back to Dad, right in front of everyone.
Thus, I gritted my jaws, as I blatantly charged back, “How the hell I was supposed to stay calm after watching these two behaving lewdly right in the middle of our living room? How am I supposed to hold back my anger when my own sister stole my boyfriend from me? And this man…”
Pointing my finger at Marco, I gnawed angrily, “How dare he show up here like a shameless moron!? Just watching his face here drove me crazy from wrath…so how was I supposed to calm down?”
“You’re overreacting now, Julia. What’s wrong if two people who are engaged and in love are behaving a bit intimately in our home?” Gloria confronted me with a loud grunt but not only she, but my Dad also stood still bearing a disappointed gaze at me. To my surprise, my revelation didn’t startle any of them which made me quickly realize…both of them were aware of everything that was going on here!
“Just because of your temper Marco got tired of you a long time ago. But he still tried to hold onto you…at least for a year, but now when he has chosen Melanie instead, I think as her sister you should also respect the decision of your brother-in-law, instead of throwing violent tantrums like this.” After a brief pause, Gloria didn’t stop lecturing me, and even brazenly sided with Marco as if I was the only one insane over there. “You’re the elder sister, aren’t you supposed to be matured, Julia?”
But her revelation made me quickly catch the point…Marco had been cheating on me with Melanie for over a year…so does that mean, they were already aware of everything that was about to happen?
Bearing a sharp heartache stirred in my chest, I lifted my glance at Dad as if he was my last hope to hold onto in this nauseous situation. My voice muffled inside when I asked him, “Dad…you knew it too? You also knew about their affair?”
As if he landed the last hit of the hammer to break my heart completely, Dad exhaled a heavy sigh before he conveyed, “Julia…your mother is right. You should try to control your temper and behave a bit maturely. This wasn’t the way—”
“Enough of this nonsense…” Interrupting his words as I failed to hear them anymore, tears glistened in my ocean eyes as I flashed my disdainful sneer at them. Glowering my gaze on Gloria and Melanie, I grumbled, “I had never considered her as my mother…and from now onwards, I will never consider this place as my home too! I am leaving…and I will never return to this disgusting place!
“it was my fault that I thought of visiting you, Dad…as if I had forgotten…you’ve become nothing but their puppet.”
“Julia! Listen to me, Julia??”
Dad’s voice echoed loudly behind me as I didn’t waste a second before rushing out of that place. The moment I stepped inside the cab, I burst into tears…realizing my Dad had already left my hand long ago and sided with those evil witches when I was the only one who was kept in the dark all this time, like a clueless fool.
I felt so pathetic and hopeless that it was hard to breathe for me. Realizing that now, I was left completely alone, it made me cry my heart out. Barely reaching my apartment, I dragged my exhausted body and heart to bed and ended up falling asleep while sobbing bitterly.
But the next morning quite before office hours, my phone rang a few times constantly, which disturbed my sleep and I was forced to pick it up, “Hello?”
“Julia!?” I immediately recognized it was Martha’s voice, and she sounded very concerned over the call while urging me, “Can you please hurry up and come to the office quickly? Julia…you’re in a big trouble!”