Chapter 41: Nightmare

The nightmare was still about the day of her death. The events of thar day kept repeating in her mind, it was quite heartwrenching to watch it . Even though it was just a dram, it was so vivid that Lomesa could still the pain as the flames engulfed her entire being. The suffocation feeling made her desperate to breathe in some fresh air to no avail, she knew she was going to die . She closed her eyes I desperation. However, this time, in the dream, just before she could breathe her last, she suddenly opened her eyes sharply. She warily glanced around, hoping to escape from that fire. However, she was shocked to find herself in a dark bedroom, there was no smoke or fire whatsoever. After sitting I a daze for a while, Lomesa finally registered that she was at her place and in her bedroom. So, just that meant she dreamt again. Lomesa felt frustrated, why was it that everytime she thought she had done away with the dream, it would always come back when she least expected? She once thought if she could look for a psychologist, however, what would she talk to him about? Incase the psychologist decided to do a background check and notice that there was no such an event in her life, wouldn't he suspect her? Also, that clearly would mean that her secret which she had decided to keep from everyone would just be exposed like that. What if she was taken into a research lab because of that? Would she be able to handle it? Of course not! She just wanted to live a simple life of her own and the family she had acquired recently. Moreover, she had friends who supported her and gave her warmth, she didn't want any complications in life. She just wanted to quietly deal with Samantha, and that jerk Alvin before anything else. However, she couldn't be reckless, especially not when she had people she had to support on her side, she had to meticulously plan her revenge plan, after all, she still had some time in the future. She was just in the third year of her high school, the chances of meeting were many. After all, Lomesa already knew that the three of them would be admitted in the sane University, so, she decided to take everything slowly. A step at a time. Lomesa slowly got out of the bed, afraid that she would wake Valeria who was beside her up. When she went to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror, she was shocked by her ghastly appearance. It was as though she was a ghost. Lomesa's hair was waist length and black in colour, coupled with her ghastly pale face, she was no different from a ghost. Even she herself was scared of her own face. She immediately covered her face and turned to the faucet to let water help her wake up a little. Sure enough, it did the magic, her face which was initially pale slowly by slowly regained it's usual colur. Except for the faint blush on her cheeks caused by sleep, all her facial expressions returned to normal. Only then did Lomesa heave a sigh of relief and returned stealthily back to her bedroom. If it was any other day, Lomesa would have gone over to read, however, this time, she was too tired, thus, after lying on the bed in a daze for some minutes, she fell asleep unknowingly. This time, no nightmares came.

It was a dreamless night..

The following day, when Lomesa woke up and went to the bathroom, she noticed that her face had changed a great deal. She raised her brows in amusement. She didn't expect the effect to be so fast . Currently, everyone believed that she was ugly, she also remembered that in her previous life after she was drugged with the toxic drug that made her have pimples and poke marks, everyone disdained her. She was always known as the ugly freak of the school, only she knew how much she craved for her beauty at that time. She wondered what happened to her beautiful face. At that time, Samantha played the best friend really well, even Lomesa was touched to tears. How could she have expected that the very person who was always encouraging her and supporting her was the very person that ruined her face? Actually, only after her rebirth did Lomesa learn alot of things. She learnt that Samantha always knew how to mislead people, on the surface, when she defended Lomesa, she would always be intentionally fanning the flames, which always made people hate Lomesa more. At that time, Lomesa always wondered why people always hated her, it was only when she observed and listened to Samantha defend her after her rebirth that she realized how foolish she was in the past. Indeed, It seemed like Samantha never really intended to help her speak up for herself, instead, he always wished to see her getting humiliated. Only then would she be able to raise her head before Lomesa. Samantha had always been jealous of Lomesa, now thay she found out that Lomesa trusted her unconditionally, she decided to disfigure her. The body lotions that she always gifted her were always mixed with that poisonous drug that made her appear uglier as time went by. Moreover, it was Samantha who always brought her food from home, who knew that she would always put a pill in it. It was that pill that made Lomesa become obese in her previous life. How did she come to know of all these? It was when she was about to die that Samantha proudly revealed all these to her.At that time, Lomesa wished for nothing else but to rip that bitch Samantha, apart. How could such a cruel person like her be living with them? Who knew who the next victim would be? On the day of her death, as Lomesa listened to her maniacal laughter, she wished that she could revenge. However, she was hopeless at that moment, after all, from Samantha's proud snd confident tone, Lomesa was sure that she had everything planned and under her control. At that moment, her shoulders slumped and she closed her eyes in despair. She regretted everything, Trusting the wrong people, defying those who genuinely cared about her thus pushing them away, lastly, she regretted being blind for all these years. She just wish that time would turn back so that she could take her revenge. Lomesa never really believed in superstition. However, she was forced to do so after being reborn. Otherwise, who would explain to him about such a bizarre phenomenon? Even Lomesa herself always felt as though all these happenings were her dreams. However, reality always slapped her in the face from time to time. Otherwise, she would still be thinking about it as a dream. It was only when she pinched herself hard and felt the pain that she realized that all this was true. She was reborn, infact back to high school. As she looked at the tiny figures of the students around her, she would always sigh. After all, she was already an adult in her soul. However, she knew that acting so much maturely would only arouse suspicion. Thus, she decided to play along. Moreover, she wanted to make up for the time she lost in her previous lifetime. She never got to have any fun after all. At that time, she was always under the spell of Samantha, she would always follow whatever Samantha said. After rebirth, Lomesa always wondered, how could she do to another person's bidding just because she says so? With her genius brains, was she supposed to pay attention to what others thought of her? At first, this question always came and left in a flash, however, lately, it had been stuck on her mind for so long. She had a suspicion in her heart. Could those people have done something to her at that time so that she would always unconditionally listen to their plans? Otherwise, how could she suddenly turn dumb? The change was definitely premeditated. Thus, Lomesa planned to investigate slowly, she swore that if those people really did such a thing to her, she would definitely pay them back with the sane treatment. How dare they !

Thus, Lomesa narrowed her eyes and muttered in her mind;

'I won't let you off!'

Aftef that, she decided to focus on the task at hand. She first wanted ti shower before applying some thick makeup up on her face. After all, she still wanted to create the illusion that she was ugly. She wanted to shocked everyone at the banquet. If she revealed her exquisite face at the moment, who knew what those enemies of hers, especially Samantha, would do incase they happened to see her? Maybe they would disfigure her? Lomesa shuddered at the thought of her going to the banquet with her aunt with a disfigured face. She was sure everyone would avoid her like a plague. She didn't want that to happen!

on the other side, when Samantha heard that she was going to the banquet too, she smirked evilly and a vicious glint passed through her eyes in a flash.

"Lomesa, you won't be able to escape this time."