CHAPTER 56
DINAH
She couldn’t believe her eyes.
She had been walking to the shelter’s gate, on her way to Mikey’s house.
He had called her earlier, claiming he missed her bla, bla, and all, and she had decided to go see him.
She needed to run over the plans and stuff again, and then she also needed some good old fuck.
Maybe it would burn up all this internal tension she was having.
She was happily walking, already practicing how she would act with Mikey today in her head when she had saw them.
That stupid bitch and the man after her heart Christian.
She had frozen at first, and then regaining her composure for a bit, she had walked over to where they were silently, and tried to listen to what they were saying, but she couldn’t hear them.
Fuck!
Then the worst had happened, Christian had kissed her knuckles, said something to her and wanted to kiss her squarely on the lips even as she was saying something.
He kept leaning forward, as Sara kept on talking and Dinah just couldn’t take it anymore.
She had interrupted them, “Hello, hello, and who do we have here?...”
She saw Sara look up at her and she gave her a dirty smirk.
This was the first time she was seeing the both of them together, and her heart was paining her seriously, squeezing and hurting her.
And it was all because of Sara.
Sara who was now looking at her with an angry face, and if not for her composure she would have burst out laughing, but she didn’t.
She didn’t want to embarrass herself in front of her man.
She just didn’t want to.
“Hello Christian.” She said and stretched her hands out in a fake forced mannee.
“Hello Dinah.”
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SARA
“Hello Dinah.” Christian said to Ariel.
What? When? How come? How did he know her name?
“You know her? You even know her name?” She asked disbelievingly looking at Christian and then at the intruder.
The intruder who was no other person than Dinah, just as always.
Always coming to disrupt once peace and happiness.
She was indeed an intruder.
“Yes I do.” Christian answered her and thousands of nuts lit up in Sara’s head.
The hell!
She wanted to spit it all out, she couldn’t believe what she was hearing, but that’s when she remembered something Ariel had told her one time ago.
She remembered that Dinah had come to Christian’s former workplace, the supermarket and had openly flirted with him.
What Ariel had not told her was that Dinah and Christian were already friends, because from the way they were speaking they didn’t sound like someone that had just met once.
It was obvious that Christian had met and talked to Dinah the sneaky snake, more than one times, for the to know their names.
Seriously!
She was already becoming jealous, her hands clenched at her side.
She couldn’t believe that she, shy and recluse Sara was having the urge to pull this bitch’s hair and engage her in a rough fight.
On a normal circumstance, Sara knew she wouldn’t even dare do that, but now she didn’t care.
Her mind was still running round and round in circles, when suddenly Christian said to Dinah,”I thought you said you don’t leave here?”
“Yeah I don’t.” Dinah answered and Sara faced her squarely, eyes wide open and in shock.
She had even lied about where she was leaving.
Just what was Dinah up to? Sara kept on asking herself, as they both stared each other down.
Christian was not even seeing the tension building between the both of them, or even if he noticed he didn’t say anything.
“So what are you doing here?” Christian asked and smiling widely still staring at Sara as if challenging her silently to say something, Dinah lied through her teeths, “I just came to give these poor children some food you know. I really pity them, sometimes my mama or I personally bake cookies and come give to them.”
She was a good actor, liar, pretender and deceitful being.
The manner at which she had said those words would make anyone, even someone who knew that she was lying, believe her.
She was sneaky and also cunny.
She did the opposite of these things, taking people’s good and never handing it back, sometimes throwing it away, and here she was acting like a good person.
Whatever reason she had for lying like this, and interrupting her talk with Christian, Sara had no idea, but to be honest, she was dumbfounded.
“Oh, that’s nice of you… I …” Christian began to say something when Sara tugged at his hands, a silent indication that he should keep quiet.
She just couldn’t stay here and listen to all these lies, she needed to leave.
“Let’s go.” She commanded slowly.
“But I’m not done he…”
“Don’t say anything more.” She ordered and with a smile she listened as he and Dinah exchange goodbyes before they started leaving.
“Where are we going to now?” Christian asked.
“I don’t know, I don’t know. We just need to get out of here.”
Christian didn’t say anything else, and Sara turned back to look at where they had just left.
Dinah was still looking at them, particularly her, and as Sara looked, she gave her a chilling wicked smile.
Sara didn’t even take it to heart.
All she knew and all what was in her mind now was the gist she was going to give Ariel today.
Indeed there was gist.
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Bonus –
MIRANDA’S POV
The tears running down her face, was not going to help her one bit.
She knew that.
But there was nothing she could do.
She could only crbi
Even Tessa, even that bitch Tessa, had gone against her back.
Sometime this afternoon, she had gone to Dinah’s room, only to see her things being thrown out.
Dinah had forced her to kneel and apologize, claiming that she was still strong headed and it had been over one week since their last meeting, and yet she had not apologized.
Her refusal to say anything seemed to have angered Dinah and just like that, she had warned her bit to use her room again.
She had looked up to Tessa, but Tessa didn’t even spare her a glance.
The hell…
Despite everything the both of them had gone through in Dinah’s hands, in a time like this that she was supposed to side her, Tessa gave her her back.
Wow, just wow!
She hadn’t said anything, just packed her bags, box and went to her own room in the shelter.
The overcrowded room she managed with some other girls, and the embarrassing stares and laughters from them all after they saw her being thrown out, was what made her run out here, eyes red and full of tears.
Sniffing, she didn’t know when a little girl and boy had sneaked up by her side and offered her a candy.
“What’s the matter fattie?” The little boy said and she looked up.
At first she wanted to be angry at them, not until she saw the candy they were both offering her, and also that they were just little kids.
With a smile, she sniffed and wiped her tears away, “Nothing really darlings. What are you both doing here?” She asked them.
She was not surprised to see them here.
This was an orphanage of course, and there were lots of little children, even toddlers whom their parents had either abandoned, died or just gave them out.
At that thought her heart squeezed, and she began to remember all the times she had followed Dinah’s instructions and had bullied little kids, even as little as five year olds and had collected their snacks.
Now she was feeling very bad, and she didn’t even know when she began crying all over again.
“It’s okay fattie.” She heard the little kids say to her, and they were even patting her back gently.
It was as if they were angels sent to console her, and she continued to wail louder, not even minding of caring about her voice.
“It’s okay fattie, it’s okay everything is going to be fine.”
They kept on telling her but Miranda doubted it.
She had just lost her friends in the shelter, maybe due to her pride or whatever she didn’t know.
At one time she felt relieved, but in the other hand she had this nagging feeling of how her life here in the shelter would be now.
Now Dinah and Tessa would do everything within their power to mock her and ridicule her.
Was she ready for all of that?
Could she bear it?
Well, she was relieved and had a little peace, maybe that was all she needed.
She would apologize to anyone she had offended here in the shelter, and try to act nice and put on a new leaf.
Nevertheless she would be optimistic and positive.
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