????SHE’S NOT A CINDERELLA????
????A Cinderella doesn’t have to be a princess????
✍️ Written By Precious Pinky✍️
????Chapter Thirty-Eight [38]????
Theme: Let’s make things right…????.
????Ruby’s Pov????
“what are you doing here?”
“Ruby…please listen to her.” Cherry pleaded.
why was Cherry pleading for that bit-ch ? Have Cherry forgotten all that she made Tyson and I pas-sthrou-gh?
Even my mother did not spend a wonderful time with her kids on earth because of this girl I call-ed my sister.
“I don’t want to listen to anything that comes out of her mouth! Hell, I don’t want to set eyes on her.” I say in anger.
I hate her.
I hate her with so much pa-ssion.
But do you want to know what I hate more…?
….The fact that I love her!
Yes, I miss my sister.
My old sister….the one who fought and stood by me before that man left us.
The one who understood me…The one who is willing to raise me up when I fall…
The one who laughed with me…play with me…And had fun with me!!!
But that sister was long lost.
The girl standing in my room, beside my best friend…
…. wasn’t my sister.
She was just a mean bit-ch who claimed to be my sister!
“Ruby…”
I held out my hand to her face, indicating her to stop talking which she actually did stopped talking.
“Don’t call my name.” I warned.
She gulped and look down at her feet.
Cherry approached me and stood in front of me. She placed her hands on my shoulder and squee-zed it softly.
“Please…listen to her. Even if you don’t want to do it for yourself then do it for Tyson. Please….” She pleaded….Again.
I let out a de-ep sigh and nodded my head in agreement.
She was right.
I should do this for my baby brother.
He don’t deserve all of this…He deserves a happy and complete family.
My subconscious was right…I haven’t told anyone about it. Hell, I haven’t even told Cherry. I guess I’m just scared.
…But scared of what?
Well, let’s leave that for now and focus about what’s going on now.
Let’s focus on Jennifer. For now.
Jennifer was his (Tyson’s) sister and will ever be his sister.
He loves her, although he claims not to love her but I knew de-ep down he wants to live with his sisters and not just his sister.
Cherry smiled and pulled her hands down to her side.
“Good. And please be nice to her.” she whispered for me alone to hear.
I gave her a blank look. “i can’t guarantee that.”
She rolled her eyes and turned to Jennifer. “Do not do anything rash. Do not make me regret pleading with Ruby to have this discussion with you.”
Jennifer smiled and nods her head in understanding.
“I will leave you guys to talk.” Cherry walks out of the room, leaving Jennifer and I alone in the room.
I fold my arms over my chest and gave Jennifer a blank stare.
“Fine. let’s talk then.”
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????Cherry’s Pov????
“How is it with the two sisters?” Vincent ask as soom as i walked out of the room.
I shrugged and sat down by his side. “I can’t say. But I hope they get to sort out their differences.” I let out a sigh. “Tyson needs it.”
Vincent nods his head before saying. “You seem to know so much about Ruby. How long have you guys known each other?”
This is actually the first time for someone to ask me this question.
I smiled.
Honestly I’ve known Ruby since forever.
I had saved her from falling off the cliff. It was a scary moment and yet a happy and memorable one.
Because that day…I found myself a best friend.
Someone I could lean on for support. Someone who was willing to help and be by my side at all times.
Someone who made me forgot about my tragedy.
Ruby wasn’t just a sister from another mother, she was a family.
After my grams comes Ruby.
“I’ve known her for like forever. She is my bff.” I say with a smile.
“Best friends forever?”
“Yeah, best friends forever.” I confirmed.
We fell into a comfortable silent.
Each of us had smiles on our faces.
“Cherry….” Vincent began, breaking the silent.
I turned my gaze to look at him. He was staring right back at me. And for a moment my heart skipped.
Shit! what’s wrong with me?
I quickly look away.
“Yes?” I answered, telling him to go on with whatever he has to say.
“Look at me.” He Instructed.
fu-ck.
I cleared my throat before looking up at him to meet his gaze.
Damn! He’s cute.
Why haven’t i seen this side of him?
Why am i just noticing how cute and sweet he is now?
And why the hell is my fu-cking heart beating fast?
“Your eyes are beautiful.” That caught me off guard and also choked me because I started coughing. Vincent started rubbing circles on my back to calm me down and holy fu-cking shit, that did the magic.
I look up at him, wide eyes.
Where was all this coming from?
Why was Vincent complimenting me and looking de-ep into my eyes?
What’s even going on now?
“Thanks?” I don’t even know if saying thank you was suppose to be my reply to what he had just said.
He chuckled and nods his head. “You’re welcome?”
“You sound unsure.” I point out with an eye roll.
He laughs again. “Just like how you sounded so unsure when you thanked me.”
We both started laughing.
“But come on… it’s kinda took me off guard. I mean…you complimenting my eyes. You’ve never done that before.”
“Maybe I have but you never took notice.” He say, looking at everywhere but my face.
Hold on a minute…Was Vincent blus-hing?
“Are…are you blus-hing?” I questioned, watching him closely.
“What? No.” He cupped his face in his palm and got up to his feet. “I have to be at the hospital.” He quickly said and walked out of the house.
What the hell just happened?
Before I knew it, Vincent walked back into the house and pressed a ki-ss on my cheek and rushed out of the house before I could even say a word.
I ask again, what the hell just happened?
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????Narrator’s Pov????
“Wait, what?” Catherine questioned, eyes wide-ned in shock. “You saw Ruby? Like you mean… Ruby your daughter?”
Mr Dantes nod his head and let out a de-ep sigh as he sunk down into his chair and grabbed a glas-sof champagne.
Mr Santiago told him everything that happened in Boston. And yes, everything.
including the part of his daughter lying to the public about being pregnant.
Mr Santiago was afraid of losing Mr Dantes.
Because he knows exactly what will become of him if Mr Dantes decides to pull his shares away from his music industry.
He was nothing without Mr Dantes.
He was indebted to him.
He was even willing to do anything, even if it means ruining his daughter’s happiness just to make sure he still have Mr Dantes as his partner.
Mr Dantes was so angry that he was even tempted to arrest Kara and put her behind bars for hurting his precious daughter.
“What about Janet?” Janet was Ruby’s mother.
“She’s dead. The cancer killed her.” He say in a low voice.
Catherine sat down beside Mr Dantes and wrapped her arms around his shoulder and pulled him closer to herself.
He was her brother.
Her only brother.
He wasn’t her only family because their father was still very much alive but lives in Texas.
People of New York City thinks she was married to him. Little do they know that he refused to get married to anyone because of his wife…
His legit wife…
Janet Darlings.
He looked everywhere for her and his children but he couldn’t find them.
God, everyday was hell for him because of his family.
He miss them so much!
But they were what kept him moving.
Everything he owns today belongs to them!
He doesn’t even know what became of his last child that his wife was pregnant for before he left.
He wish he never left them.
But he had no choice.
He had to save his wife and the only way for him to do so was to go back to his father.
But that decision was useless because she was gone now.
And funny enough, she died of that same illness he wanted to save her from.
….cancer.
“Oh my God. So what do you intend to do now?” Catherine ask her brother.
“I have to make things right. I have to explain everything to my kids and ask them for their forgiveness but first, I have to stop the rumors going around. It’s time I tell the whole world about my kids and the next successor of my companies.”
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????Ruby’s Pov????
“I know nothing can justify all the bad things I’ve done to both you and Tyson and even to mom. I hate myself so much. But…”
“Are you here to give excuses to what you’ve done to us?” I ask, cutting her off.
“God, no. I’m not here to give any excuses. In fact, no excuses could justify anything. I’m just here to make things right!”
I scoffed. “Make things right? Make things right by doing what exactly?”
“I know what I can do to stop the rumors going about about you, Malcolm and Kara.”
“And how are you going to do that? What do you even know?”
“I know that Kara isn’t pregnant! I also know that Malcolm never asked Kara out neither did he ever touch her.”
“What? How…how did you know all this?”
She sighed, shutting her eyes close for a while before opening them back up and saying. “Kara is my….no, she ‘was’ my friend.”
“Wait. what?” I was shock. In fact, I was more than shock.
“She told me everything that happened in Boston. She told me about this girl who kept pushing herself on Malcolm but she never told me who the girl really was. I never even imagined this girl to be you. I would never hurt you, Ruby. yes. I was mean to you guys…i treated you and Tyson really badly but I would never hurt you guys.”
“You hurt Tyson and almost made him commit suicide.” I point out.
“What? I almost made Tyson commit suicide?” She ask, shock.
“Well, yeah.”
“I…I didn’t know. God, what have I done? No wonder he was so afraid of me when he saw me the other day at the amusement park.”
“Wait, If Kara was your friend…and she tells you everything….does this mean that you knew…”
“Yes. And i was the one who gave her the advice.”
“I was going to say, that means you knew about me being mask girl. But wait, WHAT!?”
“Oh.”
“You were the one who advised her to do something as mean as this to me? How could you, Jenny? How could you be this cold and heartless! Here i was thinking Kara was a bad person… Little did I know that my sister has being her backbone and her advisor.”
I couldn’t believe this.
This hurt so much.
How could Jennifer do something like this to me?
“i’m sorry. I’m so sorry. And that’s why I’m here…I want to tell the whole world the truth. I want to make things right. And trust me, I never knew you were the girl she was talking about?”
“Do you expect me to believe that? I hate you. Now, get out!” I spat in anger.
“What?”
“I said get out! Just go. Disappear from my life. I don’t want to ever set eyes on you ever again. And I promise to leave your house as soon as i get the money to do so.”
“I’m sorry, Ruby. I know as your sister…”
“Sister?” I huffed. “I disowned you, remember?”
“Yes, you did. But I never disowned you. And i know you have every right to be mad at me but I won’t give up on you. I will make things right even if it cost me my relationship!” She paused. “Because that’s what family do… they never give up on each other.” And with that said, she walked out.
⏱️Ruby….no matter what happens…. Never give up on your sister.⏱️
Mom had told me just that but what did i do…?
I gave up on her!
I dropped down on the bed and started crying.
I cried and cried until I became tired of crying.
Why was my life a complete mess?
The door to my room was pushed open and a smiling Cherry walked into my room and sat down by my side.
I wiped off my tears and gave her a questioning look.
She handed her phone over to me and that was when I saw the video.
It was a video of Jennifer addressing the people of New York City.
And the headline reads; *Kara’s Ex best friend addresses the people about the rumors going on.*
“Kara isn’t pregnant for Malcolm. It’s just a lie to get the people of New York to sympathize with her and support her. Hell, Malcolm never even asked her out. She has been the one pushing herself on Malcolm. Kara and I were the ones who planned all of this! Ruby was just a victim of circu-mstances. It isn’t her fault that Malcolm loves her…..You guys are hating the wrong people!”
I scroll throu-ghthe comment and what I saw brou-ght a smile of my face.
I went back to the video and that was when she said….“Let’s make things right! I’m so sorry, Ruby. I’m really sorry.”
“The people are apologizing, Ruby. Though, some of them don’t believe what Jennifer said but some do…There is hope.”
Jennifer was right!
It’s time I stand up and do what’s right.
Sitting down and crying won’t change anything.
I have to fight.
I have to fight for my happiness and my family’s.
But first I need to do something.
“I have to be somewhere, Cheers.”
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????Kara’s Pov????
I stormed into the apartment sh head just moved in to.
Don’t ask me how I got to know where she was living.
Technologies have improved just in case you are still living in the nineties.
Jennifer turned around to look at me. She had a smirk on her stupid face.
“How dare you, you bit-ch !” I shoved her on her shoulder. “You are ruining my plans, you thing!”
“I don’t care, Kara. Enough is enough. You’ve hurt my sister so much. i won’t let you hurt her again.”
“Hurt? Tsk. Do you think the people believes the shit you just said? Yes, I’m not pregnant! Hell, Malcolm have never had se-x with me! He never loved me, why? Because he was being forced to be in a relationship with me! But guess what? what Kara wants, Kara gets! And I want Malcolm and I’m going to have him as all cost even if it means hurting someone else in the process or pretending to be pregnant!” I started laughing.
She tilted her head to the side and joined me in laughing also.
What the…?
Why was she laughing?
“Then I should be thanking you.” She say.
“what?” I ask, confused.
“You’ve just helped me in making the people see the truth.”
“What…?”
She stepped out of the way and that was when I saw it.
Holy crap!
We were still on live!
Everyone were watching us now.
I can’t believe this bit-ch tricked me into confessing with my own mouth!
I can’t believe I ruined my own plans with my own mouth!
“Thanks a lot Kara.”
That voice.
I spun around and found myself staring at Ruby.
She was smiling down at me.
“What?”
“Everything will go back to normal now. Those people you tricked and the people you hurt are going to get back on you now. They are watching for you outside.”
What?
I rolled the curtain up and that’s when i saw the crowd, they were yelling at to come out.
Oh my God.
I’m doomed.
I turned around and saw the sisters, smiling as they stare at me.
“I think we should push her out instead.” Jennifer say.
“I think you are right.” Ruby say and they started making their way towards me.
No. no, no….
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#TBC.