After preparing her breakfast, which is just a simple combination of bacon and eggs, accompanied with a fresh brewed tea.
Taking all this from the kitchen to her dining area, she placed it all on the dining table at once, since it was already laid on a tray.
She sat down as she started eating her breakfast which she enjoyed. After she finished eating, she took the empty serving plates and mug back to the kitchen, before she came back to clean the dining table she just finished eating.
Preparing herself mentally after she finished cleaning up, she went to get her phone from her bed stand. When she turned on her phone, she saw twenty- two missed calls on her phone.
Looking at the caller’s ID, she identified the people calling her to be her best friend Rihanna who called her fifteen times. It was just three people she identified called her. Her father also called her four times with her step mother ( Mira’s mother), which made up the remaining missed calls.
Looking at those two missed calls from those two, feels like an eyesore to her. She can say that this is the first time they have called her repeatedly since she became an adult. They never called to check up on her. It’s either they call to scold her, or ask her to come back for a family gathering.
Not long after, she took her phone to check on what was going on online, and Rihanna called her again. “Hey babe,” she heard her say after she picked up the call. “You made the headlines this morning. Have you seen what they are discussing about you online, it’s better you don’t go online for the time being, or else you would be heartbroken as those netizens were slandering you online.”
Listening to her caring voice from the other end of the phone, she felt her heart was filled with warmth. Out of the handful of people that cares about her genuinely in this world, after her mother’s death, Rihanna would be the first she would identify. They were not just only friends, they can be said to have become sisters due to their long time friendship”.
“Don’t worry girlfriend, slandering me like this is better than being betrayed by my loved ones. What can those people who don’t even know me from Adam say about me that would be more painful than the betrayal I went through these past two days.”
Netizens would just judge me based on what they see and read, which was written by those bloggers and reporters who just want to write some juicy news for money and fame.
Lina did not rush going to surf online for what was happening, or about what they wrote on the headlines about her. Taking some steps towards the living room, she sat down on her favourite single seater sofa, and crossed her legs by placing one on top of the other.
She knew she would make the headlines of various news reports today, but she didn’t lose her composure. Knowing nothing can change that from happening, she felt even more calm than what a girl of her age can handle. If it was the old Lina that is facing all this, she would have not been able to take it, but this new Lina has promised herself to be strong and faced all her challenges head on.
Either she looks at the news now or later wouldn’t make a difference. She speaks to Rihanna for some minutes before they both hang up.
Rihanna felt bad that she couldn’t be by her best friend’s side at this moment, to give her the emotional support, and physical support she needed right now, but after Lina calmed her down, and promised she wouldn’t do anything stupid on impulse, she hung up reluctantly.
Taking a deep breath, Lina went online to see what was going on. Since Rihanna has already sent her the links to those news, it wasn’t hard for her to see what she was looking for.
Opening one link after the other, even though she had expected she would be slandered, because no one knows the reason she rejected her fiance on the altar, she didn’t know it would be worse to this extent.
HEADLINES: “A SPOILT HEIRESS
REJECTED HER FIANCE ON THE ALTAR.”
“FATHER DISOWNED HER DAUGHTER FOR REJECTING HER MARRIAGE, AND SPOILING THE REPUTATION OF THE FAMILY THAT HAD BEEN BUILT FOR YEARS.”
“FIANCE WAS SAD AND ANGRY AS HE LEFT THE WEDDING VENUE IN ANGER.”
Looking at all that was written underneath these headlines made her speechless. She didn’t expect they would exaggerate all that happened yesterday to this extent.
The netizen was also bashing her from all angles which she had expected, but she didn’t expect the discussion online to be so tough.
Netizen one: “How dare she reject my male god like that, who does she think she is. My male god was even giving her face to proceed with the marriage, but she rejected him outwardly. I pity my male god so much, who did he offend that cursed him to meet this disgusting woman.”
Netizen two: “she even had the guts to disown her father publicly, let’s see how she will survive after she is thrown out of Robert’s mansion.”
Even though the Robert’s can’t be considered among the top ten richest families in New York, they are still well off.
Netizen three: “It’s like this girl is not that good, that’s why nobody loves her in her family. It will even be better if her second sister was the one getting married to Mr Frederick today. I love how her father slapped her in front of everyone, maybe that slap will help her think properly.”
Netizen four: “I hope nothing happened to my male god as he left in anger, or else I’m coming for you.”
The videos and pictures attached to all this news were being exaggerated. Some of the reporters even edit and photoshop some, in order to make the news effective, and receive the attention they want.
People were throwing insults and their opinions here and there. Scrolling through all these hateful comments, even though she promised herself she would be strong from now on, she still can’t control her emotions as she felt tears welled up in her eyes, but she forced the tears back in.
No one speaks up for her, they were just feeling sorry for Daniel. The few people that spoke up for her were also dragged into the matter. Seeing this, no one was willing to speak up for her anymore.
*****
At the Robert’s mansion,
In the living room.
A middle aged man and woman could be seen sitting on a two seater sofa as they watched the news. They both occupied the space on the sofa.
The woman looks younger than her age which shows she took care of herself well. She is in her early forties. You can’t even know she had given birth to a daughter who is already in her early twenties.
That’s right, it was Lina’s father and his wife ( Lina’s stepmother), who were sitting on the sofa.
Watching as everything that happened yesterday at the wedding was being broadcasted live on the television, the man could be seen gritting his teeth as he was seething in anger.
“How can that ungrateful girl do this to me? She just rejected the marriage with Daniel in a dishonourable way. Why did she not think about the family’s interest? Didn’t she know that without this marriage, all our cooperations with the sunshine company would be cut off.” Joshua, Lina’s father said as he flung the remote control in his hand against the wall in anger.
The relationship between the two families had brought the families together. They always have some collaborations together in business. Since Daniel took Lina home as his girlfriend for the first time, his parents liked her at first sight.
Knowing she is a daughter of Robert’s family, they started transferring the love they have for her to her family members also. Seeing her as their future daughter-in-law, they also started collaborating with their company, which made their company grow in rank and it also started having recognition in these two years.
Imagining the consequences of this marriage Lina rejected, Rachael, Mira’s mother cursed Lina a million times in her heart. Seeing as they will be losing in two places as the wedding didn’t take place, the legacy they have been planning to get from Lina won’t be able to get to their hand. She started planning on how she would deal with Lina, and get her hands on that legacy at all costs.
Picking up her phone she dropped earlier on the coffee table, she dialled the familiar number one more time. It rang for sometime before it entered voicemail. “How dare she not pick up my calls,” she grunted in frustration.
Looking at his wife who was as angry as him, Joshua also picked up his phone and called Lina, but she didn’t pick up his number either.
He called her again, and she picked up this time around. “How dare you not pick up my calls since I’ve been calling you?”