Liar and Liar - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62

The beginning of this emotion toward Stella Bellabia, which could only be called resentment, traced back to fifth grade.

“Oh my, Danielle. Did you buy new shoes? They’re cute!”

“Yeah. Mom said I should wear dress shoes instead of sneakers now.”

When Danielle Ryu first came to the United States, she wore sneakers like she did in Korea. But after seeing the other Elmir Westlake female students, Hye-ju had a great realization and immediately bought famous brand Mary Jane shoes.

Wearing dress shoes casually without any special occasion felt unfamiliar, but it wasn’t unpleasant.

So those shoes were Danielle Ryu’s new treasure. Something that made her walk more carefully.

“Wow, they suit you well.”

“Kyaa!”

But strawberry juice spilled onto the shoes she hadn’t even worn for half a day. She hastily pulled her feet away, but sticky pink stains had already soaked from her shoes to her socks.

“Ah, sorry! What should I do!”

Stella, who had spilled the juice, looked genuinely troubled and apologetic. Honestly speaking, she was incredibly angry, but Danielle Ryu couldn’t bring herself to get mad at that troubled face. It couldn’t have been intentional.

…She thought it wasn’t intentional. Until the spring semester of fifth grade.

Even in ordinary daily life, mathematical statistics automatically operated in Danielle Ryu’s head. It was about detecting frequency and classifying anomalous data.

Around the fall semester of sixth grade, Danielle Ryu reached one conclusion with a 0.0001% margin of error.

Fucking Stella Tresebia “always throws shit at me after I’m alone with Frederick Bastia.” There were no exceptions.

What made her particularly angry was the fake angel mask she always wore on her face. As if she had no malice whatsoever, Stella would always just express regret after putting Danielle Ryu in difficult situations.

“Danielle!”

After the check incident when she stopped talking to Frederick, Stella Bellabia seemed to stop too, but that was only temporary.

Stella never missed the moment when Danielle Ryu exposed her bare skin.

“Your shoe sole is torn. Oh no! Are you okay?”

Danielle Ryu could tell that Stella had deliberately timed it. Frederick’s gaze was also drawn to her shoes by Stella’s voice.

‘Fucking bitch.’

It was the first time she had thought about tearing someone apart.

And Frederick poured gasoline on the burning house.

“Should I bring you shoes?”

Shut your mouth.

Danielle Ryu herself didn’t know. How Frederick should have reacted to make her feel better.

Ignoring her was one thing, reacting was another.

Whatever kind of action it was, she would have been angry. Her heart was being stubborn.

But one thing was certain.

This anger wasn’t directed at Frederick Bastia. Even if Stella Bellabia’s act of exposing and scratching at her was because of Frederick Bastia, Danielle Ryu distinguished the target of her anger.

This was between her and Stella Bellabia.

Someday she would definitely pay it all back.

Even so, she never imagined she would pay it back by dating Frederick.

That was satisfying in its own way, but something more was needed to clean up what remained at the bottom of her heart. For example…

Ramming into her with her whole body.

Shaking her by the hair.

Or stepping on her ankle.

What Danielle Ryu really wanted was for Stella Bellabia’s mask to be torn off and shattered to pieces.

Since they had decided to make the lacrosse field a battleground first, there would be nothing to feel wronged about.

She would see the end of seven years of pretense today. With that thought, Danielle Ryu gripped her stick tightly.

Emily shouted loudly.

“Let’s use the original rules. Women’s rules are boring!”

Danielle Ryu silently tilted her neck left and right. She rotated her wrist holding the stick and walked to an empty spot on the field.

Two female students, each wearing white and blue uniforms, faced each other with the ball placed on the white line in the center of the green field. They were aspiring lacrosse professionals.

With the teacher’s whistle, the two sticks clashed above the ball and the clamp began. The sound of stick heads pressing down on the ball, pushing it up, and colliding rang out short and sharp.

As the ball bounced up, both players rushed in simultaneously. In the whirlwind of grass being rubbed hard and steps getting tangled, the blue team captain was the first to scoop up the ball. As if covering for her, Stella quickly raised her stick high and rapidly cut in from the side.

Danielle Ryu, wearing a white uniform, took a deep breath and ran in a sprint. She lowered her stick and applied pressure along Stella’s shoulder line.

Stella quickly twisted her upper body direction, and Danielle Ryu, who was trying to cut in deeper, stumbled and lost her balance. Her body slid and fell onto the grass.

‘Ugh!’

And not missing that moment, Stella kicked Danielle Ryu in the side with one foot.

‘Argh!’

Falling toward the goal was a mistake. Whether the angle was exquisite or not, the teacher standing far away made no intervention.

Fucking bitch. Danielle Ryu gritted her teeth and quickly got up from her position. She had no time to worry about the stinging sensation in her palms and knees.

Stella started running looking for someone to pass to, but Danielle Ryu quickly closed the gap and immediately pressed her body close.

Just like with academic grades, Danielle Ryu was second to none in running except for professional prospects. She bent her upper body to aim for an angle of entry and soon collided with maximum force.

“Ah!”

Stella’s upper body swayed to the side, losing balance and stumbling. Running was one thing, but Danielle Ryu was quite confident in her physical strength too. Especially against stick-thin humans who only ate yogurt and cheese claiming to be on a diet.

While Stella was staggering, Danielle Ryu accurately caught the ball floating in the air with her stick. Stella regained her composure and tried to approach quickly again, but Danielle Ryu lowered her body as if protecting her stick and firmly set her upper body to block the path.

As if giving a side hug, in a position that seemed like they would put their arms around each other’s shoulders, their upper bodies touched.

She wanted to immediately jab her elbow into her solar plexus, ribs, or chest. But Danielle Ryu barely held back the impulse.

After creating distance from Stella, instead of running straight to the goal or passing the ball to another student, Danielle Ryu turned to face Stella and stopped.

Perhaps because she had suffered enough, or because of the time of pain that had accumulated wetly like rotting grapes being crushed, Danielle Ryu seemed to know exactly what words would make Stella Bellabia go crazy.

“I kissed Frederick over the weekend.”

Danielle Ryu thought of the moment she had looked up at Frederick and Stella’s joint performance from the dark hall.

No humiliation, insult, shame, or pain could compare to that moment.

“Is that why I’m overflowing with energy?”

Danielle Ryu smiled brightly. Stella’s figure came into her view. Stella’s green eyes, trembling uncontrollably with both hands, looked somehow broken. Stella’s lips, painted with lipstick, silently muttered something.

Stella, who looked as if her soul had left her body, threw aside the stick she had been holding with both hands. The stick bounced and rolled on the grass.

Even while sensing the situation that was about to unfold, Danielle Ryu didn’t back down. In fact, it was what she had hoped for. It was what she had induced.

Stella leaned forward and rushed at Danielle Ryu in one breath. Even though she stepped back with one foot, the area below her collarbone was pressed and Danielle Ryu’s body fell backward.

Scores and the game became irrelevant. The teacher blew the whistle hard from afar, but it didn’t matter to Stella and Danielle Ryu.

From now on, it was just a simple brawl where whoever left no regrets in this fight would win. Stella, who had climbed on top of Danielle Ryu, grabbed Danielle Ryu’s hair. Danielle Ryu swallowed her scream. It felt like her hair was being torn out.

“What are you doing with that filthy mouth that eats dog meat?”

The sound of students running over could be heard. Danielle Ryu raised one hand into the air without delay, without hesitation.

Smack-

And immediately slapped Stella’s cheek with all her strength.

“How ignorant.”

She intended to burst those lips. Stella’s head turned completely to the side.

“The best you could find out about Korea was dog meat? You’re so stupid that’s why you couldn’t seduce Frederick for seven years.”

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