Liar and Liar - Chapter 63

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Chapter 63

Although the fate of the female students who approached Frederick was uniformly rather miserable, in Danielle’s eyes, those female students seemed better than Stella. They had accepted the wounds and humbly accepted the outcome that came to them.

But Stella Bellabia was the type who scratched others because she didn’t want to get hurt herself. While crouching for 7 years waiting for opportunities and timing might be her own strategy that was none of her business, punishing every single female student who hung around Frederick without exception was utterly despicable.

And that vile blade was sharpest toward the powerless and vulnerable Danielle.

“Danielle!”

Mari, who ran over first, fidgeted helplessly while holding her stick. Now Danielle and Stella were gripping each other’s hair. Danielle grabbed the hair with all her strength and shook it. Stella let out a shrill scream.

“Ah! Are you crazy?! Let go of this!”

“You definitely started it first, you bitch.”

As she pressed forward against Stella who had turned her body, Danielle and Stella’s bodies rolled together on the lawn. The whistle sound grew fiercer, blowing repeatedly. Whether it did or not. Danielle grabbed Stella’s hair and forcefully slammed her head into the lawn.

“Ugh!”

And she rubbed it hard against the lawn like doing laundry. Stella twisted her whole body and struggled, but couldn’t escape from Danielle’s grip.

Danielle wanted to get up from this position and kick Stella with her feet. Until she reached the goal.

“What are you doing to Stella?!”

But a sharp voice pierced through as Emily roughly grabbed the collar of Danielle’s gym uniform.

Not missing the moment when Danielle’s upper body fell backward, Stella raised her knee, pulled out one leg, then immediately kicked Danielle’s stomach with maximum force.

“Ugh!”

“Kyaaah! Danielle!! Are you okay?!”

“Stop! Stop! Can’t you two separate right now?!”

Surprised Mari intervened in the situation. She pushed Emily and both fell to the side together.

Both Danielle and Stella were breathing roughly. Danielle was clutching her abdomen that had been kicked twice with one hand.

Ignoring the teacher’s shouting, just as Danielle was about to forcefully push Stella’s eye area with her palm, Stella coldly muttered in a small voice that only Danielle could hear.

“You’re a toy. I know. You’re nothing but a toy.”

Danielle couldn’t move like someone who had been hit hard in the solar plexus.

“I’m not just saying this. How do you think I found out?”

Does she know about the bet?

Danielle’s lips turned pale blue.

‘No, that can’t be…’

“Rick has never once told you he likes you, has he?”

At this moment, Danielle resented herself for being bad at lying. Although Stella’s face was a mess from being roughly rubbed against the lawn, she didn’t miss the momentary expression Danielle made and seized the advantage. And she burst into laughter.

“Ahaha. Ahahahahaha!”

Even Emily and Mari looked at Stella with surprised faces. Danielle, who had been silent for a moment, let go of the hand gripping Stella’s hair.

And she slowly reached her hand toward Stella’s neck. There was only one purpose. It was truly an insane act.

Those kids must be crazy.

Total dogfight.

Damn, the boys are here.

The voices around sounded like sounds from another world.

Rick. What should we do about those kids. You try to stop them.

At the word ‘Rick’, Danielle finally exhaled her unsteady breath and slowly raised her head. With Frederick at the front, the now-familiar figures stood behind him. Joshua burst into laughter.

“Hahaha! Why, tell them to do more.”

“Joshua!”

The teacher frowned and scolded him. Frederick extended his hand, but Danielle avoided that hand and got down from on top of Stella by herself.

Stella, surprised by Frederick’s arrival, hurriedly wiped her face with one hand, but only briefly before finally bursting into tears.

“Sob, sob.”

Stella, with tears glistening in her green eyes, looked up at only Frederick with a pitiful face. She looked even more pitiful because of the hand covering her face awkwardly. It was exactly the appearance Stella would have intended.

Danielle stood there dazed, her body and mind tattered with wounds. Stella was crying, but only the sharp laughter that had mocked her echoed in her ears.

Stupid! Did you really believe Frederick would like you? Someone like you?

You’re a toy. A toy that Frederick will play with for fun and then throw away.

What Stella said and the hallucinations mixed together, making Danielle dizzy. Her legs were shaking so much that standing on both feet was all she could manage.

Even at the sight of Stella crying pitifully, Frederick’s gaze didn’t linger on her for long. His gaze immediately moved to Danielle.

“Honey-“

“Chris.”

But Danielle deliberately interrupted Frederick’s words and shifted her empty gaze to Chris standing behind him, not to Frederick.

“Sorry, but could you help me to the Nurse’s Office?”

The surroundings became quiet. Everyone was speculating about the reason for Danielle’s sudden strange behavior.

The moment Chris approached and extended his hand, Frederick’s cold and calm voice broke the silence.

“Why?”

Without extending his hand, Frederick’s voice drew Danielle’s gaze to him as if gripping her chin.

“I’m here, so why are you looking for Chris?”

Danielle forcibly averted her gaze.

“Is that such a big deal to make a fuss about? I have something to say to Chris.”

She barely managed not to let her voice tremble. Danielle, avoiding Frederick’s gaze, took Chris’s hand and stood up.

“I’m going to report this to the Principal right away, so you two just treat your wounds and go straight to the Principal! I absolutely can’t let this slide.”

After answering the teacher quietly, Danielle left that place with Chris. Whether Stella would ask Frederick for help, whether Frederick would really leave such a Stella alone, even such thoughts were sickening.

Chris naturally led toward the Nurse’s Office, but Danielle went in a different direction. Chris, who hesitated for a moment, followed the direction Danielle was going.

Only when they reached a place with no people did Danielle’s steps stop. The tree-lined path to the middle school was quiet as always.

“…Sorry for getting you involved in something like this.”

Even though he said to become friends, even though he said to tell him anytime if she needed help.

Danielle covered her face with one hand in self-loathing. However, the biggest problem was that she had no regret about this action.

“It’s okay. I said I’d help you anytime. Do you want to sit on that bench over there for now?”

Danielle obediently sat on the bench he pointed to with her head still down. Instead of sitting next to her, Chris knelt on one knee in front of Danielle.

Something kept boiling up from her solar plexus.

Danielle felt like she was going crazy. Confronting Stella head-on made it feel more vivid. Probably Stella right now would be sad and miserable, but someday she would receive compensation for that. By laughing heartily at her rival.

Was it fake?

A bet?

It was all fake. Everything. All of it.

What was she so happy about, acting superior and mocking? It was all fake and an illusion.

“What’s wrong? Is it still difficult to tell me?”

“…”

Stella’s situation was rather better. Even if she was envious and miserable for now, in the end it would be Stella who would laugh last.

Although he had never accepted her heart, Frederick had at least never deceived Stella. He had never treated her like a toy either.

That’s why even grabbing and shaking her hair and hitting her didn’t feel refreshing. Because Frederick Bastia had already decided her place. Danielle was standing at the cliff edge, facing a completely shattered ending.

Whether it was because her blood pressure had risen too much, or some strange hormone was having a fit, Danielle found it difficult to breathe properly because of emotions that circulated through all her blood vessels and eventually stirred up even her heart.

“Huh, huh. Sob.”

And finally that emotion squeezed Danielle’s tear ducts. Tears burst out.

Danielle could no longer hold her secret alone in her two hands. It was the limit.

“It’s… fake.”

She wanted to let it go now. Danielle decided to spit out whatever came out of her mouth. To vomit it out somehow.

“Frederick Bastia isn’t dating me because he likes me.”

“…What do you mean?”

“Except for you, your group made a bet about me. Whoever seduces me first and gets a love confession wins. That’s why Frederick Bastia confessed to me.”

She said it. Once she spoke it out loud, the misery doubled. Reality hit her coldly.

“…What?”

Chris’s hands came into Danielle’s view.

“…Am I understanding this correctly? A bet…? The kids did such a thing with you?”

Chris’s hands were clenched so tightly they were trembling.

“How did you find out? If you knew it was because of a bet, why on earth did you date him?”

“…By chance, sob- I heard it while passing by the Swimming Pool Room. Dating him was…”

Chris’s voice was agitated like never before.

“I had to ask about my sister’s matter…”

“…If it’s painful and difficult enough to cry like this, can’t you break up even now? Is it because of your sister?”

“No…”

Danielle Ryu covered her face with both hands. Tears seeped through her fingers and soon began dripping down.

The words she couldn’t bring herself to say to him, Danielle sobbed out.

“I like Frederick… That’s the problem…”

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