Chapter 185: When love and hate collide II
Paula and Heaven became friends after that incident until they reached high school. They were always together and Paula would regularly sleep over in Heaven’s place. Heaven wasn’t rich, but they live a comfortable life, unlike Paula’s family, who could barely get by every day.
The two girls had gotten so close that Heaven’s father had treated Paula as his daughter as well. Heaven’s mother was nowhere to be found. According to Heaven, her mother died when she was still young because of an illness, leaving her and her father.
Everything was great and all until they became juniors.
Despite their deep friendship, Paula noticed that people treated them differently. Heaven was popular in school because of her beauty and approachable aura; she was also an honor roll student and a part of the student government.
Meanwhile, Paula was just... a student.
Although she was beautiful, with Heaven on her side most of the time, she never stood out. Paula also struggled to keep up good grades while Heaven just made it look too easy. Heaven offered help and Paula took it, not knowing it would worsen her insecurity.
Other students’ unpleasant comments caused Paula to feel uneasy. Even though Paula had done nothing, these students just assumed and judged her friendship with Heaven just because Heaven always chose to be with Paula.
Paula did her best to ignore all these comments.
She did her best not to see Heaven in such light, but alas, due to the uncertainty of her future, while Heaven was being vouched by an agency, the seed of inferiority continuously grew into a thorny vine, crawling around her heart and soul, causing cracks on this beautiful friendship.