Chapter 148: Vampire energy
Unlike the Cortez Household, when Nina came home, the atmosphere in the house was silent. She could see Jessa in the kitchen with the twins helping her out. But the three of them weren’t talking.
’Tch!’ Nina clicked her tongue and ran upstairs.
When she reached her shabby room, she tossed her bag away and jumped on the bed. Nina hugged the blanket and buried her face in the mattress.
The silence in the house was deafening. It was louder than Jessa’s yelling and scolding and it only made Nina feel even more guilty. It amplified what happened in school and how the entire school was talking about what she did and her real parentage.
It was a nightmare!
"I hate her! I hate her! I hate all of them!" she expressed angrily, wrestling her pillow to vent out her anger.
She knew Penny would not reconsider Nina’s feelings. She knew Penny was simply waiting for Nina to slip up to make sure she hog everything that was supposed to be Nina’s. It was what she believed in the beginning and what she still wanted to believe until now.
It filled her heart with so much rage a normal thirteen-year-old wouldn’t have. Her anger crawled even to Jessa, who revealed the baby swapping, and then to Charles, who didn’t even try to shield her from her cruel auntie.
"Why does everyone favor her?!" she seethed while grinding her teeth. "She’s nothing, and she hasn’t done anything! I was a good girl! I did everything to please everyone! Everything I did was for their sake! Why?! Why?! Why could they leave me so easily!? Just because I’m not the real daughter — I hate everyone!"
At the end of her tantrums, Nina found herself slumped on the bed, crying.