Chapter 28: You saw it right?
I heard Evelyn say behind me, the words that left her mouth were dripping with sarcasm. I looked up to see her eyes flickered down to look at me with a smug look plastered across her face.
Tension stretched between the two of us as I stood up on my own and narrowed my eyes on her, watching the smirk on her face grow even wider than before.
"Drop the act, Evelyn. You pushed me," I sneered with a disdainful scorn. "Don’t try to play innocent now," I spat the words out of my mouth as I glared at her.
I didn’t notice it earlier but my mother was now standing beside me as she placed her hand on my shoulder.
"I’m sure it was just an accident, Aurelia," she tried to convince me while Evelyn stood there feigning innocence as she kept her head hung low. "Evelyn wouldn’t do that..." she insisted while I continued to glare at Evelyn, my eyes burning right through her skull.
There was a brief pause before my mother said something again. "Are you okay?" She asked this time when I didn’t reply or say a single word, yet I couldn’t sense a hint of genuine concern in her voice as her eyes remained cold.
"Okay? Of course I’m not okay! She pushed me!" I snapped, my finger jutting out to point right at Evelyn who was playing the role of the victim all too well. "Look at my hand, do you see the blood dripping down my hand? How am I going to paint in the upcoming competition?" I yelled, my voice boomed loudly in the living hall.
All this commotion must have attracted Natalie and James’ attention as I watched them come running into the living hall with a tiny frown etched onto their concerned faces. They closed the distance between us in a few large strides across the place.
"What happened?" James’ deep voice sliced through the tension that was thick in the air.