Undivided Love

Inside an average-looking living room decorated in a cream and brown colour, not very much spacious but wide enough for a moderate family.

Two figures sat on the brown sofa, they seemed to be having a nice chat and looked to be very close friends, one was having blonde hair and the other was having dark hair but they were both beautiful but not exactly beautiful enough.

"What have your parents said about Jesy still living here? If you ask me? I think she's already old enough to be living by herself."

It was Lydia who spoke, she was referring to the matter about Jesy. Lexi had told her how much she hated Jesy and wanted her to leave the house but Lexi never said her reason for hating Jesy Lexi's parents never agreed to the idea of making Jesy leave the house even when they also didn't like Jesy and wanted nothing to do with her.

"I have given it deep thoughts and I've finally decided against it."

Lexi replied with a meaningful smile on her face, Lydia frowned at Lexi's reply in confusion, she wasn't understanding Lexi's point anymore.

"What do you mean?" Lydia asked as she sat upright making sure her attention wasn't divided as she looked intently at Lexi.

"If we'd let Jesy go then it won't be fun anymore. Tormenting her has been something I've come to realize that I enjoyed the most and if she leaves this house, I can't do whatever I wish to her anymore right? That's why I want her to stay and suffer."

Lexi was boiling in hatred and despise towards Jesy but what she did not know was that the Jesy she knew before was no longer the Jesy now. If Lexi had a gun, she wouldn't hesitate to shoot Jesy on the spot. Lexi could still remember vividly what she saw that night. Although it was years ago, her little brain very well understood what she saw. And that was how her dislike for Jesy grew into something even worse than hatred.

'If only Jesy never existed, it wouldn't be like this.'

"That will be good but I honestly don't understand why you hate her so much, is there no reason for it?"

Lydia asked again as she relaxed her back. If there was one thing she could not understand about her friend, was the reason why she hated her very own elder sister, it puzzled her so much that she asked Lexi at every single opportunity she gets but Lexi never gave her any reasonable answer and it only made her all the more curious.

Lexi was about to say something but the doorbell rang several times and interrupted her but she already had a slight idea of who it might be. Lexi stood up from the sofa and walked to the door, she looked through the peephole and saw who was at the door, she turned and gave Lydia a look and Lydia understood immediately and that was one thing about the two friends, they understood each others body language perfectly well.

Lexi opened the door and saw Jesy standing by the door but something looked so different about Jesy, it was very strange and unsettling, almost suffocating and for a moment Lexi felt the air become tight but she finally regained herself and gave Jesy a look of disdain. Jesy's eyes were looking empty, too empty to be called rational, it was as if she was no longer a person with a soul, she looked so different.

Jesy raised her dull eyes lazily to have a clearer view of Lexi, she was still standing outside because Lexi stood by the door blocking her way and she felt the breeze become cold as she shivered. Her eyes were completely blank compared to Lexi's eyes which were giving out hatred.

"Move."

Jesy spoke, her voice calm but chilly it had the power to pierce through a person with the way her aura was blaring in pain and anguish like a Luna whose park was in a great apocalypse but she was helpless. It was just one word and it was good enough for anyone to understand her impatience but Lexi was too stupid to get the message and her ego wouldn't let her succumb to Jesy's simple request. It had always been like that, in the place that housed four people only one was treated so differently like she was something that could bring nothing but a bad omen to them.

When they were just children, Lexi was being treated like the only princess there ever was. The act of undivided love was never something that was practised in Anthony's house, they favoured one and neglected the older one. Whenever Jesy did something right, it was either she would be ignored or they would want to find fault for what she did and when she does something wrong, she would be brutally beaten up by her mother and punished severely by her father, but Lexi would be corrected in love if she did something wrong and would be showered with gifts and praises if she did the right thing.

It made Jesy wonder if she was related to them at all because she never felt like family or she was never treated like a family but she was indeed related to them because she was a carbon copy of her mother and people praised them for it. She looked so much like her mother that the only difference was in their age.

Right from their childhood, Jesy felt Lexi was way better than her and that was why her parents loved Lexi more but in actual sense, Jesy was unaware of the real reason which they hid from her.

Jesy had naively thought that maybe all that was needed was a little bit of time and everything would get better and she waited patiently for one day without retaliating but as she grew up into the fine and intelligent woman that she was today, she finally understood that all her time waiting were fruitless and now she wasn't interested in being loved by her own family again, to her, it was a useless wish that could only come true in her dreams.

Though she was over the thought of being loved by her parents she wasn't going to repay them for what they'd done to her in the past so long as they let her live her life freely but if they still wouldn't let her breathe then there was nothing that was ever going to stop her from revenging.