1 Tiring Task

"Aren't we done yet?" A beautiful woman while wiping her sweat asking the person beside her.

The person beside her quickly slumped on the couch. "Yes. That was the last scene you need to shoot for this movie. Now, we just need to wait for the crews to do their works and then the movie will be released soon after."

The face of the beautiful woman immediately bloomed into a smile hearing that. The person beside her noticed that smile quickly rebuked. "Don't even think about that. You have a photoshoot the day after tomorrow."

The smile of the beautiful woman slowly disappear. She was once a girl who dreamed about becoming a celebrity. But right now, she kind of regrets her decision. Though she got fame from it, what did it cost? Her freedom was restricted because of the tight schedule. She didn't even have time to enjoy the money she been working hard.

The person beside the beautiful woman noticed her silence, swiftly patted the beautiful woman head. "I know it must be hard for you, Lyra. But you need to strive for it."

Lyra quickly hugged the person beside her to hide her emotion. "I know, Lucy."

'I'm sorry, Lucy. But I must have this vacation, or else I don't know what my mental state would be.' Lyra silently thought.

They quietly embraced each other and broke their hugs when Lyra phone started ringing.

Lyra quickly picked up her phone from the table beside her. She glanced at the caller name and quickly her face grew darker. Lucy which noticed it, immediately excused herself from the room because she knew that the room would soon turn into a warzone.

She contemplated for a while whether to pick the call or not. Eventually, she decided to pick the call to see what scene this bitch was trying to pull off.

"Hello." Lyra emotionlessly speak.

"Hello, Lyra. Am I disturbing you?" A gentle voice can be heard from the other side phone call.

"Yes." Lyra shortly replied.

"Oh, dear...You shouldn't speak like that to your mother. It's hurting my heart every time you speak to mom like that, you know?" Lyra mother sobbed as if she was being hurt for real by Lyra words.

Lyra rolled her eyes at the woman action. "What do you want?"

"Oh, Dear... I just want to know about your condition."

"If that so, then I'm gonna cut the call then."

Before Lyra cut the call off, Lyra mother swiftly speak. "Don't! You bitch, you dare to disregard your mother??"

"I'm not even your child, what are you fussing about?" Lyra spoke with a cold tone. The truth was Lyra biological mother already dead a couple of years ago. Back then, her father mistreated her mother that her mother fell ill. Since then, Lyra hated her father more than anything in this world.

The day after her mother funeral, her father brought a woman home and introduced her as her new mother. Lyra as a rebellious teenager quickly denied about the woman presence. She was not prepared for this whole new thing and gradually the relationship between her and her father grew distant.

But the woman kept persisting in being close to Lyra. When eating, the woman would place food on Lyra plate. When Lyra about to go to school, the woman would send her off. The woman kept doing kind of things like that. All those things made Lyra a bit touched. Slowly but surely, the repulsion of Lyra weakening. And the time when she about to accept the woman as her new mother, Lyra heard the woman talking on the phone.

"Ahaha, My Husband daughter surely an idiot. She even got touched when I placed food on her plate. Don't she know that the food I placed on her plate was either the food I dislike or almost expired." The woman then laughed loudly, not knowing that the person she talked about currently watched her from the door.

Lyra who watched the woman from the door, quickly headed toward her room. She involuntarily clenched her fist. She was angry with herself and the woman. With herself, because she was trusting a stranger swiftly. She was angry with her new mom because she was lying all this time. She even badmouthed her at the back.

Shutting the door, she quickly slumped on her bed and cried quietly. She got no one to consult since her mother already passed away. Her father was a bastard that didn't even know her new wife was a snake in disguise. So, the only thing she could do was cried bitterly alone.

-Present-

"You!" The woman furious tone can be heard.

"I'll never acknowledge you as my mother and would never send you money ever. Though my father was a bastard, he was still after all my father. So, I'll send a sum of money toward him to repay his kindness in the past. But not for YOU!" Lyra shouted at the end and immediately cut the call off.

She placed her phone on the table and tiredly rubbed her forehead. It was such a tiring task for her to talk with that bitch. Not to mention every time she heard the woman voice, she wanted to punch her face badly.