Messed Up

"What is she doing here?!" Shirley hid behind Noah's body, hoping Charlotte wouldn't see her. 

"Your sister seems to have gone mad." Noah replied, dumbfounded by Charlotte's craziness. 

"I think I should go to her, before she makes a bigger scene." Shirley said, then walked over to Charlotte. 

Noah let Shirley do what she wanted, indeed it seemed that this situation could not get any worse. There were quite a few people on the other terrace and they were starting to come out to see what was happening.

Shirley walked hurriedly over to Charlotte who looked unfocussed, she was pretty sure that Charlotte was currently drunk. She doesn't know where her mother had let Charlotte become like this. 

"Charlotte, have you gone mad!" Shirley whispered sharply. 

Not only that, Shirley also shook Charlotte's shoulder gently so that her step-sister would realise what she was doing right now. 

"I finally found you, you fucking bitch!" Instead of shutting her mouth, Charlotte looked like she was going to hit Shirley when she saw her in front of her. 

Shirley quickly smothered Charlotte's mouth and dragged her away from there, she could not attract any more attention with Charlotte's ridiculous actions. 

The effort Shirley and Noah had put in earlier could come back to bite them, if she didn't shut Charlotte up as soon as possible. 

Shirley went to an empty hallway in Count Janice's large family mansion. After observing that there was no one there Shirley immediately threw Charlotte's body down in annoyance. 

"Why are you looking for me?" asked Shirley impatiently, she knew that sooner or later Rosemary would come to look for Charlotte's whereabouts. 

Shirley honestly didn't want to deal with Rosemary, but she also couldn't just get rid of Charlotte because their mother would definitely keep looking for her.

"Don't go near Noah again, hik." With an unfocussed look Charlotte pointed at Shirley's face. 

"Where's your mother?" Shirley guessed that Charlotte must have been looking for her because of Noah. 

However, it seemed that Charlotte was not too happy with Shirley's words, she got up from her position and began to approach Shirley with her sluggish steps. 

There was a look of uncertainty on Shirley's face as Charlotte walked towards her, but she remained unmoved waiting to see what Charlotte would do to her. 

Charlotte's face was filled with hatred as she extended her hand towards Shirley. The incident was short lived, Charlotte moved her hand to grab Shirley's hair. 

Surprised by what Charlotte did to her, Shirley screamed out in pain, not expecting that she would grab her hair like that. 

"Aish! Charlotte, come to your senses!" Shirley hissed sharply. 

Shirley couldn't hurt Charlotte because Rosemary would beat the crap out of her if she got that witch's favourite daughter hurt. 

So all Shirley could do was pull Charlotte's hand that was grabbing her hair. However, that didn't work to release Charlotte's hold on her hair, so Shirley had no choice but to use more strength to pull Charlotte. 

"Die, you bitch! If you don't exist, then Noah will be mine," Charlotte said with eyes full of obsession, really wishing Shirley would just die and disappear from her life. 

"Damn, she's really lost her mind." Shirley gritted her teeth hard, enduring the pain she felt in her head. 

Finally Shirley's strong pull paid off, Charlotte's grip on her head was released, but at the same time because of that Charlotte had no grip and with her wits half gone due to drunkenness, Charlotte fell heavily on the floor. 

At the same time the door connecting the hallway to one of the rooms opened and Rosemary stepped through that door.

Rosemary's eyes widened in shock as she saw Charlotte topple over after being pushed hard by Shirley. Seeing that, Rosemary's temper was ignited. 

"Shirley! How dare you throw your own sister like that," Rosemary shouted hysterically, as she walked quickly over to Charlotte who was lying helplessly on the floor. 

"I r-really didn't mean to, madam." Shirley broke out in a cold sweat as she saw Rosemary's figure coming. 

Shirley was indeed unlucky when it came to these two, how could it be that out of the many possible people who had caught them fighting, it turned out to be Rosemary. 

After confirming that Charlotte was okay, Rosemary walked over to Shirley and a slap flew onto Shirley's cheek. 

"You've gone here without my permission, even daring to make a scene. And now that you've hurt Charlotte, I'll be waiting for you at home and talk about this whole matter later." Rosemary said coldly, then turned to carry Charlotte out of there. 

Shirley just stood there silently, the stinging heat on her cheeks was nothing compared to the coldness and emptiness she felt in her heart right now. 

Her current self was very similar to this cold hallway, it feels dark and empty. 

Even to shed her tears, Shirley's heart was too sore to do that, she could only sigh tiredly, then tidied up her appearance that looked terrible at the moment. 

"I'd better get back to Noah." Shirley waltzed away from that hallway.

. . .

As much as possible, Shirley chose the quickest and quietest way to return to the terrace she and Noah had rested earlier. 

Before meeting Noah, Shirley stopped the maids who were there and ordered them to bring her an ice pack. 

What surprised Shirley when she arrived at the terrace was that she saw the figure of Count Janice coming out of the place where she had left Noah earlier. 

As Count Janice walked towards her, Shirley bowed politely, even though she saw that Count Janice walked right past her without seeing her. 

Shirley didn't care too much about that, she quickly entered the terrace where Noah had been and upon arriving she saw Noah sitting on the sofa there listlessly. 

"Are you alright? I saw your father come out of here just now," Shirley said, sitting down on the sofa across from Noah. 

Noah shook his hand, his other hand still holding his head. 

"I hope your situation isn't that bad," Shirley continued with a grimace. 

Shirley also looked down at the garden below, her situation wasn't too good at the moment either, she didn't have time to worry about other people at the moment. 

Noah also said nothing, he still remained silent and did nothing. 

Until a moment later, a maid came to bring the ice pack that Shirley had requested earlier. 

Noah frowned when he heard that, he really needed the ice pack because his cheek was quite swollen from his father punching him hard earlier. 

However, Noah was sure that Shirley hadn't seen the bruise on his face and he hadn't asked her to do that for him. 

Out of curiosity, Noah looked up and was surprised to see that it was Shirley herself who needed the ice pack because he saw her cheeks were red. 

Noah unconsciously grabbed Shirley's arm that was holding the ice pack and came closer to see the traces of redness on Shirley's cheeks. 

Shirley was surprised when Noah came closer to her and noticed the slap marks on her cheeks. She didn't mind if he asked her about that, but right now their faces were so close that she blushed quite a bit.