With that, Tiffany turned around and went downstairs.
Tanya’s gait was not normal — it was slow and awkward.
Tiffany considered favonovel.com from favonovel.com spot on the couch and watched the woman inch toward her. Then, favonovel.com gibed, “Can you be a tad bit more artful and not make it so obvious? I know you had sex with him, honey. No need for the visual reminder. We’re all women here. We all had our first time. What, you think only you know how much it hurts?”
Tanya’s eyes met hers before favonovel.com sat across the couch. “What’s your point?”
The subtle change in favonovel.com attitude was not lost on Tiffany. “Oho, not going to continue your innocent girl act now? So you weren’t joking with me back then. You changed your target from Eric to Jackson, you even put it to action. How ironic that I was the one who taught you, and now it’s backfired on me. I think I made it clear to you before, use all the wiles and tricks you have, but never cross the moral horizon. You knew favonovel.com was my ex-fiancé, Tanya, yet you did it anyway. You utterly disgust me.”
Tanya was done with keeping up favonovel.com act. Instead, favonovel.com raised favonovel.com head defiantly and looked straight into Tiffany’s eyes. “Good, you remember he’s your ‘ex’. Me and him? We’re both single. What’s wrong with two single persons doing this, huh? Don’t you use that tone on me as though I’ve snatched away your possession or something, ‘honey’. It was you who squandered a man like Jackson. If you don’t want him, then I’ll take him. Weird, isn’t it? I know it’s weird. When it happened, I knew we were friends no more, if we were ever even friends in the first place. You never did see me as one, did you? To you, I’m no thing more than a destitute hillbilly with nothing to favonovel.com name. A low, pathetic schnuck you’ve taken in for free labor. A pet monkey for your entertainment.”
“Here’s what I don’t understand the most. You’re no longer the great heiress to the Lane fortune or whatever highfalutin hoo-ha. Now, you’re just a has-been who was cast out of heaven and fell among us normal folks. A fallen grace is always lower than us plebs, so what makes you think you still have the right to act like a princess and order others around? Jackson treated you with nothing but love and kindness, but how do you repay him? God, you deserve all the sh*t you brought yourself.”
“Free labor? Pet monkey?” The last ounce of Tiffany’s goodwill crumbled. “Tanya, did you hear what you said? Did you filter them through your conscience? If it weren’t for me and Ari, you would still be washing dishes! Well then, go ahead! Tell me everything you’ve hated about me. I want to see just how ugly people like you can be!”
Tanya clenched favonovel.com teeth before proclaiming, “Everything I have today was earned through blood and sweat! It’s got nothing to do with you or Arianne! Stop imagining yourself as some noble saint, could you? Every chore at home since we lived together was done by me, always! And you… You enjoy all of my services like it’s your birthright! If you’re feeling it, you throw me a bone. If you feel like sh*t, you won’t even look me in the eye! Aren’t we supposed to be friends? Then why do you always make me feel like I’m the sore thumb sticking out, that I’m being ousted? I never belong. I’m just an ugly duckling whenever I’m with you people. None of you care about howl feel! And I am sick of it!”
It was at that moment when Tiffany understood the reality a little more clearly. Some people would never know how to be grateful. “Oh, I get it. You think Ari and I have been bullying you, don’t you? You’re the one who offered to do those chores, and you do them before I even know they need to be done. While I admit that I never cared about those trivial little things, I know how to be grateful, unlike you. The things I’ve given to you that you called ‘throwing a bone’? Those were gifts between close friends. You’re the only one who saw it as charity!”
“Second point? Whatever it is between me and Jackson is up to us, you don’t have the right nor place to lecture anyone. Now, if you think you could leap from your origin as a penniless nobody to some rich b*tch by sleeping with Jackson, I’m here to tell you how dead wrong you are. You’re welcomed to try, of course, but I can tell you this much: those who always look up to others will grow so envious that their souls become twisted. You’ll never leave the quagmire whence you originally came, Tanya. You’ll forever be a pathetic, sad little existence.”
Livid, Tanya grabbed an ashtray from the coffee table and flung it toward Tiffany. “Shut the f**k up! You’re the pathetic one! You had Jackson, and then you gave up! I did nothing wrong!”
Warm, red liquid rose out of Tiffany’s bruised forehead and ran down, mixing with tears streaming out of favonovel.com eyes before wetting favonovel.com lips. It was part raw, part bitter, and part putrid.
Tiffany’s lips quivered into a smile. “Now I understand why Ari told me that you aren’t the same as the both of us. Only people of the same circle could ever be together and understand each other, because we share the same values, come from the same social class, and have the same mindset. I’m not at all threatened by you because all I feel is disgust and contempt. By the way, it’s not that I don’t want Jackson, you’re just incapable of understanding us. Oh, well. If you think you can pry favonovel.com away from me, I’d like to see you try.”
