BLIND DATE ( ENGLISH VERSION )

ALEXA’S POV

” You are being immature here, Cassie. If you hate us, you should not sabotage your sister. What if she got hurt because you broke her heels? What if she became clowned by everyone because you ruined he gown,” My eyes widened when I heard what my mother said. What? All this time, she was the one sabotaging me.

” Did you really do that?” I could no longer hide and join their conversation.

” A-Alexa, why are you here?” My mother stammered a little bit when she saw me, while my father was shocked to see me.

” Answer me,” I did not mean to be rude by not answering my mother’s question. But I want to know the truth right now because I can no longer think about what I should do. My mind was so messed up, and my heart was broken.

” You are not deaf, right?” Cassie sarcastically replied. My tears started flowing again because of what she said. I saw hatred in her eyes.

” W-why?” I asked in between my sobs. I lost count of how many times I cried today. But I felt like I was losing too much water in my body because of crying.

” Wow, great. You are crying again. Do you have anything to do than make yourself pitiful!” Cassie irritably stated. Anger, that was the only emotion I could see in her eyes. She is no longer Cassie, who was my twin. She seemed to be a different person.

” What did I do to you which made you hate me like this?!” I could not stop myself from raising my voice. I also harshly wiped the tears on my cheeks. I was so tired of crying. I want to explode.

” See, you are really best on acting so pitiful. You seek pity to everyone, so they saw me as wrong. An opposite person,” She stated and rolled her eyes.

” W-what?” I asked in confusion. I could not understand where those words coming from.

” You asked me if why I hate you, right? Well, since we are young, you are always the best. The perfect child in the eyes of our family,” She remarked with hatred.

” That is not true, Cassie, you know that.” Mommy cut off Cassie’s statement. She was currently at my father’s arm.

” No, mom. I never felt that what I stated was not true. You love Alexa more than me,” Cassie irritably remarked. My mother’s started flowing, so my father decided to let her sit down on the chair.

” Stop, you two. We will talk these things out once your emotions are stable,” Our father seriously said with full authority.

” No, dad. Let us talk about this right now,” Cassie said impolitely to Dad.

” Cassandra!” Daddy called Cassie’s name angrily.

” Why? Are you afraid that your favorite child will be in pain?” Cassie sarcastically replied to Dad. My father instantly held his chest, so I panicky approached him.

” Daddy, are you okay?” I worriedly asked him. I noticed in my peripheral vision that Cassie was also concerned about our father, but she still remained there. It seemed like she was showing that she was strong.

” Yes, sweetheart. I just felt my chest tighten,” Daddy replied. My mother stood up and approached us when she heard my father say.

” Nanny,” I called our head maid.

” Y-yes, Ma’am,” She instantly replied and approached us.

” Ask for some help with the other maids, please send mommy and daddy in their room,” I instructed.

” What? No,” Daddy immediately replied.

” You should rest, dad. This is just a siblings’ quarrel. It will be all right,” I smiled to convince him that Cassie and I would be fine alone.

” But—”

” Dad, we are twins. Cassie will not do any harm to me,” I convinced him even more. I said it even if I was not sure if what I said was right.

My father could not do anything but stand up. Some of our bodyguards entered to help my parents walk upstairs to their room. When I made sure that my parents were already in their room, I turned around to face Cassie.

” I did not know precisely what your problem about me was. But the Cassie I knew would never answer our parents sarcastically,” I lectured her.

” Well, all these things happened because of you. You ruined my life. You also took my boyfriend away from me,” She shouted. Because of that, I remembered how she called Ken her boyfriend earlier.

” Cassie, what is wrong with you? You are so shallow. You are hating me because of a man! You are better than that,” I could not help but raise my voice.

” You already killed Cassie, you know, when you left me in the forest and let me almost die on the cliff,” She reprimanded while pointing fingers at me. I slightly get shocked because of what she said. Did she mean that I left her?

” Me? Leaving you? You never knew what happened to me that night,” I shouted, and tears started flowing down my cheeks again.

” Why? Was it not true?” She bitterly asked me.

” I was shot that night! That was why I could not ask for help for you,” I shouted, even if my tears could not stop flowing.

” W-what?” She confusedly asked me. I took a deep breath because the memories from the past started playing in my mind over again.

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” Oh, you could not stop looking at your phone again. Are you talking with James?” I turned around when I heard Cassie’s voice.

” Yes. He just texted me that he was all right in the States,” I replied, smiling.

” Psh, you two really. When will be the wedding ceremony?” She asked in a teasing manner. She also pulled me to sit down on the bleachers here in the park.

” Cassie! We are still young,” I blushed.

” Psh, you should not be embarrassed on me. We are twins, so you could not hide anything to me,” She chuckled, so I pouted. Hmm, she wanted this one. I will tease her back.

” What about you, Cassie? When will you introduce me to your boyfriend in the States?” I asked while teasing her. I saw how she blushed. Gosh, it is confirmed that we were really twins.

” S-soon. I should make sure that he will meet our parents first,” She replied. I nodded because of what she said. I understand her because I also knew that if our parents knew that she had a boyfriend in the States, they would not let her go back there again.

” Oh, it is getting darker already. We should head home,” She stated. I nodded and put my arms around her arms. We walked together towards where the car was parked.

My heart started to beat fast, and I let go of Cassie when we saw our bodyguards lying on the street without consciousness. What has happened here?

“Cass—,”

I did not finish what I was going to say because someone covered my mouth with a handkerchief. I tried to fight him, but I was dizzy because of the smell of the cloth. However, before I lost consciousness, I saw a man carrying Cassie who lost her consciousness already.

” Lex, wake up!” I slowly opened my eyes when I heard Cassie’s voice while she was shaking my body.

” Cassie, where are we?” I asked after I looked around the place and realized that we were in an unfamiliar place.

” Stop asking too many questions, Lex. I will try to remove the rope on your hand, then you should leave and ask for some help,” Cassie instructed. Then I felt she was doing something about the rope on my hand.

” Cassie, I will untie you too. Then, we will leave here together,” I remarked.

” That will not be possible, Lex. I was a slow runner, and I easily get tired. I will just be a hindrance to you. You are the athletic one between us, so you should listen to me,” She stated. I felt that my hands were already untied. While I was sleeping earlier, it seemed like she started to untie the rope on my hand. It was also a relied on that our feet had no string around them.

” Cassie, I will not leave you here. I will untie you,” I said and tried to reach her hands, but she avoided it.

” Alexa, listen to me. You need to seek some help, okay? We will both be saved if you listen to me,” Cassie said seriously, looking intensely into my eyes.

” But, how about you? If the kidnappers saw that I am not here anymore, they could do anything bad to you,” I worriedly asked her.

” Let me take care of this. Go and ask some help,” She instructed.

” But—”

” We have no time left, Alexa. Leave now,” He lowly exclaimed at me. I could not do anything but run fast and leave him.

I almost tripped down multiple times because darkness surrounded the area, and only the moon shed light on me. We were brought here in the forest, so I was puzzled about what direction I should go.

” Stop right there,” I heard one of our kidnappers shout, which made me stop.

What should I do? Is it the end of my life? I closed my eyes and was ready to face my fate when I saw her face, so I hurriedly opened my eyes. She trusted me that I could ask for some help which is why even if I was scared, I gathered all the courage I had and started running again. However, I did not even reach far when…

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” Take care about the burial of my daughter. Make sure everything will be all right,”

” Copy, sir!”

I slowly opened my eyes because of the different voices I heard. I could hear someone crying, the sound of a closing door, and something was broken. I slightly moved my finger on my right hand when I felt someone holding it.

” Alexa? Alexa, sweetie,” My mother called my name and hugged me. It was when I realized that I was in the hospital.

” Alexa, sweetheart, is there something painful to your body? Call a doctor, be fast,” I heard Daddy shout. It seemed like the bodyguards were shocked at the way my father acted, but they immediately obeyed what Dad said.

” I a-am a-all r-right, Da-daddy,” I weakly replied to him. I looked around the room and saw my brother crying on the side.

” W-why h-he i-is cr-crying, Da-daddy?” I asked my father, but they remained quiet. My mother also let go of her embrace on me and gently held my hand.

” W-where i-is Ca-cassie?” I asked again. I saw how my father avoided my gaze. I also heard my brother cry louder than earlier while there were tears forming in my mother’s eyes.

” W-where i-is s-she, Mo-mommy?” I asked my mother, but the shaking of her head and the tears that started flowing from her eyes were only the answer I got. My tears began flowing too. I tried to stand up, but my mother stopped me.

” A-Alexa, pl-please calm down,” My mother tried to convince me to stop while my father tried to force me lay back again.

” N-no, w-where i-is m-my si-sister?” I asked in between my sobs.

The following words my father said made me almost deaf and made my world stop, ” She is not here anymore, Alexa. S-she i-is d-dead,” No way!

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