The Traps of the Black Swan

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Jennie saw Grace lost in her thoughts looking in the mirror so she poked her, "You enjoy the evening, I won't come." She placed the dress on the bed and was ready to grab her top and pant but Grace stopped her quickly.

Grace's task was to get her to the club and drug her before sending her to a hotel room. Hence she was ready with all the lies and acts to take Jennie with her.

"You won't come? Jennie" She cried, "I am doing all this for you. How long are you going to cry for that bastard who ditched you on the wedding day?" Grace didn't think twice to call Vance a bastard cause she was angry at him too.

'Cry for that bastard?' Jennie knew it was Vance Hays. She wanted to say she wasn't the least bit sad or hurt due to him. From beginning to end, she only did everything for her parents.

For Jennie, Vance was a total stranger compared to his grandfather or mother. Vance hardly spoke to her other than saying she doesn't look good in whatever she chose else he used to stay silent.

Jennie always tried to start a general conversation while shopping but hearing him say no to everything she liked, she had just picked what he had pointed so that her parents would be happy.

After it, Jennie didn't know what to talk to Vance so she used to think about her work even when they traveled in the same car or sat for dinner or lunch. Hence how could she be sad when the man never made a place in her life other than sweetly saying what she should do. Anyhow those sweet words also didn't make space in her heart.

Grace, who had assumed Jennie loved Vance Hays and she had successfully snatched him away from Jennie, continued to flatter her. "It's his loss, not yours. Your parents are just angry, they will be fine. So let's cheer your mood. I want my smiling happy Jennie back."

'Happiness?' When was she truly happy for herself? Jennie had no recollection of it other than silently crying in her rooms.

Her facade of a smile is what everyone knows so she assumed she again has to be Little Jennie who smiled hiding her all the pain, who smiled just so nobody worries for her, who smiled so that her parents don't call her jinx, who smiled because other one smiles too.

Now Jennie will smile because she doesn't want others to know she has broken down. She will smile because she has to be strong. She will smile to keep her problems to herself and face the people.

Grace saw her breath out loudly and smiled. That smile which holds the attention of the viewer, that smile which was filled with gentleness and kind shimmering her black orbs.

Grace's lips twitched to ask 'Were you acting before?' Jennie nowhere looked like a bride whose groom didn't reach the wedding hall but was happy.

'Is it so easy to move on? I will do everything to wipe off that smile. Jennie, you just wait and see.' Grace Wells was resolute on destroying Jennie by taking proofs of her with the old hag ravishing her.

Grace wanted to leave no way out for Jennie and prove what Vance Hays and his parents spread the rumors to turn true. She wasn't ready to take the chance if that old lecher turned in the favor of Jennie.

Without letting Jennie to turndown again, "Please, please... I want to see you enjoy the evening like how you do with those new friends." She meant Jisoo and Mino.

Jennie shook her head resignedly, "They aren't new. They are my friends." Jennie knew Grace doesn't like Mino and Jisoo but she had assumed it was because Grace thinks those two are closer to Jennie.

But the fact was, Jennie was actually close to Mino and Jisoo who sees through her fake smiles and never forces her to be what she is not or never forces her to smile when she isn't cheerful at all. Instead, they would do all the drama to make her laugh while accepting her every side.