𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒄 𝑹𝒐𝒐𝒎𝑚𝒂𝒕𝒆| 𝐃𝐮𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐩𝐚

{Part 17}

9:25pm

Dia:

I had been studying for almost an hour now. Dua came back a while ago and since then, she's been lying on my bed and had been on her phone. She didn't want to disturb my studying session and i respect that.

But there was one thing that was still disturbing me though. It was the fact that she was too invested on her phone and was paying me no attention. I hated it. I sneakily peeked at her over my book and i saw her smiling. No she wasn't smiling at me but at her phone. What if she's talking to someone special?

I got even more pissed. I felt like ripping my fucking hair off at this point. So I did the most stupidest thing by accidentally kicking her elbow. She immediately raised her eyes up from her phone and looked at me. Giving me all her attention. I don't know if I should feel happy or sorry for kicking her, but i loved the way it drew her attention to me.

"You okay?" She asked me with that hot voice of hers. I don't know what's it about her, but every time she gets close to me, talk or looks at me, i lose my fucking senses.

"Y-yeah." I stuttered. Her phone pinged indicating a message or something but she totally ignored it. "You done studying babygirl?" I blushed at the nickname. I don't know what's up with her lately, but she's being super nice with me and I'm really loving it.

I nodded my head to answer her question, "use your words." She demands. "Yes I'm done." I said calmly making sure not to stutter this time.

"Aren't you going to study?" I asked her being very careful not to get her angry with my interrogations. "Nah I'm good." She replied in an uninterested tone. "You know we have a test coming up next week right?" I tried to make her understand cause I don't want her to fail and starts fighting with her dad again.

"I know but I don't really care to be honest. I was brought to this place against my will so-" She shrugged unbothered. "But-" I tried to say but I was cut off mid sentence. "Tell me about yourself." I was caught off guard with that question. I mean we've been living together for over 2 weeks now and she's never asked me about myself, but today out of nowhere she wants to know about me?

I timidly looked at her and asks "What do you wanna know?" She met my gaze and replied "everything." She replied shortly. "Are you an only child?" She asked me further. "No, I have a big brother but he's out of the country." I told her. "Sick!" She hyped. "And you?" I asked her. "Oh yes I do! I have two siblings. A boy and a girl." She replied excitedly.

You can literally tell how immensely she loves her siblings by just how she's happily talking about them. "My sister Rina is about your age but still older than you." She continues. "You're such a baby." She teased. "No I'm not. I'll be 20 in like two days so-" I tried to defend myself.

"Still a baby." She insists. "If you say so." I shrugged and rolled my eyes. I was so over her thinking and making feel like a baby. "Do that again one more time, and you'll see what I'll do to you." She threatens. I laughed, "What did I even do?" I asked pretending to be oblivious.

"Rolling your eyes at me." She replied. "Next time you do that I'm gonna punish you." She warned. I don't know what she meant by that, but I just let go of the matter. She's indeed a weird fellow. I took that as my queue to ask her a question that's been on my mind for a while now. "Why do you hate your dad so much?".

She became angry at just the mention of her dad. "I don't hate him. I'm just not a fan of his antics." She clarified. "Since I was younger he's been so controlling over my life and he still wants to do so now that I'm 25." She explained.

"I dropped out of college cause school was really not my thing and started modeling. But he went ahead and ruined that for me by terminating my contract with the agency. He was going around paying up people, including my friends to spy on me. And he somehow managed to get a hold of my car keys and blocked all my bank accounts, leaving me no choice but to agree to his condition of coming to college and earn a degree. He thinks modeling isn't a proper job. According to him, it's only a degree that can earn you a proper and stable job." She said with anger laced in her voice. "I can't wait for the year to be fucking over so I can go back to my old life."

I know what her dad did to her was terrible, but I felt sad knowing that she isn't happy to be here. Do I really not matter to her? Am I just some girl she met along the way or something? I'm afraid that I'm becoming too attached to her to the point where I literally can't imagine myself with anyone else but her. "I-" I couldn't even finish what I was trying to say, when she said "It's past midnight and you need to sleep." She interrupted me.

She got up from my bed and went to her bed without even giving me a chance to speak or answer her at least. She didn't even spare me a glance or something. She do this all the time and I was getting so sick of it.

I swear if bipolar was a person, it'll be Dua. On her bed, I could see her smiling and texting, or whatever the heck she was doing on her phone. She didn't look my way even once. I swear I hate her so much.

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