Renaming Destiny : Apsara To Myla

The Scandal

Myla's POV

I woke up with the worst hangover ever and swore to never drink again the second I felt my head feel like it was about to explode. I felt a weight around my waist and looked down to find Isabella on me with her hair and makeup messed up. I also saw Alessandro on the couch with a torn shirt on. I looked down at myself and saw that the dress I had on me from the wedding was all stained with the drinks I had had the previous night. I saw a hand on the bed and peeked to find Leonardo on the floor with his lips bleeding. I felt bile rising up my throat suddenly and pushed Isabella away and ran to the bathroom.

My unpleasant sounds woke up the others and by the time I walked out, they were all up and looked as if they had survived a zombie apocalypse. I sat beside Isabella and raked my hand through her hair while we all looked at each other silently. "What the fuck happened here?", Isabella croaked. They both looked at me and Isabella and Leo asked,  "You don't remember?". I knitted my eyebrows. Just when they were about to speak, the door of the suite opened and Luca walked in with a butler behind him. 

He looked at us in disgust and ordered to go back to our respective suites and freshen up. He also commanded us to get back to his suite that we were in after that. We all, like his puppets, followed his orders and got back real quick after a bath to find his suite completely spotless. We had breakfast in the dining area of the suite when suddenly Luca asked me, " Myla, how are you now?", I nodded and swallowed my food before answering. "Apart from my headache, everything feels okay. Why do you ask?". He looked at the others and Isabella and I kept wondering what had happened the previous night. 

"Luca, why do you all keep asking us that? What the hell happened last night?", Luca gulped and dropped the fork in his plate. "It is a good thing you both don't remember anything. Just don't use your phon-", I picked up my phone to call my mother to ask her what was going on when I saw a text from Cheryl who was furious at me. I opened her chat and saw that she had sent me a video. It was from last night as I saw myself in the blue dress I had worn for the party. In the video, Isabella and I were dancing to the beats of some song when Andrew, Enzo's colleague, wrapped his arms around me from behind and whispered something in my ear. I tried to move away but he kept pulling me back from my waist and tried to grind against me until I pulled away and slapped him, real hard. Suddenly, Luca who was dancing with us punched Andrew and he dropped to the ground holding his jaw. 

Luca then sat on him and started throwing punches while Leo and Alessandro tried to pull him away. The camera then showed me and Isabella who had gotten back to dancing like nothing had happened. The video ended with me screaming the lyrics of the song with Isabella with a glass in my hand. Cheryl's texts said that the video was going viral everywhere and I had also lost a lot of followers on my social media because of it. I placed my phone back on the table and bit on my lips awkwardly. 

"See, Myla, you are our sister and it is our responsibility to keep you safe. That is why Luca lost control last night. Don't blame him yourself for it", I sighed and stood up to go turn the TV on. I saw that Andrew had been hospitalized and that his fans were furious about Luca and me. The news anchor explained how I got back to dancing like nothing was wrong while Andrew was getting beaten up and that somehow showed that I was a spoiled brat. I changed the channel and saw another anchor saying that I was being irresponsible by getting so drunk. 

Another channel showed posts which were written overnight by angry fans of Andrew. I sat on the couch with a hand on my head and closed my eyes. Ashwin was the first one I could think about. I wondered if he knew about it or not. I was ashamed of myself for what had happened last night. "Where is Enzo?", I asked still with my head in my palms. "He left with his wife for their honeymoon last night like Sienna had planned and all this happened after that", I stood up the second I heard my father speak. 

"Papa, I.... I'm sorry. I had no idea-", he cut me off, "Why are you apologizing, Myla? See, this is not your fault. You were at your brother's wedding, with the men of your family around you when that bastard tried to touch you. He deserved what he got. I say he deserved so much more than that for what he tried. If anyone should be blamed, it should be him and not you". Everything that had happened slowly came back to me. Meeting Ashwin, all of them finding us together, me asking him to not speak to me again, the party after Enzo and Sienna left, the fight, everything. I sat down and hid my face in utter embarrassment. 

I heard my mother walk in while on the phone. I looked up at her and she shook her head trying to console me. I hugged her while she ordered someone to get rid of all the articles and stories about it. "Stop crying. We have it all sorted", she said. "Cheryl said I have lost around a million followers-", she silenced me, "And we will gain it all back and more. Now get going all of you. You need to leave Paris before the paparazzi floods the hotel".

My cousins and I sat in one car and Luca drove to a location only he knew. The whole ride was quiet while I was worried what would happen next. I saw our car stop near a mansion and guessed it was grandma's. We spent the whole day there while the brothers tried to keep me away from the phone and TV. I was enjoying Isabella playing the piano for a while but my mind was restless. That was when Alessandro ran into the room with his phone in his hand. "Myla, look at this!", he dropped beside me and showed me the phone. I saw a well known woman who was a feminist speaking in a debate for me.

"If a well known model, a successful woman with such powerful family members was misbehaved with in front of her family in her brother's wedding, what do you expect to happen to the others? Think about it. She was just having fun at her brother's wedding. Did she deserve it? If this is how safe women are, tell me, Carol, how do these people who are blaming Myla expect us to live?".

Another woman spoke, "Let us not go there, Miss. Smith. Myla Moretti was in her brother's wedding when this happened, yes. She said no and still Mr. Andrew tried to touch her, yes. But is that the response we should expect from a woman like her? Going back to dancing when her brothers were all over a poor powerless man? Don't we all know what the elder Moretti brother is known for?". I listened quietly, "Do you hear yourself? Do you even hear yourself, mam? When Ms. Moretti said no, he was supposed to back off. That was where all of this could have stopped. I think you are just trying to frame her for something that isn't her fault".

Alessandro spoke, "Forget this, Myla. Last night's video has started a huge wave of women empowerment and safety. Look at these comments on his last post", he showed me how Andrew's posts were filled with angry women. Some showed him the finger while the other had puking emojis. Some had really long paragraphs while the other just commented one word insults. I opened my own profile and saw some harsh comments but mostly supportive women commenting on my posts. 

"We are with you, Myla"

"That perv deserved more beatings"

"I need Myla's brother to be my boyfriend please why is he so hawt🔥"

I laughed at the last comment I read and gave the phone back to Alessandro. "There are mixed reactions. But don't worry. This will all be gone in no time", we saw Luca and Leo walk in with a cake making me confused. 

"Congratulations on your first scandal, Mylaaaaa!!!!", Isabella sang beside me making me laugh at her goofiness. They ate the cake while I just sniffed it. Suddenly, Cheryl stormed in with her laptop and screamed, "Myla Moretti! I had warned you about this!", Isabella tried to calm her but she yelled, "I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT LAST NIGHT'S VIDEO!!!".

I stood up and walked to her, "What are you talking about?". She pushed the laptop to my face and what showed on the screen made my jaw drop and eyes widen in shock. "I knew he was bad news the day he walked in that gym".

What I saw was an article from a huge media channel showing pictures of Ashwin and I from the day he had met me in the gym. The first picture was from the gym where I was hugging him. The second one was us in the park while he was teasing me with a pizza slice. The third one was clicked when I had hugged him after running back from my car. And none of the pictures looked platonic.

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