SEVEN: Cursed Souls

CHAPTER 7: SPITE OF THE INSECURE EYES (ENVY)

Just months after.

"For this quarter's rank 1, with an average of 97.4, Sophia Enriquez!"

I am once again, the Queen that I am.

The smile Olivia was wearing faded. I smirked as I saw how bitter her face is. It's so satisfying, she's already showing her hidden color.

Soon as I got my certificate, our adviser also announced who ranked second, "just points from our first, our rank 2 with an average of 96.9, Olivia Suarez"

Nuisance! Just how did she?! I gazed at her with a sharp eye. She smiled while looking at me. Forget it! At least I got my throne back.

While going home, people near the streets were shocked to see the changes I had. I did not only get my throne back, but I am prettier than I was as I also learned to groom myself, even Aling Marites* is gossiping that I had surgeries, but it is just make-up. Aling Marites is such a gossip!

Everything was going my way, I was even smiling wide while walking, but then the smile would fade when I saw Olivia hanging out with James.

I knew it! She wants what I have and now that I got back on track with my studies, she stole the man who likes me.

I remembered how she reacted before. She saw me with James when I was still dating him. That time, I and James were passing by a store, and she was buying something inside, her eyes rolled but I acted like I haven't seen what she did. What a plastic bitch! Acting so innocent in front of other people but hides a jealous beast inside.

She might've gotten James but what I know belongs to me would find its way to me, my studies are more important, and I know that she only stole James to distract me.

RYDER

"Things started to rise and fall for her but she held on to being at the top of the class like it was a crown and enjoyed the spotlight as if it was her throne," the person with a deep voice laughed "but isn't it funny that in the end of all that, she couldn't even celebrate being awarded first of her batch."

"What happened?" I asked.

SOPHIA

What is there to celebrate when I achieved all this only to lose the people that I have.

I felt like a newborn child, naked in a world who's now a stranger. I am all alone now.

"You people took things away from me, you have things I also deserve. But why am I deprived of those things? Why is it that what's mine always gets stolen from me? I'll pull you down, I'll have what you have!"

Year 2015.

"Peaceful as olives, gracious as a dove, Olivia is here..." this is what I heard being played by one of my classmates. Olivia is such a copycat! I started vlogging but then soon after, she also created her channel. It is as if she's been trying to do everything I does.

Olivia had achieved more things than I did, not only in the academics. She also started posting videos in social media and slowly became famous, many times she is trending.

I should be the one who is trending! Not her! I hated her more as more of the things that should be mine went to her.

Olivia, you can't inflame a phoenix then expect for a chick's peck. I, SoPhoenix, will make you lose everything. She took everything that should've been mine, James before and the popularity now.

"Do your best to ruin her. Do whatever you can, whatever you can think can do," I tasked a gang, the 'One Eyed'. It cost me a lot, but it was worth it.

The trending Olivia still is trending, not with her vlogs anymore but a sex tape that ruined her. It spread like a virus.

I am back at my throne. HAHAHAHA! I laughed as I witness her downfall. I took a sip of the wine I am holding then faced the mirror. "Brilliant, Sophia! BRILLIANT!"

I also heard of the news that James broke up with her, because she cheated with a rich and handsome gang member that seduced her that night. She willingly had sex with him. She didn't know that she was recorded.

It ruined her reputation that she was almost kicked out of school, she was in uniform in the sex tape, lucky her to only get suspended.

Many people now dislike her because that is how most people are, they'll blame and humiliate the victims. If there is some who would like her, it was just because they saw everything that she hid, and those are the people that craves to get a taste of her.

I love the feeling that even though I did not have what she had, I at least pulled her down. It's mine or it's nothing for them.

I stood in front of the mirror again and glared at my pretty face. I will become the best! I told myself as I smile but then it faded when I saw our family picture at the side, there is a void inside me. I miss Mom.

RYDER

"That's pure evil! You can't put someone in misery and be happy for it! That's wrong!" I shouted to the man in front of me.

"Exactly, Ryder! That is why she must end,"

SOPHIA

April 14, 2018.

"I hate you, Olivia! How did she even get back on top?" I screamed.

Yes, I loathe her.

"No one should beat me! NO ONE!"

"Calm down!" said James.

We are now together for more than a year. I guess he wants the best and not just a girl who'll cheat and let another man get a taste of her for a night.

Later that day.

"Girl! You have her ex, but she still is more successful!" one of my friends said. Are they actually my friends? They've been degrading me countless times, always comparing me to that Olivia bitch. But only Rose had truly empathized to how I felt, I miss her too.

"She got back on top," one of them added. If Rose was present then she might have yelled at these two already.

No, she shouldn't be.

I asked myself what I should do to this Olivia who has been giving me headaches since time immemorial. She always finds a way to steal what's mine. I hate her!

Something popped in mind, my most evil plan. That girl surely will be torn down.

RYDER

"She is a sinner. Her envy consumed her. Now she is planning to set up Olivia, Sophia wants what's hers," the man with the deep voice uttered.

I couldn't believe that she would do such things just to get herself on top. How did they know about these things?

"We will help you get to her tomorrow. She must get what she deserves. We must hurry," the man with a deep voice said.

The next day.

"No, I'm sorry! Please don't hurt me." I pleaded as I finished reading the letter.

My heart was out of pace, my head is spinning around, and my eyes are in disbelief to what is happening. What was stated on the letter slowly came true.

I perished.

"Help me, it hurts! PLEASE!!!"

"SOPHIAAAA!" I screamed when I woke up. I pity her, my dream might actually be how she will die.

I hesitated to deliver her letter but what could I do? I don't want my family all joined rotting in hell. There is also a thought inside me that it may be just right for her to die, but despite the sins, everyone deserves a chance. But do they? Of course, Ryder! What are you thinking?

This is wrong!

Sin of Envy