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CHAPTER TWO: REBIRTH

"Lomesa??!!!" a shrill voice suddenly permeated the whole place. It caused people to turn and look at the source of the voice. After seeing the owner of the voice pointing to the rooftop with a trembling finger and a panicked expression is when they suddenly registered what was happening.

"What?" a student who recognised Lomesa also exclaimed in shock. This caused everyone to stare at Lomesa as if they had seen a ghost. They never expected her to have suicidal thoughts someday considering how thick-skinned she once was.

Lomesa, who suddenly turned her head to look at what the commotion was all about, was shocked to see people pointing at her, others even had tears streaming down their faces while others who hated her had the expression of schadenfreude on their faces. Only after a while did Lomesa come back to her senses. Wasn't she dead? What was she doing in high school, on a rooftop at that and ready to jump? Didn't she die in an explosion that was caused by Samantha? While she was still sorting out her thoughts, her class teacher Mr Arlan showed up next to her. He began advising her and motivating her. Lomesa was frustrated by the continuous bugging and so she decided to descend from where she was standing. Mr Arlan thought that she had heeded to his words and was finally willing to relent. He would puke blood if he knew that Lomesa viewed him as someone annoying.

"Lomesa, where are you going?" a girl who had been silent all the while, asked out of the blue. Lomesa who was about to leave, to pause in her steps. She frowned and turned to the girl, who had her head lowered and asked;

"What is that question supposed to mean? Where am I going? am I supposed to stand on the rooftop all day long? Excuse me," Lomesa excused herself and rushed into the washrooms. She wanted to confirm whether her guess was right so the first thing she did was to look for the mirror that was in the washroom. She couldn't believe what she was seeing after taking a look at herself. The Lomesa in this case was too ugly. Her thick bangs covered her whole forehead, her face was full of thick makeup, her face also had pimples of different sizes and colors. She looked like a horrifying ghost. The bangs also covered the scar that extended from the corner of her left eye to the middle of her forehead. It looked hideous and ugly that no one could be able to take a look at it for the second time after seeing it. Even Lomesa despised herself now. Looming at her appearance now, she remembered that she got this scar while in her third year of school, which led to the personality change that was evident now. She became dull and timid all of a sudden, her grades dropped tremendously and she always ranked last. She also became the target of the school bullies and no one ever helped her, not even the so called best friend of hers called Samantha. So it was the third year of high school, they had one more year before sitting for the college entrance examinations. Ariel hurriedly took a look at the phone that was in the pocket of her suit jacket and looked at the date, it was March 20th, 2022. She was reborn on her birthday! Seems like the heavens heard her prayers and gave her a second Chance at life to right the wrongs and take revenge on whoever wronged her.

Lomesa went back to her classroom . Nothing physical about her had changed but the students in class felt like something about her aura had changed. When Lomesa came back to her seat according to her memories from the previous life, she felt so disgusted after seeing the person that was sitting next to her. Who else could it be if not Samantha? Lomesa felt specially disgusted after seeing her feign concern for her, she felt that she had been a fool in her previous life not to see through her disguise just in time. Since she was reborn, she would make amends whenever there was a leak. Coincidentally, she saw an empty seat at the back of the class, she once again thanked the heavens for being on her side today. She immediately reached for her backpack, glanced at Samantha from the corner of her eye and saw that she was about to talk to her, just as Samantha opened her mouth to speak, Lomesa sprinted as if she was being chased by a ghost and went to sit on the empty seat at the back. She immediately stuffed ear studs in her ears and began sleeping. This act of hers left the whole class speechless. Samantha was so shocked that her jaw almost hit the ground. The class on the other hand, expected Lomesa to be traumatised, they didn't expect her to be the unusually calm. Since this matter didn't directly involve them, they shook their heads and returned back to studying. Fortuitously, it was almost time for going home since it was already evening, no teacher came to teach so Lomesa had her good share of a nap. When the bell rang signifying time to leave the school premises, Lomesa casually draped her backpack on her shoulder and staggered out indifferently. Samantha who saw this, gritted her teeth in anger before following her out. She kept talking to Lomesa, apologising for not being there for her when she was on the rooftop bla..blah blah..

"Are you done?" Lomesa suddenly paused in her steps and coldly asked the pretentious Bitch. She didn't even turn ti look at the disgusting expression on Samantha's face .

Samantha, who was engrossed in her acting, didn't realize this and bumped into Lomesa's back. The impact was painful since it made her nose to swell immediately, tears also subconsciously flowed out of her eyes.

"Why did you stop?" Samantha asked painfully.

"Too noisy!" Lomesa snapped.

"What?" Samantha couldn't understand what she was saying and asked again.

"Let's not be friends anymore. Don't follow me from now own!" Lomesa spat pit these words coldly and walked away.

Samantha only came back to her senses after Lomesa had walked quite a distance away. Why did Lomesa suddenly have an apprentice aura? What Samantha didn't know was that Lomesa has always been suppressing her aura in order to not scare away her friends. Since Samantha took her friendship for granted, then she didn't mind being ruthless. She would make those who trampled on her pay hundredfold. That's what she swore on the day of her death and she chose to live with only one word acting ad motivation now; Revenge. When she remembered the humiliation she had to go through because of Samantha and Alvin's dirty tricks, she chose to start by dealing with these two. She wabted them to experience hell while still living . She wanted them to wish they were dead, but she couldn't allow them to die yet. just not yet. Until she got done with them. When she remembered the two months she had to eat food filled with sand since she was never served, she felt so stifled that she had nowhere to vent. In her previous lifetime, Samantha had kidnapped her for two whole months, she had her eye sockets gouged out, her tongue cut off and her fingers and toes also cut off. Everyday was he'll. The people who brought her food always poured it down on ther dirty floor, and since she wasn't allowed to die just yet, she always ate like a pig in the mud. She held a flicker of hope that Alvin would come and save her, only to fund that it was him who had orchestrated the whole plan. No one could explain how hopeless she felt when she heard the news. She promised herself to get back at them for this. She decided to go home first since she had alot of things to do. Things like revenge were only executed after clear and thorough planning.

As she was walking in the alley that she took as a shortcut, she heard domineering voices filled with glee.

"Yoh! look who we have here!" Lomesa felt a headache coming on right that instant. She rubbed her temples in frustration.

"What do you want?"

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