Chapter 35: Chapter 35

Valeria went into her room, and she immediately sat on her bed, breathing heavily.

Goodness, that was a close one, she sighed deeply.

She recalled how Noah had asked Erica to pick up the glass and clean the mess up instead of her. She kinda felt pity for Erica.

"All that wouldn't have happened to her if only she hadn't stuck her nose into her business.

But I'm glad she did stick her nose into her business, she was literally a blessing in disguise. Valeria let out another sigh.

Suddenly, her door was forcefully pushed open, causing her to get up in fright. She frowned when she saw it was Erica. Her eyes went to her hands and she noticed they were bleeding. This made her bad for her.

Erica stood in front of Valeria, her eyes were literally spitting fire.

"Eri...." Valeria was saying when she was rewarded with a slap that cut her off.

Erica must have put all her strength in that slap because it hurts like hell.

Valeria held onto her cheek, she couldn't believe her eyes. Erica had just slapped her, she couldn't even remember the last time she got hit.

"You bitch, bet you must have been here celebrating, right, you think I won't come back to get you? Ha! in your dreams baby girl."

"You see this," Erica said, raising her hands up and showing them to Valeria.

She had some cuts on her hand and it was due to the pieces of the broken glass. They'd pierced her skin as she was picking them up, she was bleeding profusely, and it hurt so badly too.

She was enraged by this, and the pain in her hands added to her anger. She blamed Valeria for this, forgetting that she was the reason for her injury. If only she had just minded her own business, she wouldn't have been hurt.

"You caused this." She screamed like a crazy banshee.

"You're the fucking reason I'm injured." Erica yelled.

Valeria was still in shock, and she was totally speechless, she didn't know what to do or say.

As Erica glared daggers at Noah, she remembered Noah's words.

# Flash back....

Erica watched Valeria run away, and her blood boiled with rage.

"What the hell are you waiting for? Clean up this mess." Noah scolded, looking pissed.

Erica turned to face Noah, and she unknowingly yelled at him.

"What do you think you're doing, huh? She was meant to clean this up, not me. Why should I be doing this?" She yelled.

"What?."

"Did you just yell at me?" Noah said angrily.

Erica immediately realizes what she has just done, and swallowed her saliva.

"I... I'm sorry, it was a mistake, I didn't mean to yell at you, I'll quickly clean this up now." She said, she bent down and was about picking up the broken glass when Noah grabbed a fist full of her hair and pulled her up roughly.

"Know your place, and never stick your fucking nose in my business again," he said in a dark, menacing voice.

He let go of her hair, but not without roughly pushing her to the floor.

Erica fell on her butt, she used her hand to massage her burning scalp, she couldn't even hold back her tears, and she let them fall freely.

# Flash ends....

"Do you think I'll forgive you, huh? If you had stayed away from them just like I told you to, we wouldn't be having this issue now. We would have been friends, but no...you went ahead and did what's in your mind." Erica yelled.

Valeria was too stunned to say a word, her brain was still registering the hot slap Erica gave her.

"I'm talking to you snake, just take a good look at my hands, they're all injured because of you, as long as I'm here you'll never know peace." Erica added.

She glared angrily at Valeria when she noticed she wasn't saying anything, it made her look like a fool.

"I'm talking to you bitch." She growled.

"D did you just hit me?" Valeria finally found her voice.

"I did, and what would you do about it? Since your mum couldn't raise you up properly, I'll be glad to do so." She said and the next thing she felt was a slap being landed on her cheek, which made her stagger backwards.

"Aaaaaa!!!." She screamed.

Before she could recover from the slap, Valeria gave her another. Erica almost fell, but the door prevented her from falling down. Instead, she hit her back hard on the door knob.

"I'll take any insult from you, but don't ever mention my mum's name in it. Have some respect!" Valeria yelled angrily. It took a lot of courage for her to slap Erica.

Erica was older than her, but she had to muster up a lot of courage to hit her, and she didn't feel bad about it, not even a little bit.

She would have endured Erica's insults had she not involved her mother in it. She totally lost her cool when she involved her mother in their fight.

Erica slowly left the door and she regained her stance, glaring daggers at Valeria. She could still feel the sting from the slap on her cheek.

Valeria gently moved back, she knew she was no match for Erica in all respects and the thought alone scared her.

"Let's not do this, Erica, you're too old to be fooling around with me." She stated, not knowing she'd indirectly insulted Erica.

"We'll see about that," Erica said, and she rushed to Valeria, and grabbed her by the hands.

"Let me go, you snake!" Valeria screamed. She didn't want to get into a fight with Erica in the house they both worked.

"I'll show you how a snake handles its prey," Erica uttered and pulled Valeria's hair.

Valeria also grabbed a fist full of Erica's hair, and pulled it as well, even though she screamed.

"Let me go Erica, are you trying to kill me?." She screamed like she wasn't hurting Erica either.

"Let go Valeria, else I'll kill you." Erica threatened, though she could also feel the pain.

The door suddenly flew open and Mrs Emily walked in.