Chapter 129 – (Episode 129) 20. Graduation

(Episode 129)

Shocked, of course, Claire stood in a daze for a long time, engulfed in a special inexplicable emotion.

She resented and hated the thought of being abandoned, but since they reconciled, they have become more than close sisters or best friends to her.

But how could her real mother take the place where her real daughter should be?

“Claire…”

The sight in front of her was so far beyond the scope of her thoughts that she could not respond to her friend’s careful call.

“Hey, if you’re not going to use your phone, give it back.”

Claire came to her senses only after being shoved on the shoulder by a friend from the theater department.

“Uh? Ah… That… Yes, thank you for lending me.”

“Are you a student from which school did you come to the party dressed like that?”

“What? Don’t you know who I am?”

“Yes, I remember the faces of all the girls graduating, but I’m seeing you for the first time.”

She was in the theater department, so I suspected that she might be acting, but I didn’t feel anything like that from her expression or tone of voice.

“Then… Do you know who the woman dancing with Han Myeong-shik over there is?”

“Of course, it’s Isabella.”

“Are you acquainted with him?”

“I know you well because you’re my best friend, we’re in the same theater department.”

“…”

Claire was overcome with anxiety as she again felt a special feeling she could not explain.

“Isn’t it really pretty? Not too long ago, I even signed a contract with a famous Hollywood agency, a deal to shoot a movie soon.”

“Ah…”

There was something awkward about her bragging about her work, but Claire wasn’t in a position to judge it.

“Claire… Are you okay?”

A stumbling Claire was quickly picked up by her friend and carried to a nearby bench where she sat down.

“Uh… How could this…”

“Claire…”

It was comforting to have her friend sit next to her, hugging and stroking her shoulders, but she couldn’t hold back the worst thoughts.

“Uh… How did my mom… , Ah… No… All the kids here now know their mother as me, right?”

“It won’t be… , Doesn’t it make sense?”

“Because something nonsensical is happening right in front of our eyes! Ah… How… How could this happen…”

Her friend stood up when she saw Claire clutching her head with a devastated expression.

“I can’t… !”

“What are you going to do?”

“I can’t get in touch with my mother either, I don’t think she should be absentmindedly like this.”

“I don’t know what will happen to me if I go out of school dressed like this at this time, so I have to wait until the party is over before getting into a car.”

Although it is a relatively safe neighborhood, it takes at least an hour to walk from the school to the residential area.

You don’t know what kind of disaster you will face if you go out in a cheerleader outfit that shows off your voluptuous figure with an eight-headed body.

“You’re not sure that the family will recognize us if we go home now, right?”

“That… That’s it…”

For a moment, she remembered her uncle, but after living with Han Myeong-shik, she forgot her phone number, so there was no way to contact her.

“Other people may not know, but Myeong-shik will recognize us.”

Claire quickly caught her friend, who was about to go to Han Myeong-shik, who was dancing happily with Isabella.

“I met Myungsik in the bathroom earlier.”

“Okay? What?”

I only pointed out the key points because I thought nothing would change if I told the truth about the situation in which I was having sex with another Korean friend.

“They didn’t know me, they treated me like a woman they didn’t know at all.”

“Ji… Really?”

“I thought it was a joke at the time, but you know…”

I didn’t need to explain further because I was being treated as someone I didn’t know by the kids I was usually close with.

“Uh… What to do… ?”

With the same devastated expression on her back, Claire hugged her friend’s shoulders as she slumped back on her bench.

“There’s nothing we can do right now, so let’s wait until the party is over.”

“That… Okay…”

Although they couldn’t erase the feeling of being abandoned naked, it was a great comfort that they were not alone, so the two of them crossed their arms and sat close together.

However, the loud and lively atmosphere with endless music, laughter and chatter made the two feel more and more miserable and depressed.

“Claire… I feel so bad… , I think I’m going to vomit…”

“Me… Me too…”

The two held hands tightly and ran towards the bathroom with the feeling that they would never fall apart.

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After throwing up in the bathroom and sitting down on the floor crying out loud, I felt that my heart was much lighter.

The two stood side by side, looked in the mirror, tidied up their tousled hair, and burst into laughter at the same time. When I felt better, I went back to my head.

“We are so pretty and sexy, why don’t the boys approach me?”

“I know… Aside from not recognizing you, aren’t you more indifferent than usual?”

Thanks to both Claire and her friend’s outstanding looks, when they go out to school or on the street, they receive numerous ‘cat calls’ and even serious proposals.

“What do you think about getting out of here by seducing an easy-going boy instead of just crying like idiots like this?”

Normally, a friend’s proposal would be sufficient, but it was clear that it would not be easy because there was a prom party to commemorate graduation.

“I don’t think there would be a male student who attended without a partner…”

“Maybe I can find it? Then, aren’t we the ones who can’t seduce a boy with a partner?”

“It is, but…”

Recalling that Myeong-sik Han and another Korean friend were having sex in the bathroom, Claire was reluctant.

“By the way, looking at you today, your mother is so pretty, if we had met her separately, she would have mistaken me for you.”

“I was surprised too…”

Although she vaguely sensed that her mother had become extraordinarily young and sexy since the divorce and the move to Los Angeles.

In the meantime, I was so busy signing with a famous agency and attending auditions that I couldn’t really pay attention to it, but I never thought I’d change to the point where I couldn’t distinguish it from my 19-year-old daughter.

“Right! Shall we seduce Myungsik instead of making it complicated?”

“What?”

“Usually at home, Myeong-sik peeks at me with sly eyes.”

“Ji… Really?”

“Sorry… Just kidding, the truth is I dressed a bit slutty to seduce you.”

“Ah…”

“I’m only revealing it now, but I’ve been trying hard to do it without you knowing.”

“But nothing happened?”

“Since I met you, Claire, she only peeps at our bodies from time to time, but never crosses over.”

“You’re stealing… It’s a man’s instinctive behavior, so there’s nothing to say.”

Considering the love they have shared and the support they have given them, it is clear that the friend’s story is undoubtedly true.

However, the fact that it meant nothing now broke Claire’s heart, but her friend went one step further.

“That’s why if you really don’t know us, you won’t fall for the temptation.”

“Ah… !”

“Claire, I fell in love with you, but won’t you fall in love twice?”

“Mom… No, Isabella is in the same position as me right now, will I be able to approach her?”

“It’s even better to lose, so what do we have to lose now?”

That’s right. If the current situation that makes no sense is all reality, we must find a breakthrough regardless of means and methods.

“However… We made a fuss when we met in the bathroom, what should we do?”

“Ah… Then it will be hard…”

I remembered what I said a little while ago at the reaction of a friend who was quite disappointed.

“Didn’t you say that a celebrity spied on you at home?”

“Huh.”

“How did you look?”

“Just what…”

“It’s okay to be honest, what do we have to lose right now?”

Claire’s resolute attitude changed the hesitant friend’s expression.

“Okay, there were times when I tried to touch my body and held back or breathed heavily.”

“Then he was interested in you sexually.”

“Really?”

“Are you sure.”

“Then shall I seduce you?”

“Since you are Korean, I think you will have an advantage now.”

It was like the situation in the bathroom was being recreated, but Claire’s attitude itself was different from that time.

“Okay, then what about Isabella?”

“I will take care of that woman.”

Her existence, La Isabella, who took away everything from her, is no longer a mother, but ‘that woman’.

After washing away the tear stains with their faces, trimming their tousled hair, and putting on their best cheerleader outfits, the two of them left the bathroom resolutely.

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In the meantime, the prom party had matured, and the laughter and chatter of the boys and girls filling the auditorium had become louder than the sound of music.

“Hi, are you Isabella?”

“Huh? Ah… , Eww… Huh…”

Isabella’s reaction to her greeting was awkward, but Claire didn’t notice it because she was watching her surroundings.

“I have something to tell you about being chosen as the prom queen. Can you give me some time?”

“Prom Queen? Then to Myungsik…”

“Ah… Don’t worry Myungsik, my colleague will come and ask for your understanding.”

“Okay? Then let’s go.”

“Yeah, this way…”

It was awkward to treat Isabella, who is clearly her mother everywhere you look, like her school friend, but Claire’s acting as she is about to debut as a movie star was quite natural.

In the meantime, her friend approached Myeong-sik Han, who went to get a drink, and was seen talking to her. I was curious about the result, but Claire was faithful to her role.

“Where are you going?”

Since this is a role that requires as much time as possible, she deliberately came out of the auditorium, and Isabella stopped her.

“Me… I don’t know who you are?”

“Well… Because of her party, she thought she was someone hired by the school… , No?”

Hoping to be looked upon like that, she approached and asked why she felt so sad and heartbroken even though she was getting the answer she wanted.

“How old are you?”

“Why do you ask my age?”

“Isabella Lopez, right?”

“Huh.”

“Are you really pregnant?”

“That… How do you know that?”

“I heard the male students whining.”

“Ah… , Well, rumors spread around the school.”

“It’s true?”

“Yeah, I’m in my 10th week.”

I still had the thought that this whole situation was a lie and a joke, so I couldn’t believe that her mother was pregnant with a child of Han Myeong-sik.

“How are you and Han Myung-shik?”

“No matter what kind of relationship, we had a baby because we were in love.”

“You two are 18 now, what are you going to do with a baby first?”

“Why are you worried about that?”

“Are you going to get married after graduation?”

“Then why are you asking that?”

If her friend had succeeded in seducing Han Myeong-sik, she would have moved to the position she had promised by now.

Her job is over, but she hates her mother for imitating her 18-year-old self and is so angry that she wants to tease her.

“Do you know what the boyfriend who got you pregnant and promised to marry is doing with other women?”

“What? What do you mean?”

“You don’t know what kind of woman I am, do you?”

“That… Yeah…”

It was clear what the eyes were looking up and down at the naked attire, so Claire acted accordingly.

“My colleague must be making money by seducing your boyfriend.”

“What… Uh?”

“On a day like today, it’s a secret business.”

“You then… ?”

“Isn’t it obvious for a girl to come to a prom party dressed like this?”

“But why are you seducing Myungsik? And why are you talking to me like this?”

Even though it was going into an unintended situation, Claire, who had lost everything, was filled with a sense of revenge.

“To ruin the relationship between you and Myungsik.”

“Ah… Ah…”

He almost grabbed Isabella, who was reeling from her shock. Claire flinched, took a deep breath, and took a step back.

After imitating a prostitute, they suddenly became romantic partners, and it became a drama that didn’t match at all, but since the opponent was shaken, the goal was achieved.

“I’ll take you where you two are doing for $100.”

“I don’t have any money to give a bitch like you, so get out of here!”

“Cook! Haha! Ahahahahaha!!”

Claire burst into laughter at her mother’s voluptuous back as she hurriedly ran into the auditorium.

However, he knew very well that it was never a laugh that burst out of joy or joy.

(Continued on next episode 130)