It'll Come Naturally

Everyone looked at her stance. They began to fear for themselves. After all, they just liked to form cliques. They had no idea what it was like in the underworld. They felt afraid under Michelle's cold, icy glare.

"A bunch of crap," Erin said as she gritted her teeth. She left the place angrily. Michelle pinched her wrist before she dropped it and that was painful. So she didn't try to put up a fight with her anymore.

"Hmmph!" This time, I will just let you two go. But you won't be so lucky next time," said Erin. After that, she led her people away as they sweared and cussed in the hallways. Although she didn't want to let them go just yet, she didn't dare to fight Michelle. To put it bluntly, they were those pitiful kinds of people who only bullied the weak and feared the strong.

Michelle sneered as they left, and glanced coldly at their receding figures. She would never be afraid of other people's attempts to provoke her. Even if they gathered together to fight her, she wouldn't fear and back down.

"Hilda, are you all right?" Michelle looked towards Hilda and asked. She reached out her hand and helped her stand up. She brushed off the dirt on her clothes.

"I'm okay, thank you. It was just that you offended them so publicly today, they might wonder how to get revenge on us now." Hilda brushed off the remaining dirt on her clothes. She was already accustomed to being bullied by Erin and her clique. She knew that the pain from their beating would only last for a few days. So it was nothing serious. However, she just wasn't sure what would happen now after the fiasco as she noticed Erin's look towards them was far from pleasant. They all said that the most poisonous thing in the world was woman's heart. Moreover, a beautiful woman like Erin was even more insidious.

"It's okay. If they dare to bully you again in the future, you could just tell me. We are in the school but not in the underworld. They could not act arbitrarily," Michelle said calmly. It looked a little bit desolate in the deep winter of the campus. The place where they stood was such a remote place. It looked way chillier.

"I have no knowledge about that. Erin comes from a rich family, so even if she always likes to bully me, I have no choice. I just come from a normal family. I could not fight against them." Hilda felt somewhat helpless. She did not look pretty and she came from a common family. It was not a rare thing for something like this to happen to people like her.

"Even if she is rich, does she have the right to bully innocent or even common people? They're a bunch of heartless idiots. And you should change your ideas. To be poor is not your fault, so there is no need to live in inferiority and let yourself decline. And don't be resigned to just letting them do that all day." Michelle got pretty angry about her foolish thoughts. How could this woman be so silly? If it wasn't for the fact that she was poor, she would not interfere in her business. After all, she originally never helped others. She thought that it was okay if she would be happy. She never wanted to be a nice person. It was just because of such kind of thought that many people might think she was selfish and cold-blooded--but she was born in the underworld, she was just different from the average person. "I just don't want to make any trouble. Besides, in this society, the rich are always the first. So a weak person like me could only endure it," Hilda said helplessly. She clearly knew that her family was not rich, so she could not afford to play such kind of a high-end game. If something went wrong, they could just deal with it by using money--but she had no money. She could only suffer it silently. She had long accepted this kind of social reality.

Michelle's lips moved slightly. Finally, she didn't say anything as she found that she could not give a rebuttal to her words. After all, it was true. The world simply operated in that narrative. Rich people tended to live superior lives, while poor people like Hilda could only live humbly.

After experiencing such a thing, Michelle was now forced into confrontations with Erin. And she made Michelle's school life miserable. Sometimes, she would put a live mouse on her desk. Or she would apply paint on her chair. However, seeing such a childish behavior only made Michelle laugh it off every time. She could deal with them without any pressure one by one. Suddenly she found that actually, this kind of campus life was also very good. It was also not too boring, wasn't it? After all, every day there were so many small accidents waiting for her like an adventure with many quests.

It was one fine afternoon. The sun wasn't too hot and the breeze gently blew in the air. "Luke, I'm going to paint outside the city with my classmates this Sunday," Michelle said excitedly on the way back home. Although she knew that Luke might not respond to her, she still hoped that she could get his attention.

"I see." Luke's answer was still very concise. It was just how he was. To the outsiders, there was nothing wrong. However, Michelle was his wife. She still felt hurt as he even did not feign care and attention to her.

They just kept silent all the way home. Michelle felt that in these trivial daily occurrences, she began to slowly lose herself. She could not find the wild figure who drove a motorcycle carefree shuttling in the streets and lanes blithely anymore. The person she used to know was slowly becoming distant.

The cold marriage life made her lose the happiness that she used to have. Because of that, she grew mature in her struggles. However, she grew more and more lonely too. Her eyes were no longer filled with enthusiasm, and became insipid like tepid water. Anyone would find her strange in the way she acted. Even Luke, who was indifferent to her also noticed her changing.

"You have something on your mind." On that one particular day, when Michelle sat quietly on the swing in the garden, Luke suddenly appeared beside her with doubt etched across his face.

"Do you care?" Michelle asked him. It was true that she loved him. But she believed that if she continued to live like this, she would lose all her enthusiasm in life.

"Could I not care about you? Mom has asked me about why you behaved so strangely nowadays." Luke just stared at her. If it wasn't for the fact that he had just been scolded by his mother, he would not even care about her.

"I know that you don't care about me. It turns out that you got scolded by your mom, so you will care to ask me once. In fact, you could just ignore me. After all, I am just your nominal wife. In your heart, even a stranger might be more important than me!" Michelle tightly bit her bottom lip that it turned quite red. She looked up at the sky and tried to hold back her tears. She could not cry, especially now that she was in front of him. She must hold back her tears no matter what.0000000