my body and sat on the marble floor of my sitting room. My lips started to tremble as I burst into tears.

d I sl

n my mother fled with me fifteen years ago. The reason my life had always been shadowed by secrets an

e, dragging me back into the nightmare we escaped; crushed me.

spun. My legs screamed from the awkward position, but the pain in my chest

d-breaking movie premiere. And now? I was crumbling und

was my name now plastered across ev

were, they would never justify a scandal with m

voice floated in from the hallway, soft but

anyone. I need to pull myself

. Ignoring it felt like plugging my ears underwater. The pressure building in

on my feet. I reached for the phone, the fami

es, notifications, every single one

elf off from the digital storm when a single notificatio

went Cosmetic Surgery After Stealing

d that even mean? Who was their reliable sou

he need to know consumed me. What was wrong if I had undergone cosmetic surgery? What was wr

movies are wack!" -

me people who once praised me, now turning on me like vultur

aking with my ph

rough the hateful comments. The weight o

wasn't fair. It wasn't true. Was this my

t me back to reality. Belle and Leonard w

Leonard voiced out insistently. I knew he was capable of brin

.. I saw

My best

of her name on my screen was like

the only person that understood the gravity of wha

"Jasmine". My voice trembling as I c

med over the phone. "It is not over