*Humph*
After Imma agreed to go Mrs Collins left the food she was eating, took Shelly's hand and headed upstairs to prepare her baby girl for her first outing. She didnt say a word more to the people on the table a sign to express 'I am still angry and disappointed at you all'
Seeing her behavior Mr Collins just frowned without a word thinking to himself how their good and peacefull days is about to come to an end. "Imma you go upstairs and get ready, let your brother help you in arranging some essentials, OK?"
"Thanks dad," Imma nodded and went upstairs followed by Ken who only nodded and went to do as he was told, despite being a man of few words he was sincerely feeling guilty for what just happened, he didn't know his causal question would lead to this! It has never happened before, so why?
In an hour time, both girls were ready, Shelly put on a mini yellow gown, her slippers were made of glass and some diamond stones design, she had on a lot of jewelries it made her seem like a princess going to a ball instead of a sleep over, while Imma had on a simple white gown and her favorite bunny fluffy shoes, she tied her hair in a messy ponytail, those her curly blonde hair and blue eyes made her look so breath taking that Mrs Collins herself who took the time to princess Shelly up nearly had a nose bleed.
She had a frown on her face,'why was someone else's child looking more beautiful than mine?' Immediately she realized was she was thinking she shook her head in disbelief and said to herself "what am I thinking? Of cause Imma is also my child" dispite all this what she didnt know was that the seed that Shelly planted in her has been buried and its only with time would it blossom, the bias nature of a woman and a guilty conscience one at that ........
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"Let's go..." Shelly was very much excited and this emotion of hers right now wasn't fake, like who wouldn't be?...
"Mhm" The car they took was a black colored Bentley, Imma was reluctant to let Shelly sit on her favorite car, who knows if her scent would refuse to come off afterwards.
The venue for the sleep over was a classmate named Vivian's house, Vivian parents went abroad for a business trip and as the only child she was all alone in their big house, so as a young teenager with no supervisery authority what should you do? Of course its to invites your classmates to your house on a weekend and play games all night long. The drive to Vivian house took them about an hour and some minutes, through out the whole drive the both girls minded their business until they got there.
Kira arrived earlier, and was already waiting for her friend, immediately after spotting both Imma and Shelly she rushed and gave Imma a big bear hug, holding her tightly evidently she has known what transpired at their home, completely ignoring the latter.
"Let's go, they are all waiting for us..." Kira started leading them in, more like leading Imma in cause Shelly was completely ignored, but she still followed them in despite all that, she believes that her destiny is so great, so she would make friends with anybody who is less rich that her.
"Immaaaa...." Almost the whole class who were here were cheering and whistling when the they spotted Imma. Who gave them a bright smile in return.
"And whose this new chick?"
The classmates were surprised when they found a new face, she wasn't their classmate so why was she here? Shelly who was completely ignored by the whole class when Imma was being called turned pale, but could only regain some color when somebody called her out. " Hello everyone I'm Imma's sister..... I will be transferring over on Monday but couldn't wait to meet my new classmates, so take care of me....."
Shelly addressed herself with a sweet voice and her suggestive smile made everyone feeling like she was very likable and friendly.
But who were there? There were young heirs of their family they have seen their own fair share of pretty girls, what got their attention was mostly that word 'Imma's sisters'. Why didnt they know that Imma had a sister. Shelly seeing their confusion was about to explain but Kira beat her to it.... There was no way she was letting the witch Shelly explain this sort of thing, who knows what she will be insinuating?
After the explanation every one was stunned at first bit it quickly passed, they just felt that their goddess was really pitiful after knowing she has a heart issue, that explains a lot of her absence.
"Oh..... So that was what happened... Come come have a seat" a young guy of about 17 years offered a seat to Shelly after all the friend of their goddess is their friend.
"I didn't finish.... " Kira interrupted their whispering and acknowledgment of Shelly
"She made our Imma cry......"
The young guy Joshua who was offering his sit up to Shelly, upon hearing Kira's following words sat back down on his seat.
"You....." Shelly who was smiling and was about to seat down froze, she nearly could not maintain her smile anymore because of Joshua's actions and Kira's words. She could feel how the class worships Imma that was why she wanted to use the image of being Imma's sister to establish her own persona but that nonsense of a girl Kira just had yo ruin it.
"So Imma you're not even an illegimate child but someone the pick up by mistake, what gives you the right to come before us and still acting all mighty... Know your place" a girls voice was heard at the side, the whole class immediately turned to look at the speaker, including Shelly, her eyes were practically glowing, 'so there was someone in this class who doesn't like Imma'. She had made up her mind that that would be her new friend, after all there's a saying an enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The girls name was Gloria, she like secretly opposing Imma because, the latter once slapped her in other to uphold justice for a poor retched kid on the street. She hasn't had the courage to openly oppose her because of Imma's statue and her popularity, but now seeing how the two girls interacted she deduced that they did not like each other, so she became fearless afterall the Imma of now wasn't the same Imma of yesterday.