Love Began with the First Meeting

Chapter 574 A Fight (Part Two)

"Wow, who's that woman?"

someone's voice suddenly asked. Ximena body's stiffened at the sound. But the embarrassed look on her face was gone as soon as it came. She went back to picking food from the buffet as if nothing had happened.

"Wow, wow..." A woman cast a look at Molly and moved her mouth to the direction of Ximena. "A sparrow will never become a phoenix. Well, someone must have felt happy for having caught herself a rich man in exchange for her body."

The group of women that she was with started giggling when she finished talking. Their laughter was that of mockery.

Molly frowned. She looked at the group of women, and then at Ximena, who was standing casually by her side and was picking a piece of mousse cake into her plate. She was acting like she didn't hear anything.

Molly admired her for her composure and courage. Stay calm in the middle of a storm! That is not easy at all! How do we take cruel words with just a grain of salt? Ximena definitely knew how. Molly turned to look at the women again. They were enraged by the fact that Ximena was just ignoring them. Their face twisted into a grimace.

"Ximena, what a bitch!" One woman sneered, "What does it feel like to be a snake stealing Aaron from Vivi? It must be nice to be the other woman, huh!"

Then Vivi, probably, piped, "Just let it go. It was no one's fault. I lost him and that's that..." Her voice was soft and weak as if that was all she could muster out. Her eyes were welling up with tears. It was obvious that she was the one that got hurt the most in the love triangle that was her, Aaron, and Ximena.

As if they didn't hear Vivi at all, the group of women just started talking badly of Ximena and Aaron. Ximena was just right here and here they were talking so cruelly about her. Ximena, however, graceful as ever, remained calm. She wasn't looking directly at them but she could definitely hear everything.

Molly looked at Ximena, who had just tightened her grip to the food tongs in her hand. As someone who knew nothing about what was happening, Molly knew to suspend her judgment until further notice. But for some reason, she didn't believe a word those women said about Ximena. Even if Ximena had been the other woman - for sure that wasn't the only side of the story. Her relationship with Brian was complicated. Ximena might have her reason as well.

Molly turned to study Vivi, who looked quite naive and pure. But that might have been what she really wanted the people to think of her. For some reason, Vivi reminded Molly of Becky who hid under the pretension of naivety but was really wicked on the inside.

"That's enough!" Molly finally cried, "You're in public. Please be careful of the words that you choose to say. This isn't the time or place to be inappropriate."

"And who are you?" A small girl in a white dress said as she measured Molly up and down. Then she continued before Molly could answer, "Well, I guess it's true, birds of the same feather do really flock together. She got herself another sparrow too! So you must like taking men away from other women too, huh? "

Her words stung Molly. She was feeling both ashamed and enraged suddenly that she lost her ability to speak.

"Yes, I seduced Aaron. Do you have a problem with that?" Suddenly, Ximena turned to face all the women, speaking up for the first time, "I seduced Aaron because I could do it. I'm his type. If I lost my lover to anyone else, I'd never show myself to the winner because I would be ashamed so. It's pretty bold of you to show up here. Because it's such a pity that you would be stupid enough to do that."

"You..."

By the time Ximena finished speaking, every single one of those women were fuming. Ximena managed to insult everyone. Vivi's eyes were red from tears. She couldn't speak as she was trying. Ximena was staring directly at Vivi's tear-stained face and said coldly, "Vivi, stop crying. It gets you nowhere. Stop continuously proving to me that you are really weak. I bet you do this everyday. Aren't you tired of it yet? It's becoming part of you! Haven't you figured it out yet? No one's buying your innocent act. I wonder where you got that. Your parents? I pity you, Vivi. Really, from the bottom of my heart."

"Ximena, what did you say? You're a slut!" One woman shouted furiously. She raised her hand as if she was going to slap Ximena on the face. But she stopped before her hand could even get near Ximena's face. All of a sudden, she couldn't see anything anymore and her face had been slapped with a pice of cake.

Molly had to keep herself from laughing at the sight of the woman's face smothered with colorful cake icing. It was definitely a hilarious scene, especially at a cocktail party such as this. She felt nothing but admiration for Ximena's courage. After all, this was Aaron's cocktail party and, as the hostess, she was brave to do such a controversial thing while some other women would have just ignored them. Ximena wasn't one to back down. It might have been rash, but she was doing it to protect herself which Molly highly approved of.

Hyped up by Ximena's bold act of courageousness, Molly felt her body vibrating with an urge to fight back. Everyone kept their reactions in check though. She watched as the Vivi's group grimaced in response. She was so caught up in the moment that she hadn't noticed that a larger group had already circled around them watching the fight.

"Ximena, take your anger out on me, not my friend," Vivi offered as more tears welled up in her eyes. They were brimming to the end as if they were set to all come crashing down any minute now, "I may have lost Aaron but you have no right to insult my parents. They have nothing to do with this. They just supported me like any parents would do to their kid. You've got some nerve..."

Her tears finally fell like rivers as she trailed off.

Vivi was cunning in that way because no one had heard how they insulted Ximena and Molly, and now that people had gathered to watch the scene, here she was making Ximena look worse. What's more, the people even saw Ximena slap a piece of cake into one of Vivi's friends. The crowd was buzzing when Vivi started talking about her parents. Now the people were judging Ximena and were taking Vivi's side, pitying them.

It seemed that everyone had some idea about Ximena's past with Aaron because, unlike Vivi and her friends, Ximena was new to this crowd. Of course, these other rich people were going to side with their fellow rich people who, in this case, was Vivi. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

"Ximena, weren't you originally dating Aaron's brother? So, what? You just left him out of nowhere so you can slide into Aaron's bed after finding out he was cut off by his family? You're nothing if not a whore, Ximena!" The woman with cake on her face cried furiously.

"Madam, if I were you, I'd be at the restroom by now cleaning myself up. You look awful," Molly said simply. "Please stop yelling. You look crazy. Is this what your parents taught you? The people here may choose your side because they already know you and they think you're a well-mannered girl. But let me tell you, those who don't know you will think you're the exact opposite."