Melody's Pov
"You seem to like your dress very much, Lolita?" I moved closer to her and looked at her with a probing look. The woman's body had frozen in front of me. There was tension that radiated clearly from her expression.
Lolita smiled stiffly; she dropped her earring. Lolita's body seemed to freeze on the spot. I moved closer, then stepped on her earring with the tip of my high heels.
"Melody, I thought you weren't coming because it seems that Jeremy didn't want to wait for you. Emm, Can you give me back my earrings?" Lolita said in a tone that was very annoying to hear.
I tossed the earring again on the floor; Lolita picked it up quickly.
"I was specially invited to accompany Jeremy. Did it seem like I didn't want to come earlier? It was you and Jeremy who just left me." I looked her up and down. "Do you intend to take my place on the red carpet?"
"No, this is the dress Jeremy gave me. Em, sorry I'm leaving. Jeremy is outside. I'll call him." Lolita's tone halted. Lolita walked past me, but I held her hand, restraining her movement.
"No rush. We'll settle this matter together first."
"What do you mean?" Lolita’s brows knitted together.
"Stop the pretense you made! I already know everything; you are Jeremy's mistress; are you aware of your position?"
"What are you saying? I don't understand Melody!"
Instead of answering her words, I would rather reach into my bag, grab a bikini, and then throw it right in her face.
She looked annoyed and gave me a sharp look, but she started to change his face into a small smile, then picked up the fallen thing.
"Ah, why do you know this is mine? Isn't it supposed to stay in Jeremy's car so that it's easier for me to wear it if he can't stand it?"
Lolita revealed the bikini model in front of me. I didn't expect that I could stare at her attitude, which was 180 degrees different from what was displayed in public.
"I doubt what your position is. Are you still working as a manager or a whore?"
Lolita laughed even more amused at me. She replied, "I don't care what status I get when I'm with Jeremy."
She then revealed the earrings she was wearing, the bracelet, and the necklace with JLolita's pendulum; Lolita approached and whispered, “It was all Jeremy's gift, often when we finished having sex on the bed. And I enjoyed it."
I got furious at the disgusting statement on her lips. My reflex immediately gently pushed Lolita away, but she fell to the floor instead.
"You are a lowly woman who has no attitude; I never thought you could justify any means to make your plan work! You are so talented to be a mistress!"
Lolita got up from her position, pointed at my face, and answered my insult with a curse. "I am much more beautiful and sexy than you. Jeremy often discusses you; he wants you to leave his life, but he is still afraid of the punishment of his fans if that happens. You don't have to insult me to protect your thin ego!"
I couldn't stand this heated debate anymore. I grabbed Lolita's hair for a moment to stop her words that kept coming out. Lolita replied to me by scratching my arm; I had dodged when her hand was about to float to my cheek. I closed my eyes, and when I opened it instead, I saw Lolita doing the unexpected: she slapped her face red and screamed at the same time.
"Sorry, Melody, I swore that I would never take Jeremy from you. You just misjudged me. I am sorry." She cried as loud as she could.
"What are you doing? If you admit your mistake, I won't hurt you!"
I caught a glimpse of a smirk appearing on Lolita's lips, and then I heard the sound of someone's steps approaching.
It turned out to be Jeremy walking up to me and the lolita without me knowing. He helped Lolita up. Then looked at me pointedly.
"What else do you want to do here? And admit what mistake you mean?"
Jeremy helped Lolita tidy up her hair and asked her what I had done. Jeremy even hugged her for a moment as if I had attempted murder on his beloved woman.
I couldn't see the treatment before my eyes, so I pointed at Jeremy furiously. "You ask so many times about other people's circumstances, but you don't care about me at all?"
Lolita was playing drama again; she pretended to be frightened and said, "Jeremy, I didn't know Melody suddenly came in here, grabbed my hair, slapped, and was about to strangle me; she said I was teasing you and wanted to take her place on the red carpet. She even slandered me with that thing!" She pointed to the bikini and on the floor.
I clapped my hands at her shrewdness in words. "Do you not intend to be an actress to compete with Jeremy in his movie?"
"Enough Melody! Get out of here!" Jeremy kicked Melody out harshly. "If you can't take care of yourself, you're just embarrassing me!"
I was shocked and didn't think Jeremy would do this to me.
"Are you aware of what you're saying? You're defending others by kicking me out and insulting me?"
"You should realize why I stand up for her. It's because of your disgusting attitude. You're the one who plays dramas whenever I'm close to Lolita. I'm sick of your attitude!"
I revealed Lolita's scratch wound. "You see this, she did it. Are you going to scold her?"
"I knew you must have prepared for this incident. You framed Lolita."
"Have you lost your mind? You have been unfair; this way, it has been proven that you love Lolita and want to get rid of me!"
Jeremy slapped me tightly.
"Stop your nonsense!" Jeremy shouted, "Get out of here! If you don't obey me, then you will know the consequences you will get! Join the other guests outside; don't embarrass me and Lolita!"
I was stiff on the spot for a moment, staring at Jeremy's face filled with a dark aura of anger. I could also see Lolita stifling a laugh behind Jeremy. She held up her middle finger quickly before changing her face to feigned fear.
I thought Jeremy had lost himself. At the beginning of our relationship, he was a gentleman, never hurt me, and even yelled at me; now, he even did that to defend his affair.
I tried to calm down, and without many words, I came out of the dressing room. I had wanted to leave no matter Jeremy's orders, but an officer from the TV station who knew me as Jeremy's lover pulled me to keep attending the gala that had started.
I saw a lot of artist couples coming, and my heart ached because that was supposed to be what happened today, but it was all just a fantasy that wouldn't come true because Jeremy had chosen that woman.
Even now, Jeremy caught up with me and stood beside me, but it was all just for the sake of maintaining the image. I felt empty. Jeremy also didn't want to stay away from Lolita, who kept smiling at me full of mockery.
I couldn't continue anymore. The relationship between Jeremy and I could no longer be maintained. For the past year, I felt that Jeremy wasn't mine anymore. He was also indifferent and rude, so what else would I have to keep if everything was no longer left?
The award show was over, and everyone was doing a photoshoot; in the middle of the photo shoot, Lolita walked up to Jeremy to tidy up his collar; he looked annoyed that Jeremy had to stand close to me; he kept staring at us, and watching my movements.
After a few poses, we were almost done, but there was a faint shout from one of the officers standing guard above.
The guard said to move away, but at the same time, a roar sounded. I looked at where the sound came from, a large lamp hanging off one of its hooks so that the weight of the floodlight was unbalanced and fell very fast.
The number of panicked people made it difficult for me to move and be pushed around.
I wanted to hold Jeremy's arm, but he brushed it off harshly and ran towards Lolita, who kept staring at the lamp, so she survived. The lamp crushed me with some people who didn't manage to escape.
The heaviness that fell on my lower body made me unable to move. I was still in a semi-conscious state because only my hips were down; I saw Lolita, hugged by Jeremy, and they ran out while a man helped me. And I couldn't remember what happened anymore.
Everything went dark
