Episode 3

The days went by, Aisha adapted to this new life, and although she had not debuted, her mother took her to tea parties, although for this new Aisha, listening to gossip where they only criticize other women was boring, can't they talk about a more important topic? Even her mother joined in on the gossip and surely when she wasn't around, they also talked behind her back.

Aisha went in search of a snack, but a small group of girls accompanied by Briana approached to surround her, what was a bad day, had become worse.

"I heard that Miss Aisha had a hair fall, I thought she was perfect in everything." One mocks.

"I was already quite an expert in riding since I was fourteen." Another presumes.

"That explains why you have three children with different fathers, you love to ride." Aisha replies.

But those who heard her immediately began to murmur, because nobody knew that girl had children, although of course, it was not true, but apparently it was easy to make others believe in something.

"How indecent."

"Children? And her mother brags that she is a decent lady."

"What a shame, three children and with three different men, what a slut."

"They shouldn't let that kind of shameless woman pass."

The criticisms did not stop, causing that girl to leave crying and her friends after her, Briana who had stayed, observes Aisha with anger.

"What? Next time, I'll say something about you..." she whispers.

"Y-you..."

Aisha only takes a plate with snacks and walks away from the place, she doesn't need that Oscar to defend her. Briana follows her and when she notices that nobody was close, she takes the opportunity to push Aisha, but she dodges it causing Brian to stumble and fall right into a small lake.

"Help! My sister fell into the lake!" Aisha shouts.

The brunette approaches Briana to grab her hair and pulls hard trying to get her out of the water, Briana screams in pain from those tugs until the other women and some guards arrive who help Briana out, since, by herself it was difficult to get out due to the heaviness of the dress.

"She pushed." Briana points to Aisha. "She wanted to kill me."

"Briana! How can you accuse your sister like that?" The countess shouts.

"Sister... why do you blame me? If I wanted to do something so horrible I wouldn't have asked for help." She expresses sadly.

Aisha covers her face with both hands pretending to sob, and is consoled by other girls, who accuse Briana of maliciousness, for blaming the one who has saved her life. The countess also calls Briana's attention for wanting to blame Aisha, who not only asked for help, tried to help her while help arrived.

"Mother, she almost tore my hair out, she did it out of pure malice." Briana complains.

"Enough, no matter how, she kept you afloat while the guards arrived." She holds her arm. "We're leaving, at home we have to talk about that way you always want to bother your sister."

The countess apologizes because they must return home, she drags Briana followed by Aisha who asks not to scold her sister, that perhaps she only acts like that because of the excitement of the moment.

"Miss Aisha is so good, asking in favor of her sister after what she said..."

"I couldn't, I'd be very angry."

"Miss Briana should be grateful that she has such a good sister."

"The countess has so much patience with her, I would have already sent her to the convent so she can learn what education is."

Everyone continued talking about that incident, in which in the eyes of all those present, Aisha was brave to save her sister.

In the mansion, Briana receives the scolding of the countess and as punishment, this month she will not have her allowance, because she must learn not to be acting with malice against her younger sister.

"I don't know why you're like this, both of you receive the same, attention, affection and luxuries. Even if you don't get along with Aisha, at least avoid causing her problems." The countess scolds her.

"It's not true, since she was born, I'm less in this family, they always take her side." She claims.

"And what did you expect if you are the one who hurts her? If Aisha did the same to you, she would also have her punishment." The countess replies.

"It's not true, just now she threw me into the lake and I've been punished." She expresses angrily.

"Enough Briana, I'll let your father know this, your tantrums are getting worse every day." The countess orders the maids to close the door.

Briana complains when she is locked up, but the countess tells her that she will not leave until her father returns, because she will let him know what happened, since every day the attitude of Briana towards Aisha becomes rougher.

Aisha for her part, hears everything, well, at least this time Briana is right, she made her fall, but on other occasions, it is Briana who has made her fall, stumble or has broken something important, so she deserves the punishment.

Later that day, Marcela came to Aisha's room to tell her that she had a visitor, which surprised Aisha, but her maid looked very happy to tell her about her visitor. Aisha goes down and is guided to the visitor's room, upon entering, who was in that place, was an attractive red-haired boy with brown eyes, with an elegant suit and a bouquet of white roses.

When he sees Aisha, he stands up, greeting with a radiant smile and hands her the flowers, while Aisha processes a little what is happening, remembering that that boy, was him, the young duke, Oscar Gutman. Well, he was cute, but not to her liking, he seemed silly.

"I heard what happened with your sister, I'm sorry you had a bad time." He expresses with concern.

Aisha leaves the flowers on a table and sits down on the small armchair, she doesn't want the redhead to suddenly move to her side. Oscar noticed that she was not excited about the flowers as she usually does.

"Are you okay? You seem a little strange." He asks.

"Y-yes, just... you know, the fall... and all that made me reflect a little." She looks away.

"I'm sorry I couldn't come to see you during that accident, but I sent you a letter, did you receive it? I waited for your answer and..."

"Ah! Of course, the letter... but you know, I was bad, how was I going to have the head to answer a letter?" The tone of her voice was full of sarcasm.

"It's true... I'm sorry... I hope you're feeling better, your debut is soon and you must be perfect for that moment."

"It's true... the debut..." she startles. "Of course I'll be fine, I can't miss it." She says with false joy.

When it's her turn to dance with Oscar, she will step on his feet and with desire to that silly cheater.

"I hope you allow me to be the one who escorts you to the ballroom." He keeps his smile.

"What? But if the hall is crossing the garden, why do I need an escort?" She asks. But seeing Oscar's surprised face, she coughs falsely. "Y-yes... yes, of course, I'll be happy if you escort me."

She lets out a fake giggle, while Oscar seems to observe her with some doubt, but, expresses how happy he is, to be the one who accompanies her on that special day.

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