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her the award. 

My song, but no one believed me. 

Anya mentioned that my dad polished the 

lyrics, and my dad laughed and accepted it. 

He gave Anya the award, and said she was 

his pride. 

I bit my lip as tears fell. 

The lyrics were about my time in the 

orphanage, but now it was theirs. 

Even my brother said that “Ten years ago our family went to the sea, and I went surfing, but 

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there was a tsunami, and Anya jumped in to 

save me. She gave me her lifejacket.” 

“Anya gave me a second life. I’ll make sure she’s the happiest princess who can sing!” 

I laughed through the tears. 

Anya can’t even swim, how did she save you? 

I gave you my lifejacket, and crashed into the rocks, covered with blood. 

I gave a long time number a text. 

[Does your promise still count?] 

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They replied [Yes. You shouldn’t let them hurt 

you. I know what they did. You shouldn’t be 

with them. What do you want me to do?] 

I started typing, but my mom walked in and 

saw the text. 

“Who are you texting? Where are you going in 

three days?” 

I turned off my phone, and flipped through the 

calendar. 

[My birthday.] 

Mom sighed in relief, and patted my head. 

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“Where do you want to go? We’ll go with 

you!” 

I typed in an address, the beach where we 

went ten years ago. 

Everything began there, so it should end 

there. 

Three days later, the family booked a yacht to 

celebrate my and Anya’s birthdays. 

For ten years, she was always the main 

character. 

She learned how to get attention, while I was 

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socially awkward from living in an orphanage. 

This time was no different. 

She had the cake made two meters tall, and 

said to me “I forgot you can’t cut the cake 

with me…” 

My parents consoled her, and said it was 

okay, and this year she would cut the cake for 

ine. 

Anya happily cut the cake, even splitting me 

into two. 

When she gave it to me, she whispered 

“Everyone likes me, if you take them away, I’ll 

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do what happened to the cake!” 

Next, everyone congratulated Anya. 

My parents went to greet their friends, and 

my brother came when I embarrassed them. 

“It’s windy. Do you want me to take you inside 

to rest?” 

Anya stopped him. 

“Brother, you can go, I’ll help my sister to her 

room!” 

I wanted to reject, but couldn’t make any 

sounds. 

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Anya took me to the corner room. 

There was smoke everywhere, and several 

men stared at us. 

Anya pushed me to them, and grinned. 

“Don’t think you can turn things around. You 

can’t win!” 

“Did you know? My brother gave you a dog’s vocal cords, hahahaha!” 

“Even if you sing, you can only go woof!” 

Anya barked, and the men laughed. 

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I saw the lust in their eyes, and was scared. 

[You can have anything, I’m leaving. You’ll be 

the only daughter.] 

Anya read it and laughed. 

“Leave? Where can you go? Haha!” 

She smashed my phone, then ripped her 

dress and messed up her hair. 

Then, she screamed “Help!” 

The door was kicked open, and my family 

rushed in. 

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I sat there, and Anya was struggling with the 

men. 

“Stop!” 

My brother was angry, and my dad told the 

men to calm down. 

“What do you want? Just don’t hurt my 

daughters!” 

The leader sounded deep, as if using a voice 

changer. 

“This girl slandered our idol, she has to pay!” 

He pulled out a hammer and got ready to hit 

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Anya’s hands. 

“Police! Everyone put your hands up!” 

My dad’s friends rushed in. 

The men let go of Anya and jumped out the window. 

It was too dark to see where they went. 

Anya held my parents and sobbed. 

“Don’t blame my sister, she just wanted to do 

what my fans did to her to me…” 

“It’s my fault she’s like this, don’t blame her!” 

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My brother felt guilty, then mad. 

“Chloe! What’s wrong with you! Those people 

had nothing to do with Anya, why are you taking it out on her?!” 

My parents were also disappointed and heartbroken. 

“It was your fault for stealing her song. You’re 

so evil!” 

They grabbed Anya and left. 

Everyone called me names, and told my 

parents to cut me off. 

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They locked the door. 

The family had the doctors do checkups on 

Anya, then thought about me. 

Dad told the waiter “Let Chloe out. She 

should feel bad after a night.” 

The waiter crashed into the manager running to him. 

“Mr. Lancaster, something happened! Miss Chloe jumped in the water! She left a phone, which has the recording of what happened in the room!” 

“Miss Chloe was frame”