Chapter 3 True Face

Few months later, I was playing in the garden like I always did with my cat. I looked at the big door of the castle to see my father's car coming toward the garage. I wondered what was happening there. I asked Madame Helene but she didn't know at first sight, so she tried to talk with Mr. Philip and he told her something in her ear. Something he didn't want me to know.

Madame Helen went to the kitchen to prepare my dad's coffee, when he passed beside me without talking to me. He wasn't happy to see me, and I felt it. He shouted at Madame Helene" you have to tell her, do your job Madame!" I heard his shouting and I was scared. Madame Helene told me to wait for her in my room and so I did. She came to my room to tell me that my father decided to bring his new wife to the castle. It was shocking for me but not too much, I didn't understand what adults like to do. I thought he will bring a woman that will take care of me, but the future will bring me only bad things. I accepted the truth, actually I didn't have a choice, because from that moment my father will never take me into his consideration. It's true when people say that the disappointment that children experience from their parents, especially stepparents, may be difficult for them to cope with. They don't live up to the promise they made in their youth. Life was about to be the darkest experience that I will see. I was doomed in hell forever. No light even if I try to turn on the light it will be feckless. Life was never fair, but people made it worse.

My stepmother came one day with her two kids Laura and Linda, when I was happy to see two girls close to my age, so I will play with them. My stepmother Cora is a wealthy woman. The first day when she met me she hugged me and told me that I will be like Linda and Luna.

"Madame Helene! My husband had already told me about you. I'm so happy to see you." My stepmother told Madame Helene.

"So glad to see you mam." Madame Helen kindly replied but she wasn't happy. She had her own worries.

I'm used now to get adapted to this situation since I had two sisters. I took them with me to the garden to show them my cat. They were always questioning if I will stay in the castle, and I was strangely replying" I will never leave this mansion. It's my home." But Linda told me once that someday I will have to leave it. I thought she was laughing at me, I never thought that she was telling the truth.

My stepmother was very kind to me. She dressed me like her daughters, she was talking with me about my mother and how beautiful I'm, and she was even shouting at her kids if they did something bad to me. I thought that she loved me. I had faith and a big love towards her. She replaced my mum for a few moments. Madame Helene wasn't happy, and she was always thinking and wondering, she took hours and hours thinking. I didn't know why but then the truth started to come out.

Two-faced people are hypocrites and dishonest individuals who continually put on a mask in order to achieve their own selfish objectives. They put on "one face" at one point and another at another, and they are liars in both instances. They never tell the truth to a friend, coworker, or in personal interactions.

They may pretend to be your friend while you are present, yet they may talk ill of you behind your back while you are not around. They are filled with negative emotions such as greed, jealousy, and hatred for people around them, and as a result, they leave no opportunity to break your trust in order to pursue their aspirations whenever they get the opportunity.

Due to the toxic nature of these fraudulent persons, you should exercise extra caution when contemplating someone as a real friend in your life. They use artificial smiles and emotions to gain your trust, but as you turn your back on them, their true colours are shown.

My stepmother, who was so kind to me, started to be arrogant and hard on me. Even my father was like her. I believed once that he is my protector and he will always be by my side, but he never loved me. He was just carrying about Laura and Linda. Cora was very hard on me even though she shouted once at Madame Helene when she saw her asking me about what to prepare for me for dinner.

Her true face shined and I know that hell is inside our castle, and no one will save me. The flaw of the hypocrite is that he is a lie to himself. Hypocrisy is the vice of vices as integrity may continue under the guise of all other vices except for this one, making it a logical assumption. Only crime and the criminal put us face to face with the riddle of genuinely severe evil; yet, only the hypocrite is completely rotten from the inside out.

I despised her much too much, and my father was the source of all the evil in the family. He was like the devil, which didn't care about me at all. I'm his daughter, and I'm meant to live like a queen, just like I used to do when I was younger. When I arrived at the castle, it was too late since the snake had become very clever and had spread her wickedness across the whole castle. The lamps had been out, and the castle was filled with hatred, wrath, and the foul odour of cruelties.

Life started to become miserable for me, when my stepmother showed her true face and told me how much she hates me. I was eight years old. How can I know that people could be so dark like that?