A Love Reborn: Finding Romance Twice In One Lifetime
Chapter 55: LEFTOVER WOMAN

Chapter 55: Chapter 55: LEFTOVER WOMAN

"Cali!" as she stood on the gravel road, her attention in the direction those two were playing, she heard her name being called.

Recognizing the voice, a smile appeared on her face as she turned towards the direction of the caller.

"You are here!" Calista exclaimed with a smile, spotting Susan, who was walking her way without the hand cart.

"Um, I didn’t think that you would be down already!" she teased while sizing her.

"Hehe, when I want to be early, who can stop me?"

"Indeed, no one could!" Susan responded playfully as she continued to size her once again.

Seeing this friend of hers like this, she shuddered, wondering what she was up to and what kind of messed up thoughts were filling her head right now.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Do I have something on me?" Calista asked curiously, before checking herself as well.

Susan, seeing Calista like that, burst into a peal of laughter and it took her a while before she managed to calm herself down.

Calista hatefully glared at Susan, who had laughed so much to the extent of tearing up and not knowing why she was being like that and yet it seemed connected to her. She was frustrated.

"Susan!" she bellowed angrily at the other, having enough of being laughed at without knowing the reason why.

"Okay, dear, forgive me but I just couldn’t help it!" Susan, seeing that Calista was getting angry, forced herself to stop and at the same time placated her friend.

Calista hmphed as she pushed the baskets over to Susan, who helplessly took them without stuttering a single word.

Considering that she had angered the other somehow, the punishment was quite light.

The two friends began to walk towards the cart, which was a distance away and, on their way there, Susan was busy explaining herself.

"Dear, being your honeymoon period, I honestly didn’t expect you to wake up early. For a moment there, I thought that brother-in-law wasn’t doing his job!" Susan mumbled the last words as she stole peeks at Calista, gauging how she would react.

Calista never thought that’s what her friend was thinking about at all. How could she think about something so hilarious like that?

"Um, don’t underestimate your brother-in-law, he is good!" she couldn’t help but smile as she shamelessly said that.

Susan, not expecting Calista to respond in such a manner, was so taken aback greatly that her face flushed as she pictured something.

"You ..." how could Calista say something like that without getting embarrassed?

However, when she thought of how Calista had always been that way from the beginning, she simply regretted starting the topic in the first place.

With Susan poking the hornets’ nest, Calista found an interesting topic to talk about, so all the way to the river, Susan’s ears were ringing and if she wasn’t strong-willed, she would have had a string of nosebleeds by now.

By the time they arrived at the river, she was so grateful that there were a lot of people gathered. Now Calista would no longer be so thick-skinned to continue with the topic.

Unlike her, these ladies weren’t that close to Calista at all. And who knows how they would spin her tales when gossiping out there?

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" ... I feel good, paraparapara.... I ..."

Rinsing her washed clothes by the rock, Calista once again found herself singing another song which sounded weird to other women’s ears. After all, they had never heard such a song before.

Although they were used to Calista singing and humming to unknown songs and tunes, it was still strange listening to her singing like that.

However, despite their curiosity and some of their dislike, they all kept their tails hidden between their legs. After witnessing how dangerous she was on that day, none of them didn’t have any death wish.

She wasn’t afraid of dealing with a grown man twice her size in front of other men, others being very respected elders. What would stop her from beating them?

Knowing her, nothing would stop her. And since there wasn’t much discord between them, the women, for the first time, decided to keep their distance from her.

"You think that you can get away so easily, you wh****?"

However, it wasn’t everyone whose brains were functioning properly. Suddenly, without any warning, a shriek sounded, startling even the birds that were enjoying the sun on the rocks, sending them chirping like crazy.

If birds could react like that, how about human beings?

"You leftover woman. Can you stop acting like a shrew and give us some peace?"

While everyone was still digesting how bold this person was becoming every single day, the women who were waiting for the cursed response nearly fell into the river when the attack was returned.

Susan watched as her friend stood on the rock, her hands on her waist and with that brown dress pulled all the way to her knees, stood dumbfoundedly as she tried to digest the words which Calista had just spoken.

Being on the receiving side of such words, Benita recoiled a bit, taken by surprise by this. Knowing Calista, she wasn’t someone who would respond harshly. In her head, she still carried that mentality of being the second mother, so even if she insulted her the whole day, she could only accept despite her unwillingness.

But who could tell her what she had just heard?

"You .... How dare you curse me like that?" digesting what she had been called, and that she had been insulted, Benita angrily yelled at Calista, her eyes blazing with so much hate, as she took large strides towards her.

Seeing the infuriated Benita, a smile crept up on Calista’s face.

She had had enough of Benita and her tantrums. She was already this old and yet she had gits to go around insulting other people. Did she think that she was the only girl who was precious to her parents?

What about her? Wasn’t she also precious?

She had tolerated that family for years. And now that she was remarried, she didn’t want to be connected to them anymore.

What would her husband think of her?