Episode 4

"Look at the state of your sister?! Why did you take her to a place full of dangers and get her drunk?! Until when, Sofia? Until when are you going to keep disappointing me?"

"I'm the rejected fat girl, remember? I don't have friends and I'm not as popular as your daughter. Why do you think I'm to blame for taking your daughter out to drink with her friends? If she drank, it's her responsibility, not mine!"

Sofia said and went upstairs, ignoring her father's curses.

She was also feeling sick, but they only cared about their adopted daughter.

She never went out to parties, she had no friends, she constantly suffered bullying and this was no secret to her parents, but for them, anything that happened to Veronica was her fault.

Sofia reached her room and went to the bathroom, looked in the mirror and caressed her face. She didn't even remember this face anymore, she squeezed her cheeks, watching the flush settle on her skin.

No more gray and lifeless skin, no more cheekbones popping out. No trace of dark circles and sunken eyes.

No hair loss, her hair was coppery brown, wavy and full.

"I'm beautiful!" she said to herself, not something she was trying to convince herself of, it was a real realization.

After, she looked at the little bag she was carrying and took out the emergency contraceptive. She took a pill and put it in her mouth, then filled a glass of water and was about to swallow.

But her throat closed, her hand stopped trembling.

When you don't know the result of a casual one-night stand, there is no weight on your conscience, but she knew.

She caressed her belly, remembering her other life, remembering her first pregnancy. It was a boy, Luiz. He would move whenever she felt abandoned by Lucas, reminding her that she was not alone, that he was there.

She always talked to him, told stories, and whenever she asked if he was listening, he would move in response.

Of the five abortions, it was her first and the most painful.

At a party, Veronica bumped into her when she was near a staircase. She fell and so did Veronica.

And who did Lucas save first? Veronica.

Losing that baby was the deepest pain she had ever felt.

She was saved by the assistant of Rafael Castro, uncle of Lucas Fontes from the house, not even her father, her mother, her mother-in-law cared. Everyone accused her of having pushed Veronica.

Remembering now, she thought that Rafael Castro was always around, always finding a way to save her. If it wasn't for her deficiency in her past life, she would have noticed it. Only in her last moments did she realize that if it were up to Rafael, she would have survived. In the last abortion, he was the one who saved her, but Lucas Fontes did not allow the surgery that would save her life, saying that no one would take that baby out of her belly and that Sofia was just inventing this abortion to go back to compulsive eating.

In the hospital, she was hospitalized for days and received no visits. She went through the mourning alone.

That time, she thought about divorcing Lucas, without a baby there was no reason to continue in that marriage.

But he showed up on the day of her discharge to pick her up. Only that day did he learn of the loss of the baby. He apologized, saying that he thought Sofia's fat protected the baby. He said that Veronica was the chief architect of the company and therefore, if she hurt her hand, it would mean that he would lose millions in investments.

He seemed truly saddened, even her mother-in-law seemed to treat her better. Even her parents visited her at home, lamenting the loss of the baby.

Veronica brought flowers and knelt down apologizing and saying it was an accident, that she had slipped.

Everyone seemed to treat her better and she gave up asking for a divorce, not knowing that all that treatment would be temporary, soon everything would go back to being as before and even worse.

Remembering all the events of her past life, Sofia ended up spitting out the emergency contraceptive and gave up interrupting that pregnancy. Now she would make this life different for herself and also for this baby.

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