"How dare you argue? We shouldn't have brought you back! You think you can act like our true daughter and steal Sophie's code? Get out! We Smiths will never allow someone like you in our family!"
I was stunned by the slap and momentarily at a loss for words. I even started to doubt whether I had actually copied Sophie; otherwise, how could our codes be identical?
But then I noticed Sophie leaning against Mrs. Smith's shoulder with a provocative look in her eyes. It all became clear.
This was Sophie's scheme. She resented me for coming home and taking away her family, but everything that belonged to them originally belonged to me.
With my biological parents and brother's words echoing in my mind, I felt crushed; everyone believed I was the one who plagiarized.
Online harassment intensified against me as people wrote hateful comments like: [Look at how pitiful Sophie is crying! Is it because she's not biological that she's destined not to be loved? After living together for so many years, isn't that enough?]
[This Emma really is ungrateful; how heartless of the Smiths to abandon their daughter they raised with care just because they want this morally corrupt person!]