Chapter 102: Lily’s Arrest

At first, it all still sounded like nothing more than a dream to Lily, as if she were just imagining things. She was already assuming how her future would turn negative if she were ever caught, not knowing that she had actually been caught and could not escape it. She stood there as the police faced her with deep frowns on their faces. 

“I can't believe, I believed you earlier and made you walk right past us with your lies. There were clear proofs, but we gave you the chance of doubt, not knowing you were even much worse. You are not just a bad person, but a murderer. I promise you that this time around, you will not be able to escape. Even if you try everything in the world to escape, I will make sure to taunt you and ensure that you pay for all your crimes. I can't believe that innocent girl has lost all her life’s privileges just because of you. Just because of your little greediness over someone who doesn't care about you,” the policeman said, clearly remembering how Lily had soaked and begged them, claiming she had nothing to do with what had happened. 

They still cuffed her, and she stood there, unable to comprehend what was going on. As Tricia folded her arms in confidence, she started laughing like a maniac. 

“This is so funny! I can’t even laugh alone because it’s amusing to my ears. You are claiming that I am to be accused of whatever happened. Nothing happened, okay? I did nothing. I did not do anything bad. I don't know why you are still placing the blame on my head. I did nothing. Let me go! I did not touch Isabella!” Lily began to shout, already acting erratically as the police officers looked at each other, signaling that they needed to hold her tightly, knowing she was about to act like a maniac just like she did the other day. 

They dragged her along all the way out of the room and then out of the hostel as Tricia stood in front of the door, knowing that Rachel and Beatrice were there. Beatrice slowly poked her head out and came forward, only for Tricia to say, “You two foolish best friends, following her around, acting like fools. I know you both knew about everything, yet you made Isabella go through something worse, something you would never pray for your enemy to endure. You let Isabella go through it. And mostly you, Rachel, even if you don't want to be friends with Isabella, and even if you did not like Isabella because of what had placed her in the situation that she was in, couldn't you have at least pretended like you cared for her? Please stop Lily or even come out to say the truth to save Isabella. Do you even know what this means? Lying and doing all this maniac act of yours?” Tricia said to Rachel as Rachel laughed. 

“This is just so crazy because I was about to help Isabella, okay? But it was difficult. Lily refused to let me go. Lily refused to let go. She just wanted Isabella to be around her grasp. She wanted James so badly that she did not care about the consequences of what would happen if she ever got caught by Alex. I warned her, okay? I was still warning her. When James just came here, I warned her. Even though James had pointed out everything, she still refused to accept it. Instead, she was happy. She was jumping all around. A few minutes ago, she was the happiest person in the world!” Rachel attacked, but Tricia hissed. 

“I don’t care! Don’t tell me anymore. I don’t even want to argue this anymore with you. You are just a dumb friend. I can’t believe I ever accepted you to be part of our trio. And Isabella always had bad assumptions of you, but yet I always thought that you were a good person and you could not harm us. You could not do anything bad to us. You would always be our friend, and you betrayed us. It is all my fault for trusting you, bringing you into our hostel, telling you all our secrets and letting you even advise Isabella. I am sure it was your advice that sent her astray because I was not around most of the time, and you were the one giving her bad advice, yet acting like you were so nice,” Tricia attacked as she turned around, about to walk away. 

But Rachel became so angry and was not going to just let Tricia walk away like that. 

“You can't just stomp out there attacking me with your words. I also need to have the benefit of the doubt, okay? You need to also listen to my own speech. Listen to everything I also have to say. Just as much as I was a bad person towards Isabella, you were worse. You were much worse. You also led her astray and told her to have fun. Even when I told her the fun was getting too much, you still gave her the go-ahead. You are just as much at fault as I was,” Rachel said with tears as Tricia hissed. 

“We are not here to talk about who placed Isabella in the situation that she is in. All I am here to tell you is you are a bad friend because you knew everything she had passed through. You knew the difficulty she was going through, and you couldn't even find a way to come and tell the truth. Lily would have walked away scot-free all her life, while Isabella would forever, for so many years, try to process everything, try to remember everything, live a life like a newborn baby. I guess that was what you wanted. I guess it would make you so happy if she were in a situation like that. I am more than sure of it,” Tricia said. 

Rachel did not even wait for Tricia to utter another word as she stormed away, making sure to meet up with the car so she could follow up on Lily's imprisonment. Meanwhile, at the same time, she had already placed a call to Alex, and Alex was already on his way with Isabella. Now, finally, the truth was out.