Chapter 116: Sincerely or Not
Isabella shrugged. "You don't have to worry about me. You don’t have to worry about the outcome. Just worry about yourself. I will tell him; I have made up my mind. I don't want to be a bad person. Even though I have no memories of what I did, I will still tell him. It is better to be labeled a bad person than to be a good person when I am actually worse than the person they labeled as bad." With that, Isabella turned around to fulfill her decision.
Of course, Lily did not want Isabella to tell the truth yet, so she instantly grabbed her by the clothes. Isabella was shocked. "What was that supposed to be?" she questioned, her mouth open in disbelief.
Lily chuckled darkly. "You really want to act so insolent and stubborn, right? I told you not to say anything to Alex because it wouldn’t change a thing. Instead, he would hate you more. Do you really want to watch him hate you more than anyone in the world? Do you think telling Alex in this vulnerable state will help you? He’s the only one who can help you. Your parents won’t take you back home because I need to be tried and taken to jail before you can go back to your own country. So for now, you are stuck here, stuck in school again until everything is resolved, and I won’t admit that I did anything. If you dare tell Alex the truth, he will let you go quickly. And if he lets you go, you have no one else to help you. Nobody. He is still the only one who can push this case further because you know how rich his family is. I’m telling you, any little mistake you make will affect you badly. So it would be better if you think about this more thoroughly before I make things even more complicated than expected." Lily said to her in a voice more like a whisper as Isabella found herself stuck in a tight spot, unsure of what to do or say next. Instead, she kept silent.
She looked at Alex, who was having a conversation with her parents, and thought about everything. Lily was more than right. Even though she had her parents here, she knew they would leave immediately after the trial. And if she followed Alex to have her memories rearranged, then she wouldn't be able to have Alex anymore. If she managed to recall anything, then Alex would leave her. Not just leave her, but he would humiliate her.
Turning to Lily despite everything she thought about, Isabella said, "Do not worry, I won't change my mind. I still want to do this. I still want to tell him the truth. I think he deserves to know what I did, even though I don't know what I did. But I will let him know that I had something to do with James, and he should confront James himself since I have no memories of it. Of course, he won’t blame me. I will tell him it’s just a glimpse of my memories that I remembered. And besides, he’s already on his sister’s neck because of me, and I don’t want to put Mirabel in any trouble."
Lily ran her hands through her hair in frustration. She had never seen Isabella be so stubborn, and it pissed her off more than anything. "Don’t you get it? You can’t do anything. Do you even know the kind of situation you are going to put James in? James would lose all his rights to be a professor in any school. He will be blacklisted because of you! Do you want that? Do you want him to be jobless? He would lose everything despite all his years of schooling, just to have a job, only for him to have a red card because of you? And you were the one who tempted him! Don’t you see that you are really more of a devil than I am? Do you really want everybody to label you as that devil that you really are?"
Lily said, not knowing what else to use to convince Isabella as she frowned before walking away. Yes, Lily was right about everything she said, but Isabella refused to accept it. She refused to accept that she was going to keep the secret again despite the warning that Mirabel had just given her. Despite everything, she did not want to continue that way.
Isabella had already made up her mind, and even Lily's words would not change anything. Meanwhile, Lily felt totally bitter, with no choice. She watched as Isabella walked towards Alex, who was still waiting for her parents to finish talking.
Just then, Isabella's parents rushed over, clearly anxious. "I know you are not supposed to be around us, not to trigger any false memories, so we will leave you with someone you recognize. Alex, please just don’t get hurt. Don’t do anything that would make us scared again. Please stay away from trouble. Stay away from anything that has to do with Lily. I heard she’s a very dangerous person, and I don’t want you around her. She’s too dangerous for you," Isabella's mom said.
Isabella nodded, already getting too impatient, as she just wanted to have a conversation with Alex.
“I would be fine with Alex.” She says to them slowly but to her parents it sounded like she was being rude and just wanted them to leave but they couldn’t do anything because she was still unable to remember anything.
“Fine, but Alex please take good care of her for me…she is all I have got.” Her mom said to Alex before pulling her dad with her so he won’t get emotional leaving her daughter with a stranger … but Isabella wasn’t concerned about anything all she just wanted was to have her discussion with Alex and make sure that everything was settled.
“ We need to talk to Alex, I need to tell you everything I remember…I don’t care how bad I may end up being but you just need to know everything.” She said to him and immediately Alex knew where she was heading to.