Chapter 18: Stuck In A Situation

"Tricia had returned." She jumped at her and hooked her very tightly. 

"How are you doing?" she said to her. 

Isabella felt even happier because finally she had someone who did not suspect her. So she hugged her even more tightly as it felt like they had not seen each other for ages. 

"I've missed you so badly. I cannot believe that I am with you. I am right here seeing you. Oh God. It was very hard coping without you in school. How was your little trip with your boyfriend in the Bahamas?" Isabella said to Tricia, who spun around feeling excited. 

"I got you a lot of stuff. It was so much fun. I hope you're also having so much fun with Professor James because don't tell me you're wasting on that big stuff and wasting your time around Alex. I see that you guys went out and it looks like you guys went on a date or something," Tricia said.

"It wasn't actually a date. I went to see his mom and I am in big trouble. I think your advice didn't really work well because now I am congested in a serious matter that I can't even come out of. I don't know how to do it. I'm walking from one lie to another and it feels like I'm going to faint any moment. I'm feeling sick at the moment," she said to Tricia, who looked at her with pity. 

"Then that means you are not smart enough. Come inside. Let me show you your gift and also tell you how to deal with dating both guys and having fun. You have to have fun. This is your time to have fun. You don't doll around because one guy wants to have a serious relationship with you," Tricia advised as she held her hand and they walked in. 

Meanwhile, Professor James was at the other side of the hostel, his phone in his hands, about to call Isabella when he saw her walk in with Tricia. 

"So this was the meeting," he thought to himself. 

James was not happy about it. Isabella had lied to him. What would it have taken her if she had just come straight to him and told him she had a serious relationship that she had to attend to? Then he wouldn't have gotten all worked up wanting her so badly. He looked at her and Tricia as they walked up the stairs to their hostel apartments. He felt so angry; it felt like he was being used. But yet again, she never really defined the relationship between the both of them. She only said she wanted to appease him just to get a good grade and then slowly began to sneak around having intimacy with each other now and then. Even though he was angry, James still had to walk away. He was a student, and he couldn't get himself involved in anything about them, no matter what.

Meanwhile, Tricia had welcomed Isabella into the room, which was filled with lots of gifts that Rachel was still going through, feeling so excited. Some of them that she wanted to keep were tricked by her. As Isabella walked in, her first gaze fell on Rachel, who looked at her and rolled her eyes.

"Wow. How was your little dinner date with Alex? Hope nothing went wrong because it will be really bad if something actually went wrong," Rachel said to Isabella, who rushed towards her and sat beside her.

"You can't do this to me. We have friends. You guys are the ones who advised me to go for what I want. Then now you're acting like I am doing something bad or I am sinning against someone. Please stop this. I am trying my best to be open-minded with you guys. I'm telling you everything. I need advice. Okay? I am stuck," Isabella said, unable to hold in the urge to say the truth.

"Oh, now you are saying what you want to hear. The simple thing you could have told us is you are stuck. We know you are stuck. It is obvious you are in a tight situation. Yes, I told you to go for James. I told you to go to Professor James and do whatever you wanted. It was actually a good idea back then, not now. Now it is not a good idea at all. You are doing it too excessively. Even Tricia wants to do something as dumb as that continuously. Do you know what would happen to Professor James if anything should go wrong between the both of you? Right?" Rachel said. 

Meanwhile, Tricia stood there with her hands folded, being a bit confused because she didn't understand what exactly was going on. She was not expecting everything to be just this heated. 

"What is going on? Why the arguments? Why the quarrels? Is there something going on that I don't know about?" Tricia asked as she sat down in their midst.

"I'm still having intimacy with Professor James and I do it almost every day. In short, I do it every day, sometimes multiple times a day. I can't stop myself. But Alex... Alex is getting so suspicious of me and Professor James is finding it hard to cover up. I don't know what to do and to top matters up, Alex's brother met me after I had my little sex session with Professor James and now he's threatening me that I have a week to make changes. I have a week to make it up to his brother. How would I do it or else it would expose me?" Isabella explained as Rachel stood up, clapping her hands as she laughed before sitting down.

"I told you, didn't I? Did I not tell you you should be careful? You were too careless. I told you to be careful. Are you trying to tell me that you were not careful? Did you forget what we said to you when we told you to go ahead and have fun with Professor James? We did not say have fun with him without caution. Why be careless? We said have fun and be careful," Tricia said as Isabella felt like a total dummy at the moment. That meant even Rachel was right because Tricia would never tell her she was right when she was wrong.

"I don't know what else to do. I feel like a prostitute. I don't know who to turn to. I don't know what to say anytime Alex suspects me. I don't even have an excuse anymore. And Professor James, he keeps calling me. I don't know what to do about him anymore. I can't even avoid him. I am stuck with him. I am stuck with him. It feels like those things he does with me make me unable to stay away from him. And Alex is getting so suspicious; I don't know what to do," she pleaded with Tricia and Rachel.

"The best thing to do is pick one of them. You have to pick one, and from the looks of it, you have to leave Professor James now," Tricia muttered.