Chapter 61: Caught In The Act II

Meanwhile, Isabella was still feeling very furious about everything that was happening. As she stormed out of the toilet and rushed towards Alex, she couldn't help but continue to murmur to herself. Everything was just pissing her off, the fact that she caught Lily with Professor James was something she never expected.

“And yet I thought Professor James loved and cared for only me. But here he was, making the first move. He was the one doing everything. He was the one slotting it, writing it by himself, not even needing her assistance. All she had to do was stay in place. Yet I was foolish enough to actually blame her and drag her into this, saying she is the reason why everything turned out like that.”

Isabella muttered to herself as she walked towards Alex. Alex noticed her change in behavior and stood up immediately, rushing to her, making sure that she wouldn't leave the dining looking so angry.

“What is wrong with you? Can you just keep your face neutral? Stop acting like that,” he said to her. He quickly realized that she was already squeezing her face too much.

“I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do anymore. I am frustrated at this moment. Can you imagine? I went to the toilet to actually ease myself, and guess who I saw?”

She said to Alex, who was confused.

“Who exactly did you see? At least tell me who it is and stop keeping me on the edge, trying to force me to know what I don't know.”

He said to her as she laughed.

“I saw Lily and Professor James. Lily and Professor James were actually about to do the act, okay, inside the venue's toilet. Imagine if someone had actually walked in. What would I say? Now everyone literally sees Lily as my friend, as my own friend. What do they think? That I have that kind of character and I live that kind of life? Not knowing that that is just what Lily decides to do to herself. She decided to give herself to Professor James. Such a cheap girl.”

Isabella said to Alex, who laughed.

“And how does that have to do with you? Is that the reason why you look so pissed? Like someone just broke your heart? Or you were betrayed by someone you loved so badly? If she's doing anything with Professor James, it is none of your business, okay? They decided to give each other the chance. She decided to give him her body. Since he has always wanted someone like a student, he finally found a student, a cute one at that. He would enjoy himself. Lily is the kind of loyal girl, so don't worry. He would enjoy himself.”

Alex said to Isabella, who was angry as she flung her hands.

“Alex, hands away. Do not tell me that there is nothing about how she would enjoy herself. It is not right. Nothing about what the both of them did is right at all. Imagine if I were to go behind Lily's back and announce it to everybody what she's doing with Professor James. Then I would become the bad person. But she was able to do it to me without being labeled as the bad person. Aren't you still understanding what I am trying to say?”

Isabella said, hoping that Alex would understand as he shrugged in confusion.

“What am I supposed to understand? What exactly did you want me to understand? It is none of my business. If you had not walked in there, you two would never know anything, and they would act neutral about it just like the way they are doing now.”

Alex pointed to Lily, who came out and rushed to Professor James as they were having a conversation, and she was still smiling. It really pissed Isabella off because it looked all like pretense, and it was angering her so badly, but she just had to hold it in and look back at Alex.

“Why are you pointing them out to me? I don't care about them. I just said where they did it is not right. This is a family gathering, and we want it to be as peaceful as possible. But it turns out that Lily and Professor James came here to just use it as a hotel for themselves since they couldn't get more.”

Isabella said as she walked past Alex and just left. Meanwhile, Alex's gaze was still fixed on Professor James. Yes, just now he had acted like he did not care about whatever was happening, but he felt it deep within him that it was something.

Isabella was never the kind of person who would just complain for nothing. She had every reason to complain. Now looking at Professor James, he felt like there was something connected, even though Professor James was not looking back at him. He could see that Professor James' gaze was fixed on Isabella, who was stomping away.

He looked for a moment at Isabella and then back at Professor James, trying to figure out what was going on. At that moment, he felt a hand on his shoulder, making him shudder in fright. He turned around, and it was his brother, as he heaved a sigh of relief.

“You scared me. Do not ever do something like that. You can make me die of shock,” he said to him as he laughed.

“Why would you want to die of shock? Why are you staring at Professor James like he did something bad to you? Has he done something else again that I don't know about?”

He asked.

“It's not that he did anything bad, okay? It's just that there's something about him now. He's sleeping around with Lily, and it turns out Lily is giving herself to him willingly. What if that was what happened between him and Isabella and it wasn't the other way, the way you told me?”

Alex asked John, who shrugged.

“It can never be like that. I was there. I heard everything. Her friend Tricia told me everything. I am sure of it. And besides, I just had a discussion with Tricia, and she's still giving me the same words, telling me that she is very curious about what made Professor James like Isabella, and now she found out because he tried to get his way with her.”

John tried to explain, but Alex was not ready to believe it.

“Where is Tricia?”

He asked as John pointed to where Tricia was having a discussion with a new guy, as she was blossoming. Yes, that was one thing about Tricia; she never hid that she always loved to explore other men, and that was another reason why she didn't really date anyone special and instead just always went from one person to another, which made everyone on campus already used to her and even the men who made advances to her already know her.

But here in this dining, nobody knew her kind of character, and this guy was actually Alex's cousin, so Alex had to be careful. He noted that and just walked away. But John, who was still reminiscing on the words that his father had said, made him curious about what his brother had said.

He looked back at Professor James, who was still looking at Isabella, who was now sitting at the table, now having a discussion with Mirabelle, and they were even giggling about it. He looked down at Professor James' hands and noticed that he was holding his fists tightly, like he was already so angered. Meanwhile, Lily was trying her best to get his attention.

Something about this union doesn't seem right if truly Professor James wanted to have something to do with Lily. I knew him very well; attention would be there, everything would be on Lily. But now, John muttered to himself, looking again at Isabella and then back at Professor James.

“Professor James won't stop staring at Lily. Is Alex even saying this test right? What if Professor James still has eyes for Lily and Isabella, and he's just using Lily as a scapegoat, using her as an opportunity to make him jealous? What if all this is jealousy?”

John thought to himself.

“I need to find out more,” he muttered.

Meanwhile, Alex quickly rushed to Tricia, who was having a discussion with the guy, and of course, they were even going as far as exchanging numbers. Just as his cousin was about to collect Tricia's number, he interrupted.

“You can do that another time. Not yet. In this dining. This is a dining hall, not a place to catch a girlfriend or something of that sort.”

Alex said and broke them apart as Tricia looked at him with a groaning face.

“How could you just ruin everything for me like that?”

She said jokingly as he laughed.

“We have to talk. And not just anything, Tricia. We need to talk about the night you and John went to save Isabella from Professor James.”