Chapter 80: Questions

Meanwhile, Tricia was still in a panic mode as she quickly packed up all the clothes needed by Isabella. She made sure to zip the bag tightly and hung it around her neck before looking around because she knew she would not be coming back to this hostel for a while. Hearing the news from Alex was sending shock waves to her brain. She couldn't even imagine that her best friend in the world would not even remember her name or anything around her. That alone made Tricia scared, but she tried to grip herself.

She tried her best to hold in that fright, ashamed, stepped out of her room, and locked the door. Just then, her partner, her neighbor in the hostel, looked at her with surprise.

"Tricia. I haven't seen you for a while. Like I haven't seen you for a complete 24 hours and yet I am seeing you again all of a sudden packing your bag. Is something wrong?" she questioned as Tricia gave her a fake smile.

"There is nothing wrong at all. I am perfectly alright, okay? And nothing is wrong. I am just going to take care of one of my aunts in the hospital," she lied, as the neighbor nodded and looked at her closely.

"But that isn't your bag. That is Isabella's traveling bag and also I haven't seen Isabella for a while. Don't tell me anything has gone wrong. Please assure me that there's nothing wrong with Isabella. I am hearing rumors around that Lily had touched her meal and that she was taken to the police station but was released upon no proof of sound evidence," she said as Tricia rolled her eyes.

She knew everything but yet she was questioning. She was questioning Tricia even with everything like her amiable relationship was just too much, and Tricia could not even take it anymore.

"You already knew from the start that Isabella was being hospitalized and Lily was taken to the station. Yet you are asking me whether something is wrong or not? What exactly were you even expecting? What do you expect me to say, Selene?" Tricia said to her neighbor, who laughed.

"I only asked to be sure. How would you feel if I attacked you with questions? Anyway, that said, I also want to follow and check on Isabella. I need to see her," she said, and Tricia immediately remembered everything.

"No, you can't follow me to see her. You can't follow me to do anything. Stay away from me. Stay away from her. When she's back, you can discuss it with her and ask her stuff by the time you come to the hospital. Don't you know that every other person would want to follow after you and know what is going on? Better you know when to stop. Okay?" Tricia said, and without even waiting for her neighbor to reply, she just walked away angrily.

But as she got down to the last step of her hostel, she saw Rachel waiting there with an emotional face.

"What exactly are you doing here? Why are you even here? Why are you even standing here? What do you want? Get out," she said.

Tricia said to Rachel, who faked a smile and tried walking close to her, but she stepped back. 

"I know that I have done a lot of bad things. I know that I have made huge mistakes, but can you please stop acting this way? We are friends, okay? We were close. Everything was going perfectly. Why exactly are you acting this way?" she said to Tricia.

Tricia laughed. 

"You are so funny sometimes; you amuse me with the way you talk most times. What do you mean by 'we are friends'? We were close friends. You were the one who ruined our relationship, and now you expect it to work perfectly. What do you even want to do? Do you want to act like you care and try to see Isabella? Then maybe when you see her and see her head has been cracked into two, you would rush to tell Lily about it so Lily can plan more ways to kill her. More ways to eliminate her and make her life miserable. Is that what you are trying to do?" she questioned as Rachel was unable to utter another word but instead just stood there.

"I am not trying to sabotage anything. Isabella is my friend. Even though we were never really close again and everything got ruined because of my one mistake, at least just understand that for now. I would not dare do something like that. Just find it somewhere in your heart to forgive me and let me see Isabella," Rachel said to Tricia while trying to act sincere or even believable.

Tricia was not falling for anything. 

"Can you just stop this stupid act of yours? I am literally not falling for it. I am telling you to your face that I am not falling for your act and you would not see Isabella. If you want to see her, then find her yourself, and if you find her and she lets you in, then that is your achievement, not mine. Because I really don't care, and I won’t go behind Isabella's back and let you see her only for her to see me as a bad friend because I am not a bad friend to her. You are the bad one," Tricia said angrily and just walked past Rachel.

"I don't know why I am just meeting all of Isabella's stupid friends from the neighbor to Rachel and all of them are expecting to get words from my mouth," Tricia said angrily as she walked away.

As Tricia walked away she had no idea that Rachel was slowly following her from behind, Rachel was ready to dig deep if no one wanted to.

She was ready  to go as far as possible just to make sure that she fed Lily with the right news just as she wanted.