Chapter 1

"Tell me, Alicia Rosewood. Have you seen Belle?"

I looked at Tyson Sutherland, standing in front of me with large beads of sweat on his forehead, staring for a long while before I suddenly snapped back to the present.

I had been given another chance at life.

In my past life, I knew that Isabelle Landon, his girlfriend, hadn't really planned on killing herself. She just wanted to prove to me that Tyson cared a lot about her, more than he did for the entrance exams, and that he would give up the entrance exams in a heartbeat just to rescue her.

That was the main reason she faked her suicide attempt.

And that was also why I had done everything I could to stop them from going out to find her.

However, I never thought that my payback in kind would be to die a cruel, hideous death.

This time, I looked at Tyson and the rest of the male classmates behind him in an unusually calm manner.

"I've not seen Isabelle."

Tyson's brows were tightly knit together. "She texted me saying she wanted to jump off a building. We need to find her immediately."

I nodded. "Okay. Go ahead."

This time, I wasn't going to meddle in his fate anymore. He could jolly well ruin his own future, for all I cared.

Just as I was about to shut the door in his face, he grabbed my hand and said, "Come with us. We'll look for her together."

I brushed his hand away and said, "I'm not going with you. The entrance exams are tomorrow. I still want to get in some last-minute revision."

Tyson was displeased. "We're going to find Belle now. Saving her won't affect sitting for the entrance exams tomorrow.

"Moreover, we're the top-scoring students in our year. What's the point of revising more? Just arrive at the examination venue tomorrow on time and we'll all get high scores as usual!"

I shook my head and said, "I said, I'm not going. But you can go if you want to."

Tyson got mad. He yelled, "Belle has always treated you as her friend. How could you just not care about her now? So what if the entrance exams are tomorrow? Are you saying that Belle's life is less important than the entrance exams?"

The other classmates also chimed in along with him, voicing their anger.

"That's right! Saving a person's life is more important than trying to prove you're smart. How could you just sit there and feel nothing when Belle's trying to take her own life?"

"You're such a cold-blooded person, Alicia. Belle used to be your classmate too! How did you turn out to be like this?"

"Hmph! Alicia's just jealous that Isabelle's a lot prettier than she is."

I glanced at the other classmates behind Tyson. They were all Isabelle's biggest fans and loved her. They knew that she already had a boyfriend, but they didn't care and continued wagging their tails like pleased puppies after her.

Before Isabelle dropped out of high school, she was well known as a huge troublemaker at school. She smoked, got into street fights, and drank alcohol underage. There wasn't anything terrible that she hadn't done.

A while later, she sent the whole campus into shock when she and Tyson announced that they'd gotten together officially. After all, Tyson was one of the best students in class and often got branded as the school's pride and glory for being the top student.

Tyson grabbed my hand again and said, "Belle said in her text message that she wanted to see you for the final time. You're coming with us whether you like it or not!"

With that, he began dragging me out of the door.

I panicked and grabbed hold of the doorframe with my other hand, refusing to let go.

Isabelle was just pretending to disappear on purpose. She wouldn't ever allow herself to be found that easily.

If I went with them, I knew that I wouldn't be able to make it in time for the entrance exams tomorrow!

"I'm not going!" I yelled. "Let go of me!"

"Alicia! You're coming with us even if I have to drag you there myself!"

Tyson didn't care about my protests and forcefully dragged me off with him.