Chapter 2-Changes

“Tyron, did something happen to Jesabell?” Emily asked softly as her right hand rested on the door and her body slightly bent as if she could not stand upright.

Tyron quickly returned to the girl and supported her. “Why did you come out of your room? Didn’t I tell you to go to sleep so you could rest?”

“I couldn’t sleep because I was worried about Jesabell. I know I’m the reason she rebelled with you today. Please take me with you, and I want to see her condition, too,” Emily tearfully begged the young man.

Tyron sighed. He lifted the girl and took her to the car. Well, he was going to the hospital, so it would be better if the girl underwent an examination.

When they arrived at the hospital, Emily secretly smiled, and the man carried her again. “Tyron, I’m fine, so you don’t have to admit me. Jesabell is more important, so you should take good care of her first.”

“Don’t be stubborn; you think of yourself and not her. She is already abusing your kindness.”

Emily lowered her face to the young man’s chest and smiled. She was so happy, and Tyron loved her. She had already let him go. Another thing is that she has a fever.

Jesabell slowly opened her eyes as she felt around. It was very quiet, but she knew she was in the hospital because of the smell she didn’t like. Suddenly, her whole body trembled as she remembered what had happened to her.

“Hey, calm down. You’re safe!” Jason tightened his grip on the girl’s palm. He knew that his friend was afraid of sharp objects, so it was normal to have an aftershock now because she was stabbed by the knife of whoever did this to her heartlessly.

“Thank you!” She was crying as she hugged her friend. Gradually, she calmed down. Fortunately, she has a friend like Jason. She rarely makes friends. Her female friends wanted to be friends with her because of Tyron.

Jason is the only one whom she can call to be her true friend, and he understands everything about her—most of all, he understands why Tyron is the man she wants to be with in life. Even though she got away from him and Tyron had hurt him, Jason was still here all the time she needed him. She was always his priority, unlike Tyron.

Jesabell sighed, as if it were her third life. Maybe this is the sign that she should change her outlook on life. Even with her heart, she had to change its beating.

“Jesabell!”

She let go of Jason and was afraid at Tyron’s thunderous voice. She gave her friend a meaningful look to leave, but Jason didn’t want to obey her. She was nervous for her friend, and she could read what would happen.

“Are you really that much? You are getting worse, Jesabell, and you are able to hurt yourself and put your life in danger!” Because of anger, the tendon on Tyron’s neck clenched.

Jesabell hardened her heart. She slowly looks at Tyron coldly and emotionlessly. This time, she doesn’t want to cry anymore, and she doesn’t want to defend herself anymore. She chose to keep quiet because she knew he wouldn’t believe her either since Tyron thought that everything she said and did was wrong. Especially when Emily is involved. Emily was kind and always playing a victim because she was from an orphanage. Emily is pitiful because she grew up without parents. Emily helped him out when he was almost burned while he was at the orphanage with his parents, who were doing charity at that time. It’s always about Emily, his heroine.

“Don’t look at me like that, Jesabell! Do you know what you are doing to yourself?” Tyron was still angry with the girl.

“I know, and I have learned, so don’t worry; from now on I will behave.”

Tyron sighed and noticed the changes in the girl. When he got angry before, she would start crying to be able to make him calm. Well, he didn’t want her to cry either. And now, he didn’t know what she was thinking.

“Why don’t you tell him the truth?” Jason scolded his friend.

Jesabell quickly shook her head, and Tyron might just get angrier at Jason.

Tyron’s angry gaze shifted to the man who spoke. “What else are you doing here?” he asked Jason sternly.

“I’ll take care of Jesabell,” Jason’s cold response.

“Bastard! After you tolerate her silliness, you still have the courage to boast in front of me?”

Jesabell closed her eyes tightly, and they seemed to return to the former mistake she had committed. So Jason would carry all the blame and get hurt. How idiotic she was back then. She took advice, which was no good at all, from the people she considered real friends.

“What, are you going to hurt me again and scare me to be removed from the scholars’ list?” Jason asked angrily and looked at the man as if he was challenging him.

Seeing Tyron raise his clenched palm in the air, she quickly embraced him to stop him. “Please, he’s not guilty here. He’s the only one I can ask for help, so he’s here.”

Tyron was shocked by what he heard. He was suddenly confused about whether the girl really needed his help earlier. She was also crying because of the man he wanted to give a blow to, so his anger welled up again.

“Tyron, what are you doing?”

Jesabell quickly wiped her tears from her eyes when she saw Emily. She was wearing a hospital gown like her. Seriously, she seemed to throw up in Emily’s hypocrisy. If you look at her, she looks seriously ill and was overpowered by putting the foundation on her face as well as on her lips.

“Why did you leave the room? What might happen to you?” Tyron worriedly supported Emily.

Jesabell sneered at Emily’s visible condition. It was as if she couldn’t break an egg. She feels herself as she looks at the two. And surprisingly, she wondered. Later on, a smile was plastered on her lips. This time, she wanted to praise and applaud herself because the jealousy she felt before turned into anger.

“Jesabell, why did you stab yourself? Don’t you think Tyron is the one to blame when something goes wrong with you?” Emily asked and scolded the girl gently.

“How did you know I was stabbed?” Jesabell asked Emily.

Emily paused and looked at Tyron. The man seemed to suddenly fall into deep thinking. She quickly thought about what to answer to the woman. “I’ve just heard the nurses talking about it.”

One corner of Jesabell’s lips rose, and she looked at the woman sarcastically. “Did you hear my name too?”

Emily cleared her throat. “You’re the only one I know who has been confined here who is also able to hurt itself.”

This time, Jesabell raised one of her eyebrows and looked sarcastically at the woman again. She’s really a superstar at making an alibi. “Are you sure I stabbed myself?” she asked in sarcasm.

“Isn’t it? If someone else did that, you wouldn’t have a shallow wound,” Emily said, accusing Jesabell.

Jesabell laughed as she shook her head. “You even know about my wound too. How great! Did the nurse also tell you how deep my wound was?”

Emily’s grip on the young man’s arm got so tight that she seemed to be fried in her own oil. “Jesabell, I’m just concerned about you. What I mean is do not repeat that thing because Tyron is the first to be affected,” Emily explained gently, changing the subject.

Jesabell sneered and glared at the girl even though Tyron was still in front of them.

“Jesabell, Emily is just concerned about you, so instead of speaking that way, you should be grateful.”

Jesabell only felt worse because Tyron sided with the woman again. It has not been new to her since he brought that woman home. Like her, he also wants her to study as a debt of gratitude to the woman for saving him eight years ago.

“When did you have the courage to hold a knife, Jesabell?” Jason asked his friend in curiosity.

Emily was surprised to see the man there. She did not get what the man’s reaction meant. When she shifted her gaze at Tyron, his forehead was wrinkled. It seems that she said something wrong that does not fit the situation.

“All I know is that you don’t know any work in the kitchen because you are afraid to hold cutlery. You have tried to fight that fear several times, but you are just fainting,” Jason added before he shook his head.

Emily felt her knees suddenly soften. Why doesn’t she know that? So does Tyron’s facial reaction seem to change suddenly? If Jesabell’s phobia were worse, then she couldn’t harm herself. Again she thought of another reason. “She can command other people to do that. That’s why her wound was shallow.”

Jesabell just closed her eyes and didn’t want to see the woman’s face, who is really good at making up stories against her. However, she could feel Tyron’s eyes on her despite her closed eyes. Emily was right, and of course Tyron would believe her.

“You’re right, so the person who did it to my friend should be caught,” Jason sarcastically agreed with what the woman said, giving Tyron an indirect hint.

Emily’s lips pressed strongly, and she got annoyed by Jason’s response. When she looked at Tyron again, the expression on his face was blank, and she knew he was thinking about what happened to Jesabell today. She intended to fall from her stance, and she held her head.

Jesabell opened her eyes when she heard Emily’s moan in pain. A bitter smile formed on her lips when she saw how much Tyron was worried about her. The woman even lowered her face to the young man’s chest. She was in a side view while looking at her. When their eyes met, a frugal but envious smile formed on her lips. The woman shows her that she is more important in Tyron’s heart than she is.

“I’m just dizzy, but I’m fine,” Emily whispered weakly as she clung to the young man’s arm so as not to fall.

Without any words, Tyron carried Emily, and they stormed out of the room. Jason looked pitifully at her friend. But he was shocked since she didn’t cry because of resentment and jealousy.

“You can leave me alone.” Jesabell smiled at her friend.

Jason just stared at his friend. It seems like he was facing a different person now. “Did anyone bewitch you when you stabbed?”

It was a genuine smile that was plastered on Jesabell’s lips because of her friend’s joke. “Crazy, can’t it be because I realize the foolishness of my heart and wake up to the truth?”

“Oh, I like that!” Jason seemed excited to approach his friend. Don’t go to bed first, and you might lose the effect, and you will be sane again.“

“Crazy!” She slapped her friend on the shoulder while laughing. But a few seconds later the smile on her lips slowly erased, and she was sad. “Thank you!”

Jason sighed. “You have to stand on your decision right now. Don’t be stubborn. If you want me to stay as your friend, change your life.”

Jesabell nodded to her friend. “But Tyron will definitely turn his anger on you and blame you because of me. I don’t want to hurt you anymore, so just leave me alone.”

“But—”

“I promise I’ll follow your advice as long as you leave. Don’t worry, when I get the chance to leave his territory, I will find you.”

Tyron clenched his hands when he heard what Jesabell said. He returned to talk to her properly, but this is what greeted him. So the girl intends to leave him now. He was angry and left when he saw the two hugging each other. He instantly returned to Emily’s room.

Emily quickly ended the call and hid the cellphone when she saw Tyron coming back. She thought he would stay longer in Jesabell’s room, which upset her earlier when she heard about him wanting to talk to the girl alone.