6

On the Thanksgiving day she was more depressed than she had ever been in her entire life.

Isabella was sitting in her room cursing herself for being so stupid and naive.

One year of loving the guy from afar and now when he was finally there to talk to her she had to be rude and drive him away.

"Come on honey we are about to open presents!" Mrs Parker knocked at the door asking Isabella to accompany her downstairs.

"I am coming in a moment, mom" she replied.

With the havoc of dexter disappearing after the conversation, Isabella couldn't think of anything else, not even to the point where she would have bought any single normal present for Sante. She just had one present and two siblings waiting downstairs.

Just like she had predicted some Snoopy neighbour had gotten hold of her and dexter having a conversation and reported it to her mother and father.

Her father had always been pretty uninterested in her business which meant he neither tried to stop her mom from lashing out on her nor He himself took the efforts to scold her or help her.

Her mom was not the kind to lash out on her unless and until she did something that her mother thought was offensive but the problem was, According to her mom as long as she was following all the guidelines laid out to her she was a good girl but once she tried to have fun or behave like a normal teenager it was considered offensive.

Her mother's definition of the perfect daughter and a good girl was a girl who was Puppet to her fingers.

She had gotten good hold of her for three hours, scolding her just for talking to dexter. Her mother had never behaved like this way with her which made it specifically clear that As long as she behaves just as her mother asked her to, she would be treated well but the day she decided to do something according to herself she will be thrown into turmoil like that day.

Annoyed at everything that was falling apart in her life. She went inside the washroom to wash her face and cheer up because she had to face the difficulty of making one of her sibling unhappy.

When she came out of the washroom with her face washed And putting on better Choice of clothes. She decided to pull out the bracelet that she had kept into her drawer and take it for one of them and apologise to another.

To her surprise when she opened the drawer there were two presents. One was named for Lucas like she had kept and another one who was named for her.

With the most beautiful cursive writing something was engraved on the gift box.

"Happy thanksgiving Sweetheart"

She opened it to find the same bracelet that she had bought for Sante and lost. Something inside her mind knew that this was from Dexter But she couldn't comprehend how he figured out what she had bought for Sante and lost and how he managed to get it back again.

She quickly placed the bracelet in another case that she had gotten for Sante's bracelet and wrapped it up before walking downstairs With only one significant thought in her mind.

Dexter McCoy.

When will he return? And how he got back the bracelet?

Both her questions remained unanswered because Dexter never returned back to the house. He didn't even bother to take his left over stuffs which meant that he was either uninterested in taking all of his stuff or maybe he was probably dead and an orphan so nobody was there to claim his stuff.

Both the possibilities were terrifying to Isabella.

"Belle" someone called.

"Yes" she replied Absentmindedly.

"We are here in the cafeteria. what would you like to have?" Lauren asked to her like a baby.

"Oh! Just get me a burger and some fries"

"Okay" Lauren replied looking at her weirdly before walking away.

"Hey! you're okay?" Marissa asked and that Scared Elizabeth for a moment because she was so lost in her world that she didn't even remember walking towards the cafeteria with Lauren and Marissa so she clearly didn't know that Marissa was so close by and just beside her.

"What's wrong?" Marissa asked.

"I wasn't paying attention so I didn't knew you were beside me and that's why I got scared when you suddenly spoke" Isabella explained.

"That's not what I am asking about. I am asking what's wrong with you?" Merissa

narrowed her eyes at Isabella.

"It's nothing I am just exhausted after the party Lauren dragged me to yesterday night and that is why I am just a little light headed" Isabella tried to use her exhaustion as an excuse.

"No belle! I know that you are exhausted you have been exhausted a lot many times in the last three years but you look like you are overthinking something" marrisa asked.

"Please don't push it marrisa I'm surely not in the state of energy and mood to explain it to you but I can assure you once I regain my energy after a nice weekend rest I will be fine." Isabella concluded.

"Okay if that's what you want but promise me if there is something troubling you. You will let me know" marrisa smiled.

"Ofcourse" Isabella replied squeezing her palm in assurance.