"Ofcourse" Isabella replied squeezing her palm in assurance.
"The food is here" Lauren's joyful voice broke the conversation between the two.
After handing over burger, fries and a Coke to Isabella and a grilled sandwich to Marissa. Lauren had gotten herself a pizza.
Once they started munching on the respective food It was Lauren who broke the silence.
"So what are you all doing for winter vacations?"
They had a revision test scheduled on Monday and the winter vacations were starting from Tuesday.
Although Lauren had asked the question to everyone, it was pretty clear that she and Marissa were going to do the same thing so the question was basically directed towards Isabella.
"Oh me! I am planning to surprise mom, dad, Sante and Lucas by going back home for the vacations" Isabella Replied with a chunk of burger in her mouth.
"What are you and Marissa doing?" Isabella asked.
"Obviously our parents want us to come back for the winter vacations and Marrisa wants to go back too but I cannot spend the next two months with my mothers family in their house so I was thinking that maybe we'll stay there for a couple of weeks and then we can go to a trip or something so if you are interested then the three of us can go together!" Lauren proposed the idea even though she already knew that Isabella was going to deny it.
Lauren had complicated family. She was really close to her father but she lost him when she was six year old and since then her mother had probably married twice. So she currently lived with Lauren's Second step father. Lauren could not forgive her mother for moving on so quickly after her father's death and that was exactly what had strained relationships between the two. Her mother didn't mind it a lot because she had another two kids with her third husband. But she expected Lauren to spend at least a week of her vacations with her.
Lauren on the other hand absolutely despised going back to New Jersey for this specific reason. every year she had to stay there for a week or so before she would get completely annoyed and irritated at her step siblings and her mothers family and then spend the rest of her holidays at Marissa's house where she was dearly will come as a second daughter.
"Honestly I would love to go on a vacation but if I Showcase this idea in front of my mother she is going to throw an emotional fit stating about how I spent my entire year with you guys and this is the time that I should spend with my family so at the end of the day I have to Spend my entire vacations at home even if I produced this idea so it's better that I wouldn't ask for something I know I would not get" Isabella chuckled.
"Well that's what you call as the perks of always being a good girl" Lauren laughed.
"You don't even call once when you go home!" Marrisa complained.
"You know how complex it gets with Sante and Lucas and mom and handling everything. I hardly get my own personal time" Isabella replied with an awkward smile.
"Chill belle! Mari is just teasing you" Lauren laughed followed by marrisa and Isabella.
"So when are you guys leaving?" Isabella asked.
"Tomorrow" Lauren answered.
"I mean the test is just a revision test and obviously Lauren's connection with Mr Johnson can come in handy sometimes so we decided to leave early" marrisa laughed.
"Much to my denial" Lauren commented with an annoyed face.
"When are you leaving?" Marrisa asked.
"Monday evening" Isabella replied finishing her coke.
"You know you can leave tomorrow right? I will talk to Mr Johnson" Lauren suggested.
"No.. I ."Before Isabella could continue Lauren cut her off.
"Relax it's not going to cost me anything more than sucking his Dick a few more.." Before Lauren could finish Marissa smacked her at the back of her head.
"That hurt" Lauren complained.
"Stop talking Gross then! He's still our teacher" Marissa countered back and Isabella only laughed.
When the three of them were done with their food they parted their respective ways.
Lauren and Marissa lived a little far away from the university in a shared apartment unlike Isabella who still stayed at the university hostel which was a few block away from the University.
She had already submitted an application to the head of the hostel stating that she will soon be leaving the hostel for her home for the winter.
Lauren and Marissa had insisted this multiple times that she could just come and stay with them in their apartment. Their apartment was a nice cosy 3BHK apartment where the three of them could easily share the rent as it was in a little less expensive part of the city.
And Isabella herself loved the idea of having the two of them as a roommate but Mrs Parker was not very happy to comply.
And Isabella herself loved the idea of having the two of them as a roommate but Mrs Parker was not very happy to comply.Mrs Parker was not very happy about whom Isabella was going to live with and she didn't want their company to affect her academics and therefore denied the whole idea.It wasn't Marissa that Mrs Parker had a problem from but Lauren. The first time Lauren met Mrs Parker, Based on her decision of wearing a small crop top with leather pants and jacket and the bold lipstick and her Fiery dyed peacock green hair made her decide that her daughter had chosen the worst possible company and she would never allow the two of them To Stay friends, sharing apartment was a different story.That was the reason Isabella barely mentioned Lauren's name whenever she was having a conversation with her family. her family conversations whenever happened were always talking about her academics and how they were going and whenever she had to mention going out somewhe
"Of course" Amanda exclaimed before she ran off on the opposite direction.Isabella's phone Ping as an indication that Amanda had texted her address so she booked a cab and started her journey towards Amanda's apartment.By the time she finally reached there it was 4 PM which meant that it had taken her approximately one hour to reach here and she just wondered how exhausted Amanda might feel travelling so much every day. This might be the reason that she missed so many classes.These were the thoughts that finally led her to think about how grateful she was for having such great parents. Her parents always provided her with everything she had ever wanted but sometimes she wondered what would it like what would it be like to be free, to make your own decisions and to go when ever wherever you likedbecause even though her parents provided her with everything there was a cost to it and that cost was her freedom. she couldn't make a single decision in her lif
Once done with the Voice Mail Isabella was about to leave when she heard the front door being shut and she predicted it to be the landlord. Not wanting to be alone with whoever had arrived she decided to rush out.She barely knew this place. And maybe the fear of being in a foreign place was finally getting to her because she felt her nerves antsy.She walked out towards the hallway to tell the landlord that she had kept the money and now she was leaving but when she reached the hallway there was no one.She felt chills run all through out her arm when her Side vision made her see a black silhouette.Unfortunately before Isabella could make a move to run or to scream A cloth went right at her nose.She started struggling against the man but he was a very strong she stopped her breath just so the chloroform wouldn't work but she couldn't hold it more than a minute or so before she ended up breathing in the chloroform and fainting right in his arms.
Isabella woke up with the pounding feeling in her head. It took her a couple of minutes before she could finally open her eyes and when she did, bright sun rays hit her in the face so hard that she had to cover her eyes with her palm for a few minutes before she could see.she could finally hear all the voice shouting and someone roughly tucked her by her Arm making her stand-up."Get up! The boss will be here any moment""Leave me! let me go! what the hell are you doing with me?" She shouted but paused when she realised that her was the only voice audible in the room.Rest every other girl was complying stupidly to what ever the men were saying. After her forceful and loud shout it made all the men and the other girls in the room freeze and look at her in shock.Like it's my fault that you are used to being kidnapped. Isabella mocked them all mentally."Shut up and stand straight" the tall lanky guy told her."Like the hell I would"
"The girl in the black Hoodie, stays everyone else LEAVE!" He commanded.Isabella looked all around hoping to see another girl with a black Hoodie on but found none of them as she looked up and saw him looking straight at her.All of them started slowly to filter out of the room except for her Marco and Alex."You are following me!" Marco commanded."No I'm not!" Isabella replied As Alex's face morphed into shock but Marco smirked at her.That smirk reminded her so much of dexter."What" Alex shouted."Are you deaf or anything? I am not following him anywhere! I am not following anyone anywhere for that matter. I have no clue why all these girls are following your commands and agreeing to the point that you own them but you do not own me. I am done behaving like a slave" She answered in a strong voice even though she was shaking from within."The audacity" Alex shouted before ready to charge at her."You can leave Alex"
He finally stopped at the bedroom Throwing her on the bed."LET ME GO" she shouted half scared as the man dragged and shoved her on a bed, she presumed.Obviously she presumed, she had a blindfold on from the moment she was shoved on his shoulder."The sooner you stop fighting the better for you" he replied in a calm voice. His voice did something to her. She held her tongue for a minute, not because she was going to stop fighting HELL NO! But because of what his voice reminded her of!His touch wasn't foreign neither his voice. WEIRD!"Didn't think that would work" he chuckled."IT DIDN'T you idiotic pig" she shouted struggling as he laughed."Glad you are finding my misery funny" she growled."No wonder Alex wanted to feed you off to his Piranhas" he laughed.Her entire body stilled at the thought. They wanted to kill her? but she couldn't hold her tongue now could she?"Then what am I still doing here?" She sas
"Who are you?" the girl suddenly turned around with her green eyes narrowed at her ended knife pointing in her direction.Isabella froze at her place.She wasn't sure if it was the knife that scared her or the girls beauty."I .. I am the new maid" She stuttered."Weird! Marco never keeps maids here!" She looked confused."Anyways I am Lindsay" She said raising her hand up for Shake before she realised that she was still holding the knife that was now pointed towards Isabella and Isabella took a few couple steps back so Lindsay laughed at her before keeping the knife on the counter and then pulling her in for a hug.All the while the only thing that Isabella's head could comprehend what is the fact that Lindsay had called Marco MARCO."You call him that?" Isabella asked.Isabella wondered if this girl right here was maybe Marco's girlfriend or his wife because she was the only one in the penthouse except for Marco and she was c
isabella held her breath for few moments and lindsay didnt say anything either. everything made better sense to isabella now, she was kidnapped accidently so if she tells this to marco that she isnt amanda, he might let her go.But there was a more pressing thought in her head as she asked."so do all mafia leaders provide their girlfriends with so much information about their businesses or is your boyfriend way to liberal to believe that as his girlfriend you deserve to know it all"it surely didnt sound offensive to lindsay but all those who knew isabella, would know that she was purposely being rude and offensive.lindsay just chuckled in reply for a few moments and that infuriated isabella even more. so she was his girlfriend."Well I wouldn't know now would I?" Lindsay chuckled."Since my boyfriend is not a mafia leader" she continued.Isabella looked at her confused."But didn't you just pointed out a few moments ago that