9

"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 liked because 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 life without her mother poking her nose in it and trying to change it and she usually succeeded which meant that what ever Isabella had done in her entire life what is the product is of her mothers manipulation and choices.

And sometimes it made her feel like she was more of a pet that got things and had to follow the command rather than their child.

Isabella avoided such thoughts because somewhere or the other it made her feel guilty she didn't like thinking bad about her parents after knowing how blessed she was to have them.

So her mind again drifted off to the grey eyed man. He was the reason that she hadn't had a single relationship in the last three years although she knew that the chance of her finding him again was insignificant and even if they met again what were the chances of them ending up together when they have had barely one single conversation in a complete year that to ending in disaster.

When she finally reached Amanda's apartment, She tried her best to hide it but she couldn't hide the distance that she felt from within. The neighbourhood looked crashed and the buildings looked like they were about to collapse any moment. People who walked around on the roads looked like criminals and Stealers which was the reason she was grateful that she had decided to carry a hoodie today.

Sneaking her way through the road making sure not to make any eye contact with any of the hooligans So that she didn't end up in any trouble she sneaked her way into amanda's apartment.

When Amanda told her that she lived in the trashy part of the city and Isabella didn't expect it to be this worst. The roads were unsafe and there were hooligans molesting girls right on the road and nobody tried to stop them. Isabella felt extremely bad for Amanda almost to the point where she decided that once she meets Amanda again she would try and discuss it with Amanda to shift.

Isabella was not very rich at the home but she was enough financially stable that she didn't have to work part-time to afford her life so she decided to maybe work part time at a cafe or something to help out Amanda.

With the thoughts in her head she went inside Amanda's apartment which was barely furnished.

There was absolutely nothing in the apartment except for a bedspread a pillow and and a blanket in the hallway. There was also a small table which had books on it But that was all that accompanied the congested Hall.

She walked towards the kitchen which was even more minimal with just basic essentials and a fridge that looked like it couldn't perform its basic function.

Isabella scolded herself mentally when she realise that unwillingly she had started to judge Amanda and that's not what she wanted to do instead she wanted to help her so she decided to leave the rent in its place effective immediately.

The kitchen was completely messed up and so was the hallway so Isabella predicted that maybe Amanda had left the apartment in Hurry this morning. And it was pretty much expected because she had to travel one hour just to reach the University.

Isabella left the money in the wooden box where exactly she had to put it and decided maybe she could do a little thing for Amanda by just cleaning stuff up.

All the while Isabella made sure that she did not snoop in Any of Amanda stuff while she cleaned her apartment. Once satisfied with her work her exhaustion got back to her again so she decided to call Amanda and inform her that she was leaving and also ask about Julia's state.

When Isabella tried calling Amanda it went straight into the voicemail so she decided to leave a voicemail instead.

"Hi Amanda I have already placed the rent money in the wooden box you have specified so do not worry about your landlord kicking you out also call me when you get this because I am really worried about Julia! take care"

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.