"It's time to wake up, my baby."
"Mmm....I'm still sleepy, Nathan." My voice sounded a bit raspy, and my eyes were still heavy to be open.
Wait….Nathan....? You are already home?
I quickly opened my eyes, examining around my bedroom, but there was no one here beside me instead of Max who was sleeping on the couch beside of my bed. I looked at the other side of my bed, where Nathan always slept, and it was emptied.
A month past already and I still couldn’t move on with the news. It was so hard for me to handle and I always dreamed about him telling me to wake up everyday.
I moved a bit from my position so I could sleep on Nathan's spot, smelling his pillow sheet, with the tears formed on both of my eyes.
I miss you so much, Nathan.....
As usual, Nick sent me to the campus with his car since he worried about my condition which became worsen time to time, He even said that I lose so much weight and even my face was paler. To be honest, I do not feel like to attend the classes for today, but Sasha said my lecturers want to bar me from this semester’s final exam if I keep absent their classes.
"Are you okay, Bella?" Cecilia was worried about me, examining my condition. "You look so pale and thin too."
I faked a smile to her. "I'm fine, Cecilia. Don't worry about me."
“But…”
I cut her in, “I’m fine, believe me.”
She gave up then replied me with a nod.
But I lied to her, to be honest I felt so uneasy this morning. My head was all dizzy, and I feel like want to vomit anytime. Maybe because I didn't eat last night and also the breakfast this morning. It was just, I have no appetite lately.
"Bella, lets grab some meal,” Sasha suggested while tapping my shoulder gently while I was packing my books into my backpack after the class ended. “I'm starving."
I nodded. "Okay..."
We walked out from the class and headed to the cafeteria which required as to walk along the hallway. Unfortunately, we bumped into Sierra and her friend Kailyn. I thought they were only walking pass by us, but I was wrong.
She purposely tripped my feet that made me almost fall. Luckily, Cecilia who was walking beside me managed to catch me with her quick reflection.
Arghhh.....I really hate her so much.
"What do you want Sierra?" Sasha rudely asked her.
She gave a smirk while crossing her arms. "Nothing....actually."
"So, why did you trip her? That's rude, you know!!!" Cecilia yelled at her.
"Oh...sorry, I didn't see you actually, Bella." Sierra said annoyingly.
I looked at her, seriously, I was so mad at her. But my head felt so dizzy and I was too weak to fight back against her. Moreover, my throat felt uneasy too and I will vomit in any time sooner.
"I'm a bit sad for Nathan's death,” Siera said. “But I'll never feel sorry for you, Bella. If your dad doesn't send him to that stupid business trip, he might be still alive. You and your family are the main cause of his death....you guys are the killer!!"
"Sierra!!!!" Sasha yelled her name and started to fight with her by pulling her hair. Cecilia too, was fighting with the Kailyn meanwhile for me, my knees were both wobbly and the pain insde of my head was killing me.
Sierra has really crossed her line this time, so she deserved to be treat like that by both of my friend. Anyway, I agreed with their words deep inside, if my father didn't send Nathan to New York, he might be still with me….alive.
Wait a minute, how did she knew about all of this?
"You bitch!!!" Sasha grabbed Sierra by her shirt collar, but I stopped her.
"Wait, Sahsa." I grabbed her arm. "How did you knew about this, Sierra?"
She scoffed. "Of course I knew it, nerdy. My father told me...he also joined the trip, but luckily he departed to the New York one day earlier."
"By the way, Sierra." Kailyn interrupted. "Don't you feel a bit strange about Seth?" Kailyn suddenly mentioned Seth’s name that made my friend walked closer to her with a death glare after pushed Sierra away.
I saw Sasha tightened her fists as she will punch her in the face in no time.
"Seth? Yeah...of course I do,” Sierra said sarcastically. “I wonder how he was the only who safe from that incident,” she crossed her arms while looking at me and back to Sasha. “Did he involved too, don't you think, Kailyn?" She purposely said that to make Sasha went mad.
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