Poison

Pass. 21

Isabela mae

"Oh my god!" Jade squealed and threw herself over me. She pulled away and grabbed my face frantically. I smiled so wide at her. Tears were streaming down her face, happy tears. "Your here!, your okay," she said.

"I'm here," I said.

I ignored the stares from all of my classmates and the words coming from my teachers mouth. I had my best friend, and that's all that mattered.

I pulled her out into the hallway and out of the school.

"What are we doing?" She asked. Her face riddled with happiness and excitement.

"Blowing off school and going shopping," I said. "Come on." I pulled at her arm.

She stopped me. "Wait.." she said. "What's going on?" She said. "This isn't the Isabela I remember."

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"The isabela I know, wouldn't blow off school to go to the mall.," she said. "She wouldn't disappear for months with no call and then come back and act as if nothing happened," she told me. "I'm just... confused okay."

The only thing I could do right now was lie. And I hated lying to Jade. But I had to. She didn't know anything about the mafia. She wasn't involved in it and she didn't know I was either. So coming right out and telling her that I was 'kidnapped by some strange mafia guy and now I'm being forced to marry him because my father wants to further enhance his mafia and by making me marry into the biggest mafia family in the world because it would bring in a lot of money and a lot of stock, btw the mafia guy I'm marrying is super hot and like reeeeaallyyyy smart and he's stinking rich and I have unlimited access to his credit card the only thing I can't buy is a phone which explains why I couldn't call you but now I'm back and I'm taking you shopping so we can bond again and everything will be charged onto his card.' Would probably freak her out and lead to a lot of questions and the possibility she might go to the police.

So I'm playing it safe and telling her that. "My father pulled me out and homeschooled me for a while, I'm not sure why but it was something to do with him not wanted me to be involved in the type of teenage bullshit kids get up to these days. So he took away all my internet access and forced me to learn the old school way... with books."

Yeah, I'm a pretty good lier. And the idiot bought the whole thing. She actually started getting excited again and I told her that to make it up to her I would buy her everything she wanted from the mall. She obviously asked if I was sure and if I had the money for that and I told her I had a very high paying job and I'd been saving up for this.

She agreed and we went to the mall.

**

"So you've got book smarts now, huh?" Jade said. I chuckled and continued looking through the rack of jeans for ones my size.

"Yeah, I guess so." I replied. To be fair, the only form of entertainment, other than the tv, was Lucas' selection of books. I read a lot of them to pass time. "But i surprisingly, missed school a lot."

"Wow," she smiled. "Never would I have thought I'd here that come out of Isabela Nikolaev's mouth."

**

We ended up in Victoria Secret and that's when Jade started drilling me about the sudden fortune I've suddenly inherited.

"Do you have a sugar daddy?" She asked, almost ecstatic at the thought. She smirked at me.

"No Jade," I said sternly. "I do not have a sugar daddy."

"Are you sure?" She said. "Because the Isabela I remember would never spend unnecessary money."

"Okay fine." I turned to her. "I have a boyfriend, who is not my sugar daddy, who told me that I can use his card to go shopping with my friends." It was half the truth. Okay maybe like 20% of it but still.

"Okay." She said. She was still suspicious of me but I just turned back to the underwear. "Oh my god, Bela, we have to get matching sets." She pointed to a two of the same bra and panties set in different colors. She picked it up and dragged me to the changing room. "Try it on." She pushed me into the little room with the curtains. She had given me the dark blue set. She had the green ones. Made sense, jade green.

I put it on. And to be honest I looked sexy as fuck.