HOW YOU LIKE THAT | JENLISA

Chapter 111

Lisa

From what Bambam told me, Sorn had asked the captain to dive into the lake, but when he went underwater, he could not find any of the three bodies. The bodies were only found a day later by police search party. Apparently, Grace Manoban's body was bruised, blotted and nothing much remained of Chris Manoban. His body was retrieved in pieces and Nichkhun was close to checking into the psychiatric asylum after what he'd witnessed.

My body was not found at all.

The post-mortem had shown that both Chris and Grace Manoban were both heavily intoxicated and what happened to them proved to be a regular boating incident. The local authorities ruled out foul-play for their deaths. It was purely an accident in the eyes of the law.

They had also derived that I jumped in to save my parents but had drowned in the process of it. Nichkhun made no attempts to clarify to the police that I had gone on a murder spree. Because by saying the truth, he will implicate himself as he was the one who had "killed" me.

According to Nichkhun, justice was done. With my body unfound, he took that I was dead. He had avenged the death of both Chris and Grace Manoban. And now he can legally be the heir to the entire Manoban empire.

The police wanted nothing to do with the Manobans. They were all ready to look the other way, because when Grandpa Marco Snr. was young and kicking, there were cases of high-ranked police officers dying in weird circumstances. So now, no matter how heinous the crimes were, as long as it involved the Manobans, they were quick to close the case and sweep it under the carpet.

Bambam had told me that a day after Grace Manoban and dad's funeral, Nichkhun decided to arrange a memorial for me. It was all for show.

It was also the same day where Nichkhun placed an anklet tracker on Bambam's leg, just to make sure that Bambam knows his place in the family. He did it as a form of intimidation, to warn Bambam that now, no one was on his side and that Bambam will have to obey him. Since, he is now the head of the Manoban household.

All I remember was bursting the door of the church open, while I saw Nichkhun on the podium, reciting some bullshit eulogy. As I stood there, in my raggedy clothes, a deadly hush fell upon the entire church. I guess it's not every day that a dead or missing person turns up for their own funeral.

Everyone just stared at me. The reverend had to put a stop to the memorial.

I didn't die that night of the boating incident. I had hit my head hard against something, and then a fishermen rescued me. He had recognised that I was Lisa Manoban and he quickly brought me home.

After the entire fiasco, Bambam had stormed into my room that evening, while I was getting ready to go to bed. He dragged me up from bed, "You better be ready for what's coming for you. Nichkhun is about to throw you to the vultures and you're about to be fodder. He will have you arrested, Lisa."

I was confused about what he was talking about. I kept staring back at him, "I... I don't understand, Bambam." I said.

"The boating incident. What you did... what the hell do you mean you don't understand, Lisa!" he exclaimed.

"What happened?" I asked, and my breathing became shallow, and I rocked back and forth, "I don't remember... Bam... where's mom and dad? Why was Nichkhun... angry?"

Bambam had stared at me for a long while and was giving me this strange look, "Fuck, you've lost your memories, Lisa. Shit. This is just...." he concluded, while collapsing into the chair.

So, from that moment, Bambam realised that I was not my old self anymore. And he remembered my words to him before the boating incident. I had told him that if anything goes wrong, he will have to finish what we have started.

He will have to take control of the situation, see an end to it, until I regained back my memory.