Chapter 18 A New Friend (2/2)

Hearing Nina's name, James was stunned. Was she the one who caused him to end up like this?

”Who is Nina?” he asked a girl.

”Mr. Shi, do you also like the campus belle? She is not exactly innocent, if you know what I mean,” the girl sneered, to the amusement of her friends

James looked through the crowd and saw Nina sitting by the window. Just her side profile was enough to leave him stunned.

”Is that Nina?” She looked so weak, how could she take John down? Was he that weak?

James was curious about Nina. This drove all of the other girls crazy. They were so jealous and wanted his attention so badly that they crowded in front of him to get his attention.

”Go away.” James impatiently stood up and parted the crowd to look for Nina but she had already left.

She was nowhere in sight and he had no idea where she went.

As it happened though, Nina had already noticed what was going on over there. She was worried that when Michelle saw James, she would get all emotional again. So she quickly made an excuse and took Michelle away.

They went their separate ways once they left the canteen.

Nina didn't expect today to go from bad to worse. First she met John's nephew in the canteen, and now she met her sworn enemy, Isabella.

She was wearing a dress and her face was ruddy. Obviously, she recovered well. She smiled and trapped her in an empty corner. ”Nina, we haven't seen each other for a while now. How have you been? I heard that you have made a new friend.”

Isabella had been living a hard life at home after she had been beaten up. It was a difficult recovery while the person who made her suffer was living it up at school. It was infuriating.

”Is Michelle blind or stupid to make friends with such an awful woman?” The smile on Isabella's face disappeared, and her eyes were filled with resentment and anger.

”What do you want?” Nina asked. Since Isabella was done putting on a facade, Nina stopped play-acting as well.

”Don't you know what I want?” She couldn't stand Nina's arrogant tone. She laughed maniacally but she was still enraged.

She had one goal and that was to torment Nina to the point that she never crossed her again!

She grabbed Nina's wrist, digging her nails in as she gripped tightly. She glared into Nina's eyes venomously.

”Nina, you don't have to pretend to be innocent. Let's make it clear. Did you get those people to hit me? Did you write that post on purpose?”

Glancing at her red wrist, Nina had no intention of hurting her since the two of them used to be friends.

Otherwise, she could very easily get rid of this spoiled girl.

”There is no animosity between us. Why would I hit you? Why would I need to do that?” Nina said innocent. She was trying to provoke Isabella.

As expected, Isabella fell into Nina's trap. She gritted her teeth and said, ”Because of that perfume and that post. You know all of this. Stop pretending!”

Nina's eyes darkened while her heart ached. Hearing Isabella admit it herself made Nina feel worse.

She was actually hoping that maybe there was some misunderstanding between them.

Now the truth came to light. She had no reason to doubt it.

”What about you? Why did you do all that?” Nina's eyes regained their luster. This time she was doing the questioning.

Nina grabbed her arm ten times stronger than Isabella did. The latter winced in pain.

”Ouch, you're hurting me! Stop it! Nina, I'm not going to let you go!”

”We'll see.” It was hard to say who would win in the end.

Isabella saw someone approaching them. She thought up a plan and vigorously withdrew her hand, slapping herself in the face.

Pak!

There was a cracking sound that echoed from her hand hitting her face.

Nina was still bemused, but Isabella started crying.

”Nina, why did you hit me?”

Isabella shrieked, catching the attention of the person coming over.