Chapter 197

Chapter 197 “So you’re telling me Everest is back,” Mum says, and I slightly nod.

“I have already demanded extra security for the house, Emily. I promise you, Rosie’s safety is my priority,” Silas assures my mum.

“Don’t come to the fashion house until all of this is resolved, okay? I don’t want you to make any movement that we may regret later.” Mum tells me. I don’t want to be confined within this house. I remember how they all used to breathe down my neck when Everest was stalking me during college.

I regret befriending him, let alone dating him at some point in my life. He is one of the biggest regrets of my life.

“I have to go now, but I won’t stay out for long. I will be back once I’m done with the session, yeah?” Silas says, standing up. He places one hand on the back of my head and bends to kiss my head then goes to kiss Mum on the cheek.

“Bye Lily.” He also kisses my sister’s cheek before he leaves the house.

When he closes the front door behind him, Mum looks at me with a smile. “I have a feeling that you two are working on fixing your relationship,” She comments, causing me to blush.

“Yeah, you can say that. We haven’t really talked about anything yet, but I no longer want a divorce. If he still wants this marriage, we won’t be getting a divorce,” I tell Mum.

“It’s so good to hear that. I know that Silas loves you with everything in his heart, so I’m glad that you two managed to get over what happened,” she says. What makes her so sure now that Silas won’t be the one to ask for divorce now? Maybe he doesn’t want to stay with me anymore.

༤ I refrain from saying anything, because I don’t think there’s anything I should say. I have to wait and see Silas’s decision.

“I’m going to prepare us lunch. I will make you something light. Silas has already shown me the list of what you can eat,” Mum tells me, getting up.

“Okay, Mum. I’m going to the backyard with Lily because there’s something I want to talk to her about.” Mum and Lily both give me a look of confusion, but Mum just nods and walks away.

“What do you want to talk to me about?” Lily wonders.

“Let’s go to the backyard and I’ll tell you everything,” I answer her. The two of us get up from our places and walk to the backyard. I haven’t forgotten about what Aniyah had told me, but I didn’t find the right time to talk to my sister about her abandonment of her best friend.

“What’s going on?” she asks me, taking a seat on one of the chairs we have under the light brown gazebo we have in the backyard.

“I’m really upset with you,” I start, and a crease appears between her eyebrows.

“What did I do to you?” She sounds genuinely confused.

અને “You didn’t do anything to me, but you surely did something to Aniyah,” I tell her. Surprise takes over her features when I say that, and she looks down.

“What did she tell you?” my sister hesitantly asks.

Let’s forget about what she told me. I want to hear your side of the story,” I reply.

“Things haven’t been the best at school for Aniyah. She has been getting bullied and at first, I tried to be there for her, but the bullying kept getting worse. So much worse.” I don’t get how a girl like Aniyah is getting bullied. She is really nice, kind 16:44 Mon, Dec 16 Chapter 197 and beautiful. “A bully once told me in the bathroom that I was nothing like Aniyah and if I didn’t want to get bullied, I had to stay away from her. That girl was basically the head of the clique.” She looks down in shame. I can tell that my sister is not proud of what she has done.

“So you stepped away, huh?” 1 conclude and she nods. When she raises her head to look at me, I see tears in her eyes.

“I really love Aniyah and I miss her so much, but I’m scared of getting bullied too.” She finally breaks down in tears, so I pull her into my embrace and hold her as she cries. “I know I’m a terrible friend, but I’m scared, and I don’t know how to be her friend without getting bullied.” She shakes in my embrace, and hold her tighter..

She’s only fourteen. I know how hard it is for her to make the right decision, so I don’t plan on being harsh on her.

“Well, we need to help Aniyah out first. We can’t just let them continue bullying her,” I tell my sister. She pulls away, nodding her head at what I said as she wipes her eyes.

“The bullying lessened a little after she got a makeover,” Lily informs me, making me smile. At least I managed to help in any way. “It was you, right? You’re the one who gave her that makeover, aren’t you?”

“It was me.” I nodded.

“A lot of boys are now calling her beautiful and her main bully is jealous.” I chuckle at what my sister says. That bully is probably doing that to Aniyah from the beginning because she’s jealous of her.

“I can call Naomi and see if she can bring Aniyah over. We can all spend the day together,” I suggest, but my sister immediately shakes her head. “Why not?”

don’t know how I can talk to her again after abandoning her. She will never forgive me.” My sister sounds truly remorseful.

“Let her be the judge of that. She may forgive you. You never know,” I tell her with a smile. She sighs and looks down. I can tell that she’s thinking about the whole thing.

“Okay, but maybe we shouldn’t surprise Aniyah. We should tell Her that I’m here to let her make up her mind,” Lily says, I nod.

I reach for my phone since I have it in my pocket and dial Aniyah’s number. I take a look at Lily and find her chewing her nails nervously as she keeps bouncing her right foot.

and I take her hand in ine and give it a light squeeze. The fact that she feels:

sorry and regrets her actions tells me that my sister is a good person at heart.

“Hey Aniyah,” I say once she picks up.

“Hello, Rosie. I heard what happened. I was planning on calling you today to check on you,” Aniyah tells me.

“I’m good. Don’t worry. Do you have anything to do today?” I ask her. It’s a Saturday, so I’m sure that she doesn’t have school, but I don’t know if she has anything else.

“Not really.”

“Great. Why don’t you come over? Lily is here and she misses you,” I say. I look at Lily and it’s easy to see that her anxiety is way worse now.

“She sees me at school every day. I don’t think she misses me.” Aniyah’s voice gets slightly lower.

I promise she does. If you feel like coming, I can talk to Naomh, I tell her. “But you’re definitely not obligated to come. You can do whatever you want.” I want to make sure that Aniyah understands that nobody is forcing her to forgive Lily. My sister made a mistake and hurt her. Aniyah has total freedom to do whatever she wants. Just because I promised to help her out with the whole bullying situation, that doesn’t mean that I’m going to force her into forgiving my sister.

2/3 “Okay, I can come. I will tell Mum. I’m sure she’s not going to say no,” Aniyah finally makes up her mind, causing me to smile.

“See you later, Ani,” I cheerfully say before hanging up. I look at my sister and say, “I have a feeling you’re going to get your best friend back.”

The grin I see on her face is enough to prove that she cannot wait until everything between the two of them is fixed.