Scarlett ⬆️

Tony's POV

"Ryan's family name is Smith."

Isabella took one step back.

"W-what do you mean?"
She sounded very irritated and scared due to her quiet tone of voice.

"Ryan Smith. Your brothers may look for th-"

"Stop!"
She cried out which made me flinch.

"Isabella look, all I am trying to say is-"

"Yeah I know what you're trying to say. I know that my brothers are some sick psychopaths. I know you believe that they have something to do with the Smiths. I know it Tony!"

"Isabella..."
I regretted that I mentioned Ryan and his family.

"Now stop it! I don't want to believe it!"
She covered her ears with her hands.

I stood there completely frozen in my place.

The situation was very serious and I didn't know what to do. I am not the type to deal with these personal problems. I just can't comfort people.

I don't know how to.

After only a few seconds, tears were streaming down her face and I panicked.

What to do Tony?!

First I took one step to her and she didn't notice it which was actually good cause I thought that she would ran away if she noticed.

"Isabella."
I called out for her.

She looked at me and my heart just broke at the sight of her. I could clearly see that she felt more than hurt.

I have never empathised with someone in my entire life like this before.

"Maybe...Maybe I am mistaken. There are tons of Smiths in the world and-"
Is eyes but got cut off immediately.

She uncovered her ears and started becoming furious.

"Oh please Tony, don't lie to yourself. Ryan's family run some bad shit and the possibility of my brothers being involved in this is quite high, am I right? I mean, this can't be just a coincidence and you exactly know this!"

I was taken aback.

She was right. These were exactly my thoughts and I couldn't deny them.

"Look now you are quiet because you know that I-I am right!"
Her voice broke down in the end and she started crying really hard.

One thing that I knew for sure was that the streets weren't the best place to talk about that topic.

"Let's go home first."

Isabella hesitated, but then she nodded in agreement.
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"Alright, let's start now."
I exclaimed as we entered my room.

"Tony I already said that I don't want to talk about that anymore."
Isabella said with a now softer tone.

On the way back home she calmed down and eventually stopped crying, but then she acted like nothing happened a while ago.

"No, we have to talk about that."
I insisted.

I know that I would just make her more and more upset and maybe this was really not a good idea, but we didn't even have one proof and I couldn't just make Isabella believe that her brothers are some psychopaths.

I wanted to help her.

"Tony..."
She groaned out.

I sat myself down onto my chair while Isabella sat down on my bed.

"So you and me, we have same speculations. I admit it. But, but we don't have any proof-"

"For crying out loud Tony, we basically witnessed how my brothers tortured some innocent guy."
She rolled her eyes at me.

I was happy that she wasn't upset anymore and stopped crying, but I still didn't like her sassy attitude.

"First Miss Rodriguez, please stop interrupting me while I'm talking, thanks. And second, we aren't some witnesses when we only heard them talking. We didn't see anything. And last but not least, the guy that they 'tortured' doesn't have to be innocent."

"So you're basically saying what my brothers did was right?"

"Well no, but if the guy wasn't innocent he may have deserved it. But that's not what I want to get at, I want to-"

"Alright the guy may have deserved it, but still it isn't an option to torture him. And besides that, my brothers beat the shit out of this guy only to find this 'Smith'."

I got frustrated that she cut me off.

Again.

"For fucks sake, stop cutting me off dude."
She flinched at my sudden outburst and I smiled in satisfaction.

I cleared my throat and started talking again.

"Okay let's just forget about this guy. The important thing is now to find out who this mysterious 'Smith' is."

"You said it yourself that it's Ryan's family."

"I didn't exactly say it. It was a thought. A speculation without any proofs."

Isabella was quiet for a while and it seemed like she started thinking about something.

"But it's quite high that...that my brothers are involved in their family business."
She said with a sorrowful voice.

She started getting upset again and I couldn't allow it.

"Isabella. I have to admit that everything may be connected to Ryan's family, but just think otherwise. Like, your brothers may have only beat the shit out of a guy from school. We don't know anything. And want I am trying to say is, we need some proof because without them we won't get some answers."

"How do you expect us to get some proof?"
She asked and seemed like taking this as a joke.

"You're living with them Isabella. They have an office and a chamber with maybe some fucking proofs."

"H-how do you expect me to l-live normal with them again?"
I could see her eyes becoming teary again.

"I know it's hard to expect this from you, but that's the only way to get something. If they notice your strange behaviour they would literally suspect you."

She was taken aback which took me by surprise. I couldn't understand the reason for it till she told it.

"Dylan already suspected me..."

"What?! What happened?"

"Argh long story...but it's not important."

I narrowed my eyes at her.

"You sure?"

It seemed like she got intimidated by my stare chase then she started explaining.

"Alright so uhm I already told you about what happened today between my brothers. That they wanted me to stay the night and this stuff."

"Yeah yeah go on."

"But I didn't even tell you that Dylan had a fight with Landon and Carter because of me. So short story; Dylan suspected me and confronted me about the basement like why it was unlocked. And after that he didn't want me to tell it Landon, but I did and so they got into a fight. And the fight between Dylan and Carter was... a siblings fight."
She said in a rush.

"Uhh why didn't you tell me it earlier duh?"

"I forgot it."
She sighed and I thought about just letting it slide.

"Alright, so one of your brothers suspected you already. So this means that you have to be careful Bella."
I got back to the actual topic.

"Okay...but what should I exactly do now?"

"You're going to your house tomorrow. You have to forget everything that just happened the last few days. Act completely normal, let them not suspect you, but don't exaggerate it."

"Alright, but how should I get some proofs?"

"I will teach you my technique of opening doors with a hair clip."

"You want me to get... in there again?"

I could tell that she was traumatised about the whole basement and chamber.

"Yes..."
I said with a pitifully tone of voice.

"O-okay."
She hesitated for a bit.

"Do it while your brothers aren't at home or when they are distracted and please be careful Isabella. There have to be some proofs, believe me."
I tried to reassure her but it seemed like it didn't work.

"Look, I can even come and visit you. We can act like that we have to do something for school and we can do it together."

Her eyes light up at my statement.

"Really? You would do that for me?"

"Of course I would, Rodriguez."
I playfully hit her on the shoulder.

A smile started to form on her face which made me smile too.

"Alright we still have a sleepover. Let's do something fun."
I exclaimed while standing up.

Isabella nodded at me and I was ready to go to get some movies again.

"We're not watching Titanic!"
She yelled as I was already getting some movies.

Man and I thought she would change her mind...

I put Titanic back to its place and grabbed conjuring.

This will be fun...
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-Saturday - 10am

"Alright you know what to do."

"Tony I don't think that I am ready..."
Isabella said insecurely.

"You got it dude. Never forget; act natural."

She breathed in and out.

"Okay I am ready."

"I wish you the best luck."
I smiled at her. She returned the smile, but I still saw her being scared.

I bid her goodbye and she already made her way towards the car. Eventually one of her brothers came to pick her up.

She took quite small steps and walked slowly. After a while she turned around to look at me.

I took a quick look at her brother through the window of the car and saw him looking at us.

Please don't be suspicious...

"Don't worry I can do math by myself."
I yelled out.

She seemed confused at first but understood me as I pointed with my eyes to the car a few metres behind her.

Then she made her way to the car with a now more casual walk.

Isabella entered the car and then they drove off.

Please be safe...
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-5pm-

I sat on the couch and watched some Netflix while thinking about Isabella.

I was curious as hell to find out if she managed to act completely, but there was now way for me to contact her since she doesn't have a phone.

Man it's boring...

I heard the front door being opened and saw my brother entering the house.

He was coming from...work.

I stood up and asked him the same question that I'm asking him routinely when he comes home from work.

"Got something?"
I referred to some evidence against Ryan's family.

He shook his head.

Like always.

I sighed and sat down again.

I had forgotten about my own family problems that I had, but I didn't regret helping Isabella.

I shrugged it off of my mind and focused on watching some Netflix.
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-6:30pm-

I was home alone since my mother wasn't back from work yet and my brother was out with his friends.

I was still in the living room and watching Insidious on Netflix when suddenly someone rang the bell furiously.

Uff relax I'm coming dude...

I opened the door ready to snap at the person who just disturbed me, to see a person who I didn't expect to see.

She was crying her eyes out and looked out of breath.

"Isabella?! What happened?"
I directly asked her with panic filled my voice.

"Hide me."

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What did happen to Isabella?
Why does she want to be hidden?

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I hope u enjoyed the POV of Tony this time

and I'm deeply sorry for the long wait but I had to deal with school :/ anyways I'm off now for 4 days and I will update in the next days again ;)

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