Lock You In My Heart
Chapter 70

Gabrielle was reluctant to explain about her reason of marriage with Westley. She had no idea how to explain to Mia that this marriage was just a mere atonement not even a marriage of common interests.

"I guess so!" The newly married Gabrielle was trying her best to keep this topic simple and plain to lose Mia's interest. She wanted to escape herself from this conversation and save her from the question being raised but Mia was very persistent. "Love at first sight," Mia exclaimed. "How romantic! I wish I could experience something like that." Mia sighed at the fantasy being narrated to her.

Mia was drowned into the fantasy of falling in love at the first sight with a hand over heart, a giddy excitement spreading over her chest.

"What about Cayden? How is everything going on between you two?" Gabrielle was quick to divert the attention from her unhappy marriage life. The more the conversation proceeded the more agony and depression was dawned on her.

"What about Cayden? Oh please! The only reason I liked him in the past was because of our friendship since childhood. I really thought he was innocent. Why do you think I would ever be with a playboy like him?" She crossed her arms as she sighed with annoyance. "You know what? Can we please not mention that scumbag anymore? Just saying his name out loud is infuriating to me. My brother almost cut off our relations with the Murphy because of him," Mia muttered with annoyance.

After her falling off with Cayden, there wasn't any rational reason to continue contact with them. Mia was happy to oblige.

"You both were childhood sweethearts and that should mean something." Gabrielle looked at her with a relieved smile. She was just glad that Mia's attention was no longer on her, and the conversation was already diverted from her own relationship.

"We're definitely not childhood sweethearts, more like childhood friends." Mia quickly averted her gaze when she mentioned that. She didn't want to admit it, but she had fallen for Cayden before. Driven by lust and the fantasy of true love, she believed that Cayden would be her soul mate. She was blind to the fact that he was horrible for her, and that was a fact she would never be able to let go.

"Were you pregnant when you jumped off the bridge?" Gabrielle didn't realize the reality of the situation before. She was out of her mind when it happened.

"Well, no, it wasn't true," Mia rejected immediately. "It was just my drunken rambling. I was so angry when I came to know he was marrying someone behind my back. I couldn't think straight. I said to spite him." She paused with a sigh before continuing, "Anyway, that's all in the past now and I've cut all ties with him. Good thing I've realized what he really was before it was too late, though. And I know I'm still young. Lots of fish in the sea and all that. I'm sure I will replace someone better than him." Despite everything, Mia held her head high. She had already processed what she had gone through, and she learned everything life had taught her till now.

Gabrielle admired Mia's attitude and she appreciated her for her positive decisions.

"That's definitely true. Look at you. You are pretty both inside and out. You will definitely have good men lined up for you." Gabrielle felt bad for her and wanted to be there for her. But looking at Mia she realized that was rather pointless. 'Mia is a self-dependent person. She doesn't need comforting in this matter, 'Gabrielle thought to herself.

"I know, right? I'm smart and pretty. I could do so much better than disloyal Cayden," Mia announced as her face bloomed with confidence.

Realization suddenly dawned on her. If she had truly loved a person, it wouldn't be easy to let them go, and Cayden hadn't crossed her mind in a long time until tonight.

"Gabrielle, I'm feeling good right now. Would you like to drink with me? My treat." She gestured to the waiter and quickly ordered a bottle of one of their most expensive wines for both of them.

"Mia actually I have to drive tonight-"

"Oh, come on. If you drink too much, I will ask my brother to drop you or you can stay with me. Now just drink with me please." Mia poured the wine into a glass and handed it to Gabrielle, not allowing any time for her to argue further on this matter. "Okay fine," she exclaimed in defeat. "Just a little bit." She couldn't help but notice the agony she felt today. Drinking a little bit was not a bad thing.

"Cheers!" G

abrielle raised her glass in air.

"Cheers! We're going to drink until we pass out." Mia emptied her glass in a few gulps and grabbed the bottle to pour some more. Despite her reluctance earlier, Gabrielle followed Mia and drowned herself in alcohol.

It was completely black outside and was close to midnight. Both of them were more than tipsy and plastered. Despite all protests from Gabrielle Mia didn't oblige and continued to drown in her wine.

The more the wine passed down their guts Mia the more excited Mia became. As soon as the first bottle of wine got empty Mia ordered another one.

"Mia, it's enough I guess," Gabrielle interrupted.

"But I want to drink more. The wine here is really good." Mia's tolerance for drinking was quite better than Gabrielle's, so a bottle of wine was a piece of cake for Mia.

"Mia, just stay here. I need to use the toilet, and I'll be back soon." Due to all the excessive liquid passing down Gabrielle's stomach she couldn't hold it any longer and went to the bathroom directly.

When Gabrielle came out from the bathroom, she saw two women standing against the wash basin. One was applying lipstick, and the other was washing her hands. The two women were shocked, and they held a spiteful and disgusting look when they glanced at Gabrielle.

"Gabrielle, it's been a long time since we last met. It was said that the Jones had asked for leave for you because you were sick. I thought you were just scared to come to school." Emily sneered at Gabrielle with a sarcastic laugh.

"You must be ashamed to attend the school. You are afraid of seeing Emily, right? You said that you wouldn't have anything to do with Jax, but you were taken photos of cuddling with Jax. So you dare not to come to school, coward! Bitch!" Cassie's words were so hurting, which grew anger in Gabrielle and it blinded her to a level where she felt like physically hitting in her face.

Seeing these women was the last thing she expected. They were two girls from the other department; one was Emily and the other was Cassie.

Emily liked the school hunk Jax, but he had always been affectionate towards Gabrielle, so she became Emily's top rival in love. No matter where Emily met Gabrielle, she would always bother Gabrielle.

Gabrielle didn't expect to meet Emily here. All the worst were dumped on the same day.

"The photos were taken by others maliciously, and they were visual dislocations taken from an angle. They were misinterpretations. I don't want to explain it to you." Gabrielle didn't want to deal with them anymore, and was about to leave the bathroom. Cassie blocked Gabrielle from leaving and stared at her fiercely. "Gabrielle, if you have done nothing, why do you want to run away? Why are you feeling guilty? If you have done something, admit it. Jax is the ideal man of all the girls in the school. I don't believe for a second that you have no feelings for Jax. You say that you don't like Jax, but you must have done a lot of things to seduce him secretly. I have seen a lot of hideous women who were duplicitous like you."

Gabrielle was irritated with Cassie's words. Gabrielle's patience was boiling over her veins as her eyes filled with coldness.

"Cassie, are you suggesting that you are also one of those girls who like Jax? You like Jax better than Emily, don't you? In order to prevent Emily from hating you, you are pretending that you don't like Jax, don't you?" Gabrielle snapped back without hesitation. Cassie's face was immediately flushed and she turned pale hearing Gabrielle's words. "Gabrielle, you're slinging mud at me. Do you even hear yourself? How could I like Jax? He is the ideal man that Emily likes." "Don't try to drive a wedge between me and Emily!" "Well, I don't have the time to ruin your relationship. I am just stating the truth. If you both really care about each other how can I be the one creating a wedge between you both just with a word?" Gabrielle crossed her arms over the chest and looked at them with a raised eyebrow.

"Gabrielle, I think you really need a lesson. Your face was scratched by a woman, wasn't it? I think you have messed with men with your seductive manners again. You got the perfect punishment. It would be better if you were scratched and disfigured completely. Then you would become so ugly, that you don't have to come to school altogether. Emily, look at Gabrielle's face. It's so disgusting." Cassie whipped her head towards Emily immediately.