CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT

"Where are we going to look for those three again?" Tricia complained, asking her.

"I don't know; that's why we're going around in circles now, right?" she replied to her companion with a snarl.

"Why do we even have to do what Giovane says?" Tricia asked her again.

"Just be quiet, Tricia." She turned to her and raised an eyebrow.

Tricia remained firm, rolling her eyes at her. 

"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have a clue," she heard her say.

"You don't matter at all, because you don't even know who saved you, right? You only know the codename Delta; how can that be useful?" Isabel asked her companion.

"At least I have achieved something that your brother might find useful." Tricia said.

"Shh…" she immediately shushed Tricia.

They heard laughter and footsteps, women talking. That's why Isabel immediately followed the direction.

"Oh," Tricia said in a whisper.

They exchanged glances; Tricia smirked at her, and she raised an eyebrow in response. Thalia was heading in their direction.

Okay, how can I turn the three around?  Isabel could only ask herself.

They acted normal, and they also chatted with Tricia on their way to the direction where another group was.

"Oh, Thalia?" she called out to her.

Thalia immediately caught her attention. She stared at it, surprised. She saw Thalia frown.

"Isabel," she immediately recognized, and she also turned toward Tricia. "Tricia," Thalia said.

"Oh, you guys are here now. Are you on vacation too?" asked Tricia.

Thalia nodded.

"Actually, Ruth and I planned to come back here." Thalia smiled at them as she spoke.

"And then, we saw Ericka here on vacation with her childhood friend." Ruth also explained to them.

Isabel already knows Ruth's identity; if she is the child of Fuego, where her brother serves, she has long known her character.

"Oh, that's good! Since we still don't know the ins and outs of this situation, can we join you?" She asked them.

"If it's okay with you." 

She saw the three of them just exchange glances.

"Sure, actually, we also have a place to stay here." Ericka further explained.

"Oh, us too, but we prefer having more people around, as they say, the more the merrier, right?" she asked back then.

Thalia just chuckled slightly at what she said. "Sure, Isabel." Thalia said to her.

"By the way, I'm so sorry for the harsh words I threw at you back then. I am simply frustrated with myself, and I expressed my anger toward you, Thalia, at that time." Isabel requests forgiveness.

It was all an act! But I need to tell her that so I can win her favor. She expressed her thoughts clearly. 

"Oh no, it's okay; that doesn't matter to me." Thalia shook her head and gave her a smile.

"Really? Thank you!" She quickly hugged Thalia back then.

She only smirked at the back of her mind; she already knew what she would do to the three.

"You are welcome." Thalia said that when she let her go, she smiled at her.

Let's see if you can still smile like that, Thalia.  She mutters this to herself.

Isabel immediately won the favor of the three with the way she talked to them. Then, she needed to get along with them until their plan with Tricia was executed, especially with Chesca, who was also smiling at her.

"Ah, we're just going to get our things." She bid farewell to the trio.

"We'll just wait for you." Ericka said to them.

"No, our place is too far—too far from where you are staying; just give us directions to your place." Tricia said.

"Okay, fine, but if you get lost or need to ask something, just call us." That's what Chesca said to them.

They gave her a paper; she looked at it, and it had directions on where they were going, and she also noted a number in case there was an emergency and they needed Thalia.

"We will wait, then we will leave as well, so we can prepare for our guests." Chesca said.

"Okay, be careful; we will call if we have any questions." Tricia said.

The two groups have already separated. They exchanged glances with Tricia.

"They're so easy to manipulate. Is the mission given to you, Isabel, too easy?" Her companion said.

"Whatever," she said.

Tricia just laughed at her. "What a double face you have, Isabel." Tricia said.

"Let's just give this for now." She said while looking at the number.

"They are so careless. Do they know that they can gather a lot of information here?" Isabel asked, shaking her head.

"Thalia, Thalia, Thalia, I thought you were smart; you really are naïve." Isabel added.

"Come on, I don't know if it was right to join them and sleep over."

"Tricia, we need to be humane when spying on someone, okay?" Isabel said to Tricia.

"Okay, I hope we finish what we're doing soon. I can't stand them, even if they are our classmates and schoolmates."

"Let's endure it, because we need to help our brother." She said.

They immediately went to their accommodation, and Isabel saw the person who was also spying within the organization.

"Here." Isabel said she wrote down the number inside the paper.

"Thank you." He smiled at her.

"Tricia, we need to get ready." She called out to her companion back then. 

"Yeah, yeah." She heard her say.

Let's measure how smart you are, Thalia, how far your thinking can go. Let's play some mind games first.  She thought to herself that she was packing her luggage to go to their accommodation, Thalia.

It would be better if she directly monitored her actions so it would be easier for her to anticipate what she would do.