Chapter 27. Bonita's Tactic
After that, they saw Bonita, who was suddenly behind them.
"Yes, because I need the money, and actually I'm being pressured too." Alberto immediately reasoned that he was being pressured by Professor Vega.
Hearing this, Bonita's eyes immediately bulged because she was very shocked. She really didn't expect that Professor Vega would act so cruelly toward Alberto. She felt doubtful about Alberto's words, which made her ask again. "Are you being pressured?"
"Yes." Alberto nodded his head.
"What a pity, Alberto! I feel sorry to hear that." Bonita immediately expressed her pity for Alberto.
"How come you feel sorry for Alberto? Not with me, Bonita?" Lorena immediately complained because she was annoyed with Bonita's act.
"I feel pity for him because he is being very forcefully pushed by Professor Vega. So he must do that." Bonita commented.
"But why didn't you talk to me about that earlier, Alberto? Apparently, that's an excuse you just made up!" screamed an angry Lorena.
"It's because you don't want to listen to me yourself, right?" Alberto asked Lorena again.
"What? I don't want to hear you." Lorena's eyes immediately bulged, and then, she looked at Alberto with a questioning look because she was suspicious of his behavior.
"That's why you must listen, Alberto! Don't get mad at him right away, Lorena! Poor Alberto!" Bonita immediately advised Lorena, which made Lorena even more annoyed, and Lorena rolled her eyes.
"I've been listening to you, and you're just making excuses about money over and over again!" Lorena snapped curtly.
"Maybe he's hesitant to talk to you, or he's afraid that you'll get angry if he gives the real reason." Bonita mentioned her guess.
"Yes. Maybe!" Lorena replied lazily, because she actually doesn't trust Alberto at all, and she is already lazy with Bonita defending Alberto all-out. She hates Alberto with all her heart.
"Yes. That's true, Lorena." Alberto replied curtly. He couldn't say anything other than confirming Bonita's words so that Lorena would trust him even more.
"Oh, I see." Lorena spoke quickly.
Lorena just wanted to agree with Alberto and Lorena's opinions quickly so that there wouldn't be a long commotion. Meanwhile, Alberto thought that Lorena had calmed down.
Because of that, Alberto immediately said goodbye to his class. "I'm sorry! I must go to class first!"
"Okay." Lorena agreed curtly.
"Hey, Lorena! You can't do that to him!" Bonita rebuked Lorena's behavior, which she thought was very rude.
"Please forgive Lorena, Alberto!" Bonita immediately apologized to Alberto on behalf of Lorena.
"What? Do you apologize for me? I heard him say that I also witnessed their own conversation in Professor Vega's room!" Lorena yelled angrily. She was shocked by Bonita's act.
"Lorena, don't think negatively! It can be that what Alberto said is true!" yelled an angry Bonita.
"Okay! Now, you go back to your class first! I'll calm down, Lorena. You know, Alberto, Lorena's emotions are unstable right now. I hope you can understand her feelings." Bonita advised Alberto to leave the room immediately, and after that, Alberto left Bonita's classroom quickly. Alberto was afraid that Lorena would be angry with him again if he didn't leave Lorena's class right away.
"Okay. See you later!" Alberto immediately waved his hand at Bonita as she was near the classroom door.
"See you later!" Bonita waved her hand to Alberto.
After Alberto left, Lorena immediately protested to Bonita because she still didn't accept Bonita's words, which seemed to defend Alberto too much. "Why are you defending Alberto now? I saw it with my own eyes! Do you think that I'm crazy, huh? No, right?"
"No. You're not crazy." Bonita shook her head.
"Then why did you defend Alberto earlier? Why didn't you even hear what I said earlier?" Lorena asked Bonita curtly while looking intently at her and crossing her arms over Bonita.
After that, she bent her face. She was really annoyed with Bonita's previous behavior.
Bonita just laughed because she thought Lorena was still innocent and because Lorena's behavior also looked funny in her eyes. Meanwhile, Lorena even frowned and glared at Bonita because she was confused and curious about her behavior, and Bonita actually laughed more at her.
What's so funny? What makes Bonita laugh? Is there anything amusing about Lorena's behavior? No, right? Lorena thought about that.
Seeing Lorena, who was confused, Bonita couldn't bear it. Therefore, she immediately explained the reason. "If you want to destroy someone, that's not the way! You have other options for annihilating someone."
"Then what? What does that mean I have to do, and what is the correlation with your behavior?" Lorena immediately asked what she was confused about earlier, but Bonita immediately stroked Lorena's hair gently.
"You have to be good at politics and diplomacy. Life is full of pretense."
"So what?" Lorena's anger exploded right then and there.
"Professor Vega has won! She'll marry Alberto soon!" Lorena immediately shifted her weight away from Bonita.
"So you should pretend you don't know Alberto and accept him, but you still have an affair with Alberto..." Bonita gradually explained the procedures. But Lorena immediately cut her off because she was 100% sure that Bonita would suggest herself as Alberto's mistress.
"Do you mean I must become Alberto's mistress?" Lorena confirmed Bonita's words.
"Yes. That's right," Bonita confirmed Lorena's words with a quick nod. She started to smile because she was glad that Lorena was starting to understand what she wanted to say.
"No! I don't want to! I'll be considered a woman with a low state by others." Lorena immediately rejected Bonita's suggestion. Because according to Lorena, being the mistress of a husband who already has a wife is a woman's lowest position.
"Lorena, you have to be patient!" Bonita asked Lorena to be patient first, because she had not finished explaining her tactics.
"Why do I have to be patient first?" Lorena was confused by Bonita's request.
"Listen to me first! I'm not done talking yet." Bonita asked Lorena not to cut her off again.
"Okay." Lorena said it lazily.
"You must be Alberto's mistress, and you are trying to destroy their marriage. It's like the affair between a mistress and a husband in the movies. Professor Vega's feelings will be shattered if you do this, Lorena. You try to destroy her feelings, just like she always tries to destroy your relationship with Alberto so that Alberto must have a contract marriage with Professor Vega. As strong as a woman is, she will definitely feel broken if the person she loves has an affair with someone else." Bonita explained her tactics.
"But that will hurt Professor Vega's feelings, Bonita." That's the real reason Lorena didn't want to do that. Bonita immediately rolled her eyes because she was annoyed with Lorena, who actually rejected the idea outright.
"I don't want to be like that. What will my parents and family say to me later? How do they think about me and judge me, Bonita? How will the world and my friends judge me? Of course, they'll see me as a low-status woman," Lorena worried if she took Bonita's advice.
"It's easy! Just say that Professor Vega forced Alberto to marry her. After all, their marriage was only a contract marriage, and Alberto's love remains with you." Bonita explained her tactic again.
"However, will my friends back me up and want to be my friends?" Lorena was skeptical that her friends would still support her and want to be her friend if she followed Bonita's advice.
"It's easy! We just need to spread this problem to everyone on campus. Then, we formed a gang to bully Professor Vega and Alberto. They'll definitely want to join our gang." Bonita conveyed her crazy tactics.
"The students in our class already hate Professor Vega, especially with issues like this Their hearts will burn, and they will even more despise Professor Vega. They can bully Professor Vega and Alberto all the way. Not only do our classmates dislike her, but so do our seniors and juniors. You can see if Professor Vega passes by! Surely they won't think of Professor Vega." Indeed, it is true what Bonita said. Many students on campus hate Professor Vega because he is considered a grade destroyer by students on campus.
"We have to make Professor Vega feel as sad and devastated as you're, Lorena!" Bonita tried to provoke Lorena.
"But I really can't do that," Lorena complained, because she couldn't imagine herself in Professor Vega's shoes. Of course she doesn't want to, because if karma turns against her, her husband will be snatched by another woman when she gets married.
"You have to be brave, and you must do that! She has the heart to destroy you, your feelings, and your relationship-until you were sick yesterday, right?" Bonita tried to convince Lorena. Because according to Bonita, Professor Vega's behavior is out of bounds.
"What if Alberto doesn't want to do that?" Lorena was confused, because she wasn't sure that Alberto would want to be with her.
"You can find and try various ways to get him and make him want to be with you again, like the husband and mistress in the movies, Lorena!" Bonita suggested.
"Okay. Thanks for the advice!" Lorena couldn't say anything except thank you because Bonita had given her the idea.
In Lorena's heart, she didn't agree with Bonita's suggestion at all. She would rather let her go and let Alberto go with Professor Vega than have to be Alberto's mistress. But what can she do? Instead of Bonita provoking her all the time, she'd better just thank her for ending their conversation.
"You're welcome. We can do our plan later! We can talk about the gang more later!" After that, Bonita went to her chair.
Meanwhile, Lorena turned her body toward the wall. She put her hands on the table, and after that, she leaned her head on her hands. She eased all the troubles of the day. She was just silent and pensive, thinking about Bonita's ways.
On the one hand, she really didn't have the heart to do that. She considered how Professor Vega would react. She knew for sure that Professor Vega would definitely feel sad. Because she will undoubtedly be disappointed if Karma later turns against her.
However, on the other side, Bonita's words are also true. Professor Vega has ruined both her feelings and her relationship with the utter ruins. Professor Vega had made Lorena sad. She remembered her happy moments with Alberto, which had all been destroyed, such as the moment when they were dating, when they had sex in the hotel before, and their other happy moments. Not long after, Lorena's tears rolled down her face.
Everything has changed. Alberto's heart does not contain Lorena's name. There's only Professor Vega's name in his heart.
She had always dreamed of marrying Alberto after she graduated from college, but everything was destroyed because of Professor Vega and Alberto's contract marriage. That's why she was always more eager to learn than she was in high school. She wants to graduate soon and get married with Alberto, but that passion has disappeared. That hope has been dashed.
Her heart always wonders why Professor Vega had to come into her life and destroy the happiness in it. Indeed, the only way to destroy Professor Vega and take revenge is to follow Bonita's tactics. However, her conscience always refused. She felt confused, and she cried even more deeply. She tried to keep his voice from being heard by her classmates, but at that moment she suddenly felt someone tap her shoulder, which had been moving up and down irregularly.
"Don't cry! She shouldn't know that you're weak," said the person who tried to comfort Lorena. Her voice was like Bonita's voice.
Lorena immediately looked at her as she wiped her tears, and after that, she saw Bonita was the one who was trying to calm her down. She tried to hold back her tears because she was embarrassed to see herself crying, but her tears would not cooperate to stop.
Bonita immediately wiped Lorena's tears while advising her. "You must not lose! You must win against Professor Vega! Nothing deserves to make you cry like this, Lorena!"
Not long after, Lorena's crying stopped. Her tears were replaced with a smile that began to emerge. Lorena immediately nodded her head quickly as she agreed with Bonita's words. Afterwards, she thanked Bonita for calming him down and supporting her.
"You're welcome." Bonita smiled.
"I will always be here for you." Bonita's words made Lorena feel even better.