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"Don't talk to him again. Viaanymeans. You'll lose access to your phone and computer, naturally. But don't try to fool me, Noelle. I will know if you do, and I won't tell you twice what the consequences will be. If you disobey me and get in contact with him, even if it's a harmless chat, the next time you'll hear of him will be from prison. Mark my words."
She stared at him, unable to muster a reply.
Just like that she lost everything.
"So I'm going to be locked away until the wedding. That's what you're saying."
"Yes. You are correct," Cisco nodded.
At that moment, Amo returned to the living room as well. Seeing Noelle's desolate features and the tension rolling off Cisco, he intuited what had occurred.
"Dinner, anyone?" He asked jokingly in an attempt to diffuse the situation.
Cisco glared at him while Noelle simply rose from her seat, dashing up the stairs to her room.
"What happened?" Amo asked as he took a seat.
"Your brother backed himself into a corner and he doesn't know how to get out of it," Yuyu shrugged. Getting up, she came over to Cisco's side, placing her hand on his shoulder in a comforting gesture. "You don't get to be both her dear older brother and her tyrannical guardian. It doesn't work like that, Cisco."
"So I'm learning," he ground his jaw.
"Next time try not to learn on Noelle. The poor girl has enough on her plate as it is."
"And what would you have me do, Yuyu?" He took a deep breath as he turned to her.
Amo watched the show with amusement. After all, there was only one person who dared chastise the big bad wolf, and that was Yuyu. No way he was going to miss such a rarity.
"You could have cut their budding relationship before it became so serious," she suggested.
"He was good for her. I didn't realize her feelings would run so deep," he sighed.
"I warned you," Yuyu said. "I warned you there was something different about her."
"I know," he answered drily. "I made a miscalculation and now she's going to hate me. Iknow," he admitted, though it killed him to do so.
Yuyu had pointed out to him that Noelle had started to behave differently. More like a young lady than a child—something she'd never had an interest in before. Yuyu had argued that maybe his sister had more than platonic feelings for the boy she was talking to online, but Cisco had vehemently denied it. After all, he couldn't seehowhis sister could fall in love with a computerized voice—the only reason he'd allowed the connection in the first place.
But he hadn't counted on Noelle being so resourceful as to find out who he was based on the clues she'd glean from their conversations. And he most definitely hadn't counted on Rafaelo being the epitome of what Noelle desired the most.
Cisco stifled a chuckle. Of course he would make a miscalculation when it came to matters of a sentimental nature. They were the bane of his existence!
He dealt with odds and possibilities, not people and emotions.
Yet even in this case, he'd made the mistake of not giving too much importance to what Yuyu had told him.
While the three of them continued their discussion downstairs, Noelle got to her room and discovered that her computer had been taken away. Every little piece of technology had been removed so she wouldn't have access to anything.
She stared desolately at the empty spot where her computer had been.
One second. Two. Three.
On the fourth she simply collapsed to the floor, her eyes still on the empty desk—as empty as she felt inside.
What was Blue thinking? That she had stood him up. And when she didn't reply to any of his messages, he'd think she was ghosting him, maybe even assume she'd done so because she hadn't liked him when it couldn't be anything further than the truth.
God… In the span of one hour, her entire life had changed, all her plans disintegrating.
And she was left…alone. Again.
