Chapter 2Reborn, I Watch Her Love Obsession Unfold

I looked back. Sophie's face was completely flushed now.

She lightly punched Jaxon in the chest with her small fists.

"Jaxon, what are you saying? Who holds a wedding in a dorm room?"

"What is wrong with the dorm?" Jaxon hugged her tighter, lifting her slightly off the ground. "All my brothers are there. It will be a party. Way better than those flashy, overpriced hotels."

Sophie let out a soft gasp, but her eyes were sparkling. She was clearly tempted.

She looked at me with a subtle shift in her gaze.

"Rebecca, you will come, right?"

Before I could answer, she added another sentence in her soft, sweet voice.

"You will come, won't you, Rebecca?"

"We grew up together. Our parents are friends. You wouldn't disrespect me like that, right?"

She was threatening me. If I didn't attend her trashy dorm wedding, she was going to run crying to my parents.

I lowered my eyes. My fingernails dug deeply into my palms.

But when I looked up, there was a bright smile on my face.

"Why wouldn't I come?"

"You are my absolute best friend," I said, emphasizing every word with genuine warmth. "I wouldn't miss your wedding for the world."

Sophie nodded in satisfaction and leaned back into Jaxon's embrace.

I walked out of the coffee shop, forcing down the nausea rising in my throat.

There was no rush.

In this life, I had all the time in the world to watch them destroy themselves.

I stayed in the campus library until closing time before taking a slow walk back to my building.

The moment I pushed open my dorm room door, I froze.

Sophie was squatting on the floor, shoving clothes into her suitcase.

And my bed was completely covered in dirty, random trash.

"Why did you put all your junk on my bed?"

Before I could finish, I noticed a figure standing out on our balcony.

Surrounded by a cloud of smoke, Jaxon was leaning against the railing with a cigarette in his mouth. He jutted his chin at me in greeting.

The boys' dorm and the girls' dorm were separated by a massive courtyard.

But we were juniors now. The resident advisors had stopped doing strict room checks a long time ago.

"Oh hey, Rebecca. You're back?"

He blew out a puff of smoke. He acted like my dorm room was his own living room.

Sophie didn't even look up. She just kept folding her clothes.

"Jaxon came over to help me pack. You know I have too much stuff. I can't carry it all by myself."

I stood in the narrow walkway, trembling with rage.

"Move out of the way. You are blocking the door." Jaxon crushed his cigarette out on our balcony railing and casually flicked the butt outside.

He sat down heavily on Sophie's mattress and wrapped an arm around her waist.

"Rebecca, please don't be mad," she said, looking up at me with a subtle hint of bragging in her voice.

"Jaxon just cares about me so much. He insisted on coming over to help."

My eyes swept past her face and landed on my desk. It was completely empty.

More than half of my skincare products were missing. The expensive highlighter I just bought was gone.

I looked down at Sophie's bulging suitcase. Through the zipper gap, I could see the familiar packaging of my own cosmetics.

"Sophie, did you take my things?"

She looked up at me, blinking her big, innocent eyes. She spoke as if she was doing me a favor.

"Rebecca, your skin is already so rough. Using such expensive makeup is a total waste."

"You should just let me use it. I have naturally great skin. It won't go to waste on me."

I was so angry I almost laughed out loud.

"So by your logic, everything nice in the world belongs to you?"

"Oh come on, look how close we are," she waved her hand dismissively and went back to shoving things into her bag.

"You are so generous. You wouldn't hold a grudge over something this small, right?"

I turned my gaze to Jaxon.

"Jaxon, I thought your family was rich. Aren't you a big stock market investor?"

"Why don't you just buy Sophie her own makeup?"

He squeezed Sophie's waist and let out a scoff.

"Money is meant for the big leagues."