"Wait… is she saying that Evelyn has a history of being bad?"
Evelyn, for the first time, looked slightly rattled. But she quickly recovered, putting on an indignant expression.
"Sister Chineye, I do not know what you are trying to say! What mischievous things? Why are you trying to frame me just because you got caught?"
Chineye let out a hollow laugh, one of bitter realization.
"I have misjudged you," she said, shaking her head. "I thought you were a good person. I thought you were my friend. My other friends warned me about you, but I always dismissed their concerns. I kept you close because I didn't want to believe that they were right. I thought they looked down on you just because you came from a poor background. I didn't want there to be a divide between us."
Her voice cracked slightly.
"But this? This is how you repay me?"
Evelyn's expression flickered, just for a moment, but she quickly masked it with another wounded look.
