Olivia said a little prayer and thanked Gift for the food as she picked her cutlery, her motion not too rushed or too slow.
Her lunch box had a heater that let her food stay warm at least, so she had nothing to worry about.
Just before she started to eat, she spared her table partner a glance and saw that he was looking at her with a drool running down the side of his mouth.
She frowned as she looked down and saw that he had wiped his tray clean of any grain of food and frowned.
She hadn't heard him chewing loudly to indicate that he had rushed the food, yet in less than five minutes he was done.
Joseph on the other hand could no longer bear to see the food getting pushed further away and abandoned just like that, so he sympathized with it.
“That, you don't want to eat it?” He pointed to the food tray set aside.
To this, Olivia burst out laughing again, almost choking on her food as she started to cough.Arnold saw this and almost ran to her side with his water while Beauty smirked and hoped she would choke and die.“Please be careful,” Joseph said as he handed her water over to her and she collected it with thanks.After she had calmed down, Joseph was staring at her, still clueless to what had made her laugh so heartily.But he was glad that he made her laugh. Maybe she would give him food as thanks as he had thought that she suffered from face paralysis in the past when she never made any different facial expressions even when talking to the teachers and other adults and that was why he never reached out to her.He was scared of misunderstanding her intentions since he believed that he was dumb.However, that morning when he had s
Although she had twisted their words and intentions, she still didn't leave them with any saving grace.Satisfied at the silence, she continued to batter them with her words.“I really couldn't see it in the past, but you all are just bad for no reason and all you want is just someone whom you can look down on to make yourselves feel better,” she said as she looked at the faces of all of them, watching them hide their faces.“And what's so bad about that? The weak are supposed to be talked down by the poor,” Beauty said any word of retort she could think of and Olivia tutted.“You must have been raised in a really toxic environment to have such pathetic thoughts,” she said the words that rendered some of her classmates speechless.Joseph, who thought he was dumb didn't find it hard to comprehend, but the so-called
“We are not reall-” she wanted to deny her friendship with this damsel that looked cute when he was blushing when he spoke up again.“So aunty, can I come to live with you? I00 want to be a farmer in the future and we can live as one happy family with fresh food everyday,” he said and Gift forced herself to recover from her earlier shock as she digested his words.“What about your parents?”“My dad is out of the country for a business trip and my Stepmom always burns the food when she tries,” he shrugged and she looked away to hide her smile.“Isn't that-” just then a lady who looked to be in her late twenties pushed the door open and shouted, “dumb fatty, it's time to go home,” but then she noticed him in the group of others instead of sitting alone with his head down.S
They went home discussing only the good and happy moments of their day, and warming up to each other the more.“My dad rarely cares about other people and would rather spend the rest of his life tending to mom's gardens or traveling the world. He must really want you to be my brother's wife,” Olivia muttered from where she was seated around the table doing her assignments and Gift, who was preparing dinner in the kitchen, froze.“Why do you say that?”“These chocolates were my mom's favorite and they are really hard to find,” Olivia explained and Gift shook the light tremor in her heart.“Oh, I see,” she tried to sound as off handed as she could as she resumed cutting the vegetables but Olivia who surprisingly failed to get the hint this time continued to ramble on about how special she was to their family and Gift who had a special so
“Can we be your friends? My mom is a model.”“And mine is an international actress, so just stop hanging around that fatty!”Olivia thought about how ridiculous their friendship proposal was when compared to Joseph's.They had changed their spaces to become seatmates but Joseph had just gone out for a pee break when two of her classmates suddenly approached her wanting to be friends with her.“I don't want to be friends with you,” she replied blandly.“Look, we are so beautiful and our moms can invite your mom to their club too. How can you reject us, do you know who we are?” They were shocked by her outright proposal.“I don't care about people who are conceited and can't be true to themselves, talkless of others,” she replied, still not bothering to take her eyes off h
“There is already a lot on my plate with the industry Dinner coming up soon, and there she is too, there is never an end to the number of questions that she asks,” Zenith lamented over the phone to Trenor who in just the span of one day had lost a lot of weight and had his cheeks sunken.The other lady upon hearing her fate, which was different from the others who got fired voluntarily resigned because she knew about the helpless fate of those who were sent there. But at least she was the only one not blacklisted and she still had a chance to find work.Trenor's charisma had reduced by half as he stared back at Zenith.“Then you shouldn't have sent me here, I could have been of help,” he said as he tried to suppress a yawn.”Zenith's eyes wrinkled as he remembered the exact reason why he had sent him away in the first place.
“You look stunning,” Zenith complimented as the couple got out of the car.It was the weekend and they had arrived in front of the private mansion where they were going to be having dinner.From the point that she agreed to come for the dinner till that point when they were standing beside each other, Zenith had put in a lot of effort into preparing her for that night.From hiring a makeover company to hiring a lady from an elegant school, all to make sure that she was prepared and had all the confidence in the world to face the others.“Nervous too,” she said as she linked her hand with his, just like they had practiced.“You just be a good girl and stay by my side. This dinner is really important and remember, no one is your friend,” she nodded and smiled at him, suppressing her nervousness as
The father and daughter pair were shocked to stupor and also that he had ignored them in front of everyone.“Daddy,” his daughter whined as she turned to him, but he was so close to vomiting blood as he got up to his feet in a start and held his daughter's hand.“You-” he pointed to shakenly at Zenith, “I'll make you pay, I swear!” he said before leaving, but Zenith remained unfazed as he appeared entranced by Gift's beauty instead.After all, he wasn't the only one that had sworn to deal with him. Others had even sworn with their generational wealth, but no matter how hard they tried, they could never come close and this would be no exception for him.The event resumed in its full vigor soon after and soon enough, the main event of networking and showing off started.“Don't move too far away from me, people will offer u