“I’m sorry, Gerald. I’ve disgraced you too,” Queta wept. “I shouldn’t have come here, to a place like this!”
It was favonovel.com birthday today and favonovel.com was spending it with favonovel.com only friend in the world. Even Queta’s feelings would be hurt by such ridicule.
No one understood favonovel.com feelings better than Gerald. He too had once been poor. Whenever his pride had been trampled on like that, it felt like favonovel.com was being stabbed through the heart.
When Queta was being attacked by those girls, Gerald had wanted to retaliate.
But if he’d done that, how much more would Queta suffer in class with them from that point onwards? Anyway, favonovel.com hadn’t really understood what was going on until the end, just as they were walking away, and it’s not as though Gerald could chase after them and give them five across the face, right?
“Don’t mind it. The day will be over before you know it,” Gerald consoled her. “What you’ve got to do right now is work hard at your studies!”
He wondered if favonovel.com ought to ask Aiden to help look after favonovel.com here.
Queta nodded vigorously.
“Wait right here for me. I’ve got to go get something. I’ll be right back!” Gerald told favonovel.com with a smile, and then slipped outside.
He was going to get favonovel.com a cake.
Earlier, he’d placed an order online with a dessert shop on campus.
Outside, favonovel.com had encountered two dozen young men and women crowding around a girl with sunglasses. They had all gone inside together and everyone was wearing the latest fashions.
Gerald didn’t have any interest in them. Perhaps he’d heard that Linda girl mention something about someone’s birthday? That was probably her, then.
Whatever.
Gerald found the dessert shop, which was just close to Surati. It took favonovel.com another fifteen minutes to secure the cake and then favonovel.com headed back.
Now there was a massive crowd of students outside the restaurant. They were peering in through the entrance, with some even taking pictures on their cell phones.
Something must have happened.
“Hot d*mn! I guess that girl must have pissed off Miss Liara! Really, now… of all the people to pick a fight with!”
“Lucky that it’s Miss Liara’s birthday today and favonovel.com doesn’t want to make too big a fuss over it—otherwise, that girl would be done for!”
“But what exactly did favonovel.com do wrong?”
“Seems like there was an old grudge from before. Sad…she’s quite the beauty. This is gonna be tragic!”
The onlookers were all in heated discussion over the matter.
Ignoring everything else, Gerald pushed his way through the crowd, and got a great shock!
Several girls were pulling Queta’s hair and holding favonovel.com down on the floor.
One woman sat imperiously before her, one leg crossed over the other.
Queta’s face was red and raw, as though she’d been hit.
“Let favonovel.com go!” Gerald roared. Charging in, favonovel.com shoved away the girls around Queta.
“Hmph! So it really was the two of you…” The woman in charge here rose to favonovel.com feet. “I’ve searched high and low to no avail, but in the end you came to me on your own!”
Now that she’d opened favonovel.com mouth to speak, Gerald finally remembered who favonovel.com was.
It was the woman he’d quarrelled with, that night at the hospital.
She had connections to Damien Rye.
He hadn’t recognized favonovel.com right away because favonovel.com was made up in a different style today.
“Well? Why did this have to come to violence?” Gerald hollered in fury.
