Janice jostled me and said, "Just now you were scolded by Mary in front of the whole class, and you also implicated us. Do you want us to be scolded by her as well?"
Patricia crossed her arms, looked condescendingly at me, and sneered, "I didn't expect you to be so vicious under your disguise! I ranked last in the exam because I didn't want to get a good grade!"
The girls in the class who wanted to gain Patricia's favor immediately flattered her. They looked at me with disdain but looked at Patricia with flattering smiles on their faces.
"Patricia, don't waste your time on her. She is just a poor girl from the countryside. She can't even afford a designer dress. She can't compete with you at all!"
Since I didn't respond to her jostle just now, Janice probably thought I was a pushover and bullied me more arrogantly. "Apologize to us!"
I was immediately furious and glanced at them coldly. "You don't deserve my apology."
Janice and Patricia were probably stunned by my cold eyes.
They came back to their senses and were about to say something, but I took the opportunity to squeeze past Janice, who was blocking in front of me, and said, "Stay out of my way."
No matter how strong their family background was, I would hit them back if they hit me.
In the evening, I returned to the dormitory and saw my roommate, Elodie Clemens, eating potato chips and staring at her phone.
Maybe she was obsessed with some cute boys again, I supposed.
When she saw me coming back, she ran to me and said, "Charlotte, Patricia seems to be in love."
"Oh, it's none of my business!"
I wasn't interested, so I reached out and took some potato chips from Elodie.
Elodie fangirled so hard that her saliva even dribbled. "It seems that her boyfriend's last name is Maxwell whose family is super rich. She even showed his photos. Oh my god, he is so handsome! No wonder she has been strutting these past two days."
I paused while chewing potato chips.
Patricia's boyfriend had the same last name as one friend of Jake's.
Benjamin Maxwell and I could be considered childhood sweethearts, but he was six years older than me.
I heard from my parents that my family and the Maxwell family had agreed to the arranged marriage for their children so that the two families would be bound.
Unfortunately, Jaqueline gave birth to a son first, and Benjamin's mother also gave birth to a son.