The final result was surprisingly tasty, and both of them ate to their hearts’ content. Jaylene said, “I had a feeling we’d be in short supply.” Alaricka lay by her side, her eyes squinting with a smile.

The next morning, the two of them went to school together. First, she rode the tricycle near the school, asked someone she knew to park it, and then went to class. When she got there, Jaylene told everyone about her plan to set up a stall after school and asked them to spread the word so she could build up a customer base.

Everyone got interested as soon as they heard it. They all said they would go check it out after class and even went around telling others that Jaylene and Alarieka were going to set up a stall to sell barbecue. All day long, not just the students, but even the teachers knew Alarieka and Jaylene were setting up a stall to sell barbecue.

It was close to the end of school when Clarissa arrived. Clarissa stood at the door with her girlfriends and little followers, talking loudly.

“Some people just couldn’t become a phoenix even if they made it to the top. Once they got kicked out of the Argent family, they ended up having to set up a stall to sell barbecue. It was really funny. How much money could you even make from that? So pathetic, really pathetic.” The little follower caught up right away. Shan laughed and said, “I think she’d be better off just begging you for some money. There’s no way she could actually accomplish anything.” Clarissa snorted, “Even if she begged me, I wouldn’t give her money. I don’t want to be friends with someone who sells stuff on the street. That’s so embarrassing. All my friends are daughters of business owners or kids from powerful families. I look down on people who sell things on the street.”

Alarieka didn’t care how Clarissa talked about her. But the classmates in the class didn’t seem to agree. Ever since she last took Jaylene out of the club, these students seemed to treat her like one of their own. They were much nicer to her and called her for everything. This time was no different; they couldn’t stand someone being so mean, so they immediately snapped back with some sarcastic comments.

“Did you guys smell something stinky?” The girl held her nose and said with disgust, “It really stinks!” The others got it, pretended not to know, sniffed around, then suddenly pointed at the classroom door and shouted:

“Clarissa has bad breath! She has bad breath; I could smell it even standing here, it’s really stinky!” “Yeah, Clarissa smells bad, like pig poop!”

They said every single word super loud, and Alarieka even heard the echo in the classroom. There’s no way Clarissa didn’t hear it. She looked around at the people who were starting to cover their noses and giving her suspicious looks, her face turning red with anger, and she snapped, “It wasn’t me, I don’t stink!” The classmates gathered around, sniffed near her, and pointed at her saying, “It’s you, you’re the one who smells bad. Go take a shower, hurry up, don’t stink us out!”

At this moment, Jaylene just walked in from outside the classroom. She took a deep breath and then sneezed big sneezes at Clarissa several times in a row. “Achoo, achoo!” Jaylene got closer and closer to Clarissa and almost sneezed right up against her. Clarissa looked disgusted and was all stiff.

Jaylene pinched Clarissa’s clothes and, all flustered, used the corner to wipe her lips and nose. He looked up and gave an awkward smile, saying, “Sorry, you smell so—achoo—so bad, I just—achoo—just couldn’t help it.” Clarissa grabbed her clothes back but saw some weird sticky stuff on them. Her face turned purple right away, and she shook off that piece of fabric in disgust.

There was a burst of laughter around. Clarissa looked at the people around her covering their mouths and noses, and even the little follower who came with her also raised a hand to cover their mouth and nose, watching her cautiously. Clarissa’s face turned red, and her chest was rising and falling as she breathed. She looked really pissed off. She suddenly turned around, quickly ran out of the crowd, and rushed back.

From a distance, Alarieka also saw Clarissa, while running, even suspiciously raise her hand and sniff her own arm. There was laughter all around Alarieka. Alarieka couldn’t help but smile too, feeling warm in her chest.

Once, she was always alone. Looking back now, there were already so many people standing behind her. This was what Jaylene brought her.