After her rebirth by Cici

Chapter 43

Chapter 43

Clara slumped her shoulders, fishing out her speech from her bag. "The competition kicks off in like, thirty minutes. Gonna cram a bit more."

Just as she pulled out the speech, her hand trembled, and a bag of meds tumbled out of her bag.

Ruby heard the clatter, glanced down, and spotted the meds. She scooped them up and asked, "Clara, what's this?"

Still flipping through her speech, Clara replied, "Ruby, my stomach's been acting up, so I've been popping these laxatives."

She reached out to grab the meds back from Ruby.

But Ruby dodged her hand, grinning. "Clara, lemme take these. I've been feeling kinda off too. Maybe they'll help."

"Sure, but Ruby, wait till you get home to take 'em. These laxatives are pretty hardcore. If you take 'em now, you might miss the speech comp. Check the dosage when you get home, okay?" Clara smiled, noticing Ruby's mood lift. Ruby nodded, "Got it, Clara. You keep cramming. I'm hitting the restroom."

Before Clara could say anything, Ruby bolted.

Clara watched her go, shaking her head with a sigh, muttering to a classmate about Ruby always being in such a rush.

"Haha, Ruby probably had to go real bad, holding it in to keep you company," a classmate joked.

The place was packed since this speech competition was a big deal, drawing a huge crowd.

Besides teachers and students, there were some old folks in suits and some sharp-dressed pros.

pre-comp chaos, clung

the contestants' seats were right up front, so they were pretty

area across the aisle, followed by two middle-aged dudes in suits in the

time neared, people gradually found their seats. Many contestants sat next to Katniss and Juniper, and student volunteers began

nervously reviewing and practicing, quickly cracked open the water bottles to

getting dry, Juniper reached for a bottle of water and was about to open it

Juniper?"

that Katniss was especially attractive and full of youthful energy, they

Juniper was about

a flash, something clicked in Katniss's mind, and she instinctively stopped Juniper's hand,

tense and excited that a few

wrong, Katniss?" Juniper asked, puzzled by Katniss's sudden

to be safe, she grabbed the bottle from Juniper and held

some white, cloudy stuff floating in the water. Her expression changed, and she almost squeezed

What a nasty trick!

past life, when she busted her butt for the Manners family's business, even leading a team to develop a new product that got major props from the higher-ups. Just when she was about to present her product to

had drunk tampered

it for two days and had to take

Clara with praise,

as

Katniss's eyes reddened.

what's wrong? Don't freak me out," Juniper said, thinking Katniss was sick and

and lowering her voice to avoid being overheard. "Juniper, I'm

"Someone messed with this

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