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.

any pre-comp chaos, clung to Juniper's hand,

was somewhere in the middle, and the contestants' seats were right up

took seats in the guest area across the aisle, followed by two middle-aged dudes in suits in the row ahead. They seemed to

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

practicing, quickly cracked open the water bottles to wet their dry

her lips getting dry, Juniper reached for a bottle of

Juniper?"

of a few people across the aisle. Seeing that Katniss was especially attractive and full of youthful energy, they couldn't help but steal a few more glances before looking

about to take

Katniss's mind, and she instinctively

was so tense and excited that a

Katniss?" Juniper asked, puzzled by

she was just being paranoid, but to be safe, she grabbed the

white, cloudy stuff floating in the water. Her expression changed, and

What a nasty trick!

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

had drunk tampered

for two days and had to take sick leave, letting Clara

the leaders showered Clara with praise, who was already

the product credit went to Clara as the developer

Katniss's eyes reddened.

out," Juniper said, thinking Katniss was sick and trying to get

her voice to avoid being overheard. "Juniper, I'm fine. But the water is messed up." "Water?"

"Someone messed

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