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.

worried about losing Juniper and causing any pre-comp chaos, clung to Juniper's hand, following her

seats were right up front, so

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

people gradually found their seats. Many contestants sat next to Katniss and Juniper, and

nervously reviewing and practicing, quickly cracked open

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

up, Juniper?" Katniss

aisle. Seeing that Katniss was especially attractive and full of youthful energy, they couldn't help but

was about

clicked in Katniss's mind, and she instinctively stopped Juniper's hand, saying,

and excited that a few people

Katniss?" Juniper asked, puzzled by Katniss's

wondering if she was just being paranoid, but to be safe, she grabbed the bottle from

cloudy stuff floating in the water. Her expression changed,

What a nasty trick!

the Manners family's business, even leading a team to develop a new

she had drunk

out of it for two days and had to take sick leave, letting Clara step in for

showered Clara with praise, who was already a

the product credit went to Clara as the developer

Katniss's eyes reddened.

freak me out," Juniper said, thinking

to avoid being overheard. "Juniper, I'm fine.

messed

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