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,

seats were right up front, so they were pretty close to

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

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

reviewing and practicing, quickly cracked open the water bottles

a bottle of water and was about to open it when she

up, Juniper?" Katniss

was especially attractive and full of youthful energy, they couldn't help but steal a few more glances before looking away. Juniper shook her head, smiling, "Nothing, this water's just easy to

Juniper was about

something clicked in Katniss's mind, and she

so tense and excited that a few people

asked,

but to be safe, she grabbed the

cloudy stuff floating in the water. Her expression

What a nasty trick!

to her 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 the visiting bigwigs, she was

she had

was out of it for two days and had to take sick leave, letting

the leaders showered Clara with praise, who was

to Clara as the developer under

Katniss's eyes reddened.

out," Juniper said, thinking

head and lowering her voice to avoid being overheard. "Juniper,

messed with this

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