After her rebirth by Cici

Chapter 57

Felix stood there, kinda dazed, his eyes flicking over to the kitchen door. Through the frosted glass, he could see Katniss hustling around, her slim figure moving non-stop.

"If she was out to get me, why'd she tell me someone was messing with my meds?" Maximilian's voice was all cool and detached, but his eyes had this sarcastic glint. "If it weren't for her heads-up, I'd probably be six feet under by now, thanks to that poison."

Felix's face went pale in a heartbeat.

"Don't jinx it like that," Felix said, frowning hard.

For a sec, he was genuinely freaked out.

Katniss whipped up a small pot of coffee pudding, set aside two bowls for Felix and Maximilian, and packed the rest into some plastic containers.

She shoved the leftover ingredients into the fridge.

No way she was taking them home. Her family never got to taste any of it. Anna probably gave it away or sold it, which ticked Katniss off.

After wrapping up, Katniss said her goodbyes and headed to the coffee shop with the coffee pudding.

Even though it was almost finals season and students were cramming, the coffee shop was still hopping.

place originally had like a dozen seats, but now

Tons of people were grabbing their

hit up another spot. This line's insane!" The guy

new drink, and I already bragged about it to my friends. If I show up empty-handed, I'll look like a fool! Are you waiting with me or not?" "Alright, alright, we'll wait.

quickly joined the

besides the usual crowd, there were now some locals at Amara's coffee

place had been dropping one killer new drink after another, totally outshining the

coffee shop was the new

were trying to come up with something new too, but Amara's place had already made a

the front of the line. One of them frowned

clueless, said, "Katniss? Sorry, but we don't have anyone by that

snickered, "With her clumsy self, she probably got canned by Amara. No way they'd keep

you guys thinking about jumping into the coffee game too? If you open a coffee shop, we wouldn't have to wait in these crazy lines." Laura Evans sneered, "Our tea shop caters to high-end clients. How can you even compare it to this lowly coffee joint? Besides, how much money can you really make from it? It's just popular with regular folks. You think they can open a

that Laura's family was in business, but Laura had no vision, coming here just to mess with Katniss. Last time, Laura even threw ten bucks at Katniss to insult her. Such an

another girl nudged Laura's arm and said,

saw Katniss not only skipping the line to enter the shop but also carrying

instantly

up with that server? Didn't she say

"Didn't you say there's no Katniss here? Then

The other server, who had been there a few days longer and knew Katniss, quickly tried to smooth things