The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 1943

However, as Ivy rifled through every corner of her backpack, the pads were nowhere to be found.

She was certain she had packed them.

Since she was young, Ivy had always taken care of her own belongings, cultivating a nightly routine of preparing for the next day.

Thus, she could vividly remember slipping the pads into her bag. Yet, after just one gym class, they had vanished. With no other option, she turned to her classmates for help.

“Hey, does anyone have a spare pad?”

“Could I borrow a pad from someone? I’ll pay you back.”

No matter how she phrased it, the response from her peers was uniformly the same: “Sorry, I don’t have any.”

Sitting back at her desk, pad-less, Ivy felt the sting of helplessness.

her without cash to buy a new pack. Even the money Tessa gave

she

she didn’t find a solution soon, she’d surely stain

tone mocking. “Little sis, how can you be so careless, forgetting to bring

than Ivy but was in the same grade due to poor

Ivy’s introversion and silence, Clara’s generosity and lively personality made her the

cozied up to Clara inevitably snubbed Ivy, as if by an unwritten rule

pleaded, “Clara, could you please buy

sharply, “Ivy, it’s not that I don’t want to help, but I don’t have the

just took

take your money? You must have lost it yourself. Why blame me?”

don’t wrong

push the blame onto

other students quickly sided with her, pointing

she was the one who had done