“Shut up, Kyle!” Mila threw the cushion in her hands at Kyle angrily. “Nonsense! Yes, Gerald won a lottery. But, are you jealous of him?”
Hearing Kyle’s mocking words toward Gerald, Mila felt
sick. He even said that Gerald had given his ex-girlfriend condoms.
That was just too disgusting. He was clearly
insulting Gerald, wasn’t he?!
Mila had always
thought of Gerald
as her good friend.
“What do you mean, Sister? Are you saying
that I’m talking
nonsense?”
Kyle mocked him further as he laughed.
“If you don’t believe in what I said, you can
ask Victor Wright, the vice president of the student union, who is also his coursemate. Even Whitney knows about this.
He really did run an errand to get his ex-girlfriend some condoms for the mere sake of ten dollars!”
Mila frowned, and the
way Mila’s parents and her
friends looked at him
changed
totally.
“He seemed to be
a decent man. I didn’t
expect him to be so pathetic for the
sake of money!”
“Disgusting!”
They all murmured, judging
him.
Gerald took a deep breath and glanced at Victor who had been keeping
mum since the beginning.
Victor had known it all along,
and he was most probably
the person who had told Kyle
about this.
Among all of them, Gerald bet he must be the one whom Victor hated the most. Mila cast
a questioning look at Gerald, and Gerald
nodded. “Yes, I did.”
He had had no money
then. So, was it wrong
to earn some living expenses
by running errands
for other people?
Gerald did not think it was shameful.
That night, Danny had tricked
him into sending
the condoms to Xavia. It was a fact, and he did not intend to hide it anyway.
“Gerald, you…” Mila stared
at Gerald, her eyes widened
in disbelief.
Honestly, Mila had never experienced poverty, but in her mindset,
she thought that a person
would deem his dignity
as something important
no matter how
poor he was.
She did not expect that Gerald would do something
like this. Moreover, she had been defending
Gerald all this time.
Mila was shocked
now that Gerald had admitted
it himself.
At the same time, Mila’s
parents’ faces stiffened with dismay as soon as they heard
Kyle saying that Gerald had had
feelings toward their
daughter.
What a mess!
Now, there was a sense
of annoyance when Mila’s mother looked at Gerald.
Knock, knock!
Somebody knocked on the door. Soon, a young man appeared
at the door. Seeing this young man, Gerald’s face changed. Although
it was subtle, he looked
sinister.
“Quinton!”
“Yo, Quinton!”
Kyle was surprised, and so were Mila’s parents.
Once they saw him, their eyes
shone with hope, like a duck to water.
“Hey, wasn’t he the one who drugged his own stepmother a few days ago?”
“Yeah. He is quite a nasty man. Nevertheless, he is very wealthy. He is one
of the
Mayberry Commercial Street magnates! He even has a contract
with Grand
Marshall Restaurant!”
“Hmph! So what?! Who in this world has never
done nasty things? I heard that after that incident, Quinton
truly learned his lesson and changed for the better.
His willingness to change is
priceless.”
Many of Mila’s female friends looked
at Quinton.
His unsightly past was perfectly covered by his current brilliance, and he gained
much admiration from the
pretty girls.
Quinton walked
in with a bag in his hands.
Not a single trace of shame from what happened days ago could be seen on his
face.
However, when he walked
past a certain person, he was
taken aback and even moved a few steps back.
Looking at that person
in utmost surprise,
he asked as his face turned pale,
“Gerald, why are you here?”