Chapter 500

They were Joey and Adam. They no longer had any cars after the Jordans went bankrupt, thus they could only rely on public transports. They took the bus to visit Charmine. This bus station was half an hour’s walk away from Violet Villa. Joey and Adam felt embarrassed and awkward when they saw Charmine. They had never lived like this before; they had never been so poor their entire life. They never expected Charmine would see them at their worst… Charmine’s hands on the handlebars halted, though after a moment of hesitation, she raced away without sparing them a glance as though they were strangers. Were they pitiable? No, not at all. In Charmine’s first year of middle school, Adam slapped her and made her take public transport for a whole month just because she accidentally dropped an ice-cream on Tiffany in the car. They attended the most prestigious private school in Burlington where all of the students were of the wealthiest families. Every student went to school in a