Chapter 589
“I don’t want it!” Yolanda’s face twisted with disgust, and her voice was full of hostility. “Don’t bother coming around anymore. If I need something, I’ll buy it from the convenience store myself!”
“Here, take this money. If it’s not enough, call me.” Yvonne stuffed a few hundred bucks into her pocket.
The money in Yolanda’s pocket wasn’t much. Although she thought it was too little, she still accepted it. “Alright, you better head home now.”
Her voice was still laced with impatience.
“Call me if you need anything.”
“Mhm.”
Yolanda turned to head back to school, only to see Arabella and her gang. Seething with anger, she made her way towards Kelly.
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“What’s it to you what goes on between Arabella and me? Are your her little minion or something? Always attacking me whenever you see me?”
“And what are you? A shameless scumbag. Do you have any idea how much Arabella has done for your family? And how do you repay her?” “What’s it to you how we treat her?”
“Of course, it matters!” Kelly retorted angrily. “If you mess with Arabella, you mess with me! I’ll teach you a lesson if you dare to pull any stunts behind her back. Got it?”
“Hmmm, don’t get too cocky. Maybe one day, you’ll fall flat on your face, too.”
Upon hearing Yolanda’s words, it was clear she was now setting her sights on Kelly, ready to seize any opportunity for revenge.
“Try laying a finger on her.” Arabella glared at Yolanda coldly. “Fancy a stint in jail with those two heartless people? Go ahead and try.“;
“Yoli.” Yvonne, who was standing not far away, saw the altercation between Yolanda and the group of students and wanted to step in.
“Stay out of it!” Yolanda glared at her impatiently, then turned to Arabella. “We’ll see about that!”
“See what? Who wants to look at you? You’re full of yourself.”
Kelly completely dismissed her, but Yvonne, who was not far away, kept watching. When Yolanda left, she walked over.
“Auntie, just to be clear, she was the one who came over and started yelling at me. I was just retaliating,” Kelly quickly explained.
“She has changed a lot in the past few months, but I hope you won’t hurt her. It was wrong of her to yell at you, and I apologize on her behalf,” said Yvonne, bowing deeply with a sincere look on her face.
“I don’t get it. She doesn’t even see you as her mom. She only turned to you because she had no one else. She’s just using you!”
“I know, and that’s okay.” Yvonne lowered her head and accepted the bitter truth. “As long as she still calls me mom, I can’t abandon her in this life. No matter how hard and tiring it gets, I have to ensure she has food, a place to live, and books to read. But she’s been pretty cranky lately, so if she offends you guys, you can tell me, and I’ll talk to her.”
Kelly was at a loss for words. If talking could solve the problem, things wouldn’t have escalated to this point.
“Please.” Yvonne bowed again, pleading with them to spare her daughter.
“As long as she doesn’t start anything, we won’t do anything to her. But we can’t let her off the hook if she goes too far. After all, we’re not her mom, right?”
Kelly bowed and said, “We’ve got stuff to do so that we won’t bother you any longer, Goodbye.”
Watching their retreating figures as they entered the school, Yvonne thought to herself, hoping that Yoli wouldn’t make any more mistakes. Kids these days were not easy to deal with.
“Yolanda’s mom is so nice. I just don’t understand why she raised such a terrible daughter,” Mya said, puzzled.
Joyce agreed, saying as they walked, “Yolanda was just acting sweet and innocent in front of the guys. But when she talks to her own mom, her attitude is so poor.” “That’s because she’s her foster mother,” Kelly said nonchalantly.
“What? Foster mom? Where’s her biological mom?” Mya and Joyce asked in unison.
“In jail.”
Mya and Joyce exchanged glances, surprised by the complexity of Yolanda’s family background.
“So, what’s the deal between her and Arabella?” Mya asked again.
“It’s a long story. Basically, Arabella has been good to their family, but they repaid her kindness with ingratitude and ended up getting themselves locked up. In short, keep your distance if you bump into her.”
At that moment, the school’s broadcast station was making an announcement.
“Noreen, Daryl, Greta, Keely, and others from the surgery class bullied their classmates during extracurricular activities. They are to write a 3,000–word reflection paper, and the ringleader, Noreen, is given a major demerit! This is a public warning for the entire school. All students are to take this as a warning. School is a place for learning, so don’t bring the bad habits from outside here. We hope all students will get along, be united and friendly, and gain knowledge and happiness here.”
“Serves them right.” Joyce felt instantly relieved upon hearing, the announcement.
“It’s good that they’re being publicly admonished. At least they’ll remember this and won’t dare to mess around for a while, Mya agreed.
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But Kelly glanced at Arabella. If it had been Arabella who got into trouble today, these students would probably had been detained at the police station, let alone expelled.
Joyce and Mya probably didn’t have any powerful family connections, so the matter was simply brushed under the carpet.
But they didn’t lose out in this incident.
“But it’s strange. We clearly taught them a lesson, so why didn’t the school publicly admonish us?” Joyce had been puzzled by this question since earlier.
Mya was also at a loss. She reasoned, “Logically speaking, we were the ones who made them soak in water and threw rocks at them. We’re the ones in the wrong.”
When Kelly heard this, she patted Arabella on the shoulder and said, “That’s because your straight–A classmate deleted all the surveillance footage of us teaching them a lesson.”
“What?? Can you delete surveillance footage? How did you do that??”
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Both girls were completely stunned. Arabella was with them the entire time and didn’t go anywhere, so how did she delete the surveillance footage??
“Arabella, I just realized you’re so amazing. You seem to know everything,” Mya said, looking at Arabella with even more admiration and curiosity.
Kelly patted her on the shoulder and said, “Be more confident. You can drop the ‘seem to.”
Her Bella really knew her stuff, man. If there’s anything she didn’t know how to do, it’s probably dating. Who knew what she was like when she was dating Romeo? Was she icy or shy??
“Hey, Bella.” Kelly suddenly leaned into Arabella’s ear, teasing her quietly, “Your man hasn’t been looking for you recently?”
“Him,” Arabella was about to say something when her eyes caught a tall figure in the distance.
Romeo? What’s he doing at school?
