Chapter 895
Chapter 895, Episode 058 - Inviting Trouble or Not (9)_1
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Jessie Grain put down the roster in her hand and approached with a friendly demeanor, asking, "Is there something you need?"
"It’s nothing much, I just came to bring some local specialties for you all."
Cherry Hamilton spoke amiably and then glanced down at the box in her hands, her smile deepening a bit.
"Local specialties?" Seemingly surprised, Jessie Grain looked at the item in her hand. "What is it?"
"It’s all pastries," Cherry Hamilton explained.
At that same time, Stuart Weston raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Hey, isn’t this what Calvin Ramos had sent over?"
Cherry Hamilton was startled and her face colored with slight embarrassment, but she quickly bowed her head again, her cheeks flushing with redness.
It was an obvious display.
With her back to the door, Becca Reyes gripped the railing beside her bed tightly, the veins on her hands standing out.
Noticing Cherry Hamilton’s expression, Jessie Grain was briefly taken aback and then turned to look at the two people inside the room, inadvertently spotting Becca Reyes trembling even from behind.
She suddenly realized something.
"Do you want them?"
Jessie Grain asked them.
"I don’t," Jocelyn Carrington answered without even lifting her head.
Since they all lived in the same dormitory, they should stick together, and especially since Becca Reyes had defended her today, which truly moved her, she couldn’t just fulfill Cherry Hamilton’s wishes.
"What about Becca?" Jessie Grain asked again.
"I don’t want it!"
The reply was decisively firm.
Becca Reyes let go of her grip and sat down on her bed with an unfazed expression, starting to take off her shoes.
Cherry Hamilton’s face turned slightly stiff.
Seeing this, Jessie Grain did not rush to respond but instead looked up at the two figures in the corridor, smiling, "You’ve come back at just the right time, there are local specialties here."
The ones who came over, naturally, were Flossie Wright and Belinda Nichols, who had just finished showering.
Hearing this, both turned to look at Cherry Hamilton standing to the side.
"We don’t need it."
"Not in the mood."
Belinda Nichols and Flossie Wright answered one after the other.
Now, Cherry Hamilton’s face suddenly darkened.
She had intended to use the gift of local specialties as a pretext to provoke Becca Reyes, but she hadn’t expected this succession of rejections to make her so embarrassingly uncomfortable.
Biting her lip, Cherry Hamilton tried to recompose herself and, still smiling, looked at Jessie Grain with hope, "And you...?"
She seemed to have a nice personality and probably wouldn’t leave her hanging in discomfort.
Jessie Grain smiled back at her with a gentle voice, "Sorry, but I don’t accept handouts, as Confucius taught."
It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her head, chilling Cherry Hamilton to the core.
Cherry Hamilton’s face changed over and over, unable to suppress the dark look spreading across it.
This was making her lose face!
Stuart Weston, taking pleasure in her misfortune, reminded her seemingly kindly, "Better leave now; you’re just embarrassing yourself standing here."
Gritting her teeth, Cherry Hamilton’s usual composure and politeness dissipated completely in the face of this humiliation. Without a word, she pulled a grim face and walked away without looking back.
Feeling extremely pleased, Stuart Weston left with a laugh.
With the departure of the two, the doorway suddenly became empty.
Belinda Nichols was the first to walk in.
Flossie Wright followed closely behind but took a few extra glances at Jessie Grain. She saw that her demeanor remained unchanged, as cordial as ever, with a slight smile as she looked at her.
Flossie really hadn’t expected Jessie Grain, who had no quarrel with Cherry Hamilton, to reject her so straightforwardly.
"Hey, do you really not accept handouts?"
— End of Chapter 895 —