Chapter 4
The next day, I walked into class wearing limited edition sneakers.
School queen Sutton Clarke let out a snort.
Everyone turned to look.
“Stella and Sutton are wearing the same shoes.”
“Took me one second to guess whose are fake.”
‘Stella bought knockoffs? No wonder Grayson dumped her. So desperate to flex.”
‘I heard after Grayson’s family got rich, Stella was begging him not to break up.”
Yesterday she wore eighty-dollar canvas shoes, today it’s twenty-grand sneakers. Yeah right.”
Sutton decided to chime in.
She put on this fake-sweet act.
It’s fine, maybe Stella just doesn’t know better.”
shoved her hand away:
Who the fuck doesn’t know better?”
Getting called out pissed Sutton off, but she couldn’t show it. Had to play the victim.
Why are you being so mean?”
If you’re mad because Grayson’s pursuing me.’
I just won’t say yes.”
What?
Who’s mad about that?
Right
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“The only thing you know is two-dollar hot-dogs and seven-dollar sandwiches from outside school. Now
you’re a sneaker expert?”
The whole class cracked up.
“I saw Stella fight with some old lady over fifty cents once. Girl’s broke as hell!”
“Think wearing Sutton’s shoes makes you the school queen? Or trying to win your man back?”
‘Copying the popular girl’s style just makes you a cheap knockoff.”
Maybe that thirty million payout gave him confidence.
Grayson said he’d test me.
Since you claim to know shoes.”
What’s the founder’s name? When’s his birthday?”
The brand name and model number were right on the tip of my tongue.
You don’t ask about names and models?
ou ask about founders and birthdays?
My face turned red with rage. Before I could figure out how to cuss him out, Grayson thought I was
mbarrassed.
Enough. I know breaking up with me hit you
le pulled a meal card from his pocket.
hard.”
Five hundred bucks. Should last you the semester.”
When I didn’t take it, he shoved it in my hands.
‘Stop pretending. I know you need this.”
‘Consider it breakup compensation.”
I rolled my eyes and threw the card back at him.
When I got to my seat, I noticed Grayson had moved.
He’d switched to sit next to Sutton, claiming he was helping her with homework.
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But everyone knew what he was really after.
After Grayson moved, nobody wanted to sit with me.
But this scholarship kid in our class took pity on me and quietly moved over.
As she was moving, Sutton leaned against her desk and smirked:
‘Now that the whole class hates her, you know what sitting next to her means, right?”
The scholarship student, Yunaa Shaw, still moved next to me anyway.
asked her why.
she said she couldn’t stand watching Grayson and Sutton bully people just because they had money.
Honestly, I felt a little called out.
Because who knows who’s really using money to bully people here.
