Ditched My Toxic Duo for a Billionaire Upgrade novel Chapter 93

Chapter 2

Word spread fast around campus.

Soon everyone knew I wasn’t going to college either.

At the graduation farewell party, classmates whispered among themselves.

“Wait, don’t Kai and Jaxon like Winter? But they’re taking a gap year for Scarlett instead!”

“I guess that proves Scarlett’s better than Winter. Those two are like, every girl’s dream guys–their standards must be sky–high!”

“And Winter’s not applying anywhere either? That’s so pathetic. What kind of girl throws herself at guys

like that?”

Each word felt like a knife twisting in my chest.

But I kept my head down, saying nothing.

Scarlett sat on a small stool nearby, giggling sweetly.

Kai and Jaxon flanked her, taking turns cracking jokes to make her laugh.

Her laughter wasn’t even that loud.

But it felt like it was piercing straight through my eardrums.

In my past life, after Dad died, I fell into a deep depression. The doctor told my loved ones to tell me jokes, help ease the pain.

But until the day I died, they never told me a single one.

Now here was Kai, gazing at her adoringly.

“Scarlett, you should smile more

Jaxon chimed in tenderly.

“I’ll help bring your grades up step by step. I promise you’ll have a bright future.”

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Seeing you smile–that’s all I need to feel at peace.”

So they did know how to tell jokes. They just never wanted to waste the effort on me.

1 clutched the yearbook I’d meant to give them, unable to bring myself to hand it over.

How pathetic, really.

I was moving to Cambridge, and I still wanted to take their messages with me as some kind of keepsake for the rest of my life.

I couldn’t blame myself for being lovesick.

The feelings from my past life ran too deep.

Back then, they’d brought me meals in all kinds of weather, stayed up all night when I had fevers.

Scarlett glanced back at me with a mocking smile.

“Winter, aren’t you repeating senior year? Why are you handing out yearbooks?”

“Trying to find an excuse to talk to them?”

Kai’s eyes turned ice–cold.

“Give it up. I’m not signing that thing.”

Jaxon remained expressionless, then loosened up slightly.

“I guess we could write something.”

“On one condition–you give Scarlett all your study notes.”

With their photographic memories, they never took notes.

So my three years of carefully compiled notes would become Scarlett’s tool for quick grade improvement.

Bitterness flooded my heart.

But I nodded without showing any emotion.

“Sure, you can borrow them. The notes won’t do me any good anymore.”

“But don’t bother signing the yearbook.”

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They frowned in confusion.

“You’re actually agreeing?”

I’d always been someone who didn’t let people take advantage of me. There was no way I’d just hand things over to someone I disliked.

But this time I’d agreed so readily.

Jaxon suddenly laughed coldly.

“Why bother acting all high and mighty?”

“At the end of the day, you just want any excuse to get close to us, right? Fine, we’ll give you what you

want.”

They snatched my yearbook away.

Both wrote very brief entries, just signing their names under the “Like” and “Dislike” columns.

Like–Scarlett.

Dislike–Winter.

Those few light words hung over my head like a blade. I unconsciously clenched the paper so tight–nails dug so deep into my palm, blood stained the words.

Seeing my face go pale as a sheet, Kai and Jaxon exchanged triumphant smiles.

Then they leaned over to whisper in Scarlett’s ear, telling her what they’d written.

Scarlett burst into laughter, tears of mirth streaming down her face.

“You two are so mean!”

“Oh, Winter–I’m going on a graduation trip with them tomorrow. Drop those notes off at my house,

okay?”

In my past life, when my depression made me want to go out and walk around for some fresh air, I’d begged them to travel with me. They had nothing going on but claimed they were too busy.

This life, they were giving Scarlett everything they’d denied me.

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