The following morning, Aubree and Riley were heading to the campus together. Riley’s parents decided to send Aubree to the dormitory before fetching Riley.
The campus dormitory facilities were much better than 20 years ago. Although they were not as comfortable as home, they were still quite decent overall.
Moving on, there were only one of Aubree’s three roommates who arrived in the room. The girl wore a pair of petite spectacle and quietly shrank in the corner without taking the initiative to welcome Aubree at all.
Then, Mrs. Harris secretly stuffed three boxes of chocolates to Aubree, which was brought back from abroad by Mr. Harris.
“Aubree, remember to offer these three boxes of chocolates to your roommate, one for each person. Since you are soft-tempered, don’t be bullied by anyone.” Mrs. Harris got close next to her ear, where only Aubree could hear her whisper.
Aubree gazed at the boxes of chocolate, and her heart pounded wildly. Although she did not feel any discomfort, she felt awkward.
Sidney often bought this brand of chocolate, and she liked it very much.
“Thank you, Auntie, does Riley have it?” Aubree asked, “He has three roommates as well.”
Mrs. Harris chuckled, “Silly girl, they are boys, whenever boys have any contradictions, they would just settle by fighting.”
Aubree was a little puzzled, but she didn’t ask any more questions.
“Let’s go, let’s visit Riley’s dormitory.” Mr. Harris glanced around the dorm, as he was still lamenting that the facilities were much better now than they were 20 years earlier.
Aubree went along with them to Riley’s dorm. The boys’ dormitory was livelier than the girls’ dorms. They were all just moved in, but it was already noisy and became a bustling dorm.
Mr. Harris knocked on the dormitory door and shouted, “Riley!”
The door was opened, and Riley’s initial smiley face immediately stiffened, while realizing that Aubree had come along as well.
He stood still at the doorway, while gripping the door handle in his hand, and not knowing whether he should let her in.
“Riley, let us go in and have a look!” Mrs. Harris quickly peeked inside and said, “I have never been in a boys’ dormitory. Your Dad had just entered a girls’ dormitory, so I would like to check out the boys’ dormitory as well. ”
Mrs. Harris spread his arm expectantly and went straight in.
Together with Riley, there were a total of four people in the room. There were few loft beds, in which everybody’s table was full of things. However, only two people could be seen in the room besides Riley, and another person was not around.
The things on that person’s desk were similar to those of Riley, except that the figures of Riley were all heroes of Marvel animation, and on that person’s desk, almost all of them are models of cool automobiles.
Aubree glanced around without thinking too much.
“The opening ceremony will be held in the hall at 7:30 tonight. It seems that there is some kind of lucky draw.” The other two roommates took the opportunity to speak, and they were staring at Aubree.
“The opening ceremony of University A is always different from other campuses, and the lottery has been maintained for many years, so it is very interesting.” Mr. Harris checked the time, and there was stuff waiting for them to be done, “Okay, you guys have fun, it’s time for us to leave now.”
“Riley, remember to offer your roommates for a meal.” Mrs. Harris murmured in his ear before leaving.
“Uh, I got it then! Please leave now!”
Aubree followed along too. It was time for her to go back to her room to settle down her belongings.
As she arrived at the dormitory, the other two girls had arrived and appeared to be babbling about something. Right when Aubree came through the door, they all glanced at her together.
The scene suddenly became somewhat awkward.
“It’s her, she’s the illegitimate daughter of that shocking liar.” The two who had just arrived immediately turned around and continued gossiping about Aubree right in front of her.
Aubree was stunned. She had always imagined scenes where a couple of roommates were gossiping about her, but they were all behind her back. She didn’t expect someone to speak right in front of her when they just commenced classes.
Fortunately, she never cared about her identity, and the truth of attempting suicide was never because she was the daughter of Phoebe Foster.
Aubree walked to her desk, she took the three boxes of chocolates out of the drawer. She then walked to the quiet and shy girl while grinning, as she handed it to her.
“I hope we can get along well in the future.” As she said, she handed the chocolates to everyone in the room.
“Thank you, my name is Keira Miller, you can just address me as Keira from now on.” Keira adjusted her glasses, and stopped looking at Aubree after finished speaking, then she lowered her head to continue her own thing.
The other two girls were different. One of them lifted her head confidently, she stared at the chocolate with disgust and threw it back at Aubree’s table.
“Aubree, you may have forgotten that the resentment between you and me can’t be dealt with a box of chocolates.”
Aubree looked at the box of chocolate that was thrown back, and the corners of her mouth cocked slightly.
“Pippa, I think you should have forgotten, that your face was almost disfigured before.”
It was just such a coincidence that they were assigned to the same dormitory and couldn’t escape each other.
“Aubree Wilson! You are worthless now! Young Master Sidney had abandoned you, and your dad was still a person that hated by everyone.” Pippa glared at Erika Watson next to her, and Erika grasped the indication immediately while placing the box of chocolate back on Aubree’s table.
“You should keep it, I’m tired of having this brand of chocolate.” Erika stood beside Pippa, and her gazes were regretting it, yet she stated that she was tired of eating it.
“You made me suffer in the past, I will take revenge bit by bit in the coming days.” Pippa couldn’t restrain her smugness, she was simply too happy to see that Aubree had lost everything.
Aubree didn’t want to say anything further to her, so she sat in her seat and began to open the chocolate box.
“Come, let’s go to the hall.” Pippa pulled Erika along and left.
Keira glanced at Aubree secretly, then she quickly turned her head back.
Aubree opened the chocolate emotionlessly while placing one in her mouth every time she opened it. The more she opened it, the more she crammed it in her mouth, even though the last one had not been melted in her mouth. She squeezed it all in without frowning a little.
As soon as her mouth was full of melted chocolate and her hands were messy, she unintentionally saw herself in a tiny mirror, and her eyes immediately turned red.
At that time, a tissue unexpectedly appeared in front of her, and she looked up blankly.
Keira looked at her with concern, and she headed back to her seat in silence after handing Aubree the tissue.
The hand of Aubree was trembling slightly as she held the tissue. She suddenly felt that all this was uncomfortable.
“The time for the opening ceremony is almost reaching, are you going?” Keira grabbed the two books and hugged them in her arms. Anyway, she was a little embarrassed to take the initiative to invite Aubree.
“Come, let’s go together.” Aubree wiped her mouth and hands before they headed to the hall.
On the way there…
The hustle and bustle of the crowd were all elated. There were mostly four people coming out from the same dormitory, and Aubree and Keira were the only quiet ones as if they did not exist.
When they arrived at the hall, they found that the seats were almost full, so they had to stand at the back.
“Those seniors are so annoying, it was obviously the opening ceremony for us as freshmen, yet they came along to have some fun!” The girls next to them grumbled something.
“It was mainly because the freshman representative is extremely handsome. It is said that he broke China’s record by participating in the national competition, and he was admitted in an exceptional manner, and he didn’t even attend his third year in high school.”
“Well, it is because of a strong background! Money can make the impossible become possible, let alone rich and powerful people.”
“Stop being so sarcastic! See if you could contain your admiration later as he go on stage later!” The group of girls just got acquainted with each other.
Aubree faintly glanced around and found that Riley was sitting in the first few rows. There were two roommates beside him, and also one empty seat, probably for another roommate.
The opening ceremony began with a somewhat uninteresting speech by the principal and the directors.
Upon noting that Keira was able to read books in such a place, she couldn’t resist wondering, “What book are you reading?”
“Books for postgraduate entrance examinations.” Keira adjusted her glasses and replied.
Suddenly, Aubree started to admire her. She was already studying for a postgraduate entrance exam when class just commenced. People who could work hard like this must be pretty strict with themselves.
“Are you planning to take the postgraduate entrance examination?” Keira asked.
“Well, I don’t think I would take the exam,” Aubree chuckled. In the past, she would like to take a postgraduate entrance exam and then continue to study.
However, she couldn’t do as she liked now. The Harris family had paid the freshman tuition fee for her. Hence, she just wanted to graduate early to earn money, support herself, and then repay them.