Chapter 116

“You see, it was this family that took my grandma’s bed. This person was the patient, and he was even eating fried chicken and drinking Coke. He didn’t look sick at all."

Alarieka lowered her head and wiped her tears hard with her palm, her shoulders shaking from sobbing.

“This kind of person used their family background to take my grandma’s hospital bed. I was just a kid from an ordinary family–how could I possibly compete with them?”

She started wailing, “Who could stand up for me, who could stand up for my grandma!”

Her crying got louder and louder, with more and more tears falling, and her sobbing grew even louder, drawing a crowd outside the hospital room.

Alarieka heard the people talking around her.

“What’s going on here?”

“I was in this hospital room before. The girl’s grandma was staying here, but because the hospital beds were tight, this family took the grandma’s bed and made the old lady stay out in the hallway. The worst part was, their patient wasn’t even that sick, just eating chicken legs. I couldn’t stand it before, but I heard this family had connections, so they bullied a high school girl and an old lady. It’s just disgusting!”

“Oh my god, in broad daylight these days, people are still fighting over hospital beds, and it was even an old person’s bed. How shameless is that?!”

“This woman looked pretty good, didn’t expect her to be so vicious, I spit!”

“I support the girl anyway, and let the hospital decide.”

The power of onlookers was huge. In just a few minutes, the gossip was known by the crowd and spread by word of mouth.

There were crowds of people inside and outside the ward, all pointing and talking about her and Natalie in the middle.

This was the effect Alarieka wanted.

It was already a sure thing that Natalie and her family fought for the hospital bed, and that was undeniable.

Now she just needed to use public pressure to force Natalie to leave with her family.

She was wearing her school uniform. In society, students are always noticed and taken care of.

So, school uniforms helped build up the public opinion environment.

Alarieka looked at Natalie’s face through her fingers.

Natalie’s expression could even be described as if she just ate shit: twisted, dark, resentful.

Alarieka gave a sarcastic smirk and grabbed Natalie’s sleeve when Natalie tried to leave.

Right away, she cried even harder.

“You guys don’t even think about leaving, don’t even think about leaving until you give my grandma’s hospital bed back.”

Right at that moment, Jaylene calmed her grandma down and squeezed in from outside the crowd.

She was smart. As soon as she met Alarieka’s tearful eyes, she understood what had happened.

She sniffled, ran over, and hugged Alarieka.

“Stop crying, we have to be strong,” Jaylene shouted, “We can’t let those who bully us get even prouder. We have to be strong.”

Alarieka was holding back a laugh and tried to cry as she answered Jaylene.

“But what about Lorelai? She was already getting old, and she was still being bullied by young people like this?”

Natalie and her family, including the middle-aged man in the hospital bed, were all stunned by the scene the two of them made. Under everyone’s scornful and condemning looks, they gave up, turned around with red faces, and faced away from the crowd.

Natalie stood at the very front, got the coldest stares, and heard even more mocking voices.

She was grabbed by the corner of her clothes by Alarieka and just couldn’t get away.

Finally, when she heard the word “bitch,” she couldn’t hold it in anymore and tried to pry Alarieka’s fingers off.

“Alarieka, all you ever did was cry and make a fuss. See? No one cared about you. Let go of me!”

In the crowd, someone with the right values and loyalty finally stood up.

“You woman, how could you even say something like that? Seriously shameless, hurry up and give grandma’s bed back!”

“Yeah! Give it back! If you don’t, you guys aren’t leaving!”

“Yeah, we went up there to demand an explanation. None of you better think about bullying the old or the kids. All us adults are watching!”

Gradually, a lot of people gathered around, looking at Natalie and her family with righteous anger.

Alarieka came out at the right time, crying and said, “Thank you, everyone, but you… you don’t have to do this. They’ve got people backing them. I can’t win against them…”

Her voice was soft, with a slight tremble, and the key thing was, when she spoke, she looked up with red eyes and gave the crowd a pitiful look.