Chapter 162

The girl’s face was pale, and she pretended to be calm: “I–I don’t know what you’re talking about. I didn’t take any money, I didn’t!”

Alarieka walked a few steps closer, with a strange sense of pressure in her black-and-white eyes, staring hard at the girl’s face.

“Yesterday I went to see, you just took one bite of the barbecue and didn’t even swallow it, just spat it out, right?”

The girl’s eyes obviously turned scared: “I don’t know! I don’t know anything!”

Alarieka spoke softly, “You didn’t know? Well, you should know, if I called the police and they found out you took money to slander my stall for hygiene problems, and that you didn’t even eat any barbecue, then that’s defamation and fraud. You’d go to jail for that.”

“It was easy to find evidence. The police just needed to check your or your parents’ bank accounts to see if there was any large amount of money coming in from an unknown source, or check the surveillance footage from that time. As long as they saw you didn’t eat the barbecue, they’d know the truth.”

The girl fell to the ground in an instant, her face pale, her eyes scared and helpless.

Alarieka looked down at her and said, “Clarissa told you to do things without thinking about what might happen to you. Are you still going to do things for her?”

The girl froze for a few seconds.

After a moment, the girl got up and grabbed Alarieka’s hand; “I–I know I was wrong, please, don’t call the police, I’m begging you, please…”

“Alarieka, don’t call the police, it was my fault, don’t call the police…”

Alarieka leaned over and looked at her panicked eyes: “Then you should tell everyone what you did now, understand?”

The girl had tears in both eyes, her eyes were full of tears, and her voice was shaking: “I can’t…”

How could she dare say something like that in public?

If people really said she did something like that, how could she stay at school or face anyone after that?

Alarieka said, “Hm? You still wanted me to call the police, right? I could do that for you.”

The girl’s tears fell, she pouted, wiped her tears with her hand, and turned to shout at the crowd.

“It was my fault, there was nothing wrong with Alarieka and Jaylene’s barbecue, I took money from someone else, so I set up Alarieka.”

The girl bowed to Alarieka and Jaylene: “Sorry, really sorry.”

Alarieka raised her eyebrows a little.

Watching the girl walk into the classroom with her head down, covering her face.

A lot of students and teachers had already gathered around, looking at Alarieka with surprised and uncertain eyes, whispering to each other.

Alarieka didn’t say anything else and just pulled Jaylene away.

After sitting down, Jaylene plopped herself onto her desk and looked at her with admiration in her eyes:

“Alarieka, you did pretty well, acted pretty convincing.”

Alarieka smiled, “It’s all sorted out, just go set up your stall as usual tonight.”

Jaylene looked down and stared at her up close, “Alarieka, were you really just a high school student?”

Alarieka paused for a second, then chuckled and said, “What? Do I look old?”

Jaylene made a fist with one hand and knocked it a few times into the palm of her other hand.

“That’s not it, I didn’t say you were old, I just thought you seemed really mature, like, not like a high schooler, really different, and you had a really nice vibe too.”

Jaylene got more and more excited: “You know what? Every time I saw you hanging out with other classmates, if you weren’t wearing a school uniform, I’d think you were their teacher."

Alarieka slowly lowered her eyelids and stayed silent.

Jaylene clapped her hands, “I got it, what’s this called, this is called being mature for your age, your soul is really…”

Alarieka looked up and let out a snorting laugh, “What are you doing? You sounded so serious.”

Jaylene wanted to say something else, but Alarieka shooed her away: “Alright, alright, class is about to start, stop joking around.”

Although it was already cleared up, this thing definitely affected the barbecue stand’s business. It was unavoidable, but there were still a lot of customers. Jaylene was pretty satisfied.

Mcintosh Piano Competition announced the contestant info a week before the competition, and Alarieka was at the very last spot on the last row.

Jaylene knew how important this game was to Alarieka, so she told Alarieka, if it’s not something important, you don’t need to help at the barbecue stand. Just focus on getting ready for the game.

After the participant list was announced, there was some buzz online.

They were mainly talking about Roschelle entering the competition.