Her Story: Rise Of Tiffany

Tiffany's cheeks were burning, and she felt embarrassed and ashamed.

Suddenly, a hand covered her forehead.

Tiffany turned around and saw Zoe Stevens examining her with a baffled look. "You are not having a fever but why is your face so red?"

For once, Tiffany felt guilty as she pushed Zoe's hand away. She abruptly changed the subject, "Is it time for the exam?"

Zoe chuckled. "It is, but what you are thinking about now is probably not the exam, but your engagement in two days, Tiffany. Thereafter, you are considered a married woman!"

'Why is she bringing up the engagement again?' Tiffany cleared her throat softly before chiding Zoe, "Exams are more important!"

"The engagement is more important!" Zoe countered.

"Zoe, you've changed. You're no longer the lovable friend who swore allegiance to me back then."

"No, I'm only abandoning the darkness to join the light!" Zoe made it clear that she was on the side of a certain big shot. She emphasized vehemently, "So, the engagement is more important!" "You..." Tiffany pretended to raise her hand to punch Zoe. Just as the two girls were fooling around, a shadow suddenly loomed over them.

Both of them looked up and saw Kenneth Harper standing in front of them.

Zoe immediately rolled up her sleeves aggressively. "What do you want?"

Kenneth ignored her and placed the book in his hand in front of Tiffany before leaving. Throughout the whole encounter, he did not utter a single word.

Tiffany looked at the book title and realized that this was the book she had been searching desperately for quite some time

now.

The library was too big and once a book was misplaced, it would require lots of luck to locate it.

Tiffany had almost given up on the book after searching high and low. Thus, after running into Kenneth in the library that day, she decided to give up completely and stopped going to the library. To her surprise, Kenneth managed to locate the book for her.

If he started searching from the time he bumped into Tiffany, that meant he had been searching for two days...

Tiffany stared at the book glumly, her heart tormented by conflicting emotions.

The truth was, she had not gotten used to Kenneth's sudden change. It was as if he had become a different person... Zoe also saw the book title and exclaimed in surprise, "Tiffany, isn't this the book you're looking for?" A few days ago, she had spent the entire day in the library with Tiffany searching desperately for this particular book without success.

Now, out of the blue, Kenneth brought it to them....

Zoe was incredulous. "Why is he suddenly so kind?"

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Tiffany shrugged. "I don't know."

However, this book was very important to her. Tiffany stole a glance at Kenneth. She wanted to thank him, but at this moment, the bell rang for lessons to begin so she put this thought aside for the time being. Tiffany could not wait to open the book and start reading. This was a very old book on hypnosis.

If one could grasp the book's inscrutable essence and put into good practice the precepts, not only would one have the ability to hypnotize people but one would also be able to implement effective psychological treatment.

As Tiffany flipped through it, she couldn't help lamenting that this was truly an ancient book. The contents were obscure and difficult to understand. Laymen couldn't even decipher the language, let alone understand and grasp the essence. However, in Tiffany's case, the arcane language seemed to have been engraved in the depths of her memory. She could actually understand those totally unfamiliar words.

'What's going on here?' Tiffany frowned in bewilderment. She did not recall having learned the contents of this book. Yet, this faint sense of familiarity was too real...

She shook her head and cast aside all the distracting thoughts in her mind to give the book her full attention.

When she finally tore her eyes away from the book, an entire day had passed.

Zoe felt very puzzled when she saw Tiffany so engrossed. She leaned closer and asked, "Tiffany, is this book that good? You are so absorbed in it yet I can't understand a single word!" "Because all your intelligence has been used up by your beauty." Tiffany's retort was swift.

"Huh?" Zoe was taken aback momentarily. After that, she did not know whether to laugh or cry. Was Tiffany complimenting her or insulting her?

Tiffany blinked at her friend cheekily and wanted to say more when she noticed Kenneth walking past from the corner of her eye.

She hesitated for a few seconds before calling out, "Kenneth!"

Kenneth stopped in his tracks but he did not turn around. He simply stood on the same spot with his back to Tiffany.

Bathed in the glow of the setting sun, the young man's slender figure seemed to be enveloped by a surreal layer of gold which made him appear somewhat aloof and distant.

However, no one knew that his palms were sweating profusely at this moment.

Tiffany only uttered two words, "Thank you." The phrase sounded so polite, so detached, and so... unfamiliar.

Kenneth remained standing for a long while before finally replying, "You're welcome."

He then strode off, and his shadow cast by the setting sun gradually grew longer on the ground...

Zoe was surprised that the exchange between Kenneth and Tiffany today was not confrontational, unlike in the past. "I'm still not used to this change in him. I find that he's quite pitiful... 'Pitiful?' Tiffany shook her head. She had no doubt that Kenneth was the least pitiful person in the world. "Stop staring. Let's go."

Tiffany put the book into her bag and walked out of the school campus with her arm around Zoe.

At first, she wanted to search for the book she needed at the library again. However, now that the book had been found, she could go shopping instead.

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Zoe asked as she walked, "Tiffany, are you nervous?"

Tiffany was puzzled. "Huh? Nervous about what?"

"It's going to be the first soon. Your engagement party is in two days. Mr. Hampton previously proposed to you with so much fanfare. He will turn this engagement party into a grand affair too!"

"I don't know about that," Tiffany looked doubtful. She genuinely didn't know anything about the engagement party because she had never bothered herself with it.

After all, Richard had told her not to worry about anything as he would arrange everything. Since he had already given his word, all she had to do was wait for that day.

Zoe couldn't understand why Tiffany was still so calm. "Tiffany, aren't you looking forward to it at all? Aren't you excited at all? This is a major event in your life!"Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

"I guess so." Tiffany could not help laughing out. Of course, she was looking forward to her engagement but she had never shown her excitement outwardly.

Tiffany quickly changed the subject. "So where do you want to go for dinner?"

Sure enough, the word "dinner" caught Zoe's attention at once. She perked up excitedly. "Shall we go to the nighttime street food lane? There's a new barbecue food kiosk there. The taste is simply superb!" A foodie like her could always sniff out the latest street food happenings.

Tiffany beamed. "Let's go then."

The nighttime street food lane was not far from the school. It was only two streets away.

At this hour, many food carts and kiosks were already doing a brisk business. This street food lane had always been popular. Before the sky turned completely dark, many people had already made their way to this lane.

Zoe bought different kinds of finger food as she strolled down the lane. Within minutes, she already had her arms full of paper bags of food.

When Tiffany saw her greasy hands, she shook her head helplessly, "Wait here. I'll go buy a packet of tissues."

"Mm-hmm," Zoe mumbled an unintelligible reply as she chewed non-stop.

There was a convenience store nearby, so Tiffany got what she needed easily.

After Tiffany returned, she offered the tissue to Zoe but the latter seemed to be staring into space at some unknown spot. She asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

She turned to look at where Zoe was staring at. Other than a few street food kiosks, there was nothing else. "What are you looking at?"

Zoe swallowed the food in her mouth and said with a confounded look, "Tiffany, I think Lsaw Grelle just now..."