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Chapter 3 - Ridicule

"Stop!!" Carlos angrily yelled at Joseph, as he stepped in between Camryn and Joseph, before Camryn could speak Joseph waved the supreme card in the air, his eyes flashed with triumph as he said to Carlos

"Mr Miller look, she stole a card from the VIP room" he smiled at him, his expression a little slug, surely Mr Miller would be happy with him for preventing theft, he thought to himself as he smiled, he had a lot of authority in the Eastern distract of First Republic Bank in the city and when he arrived at this branch, he had seemed impressed with him, so he was hoping for a promotion, his imagination began to run away with him. Mr Miller's face had always been a little gloom but as he watched, his expression grew darker and darker, before Joseph could figure out why, he was stunned by his explosive roar, leaving his entire body trembling.

"Let go of Ms Ambrose!" Carlos knocked the supreme card out of Joseph's hand as he yelled, Joseph was so scared that he let go off Camryn, Mr Miller pushed him aside as he bent down to pick up the card "Ms Ambrose! your card, am very sorry, I haven't trained him very well, I do apologize" Mr Miller's expression showed a mixture of respect, embarrassment and unease. As the bank's customers looked on in amazement, Joseph was stunned, could the black card be her's? he wondered, his eyes widened, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make sense of it, if this man had a supreme card, then he had at least, thirty million dollars, yet he appeared to only be around twenty years old, a poor lower class loser with that much money? no! it was just too unlikely

"It was not your fault Mr Miller" Camryn assured him, slipping the card back into her jean pocket

"Thank you Ms Ambrose" Carlos bowed his head slightly before straightening up and shouting at Joseph "why are you just standing there? apologize to Ms Ambrose now"! how could Joseph still not understand? Carlos asked himself inwardly, the young woman standing in front of him was seriously rich and needs to be treated with respect, Joseph immediately bowed his head at Camryn

"Ms Ambrose! am very sorry for my rude behavior, I... I made a mistake, created a fuss over nothing and put my hands on you, it was my fault and I take two weeks suspension to reflect on my behavior!" Joseph apologized but Camryn ignored him and walked away

"Ms Ambrose"! Carlos called her "if you ever need anything just give me a call and I will do my best to help" Carlos was excited to meet this opportunity, it was rare to meet someone as important as Camryn, so he did everything possible to try to charm her

"Okay Carlos" Camryn smiled faintly, Carlos had come to her defense after all.

Camryn strolled out of the bank, and held a taxi to take her back to Plymouth university, as Camryn entered into the university building, she accidentally stepped into a puddle, splashing lots of mud on her legs, she checked her watch and then rushed into the classroom without washing off the mud where Mr Walter was already standing at the podium lecturing, he spotted Camryn out of the corner of his eye, and a hint of disappointment flashed across his face, feeling guilty Camryn lowered her head, of all her lecturers, Mr Walter was her favorite, the other lecturers tend to ignore her because of her poor appearance, and some even openly mocked her, only Mr Walter treated her like any other students, Camryn sneaked quietly into the classroom aware that all the other students were starring at her, she could hear them whispering

"he isn't usually late" said one of the students

"look at her pants, its so dirty and disgusting, couldn't she just get a new one" said another

"Are you joking? its not like she has money to get a new one" some of the girls continued to talk and the boys covered their mouths as they joined in

"Stop talking" Mr Walter said loudly "and pay attention" throughout the lecture, Camryn noticed that Mr Walter kept glancing at her, his eyes full of disapproval as if she's failed to live up to his expectations, luckily the class was over "class dismissed" Mr Walter packed up his texts books and left

"Zoey!" a voice came through the doorway, everyone turned in the direction of the voice and saw Darren walking through the door and going straight to Zoey who's sitting by the window, she stood and hugged him, pulling him closely to her body, Darren lowered his head and then the two of them began to kiss, many of the students turned and starred at Camryn, everyone thought that she was Darren's girlfriend and they weren't aware that she had broken up with him. Camryn watched in disgust, she felt insulted and embarrassed but most of all she had no intentions of fighting for him, Darren strolled past Camryn with his hand wrapped around Zoey's waist

"Darling! wait a minute" Zoey said to Darren as she stopped in front of Camryn and held out her phone and flashed it across Camryn's face "this is the latest iphone and Darren got it for me, you would have to work a lifetime before you can afford one of these, wait... what am I saying? have you ever afforded a good meal for yourself before without Darren's help? but now that he's mine, I can assure you that you would eat from the garbage were you belong" Zoey mocked at Camryn, a lot of the students laughed out loud by Zoey's bickering

"Of course my love! that phone is far too expensive for a loser like her" Darren mocked

"Well am warning you, don't even think about him or I find out you've gone anywhere around him, you will regret it" Zoey warned Camryn with a strong sense of resentment

"Don't waste your breath talking to a loser like her, can we go to the Lucas for lunch?" Darren asked Zoey who's face lit up with a smile

"Yes baby! let's go" Zoey flirted with Darren right in front of Camryn

"Darren!" a pretty girl stood up glaring at him "you're taking this too far, I never thought that you would break up with Camryn and I'm ashamed of you" she said angrily

"Anna why do you care?" he scarled

"you gave up Camryn for someone like Zoey?" Anna asked and continued "how could you even treat Camryn like this? when you were sick and unable to get up from the bed, Camryn sent you lunch and dinner every day and took good care of you till you recovered for a month, don't you remember that? we know she's poor and earns little from her part time job but she's always done her best to live up to your expectations and this is how you repay her? by breaking up with her and ridiculing her?" Anna asked angrily, she despised Darren for his actions towards Camryn

"I've never forced her to do anything, if she was stupid enough to go on with it then that's her problem, and so what if I broke up with her, how is that your problem?" Darren asked starring at her, Zoey was one of the hottest girl in the university and he had always wanted to lay with her, he knew that with Camryn out of the way, he would have every chance to lay her on his bed, Anna shoke her head in disbelief

"Darren I don't understand you, do you only care about looks? would looks give you everything you want?" Anna asked and Darren burst out laughing

"I admit that I like looks, is that so wrong?" He took Zoey's hand and said "Come on baby let's go, this two poor souls disgusts me" he said glaring at Camryn and Anna as he walked out of the classroom with Zoey with his head held high

"Are you alright?" Anna walked over to Camryn looking worried "you're better off without him, you've seen his true nature and is not worth being sad over" Anna spoke softly to Camryn who smiled

"Don't worry I'm fine!" she said smiling, after seeing Darren's behavior, she felt much better about the break up

"Good!" Anna exclaimed with a brightened expression on her face "come on I will treat you to a meal to celebrate your break up with that loser, don't argue, I know a good place off campus, the Lucas!" At that time the Lucas was rather upscale restaurant and only the rich students of Plymouth university could afford to eat there

"No not this time!" Camryn declined "I don't wanna bump into Darren and Zoey" she said knowing that was the same restaurant they are headed "but next time, I will treat you to a meal at Med's Pack". Med's Pack was one of the most luxurious restaurant in UK, it was the kind of place that the students have heard of but no one could afford to eat there. Anna was surprised Camryn don't usually boast so why was she doing so now? and this particular claim was kinda strange, is this a reaction due to her heart break? she wondered

"Alright I'm looking forward to it, to be honest I've never been there" she said. She had no idea that Camryn could afford to eat four to five square meal there if she wanted and not even spend one hundredth of her wealth. Anna was called away by some friends leaving Camryn alone. Two of her classmates Gwen and Rose dragged her to the cafeteria for a meal, just as they reached the entrance of the cafeteria, Gwen stopped walking, she starred at her phone and loudly announced

"Shit! Lilly is making a fool of herself online, check out our dorm group chat" she said quickly

"Really?" Camryn and Rosa quickly took out their phones and checked the dormitory group chat, Lilly has just sent a message

"Guys its official, I am no longer single, hurry back to the dorm and I will treat you to lunch to celebrate" the message said

"She's finally found a boyfriend, I guess she was tired of being alone" Camryn said as she giggled

"Let's go back to the dorm and celebrate" with that the three of them turned around and walked towards the dormitory. As soon as they entered, they saw Lilly sitting in the bed with a boy holding hands

"You're back!" Lilly let go off the boy's hand and stood up smiling at them, Lilly was a yoga attendant, she was tall and slender with a well developed body "hey guys! this is my boyfriend Jase, he studies music" then she gestured to Camryn and the others "these are my roommates, Camryn, Rosa and Gwen" Jase stood up and nodded with a smile. Rosa looked at him and her heart started to beat faster, he had pale fair skin, deep blue eyes and a well built body "his perfect"! she thought "let's eat at the Vee restaurant, Jase's roommates are coming too, why don't you go and get ready" he then turned to Camryn and said "why don't you bring Darren along" Lilly offered, she didn't know they had broken up

"We broke up" Camryn said bluntly

"Split up? really?" Lilly was shocked, Gwen glanced at Lilly and she understood the silent message

"Hurry up!" Jase looked at his phone and said "my roommates already left for the restaurant and they are all quite impatient, so don't make then wait too long" she said anxiously

"Okay then you guys get cleaned up and change let's get going, Come on let's wait for them outside" she said to Jase and they walked out but just then his cell phone rang, it was one of his roommates, he picked it up and held the phone to his ear

"Alright, I will hurry them up" as he was talking Camryn, Gwen and Rosa came out of the room

"Lilly! how do I look?" Rosa asked looking at her with a smile on her face

"Cool" she replied smiling back at her, she looked at Camryn who had followed Rosa out and frowned

"Camryn! why haven't you changed?" she asked

"What about my friends?" Jase asked "can't you get dressed up for them"? he asked looking at her

"Camryn looks fine, what do you expect her to wear? she's not Lilly and she's never gonna look like her" Rosa defended, Jase shoke his head, he had been a little disappointed when he saw the girls earlier in their poor clothes, he knew quite well his friends were not just coming for the meal but for the girls as well and if they appeared before them like this, they would be very disappointed because they've seen Lilly's picture and thought her friends would appear as hot as she is, he shoke his head in disappointment.

"Stop wasting time and let's go" Lilly urged them and they all followed her out of the dormitory