All Chapters of From Campus Pauper to Billionaire Campus King: Chapter 221
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"What?" Jackson snapped. "Come off it, bro. You won't keep me here just because you want to have fun. I don't want to have fun. I want to go back to my room and study. Why are you doing this?" "Why? Do you have a test tomorrow or an assignment you want to submit?" Nathan asked with a clear drawl now appearing in his tone. Jackson's face was folded into multiple lines of anger. "I don't have to be doing all that in order to want to get the hell out of here.""Well, then there is no need to rush, man," Nathan said. There were signs of laziness all showing themselves in his tone. "Here, take a drink. You will forget all your worries in no time."It would be an understatement to say that Jackson did not trust Nathan. In his mind, there was nothing at all he had for the blond-haired one other than pure mistrust. But seeing that Nathan had gotten himself drunk and had let his guard down a little bit, a different voice was now brewing inside of Jackson's chest. The thought that maybe Natha
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"Who was that?" Luke asked, seeing the distress in Isaiah's face as he hung from the call."It was Nathan," Isaiah said. It was obvious he was trying his best to be calm. "That blond bastard," Luke cursed. Isaiah stared at him with an unflinching face. Luke nearly apologized at this. "Oh, there is no need to apologize," Isaiah said, forcing a smile. "He is a bastard all right.Luke made a face. So is Elena. "What did he say?" He noticed that Isaiah was uneasy."Somehow he got my number and is talking about finding where I am and wanting me to tell him before he finds out," Isaiah breathed all out, the words pushing out of his soul in a single rank and file. "And that disturbs you, for what reason?" Elena asked. "For a lot of reasons," Isaiah answered. I might not have known Nathan for a long time but I am aware of his capabilities and how deep his deductive abilities are. That is why I am scared. He might very well trace me here. And if he does, I don't know what in hell might h
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Luke stopped walking, perturbed by Isaiah's new behavior. His mouth fell open. "Isaiah, is that you?" He asked, apprehensive of the idea that he would get an answer. And that answer would decide what would happen to their friendship."It's me," Isaiah said, not turning around to look at his friend, but just stopping to stand before him, with only his back being seen by Luke. "It's your friend. Isaiah Bradley. I am just better now. I just have a better idea of what to do and how I am going to do it. You do not need to fear. Neither do you have to grumble."Luke tried to steady his breathing. "Okay. What do you intend to do now? It's night. It's dark. And I don't even know where we are right now. How do we leave? I thought the plan was to leave by sunrise in the morning. This is nowhere near sunrise.""Trust me, Luke." Isaiah turned around to smile at the boy. "All those fears of yours would be blown into the wind in very little time."Luke stood back and wondered what it was that Isa
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It was morning; the first rays of sunlight were already peeking out of the clouds at the far end of the horizon when Jackson woke up at the back of the car. The moment he gained optimal self-awareness, he jolted up. "Where am I?" he asked. "Hmph..." Nathan snorted right in front of him, driving. "I thought you would never wake up," he said. "What? What happened to me?" Jackson asked. And then the memories began flowing back into his head in one large stream of consciousness. "You!" He snapped. "I remember. You! You had me drunk. You had me unconscious. Why the hell would you do that?" "I did not get you unconscious," Nathan said. "And this might be an unfortunate thing to do, trying to correct a man that is just waking up from his hangover, but you got drunk yourself. I only gave you the same drinks I was drinking. I did not get drunk myself. Now, tell me, how is it that you got drunk?"Jackson became speechless. He could not remember—because he did not know—that Nathan had stopp
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Nathan was not scared. Far from it. There was severely little that he thought Isaiah could do to him that could ultimately hurt him. The only reason he did not want to admit it was that, to him, everything was a game, a riddle to be solved by no one else but him. And no other reason than to prove to himself that he was ultimately the smartest person he knew.And now that he was staring Isaiah in the face, sitting right close to him, he could only burn with all the rage and jealousy that had been scarring the inside of himself for all this time. He could not let Isaiah win. Already he had won the attention and love of their father, and so he would not give him the one thing that he prized himself so much for having."And why is that a problem?" Nathan asked his half-brother. "Why is that the most important thing to you today?" He looked at Jackson, whose eyes were already glaring glaciers of ice at him. "Do you approve of this? He comes back after a few days of us worrying sick over h
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Jenny had just come in the room. She wore a happy face in contrast to the gloomy and serious faces that the others in the room had. She regarded Isaiah with a smile. It was not an innocent one, as it betrayed the fact that she knew something. Something only Jackson was ignorant of. "Welcome, Jenny," Isaiah declared at the incoming young woman. "I am sorry about everything. I am not sure if you will be able to forgive me—""There is nothing to forgive!" Jenny interrupted his welcoming speech. "My father lied about you not showing up at the hospital. He threatened you not to, is that not so? But if there is anything you owe me, don't you think it is an explanation rather than forgiveness? My memory of the hospital is foggy, and if I did not know better, I would have thought that what happened in the museum never really happened. But I know it did, because I landed in the hospital for it."Isaiah kept to a calm exterior, with Luke waiting on what he was going to say to explain himself,
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Jenny knew. She knew instinctively what Isaiah was trying to say. She knew that it was in many ways connected to what happened in the museum. So she was different from Jackson. Jackson wanted to know the truth; she, Isaiah, and—if his behavior is anything to go by—Luke knew. She wanted to know the whole truth. Something she believed only Isaiah knew and was hiding for a grand number of reasons. So she was not angry as Jackson wanted her to be. And this made him angrier. "I can't believe you both," he said. "Why am I the only one acting sane? Why does it feel like you all secretly think I am mad?" He casts his gaze at Luke. "You have a wound on your throat. Does it stop you from speaking? I was expecting your voice to speak to be the loudest about this, but now you have also become quiet?"Luke continued to be quiet. The rage that exploded in the boy's face, for a moment, almost seemed as though it would break the glasses that framed his face. "Say something, Luke. Please. I feel
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"You have all the money in the world now," Jackson continued. "So everything is going to seem like a walk in the park for you. But what about her? Do you know what it means to leave your family for a person that doesn't consider you a friend enough to tell you what is up with him?" Luke sighs. When he looked at Jackson, he saw exactly what he must have looked like to Isaiah when he was kept in the dark. But after he got to know him, he realized how much gravity the whole thing held for Isaiah and why it was such an important matter to be kept serious.But now he looked to Jackson as a betrayer. One that just shook his head every now and then, complying with whatever Isaiah said. Jackson was beginning to suspect that the lean tall boy had been brainwashed."Luke, why did you sigh?" Jackson asked. "Huh?" Luke frowned at him. "I am asking. Just two days ago you were complaining with me about how Isaiah was keeping secrets, but now...now you actually are on his side. Make it make sense
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Isaiah smiled. It was a wry smile. Jules turned around to look if by chance he was smiling at someone else. He was not. He knew what she meant, but from his point of view the words seemed to hint at a whole other meaning. One that had nothing to do with Jules but had everything to do with the friends that he had left behind."What are you smiling at?" She asked, shivering from how weird and out of place the smile was to her."Oh, nothing," he said, his eyes landing upon her and in that moment something inside of her shifted uncomfortably. "What do you want?" He asked. His voice was heavy with intent and seriousness.Jules stuttered, moving backwards for a bit. "It's just that... I have missed you." She lifted herself like a schoolgirl, placing her elbow softly on his chest."He stared at her with a robotic grunt. "What are you doing?" He asked. His voice seemed to fill her up with electricity."Don't you miss me too, Isaiah?" He asked. Before he could reply to her, she interrupted him
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Jules' outburst brought all eyes to her and covered her up in a cocoon of shame, as the eyes bored holes into her soul."What are you all looking at?" She asked, feigning a confidence that she did not have at the time.The crowd of students all seemed to turn back to their business, muttering unintelligible words. Somehow Isaiah picked up a few intelligible sentences from the mass of unintelligible murmurings that was floating across the hall. "You were dumped by Walter?" He asked Jules. She froze up."How did you know?" She asked. Her pride was under a siege. Isaiah gave no answer to that. He instead nodded and said, "Sorry about that." He was about to walk away when Jules held his arm. "Wait. Who is this?" She nudged at Ashley, who stood with a prissy smile, staring at the jaded girl Jules was. "I thought you were with Jenny now?""My name is Ashley Bradley," Jenny said. "And don't worry, I am not Isaiah's girlfriend," she remarked slyly. "He and my father have a little business