Chapter 124: If I 2nd Then She 3rd

After ignoring Rhea and other 2 eavesdroppers, Andrea and Jenny turned back to stare at Fredrinn menacingly.

Their gazes were synchornized and deadly, as if threatening him to spill the truth just in case he was lying.

He didn’t show a single change in expression.

The heavy silence stretched between them, thick with tension and the smell of old upholstery and cardboard rations.

Fredrinn held their scrutiny with a calm, unbothered posture, resting an arm along the seatback behind Andrea. Against the two blazing stares, his composure remained as solid as granite, offering not a single twitch or guilty flicker for them to latch onto.

Sighing, they could only accept it.

"I don’t believe it... Does that mean you did it with her and her???" Andrea exhaled with a tired look, staring at Jenny and Rose. She couldn’t believe it that she was going to be the third even though she met him first.

"No–"

"Yes." Jenny cut in just before Fredrinn could reveal the truth.

While she and him didn’t go all the way, she desired to do it and she definitely didn’t want Andrea to think that she has a chance to steal the second place that belonged to Jenny.

If Jenny was 2nd, Andrea should be 3rd.

Andrea’s lips parted, her heart clenching in anguish as she made an expression that conveyed that she was feeling betrayed.

"You met me first... Even kissed me and left me edged for so long... And then the moment you go out, you fuck around with others... Wow." She shook her head repeatedly, speaking in a low and dangerous tone.

Fredrinn gulped his saliva at her reaction, "Uhm... That’s not the cas–"

"Shh." Andrea placed her finger on his lips, silencing him as she gazed at him with her gorgeous blue eyes.

Her lips were puckered, her chest rising and falling evenly as she maintained the intimate eyecontact.

"Since you already have done it with others... Whatever." She whispered, grabbing his collar just like she did before he had left, "But now it’s your responsibility to find a spot. I want you. Tonight. Just us."

Fredrinn couldn’t help but gulp as his blood rushed at her words.

He nodded without hesitation. "Your wish is my command, miss."

She giggled playfully and released his collar, harrumphing.

"Good good... Just be obedient like that and you will be rewarded." she said.

"Oh really?" Fredrinn smirked back, sliding his hand around her slender waist, pulling her closer as her busty breasts pressed against his side.

The three eavesdroppers instantly blushed and made some distance after realizing that the drama was finished and the shameless couple had started to flirt.

Rhea hid her face completely in her hands, Naomi cleared her throat awkwardly and examined a broken fingernail, while Vivienne quickly turned around to smooth her skirt over her knees, her ears burning pink.

Rose glared in Andrea’s direction, but managed to control herself as she bit the lollipop she was licking, breaking the sugar crystal into smaller pieces as she crunched them with her teeth.

In an instant, the whole lollipop was finished, her mouth feeling sticky and sweet from inside as she swallowed the saliva.

She tossed the plastic stick carelessly into an open carton, a faint demonic chill lingering in the air around her before she forced her expression back to a poised, detached indifference.

Jenny, on the other hand, was sitting stunned.

Her eyes kept opening and closing as she saw the flirting couple.

She acted like she had already done it with Fredrinn because she thought it would hurt Andrea and make her retreat or something.

Don’t ask why she thought that.

However, Andrea had flipped the script in her head.

She didn’t lash out over the news and instead took advantage of the situation. Now, she had already prebooked Fredrinn and even gave him an ultimatum to find a spot for them tonight.

In addition, the privacy clause was added!!!

Jenny’s eyelids twitched when she gazed at Andrea.

Now she finally realized why she used to feel more threatened by Andrea than Rose. It wasn’t because of strength at all...

It was because of the presence of mind and the ability to make the best of any situation!

Now, she could only sigh in regret and brainstorm the ways on how she was going to crash their plans... Her eyes darted toward the luggage rack above, then down toward the floorboards, scheming frantically while maintaining an outward poker face.

***

Time passed by unrestrained, uncaring about the woes of the mortals.

The mood around the bus had improved slightly, but the cliques were still formed.

The storage room people didn’t bother talking much to the schoolers, and vice versa. There was a natural divide between the shell-shocked teenagers clinging to the remnants of their classroom authority and the exhausted adults who had spent the morning digging graves in the warehouse dirt.

Except for Jacob of course, who didn’t spare a single moment to shake hands with Ash, eager to have another awakener’s requirement list in his data.

Jacob wore his charismatic, brotherly smile, laughing cordially and offering canned peaches as if they were old college buddies, while his sharp eyes quietly measured the young man’s every reaction.

Aadav was driving the bus and the sky had darkened completely, leaving the surroundings in dark except for the bus’s headlight and occasional flickering street lights on the way.

The twin-tailed girl beside him had dozed off, her head bobbing rhythmically against the window frame.

Outside, the abandoned city had turned into a sea of jagged black silhouettes. Ruined storefronts, abandoned sedans with doors left ajar, and shredded billboards blurred past in the gloom.

The drone of the diesel engine had lulled most of the passengers into a tense, uneasy slumber.

But as he was driving, a zombie suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, smashing against the windshield as the body was thrown several meters away...

A concussive THUD rattled the heavy frame of the bus. Webbed cracks spiderwebbed instantly across the reinforced safety glass right in front of Aadav’s face, spraying tiny glass pebbles across the dashboard as the limp corpse flew spinning into the dark asphalt ahead.

Aadav gasped, his hands instinctively gripping the wheel so hard his knuckles turned white as the bus violently swerved.

His foot slammed onto the brakes, tires screeching.