Take Control of Yourself, Please novel (Anna and Liam) novel Chapter 273

Anna and her classmates arrived at the karaoke hall.

Her classmates stuffed a microphone into her hands, urging her to sing.

Unbidden, Anna was reminded of Liam condemning her singing, and hurriedly passed the microphone to Nina.

"You guys have fun, my throat isn't feeling very well."

"Anna, you have a great voice, and you don’t want to sing? Come on!" Nina stuffed the mic back into her hands.

Anna whispered under her breath, "Really? My signing doesn’t suck?"

Nina exclaimed in shock, "Anna, have you heard yourself? Your voice is beautiful, till the point where you could enter a competition. If your singing sucked, mine would be background noise!"

Anna insisted on passing the mic to her classmates then found an empty seat in the corner and tried to get some peace and quiet.

They knew Anna was shy and often kept to herself. She rarely joined in on social events, so they let her be.

Nina accompanied Anna and sat in the corner, "Anna, about your bet with Jennifer, why did you give it up so easily? She won't be grateful and besides, if you had the money, your situation would improve so much." "My heart aches at the thought of the money too! But if you think about it, I can't accept that money."

"Why?"

"Think about it, the Wursts and the Lincoln Group often do business together, if I mess up our relationship now, I'm just burning a bridge.

So for my future, I have to do this. You were the one who told me to set my sights on the future." Anna clutched Nina's hand tightly in hers.

"Besides, she's going to join the Ackman Group too. W e have to work together, and I would have to worry about her and her whole family plotting revenge against me. Rather than making an enemy of a whole family, I’d rather take a step back and give in."

Nina smiled, "Anna, you're so smart! But knowing Jennifer, she won't let you get off so easily."

"I've done everything I can, the rest is out of my control." Anna raised a glass of beer, "Come on, drink with me.”

At the sight of Anna and Nina's raised glasses, everyone else hurriedly raised theirs too, agreeing no one was to walk out of the door sober.

"Alright! No sober person in this room!"

Nina joined the toast, "We’ll let our hair down and enjoy the night! To vent out all our anger and frustration over the past few days!"

"Yay! Enjoy ourselves! Let’s play a game. The loser drinks!" The students started playing drinking games.

"After tonight, when we've all collected our graduation certificates, we'll be walking our own paths. Tonight, n o one is allowed to run away!"

After a few beers, Anna began to see stars. She wanted to go to the toilet but realized the toilet inside their room was occupied, so she stood up and walked out.

"You guys continue drinking, I need a toilet break, I'll b e back soon." She was swaying slightly; Nina ran over t o help her but she pushed her away.

"Go and enjoy yourself, don’t worry about me, I’m fine."

"Anna, take care of yourself."

"Ok, ok."

The lights in the corridor were flashing seamlessly, filled with the noises filtering in from the rooms, she was getting dizzy.

When she left the washroom, on the way back to her room, someone coming in the opposite direction knocked into her.

“Don’t you have eyes! You... oh hey! Isn't this Geeky Anna, what a coincidence, you’re here too!"

Ryan Sanchez reeked of alcohol, looking at her with a smile on his face.

Anna raised her head, glanced at Ryan's devilish smile, "What rotten luck."

She wanted to walk past him but he stopped her.

"Don’t leave!" Ryan pulled her arm to stop her from leaving. "I heard you won first place in the assessment, congratulations! Come on, let’s go for a drink!"

"Get off of me!" Anna flung his arm away.