The students’ response to that announcement was an immense roar of both shock and awe.
Five hundred thousand dollars?!
To think that they had already considered Fabian’s fifteen thousand dollar donation to be over the top! Even after adding what the two goddesses had donated, their total amount still couldn’t beat the amount of cash the top donor had given to charity!
Five hundred thousand dollars… In cold hard cash, that amount could easily reach even the hall’s ceiling!
The students weren’t the only ones in awe either. Even the school’s leaders and lecturers got up from their seats, clapping in utter shock at that colossal amount.
While all this was happening, Warren and Maia were busy peeking at Fabian and Stella.
Fabian and Stella themselves looked completely astounded. Someone from their class had donated five hundred thousand dollars?
“Did you hear that Isabelle? The top donor is from our class!” yelled a few of Isabelle’s classmates.
“I did! But… But who could it have been?” replied Isabelle in her excitement.
Five hundred thousand dollars… That was no small amount, even for the richer families!
As the excitement in the hall continued to grow, Jasmine and Mandy found themselves looking at each other.
While both of them rarely spoke a word to the other students in school, be it during their regular or union classes, they knew the backgrounds of most of their classmates extremely well.
Take Marven Wadley for example. Though both parties had never spoken to each other before, the two girls saw him as a classmate and they had even helped him on several occasions in the past.
While Marven hadn’t struck it as odd that his father had been encountering less and less problems—despite working as an illegal tour guide—recently, it was honestly all thanks to Jasmine’s secret interventions.
That was proof of how well both of them knew their classmates’ backgrounds.
It was also the reason why they were so sure that none of their classmates—who weren’t already on stage—had the capability to freely donate five hundred thousand dollars.
“Mr. Fabian and Ms. Stella, both of you are from the third class as well, right? The top donor seems to be someone from your class!” said the host as he looked at the two students.
“While we’re waiting, where’s the mineral water we carried over earlier? Be a dear and bring them over, will you?” said the teacher as he looked at Isabelle.
“…Ah. I was so excited that I forgot all about it!” replied Isabelle as she gently smacked her forehead.
“Well we’ll just get… I’d say six classmates to carry the bottles over then! Where are Marven and Gerald?” asked Isabelle as she scanned the crowd, trying to find them.
“Hmm? Ah, they’ve hidden themselves in a far corner!” said a girl who then pointed in their direction.
“Humph! I told you two to carry the water bottles earlier but you didn’t! Now I have to find four other students to help you with the task… Can’t you two do anything right other than laze around?” said Isabelle while giving them a disgusted look.
Before they could even reply, she immediately left, yelling at another four classmates for them to join the duo.
Gerald was no stranger to classmates like Isabelle. To girls like her, all other guys aside from the person she was into would never be good enough for her.
Then again, it’s not like her approval meant anything to Gerald.
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