At The Peak Of Greatness

Chapter 4

After looking through the various companies he owns, Clinton received a call from his class captain.

A very nice voice came from the other end when the call connected. "Did you forget about my birthday? Why are you not here?"

Clinton scratched his head, thinking of a way to turn her request down. "Oh about that, I will be busy right now. I can't attend your party."

"Come on Clinton, It's my birthday, Don't worry," she paused then said. "You don't have to think about buying me any gifts. You being there will be okay for me. I will feel bad if you absent yourself from tonight's party."

"But I don't want to come. The people will laugh at me even if I wear something good"

"Clinton," she said in a soft voice. "I want you to come. You are the only friend I have aside Akira"

Clinton bit his lips. "Okay. Will come"

"I will take that as a yes then, I have reserved a room at Victoria restaurant, on the second floor."

Clinton replied with a helpless tone. "Fine, In case I'm coming I will call you"

"Okay, I will be expecting you then, bye" Sandra ended the call..

***

At the female dormitory with her friends preparing to leave for the party, She smiled thinking about the interaction right now with Clinton. Knowing that he will be there made her a little relieved.

"Is he coming?" Her female friends asked.

"I don't know. He didn't give me a straight answer." Sandra replied as she sat down.

" I doubt he will come. Why did you even bother inviting him." One of her female friends said with a look of contempt on her face.

"Akira, this is my birthday. I only invited him because he is our classmate. I don't hate him, you know. And I'm not like you guys, I don't judge people just because they are poor"

"Whatever, that Clinton guy will definitely show up empty-handed," Akira sneered, shaking her head.

"I don't care," Sandra glared at her friend. "Stop talking about him. Isn't he pitiful enough?"

Akira hissed. "No he isn't."

"Oh yeah, Have you heard, Clinton is no longer dating Xavier, I heard she dumped him last night"

The girls started gossiping about him.

"Really, how did Clinton react after the break up"

"Haha, Xavier said he cried like a baby. He in fact doesn't deserve a girlfriend…

***

At the male dormitory, Clinton was having a change of clothes.

After being invited by his class captain, it will be weird if he doesn't attend the party.

Knowing that she personally invited him, he decided to buy her something nice. After all, she was a very good person.

Clinton took his supreme shoppers card and left the dormitory.

He hailed a taxi and went to Dolcan Boutique to get her a gift.

As he entered, He was greeted with a nice scene of luxuries decorations that spoke of wealth.

Clinton took a deep breath, checked his surroundings and walked up to a sale's staff member. "Hello, ma'am, Good morning, I will like for you to take me around here"

The saleswoman took notice of the shabby appearance of Clinton before she replied. "I don't think you have seen where you are standing. This is Dolcan, every product here costs at least 1000$, you cannot afford anything here."

"What? I'm here to buy something. Why are you speaking to me so harshly, Am I not a customer?"

As he was about to leave the boutique, he heard some people talking. "Have you heard, There is a new bracelet on display at this boutique. It cost 55,000$"

"Yes, I saw it online last night. Man, If I had money I would have bought it for my girlfriend"

There were few University students that just entered the boutique. Clinton didn't recognize them since there were a lot of people from their university.

But what they were discussing interested him very well. Even if he couldn't buy a bag, why don't he buy a bracelet instead.

After all, it won't cost him any amount. 55,000$ wasn't a huge amount to him anymore.

He followed them to the place where the display was at.

There were a lot of people that had surrounded the place, most of them were women, they were standing there taking pictures at the beautiful design of the ruby bracelet.

Clinton stood at a distance waiting for the crowd to leave before he would go and buy it.

Just then, a very beautiful young sales girl greeted him. "Excuse me sir I've seen you have been standing here for a long time. Do wish for me to show you around "

Finally he has met someone who doesn't look down on people based on their appearance.

"Yes, I would like to buy a present for a friend, do you have any suggestions?"

The girl looked over to the ruby bracelet and gestured. "Yes, you can buy a bracelet if you want." Even though she wasn't sure of herself, she just proceeded to say that.

"You are right, please can I have a look at the bracelet?"

The sales girls looked at Clinton and asked him. "Sir, are you sure?"

Clinton chuckled. "Yes. I'm sure. Can I see it?"

"Okay" she then went and took the bracelet from the cabinet.

However, the saleswoman from earlier was attending to a customer when her gaze landed on the salesgirl showing the Ruby bracelet to Clinton.

"Hannah! Don't you have eyes! Why are you showing him the ruby bracelet? It's worth 55,000$. If something happens to it you will be in trouble. Can't you see he doesn't have any money with him,"

"But he is a customer. He said he wants to see the bracelet."

The saleswoman furrowed his brow. "Hannah, you are just a newcomer. We know a richer man when we see one but this boy beside you is just a country pumpkin." Her tone was harsh, attracting the others to look at Clinton.

Most of the people from the University saw Clinton holding the ruby bracelet and laughed.

They couldn't buy it, but seeing someone like Clinton, pretending to buy it made them laugh out loud.

"Haha. Isn't that Clinton?"

"Yes it's him"

"Hey, stop trying to act high and mighty. You can't buy it."

Few girls were now rolling their eyes at Clinton. "Guys like him only come to luxury boutiques like this and take pictures. When they are done they go to their villages and brag about it."

At this moment, Cia and Daniel also got drawn by the noises that was going, and when they walked further they noticed Clinton holding something.

" Oh my God! Is that the Ruby bracelet in your hands?" Cia yelled.

"What do you think you are doing, quickly return it back"

Daniel on the other hand was crying internally after he had selected four expensive dresses for Cia, however when he saw the bracelet in Clinton's hand, his eyes nearly popped out!

"Clinton, you have balls. Do you think you can buy it? Even I, won't dare go near that bracelet,"

Clinton turned deaf ears to all their taunts and smiled.

"Please rap this for me." He said to the sales girl.

"Sir are you sure?" After being scolded by her senior she was now cautious.

"I said rap it up, don't worry" Clinton assured her.

"O,Okay."

As she was packing the item, it happened that someone had already told the manager about the matter.

"Who is causing a scene here? Take me to him"

Few minutes later they arrived at the counter where Clinton was standing.

The manager appeared to be a woman in her mid thirties. She had an unwelcoming look on her face as she glared at Clinton. She didn't bother speaking politely, after he saw Clinton's appearance.

"Hey, young man. Leave the store at once!"

"Manager, I know him. He is a cleaner in our University. He doesn't have anything with him. Sometimes he had to beg for food from the cafeteria" Daniel laughed out loud trying to get the manager's attention.

"Haha, now he dares to say that he is some sort of big shot now. You can sack him."

Everybody was now laughing at Clinton, they thought he was just here to make a fool of himself.

Seeing how everyone was laughing at him, Clinton sighed and removed the universal supreme shoppers card from his pocket!

"This is my card and I'm buying the Bracelet!"

The atmosphere at the boutique changed instantly.

"This this….." The manager's eyes widened and blinked rapidly, seeing an actual Universal Supreme shoppers card in broad daylight!

"This is.. supreme shoppers card?"

Even the little salesgirl who approached Clinton earlier was shocked as well. As people from a boutique, they were familiar with credit cards since most customers prefer to use them.

What they didn't expect was to see a boy wearing random clothes to actually carry one.

The scenes were hard for them to digest!

The people who were mocking Clinton minutes ago turned and left, others were also frozen in place not being able to understand what was actually unfolding before their eyes.

The manager's face turned green from embarrassment looking at the golden designs that were engraved on the card. She looked at Clinton and smiled suddenly.

"Sir I'm so sorry for misunderstanding you earlier. Why don't you follow me to my office for me to make it up to you?"

There was a 90 degree change in her attitude, when she said this.

Clinton laughed out loud. "Weren't you chasing me out a minute ago, what happened?"

The manager bowed his head. "..I'm .I'm Sorry"

"Wait a second" Cia had a suspicious glint in her eyes as she walk up to them. "Clinton is our classmate. He has been poor all his life, how can he suddenly have money to acquire such a rare shopping card. Perhaps the card is fake?"

The manager thought for a few minutes and also came to her senses. How can she allow herself to be fooled by such a lowly scam?

"Young boy, swipe your card to make the payment. But if it turns out you are fooling me. Then I will call the police" Her tone was biting as she said these words.

Clinton didn't bother about her and went to the card reader and swiped his card.

He inputted the password he had gotten from Vannesa, then suddenly a receipt was printed out indicating a successful transaction!