Take Control of Yourself, Please novel (Anna and Liam)
Chapter 273 Are You Drunk?

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. We 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, no 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 be back soon." She was swaying slightly; Nina ran over to 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.

Ryan was already drunk, he stumbled and knocked into the wall, Anna took the chance to flee but was once again blocked by him.

"Don't treat me like that, I won't be nice anymore." He warned her.

Anna lifted her head fearlessly, "And what will you do?"

He thought she would be afraid of him?

Even Liam Ackman couldn't scare her, what was Ryan Sanchez?

Ryan was just about to bend down towards her when Nina rushed forward and pushed him away.

"What are you doing?" Nina hugged Anna protectively, standing in front of her.

Ryan steadied himself, and scoffed, "I didn't do anything, what is all this for?"

"Anna, let's go!" Nina glared at Ryan and dragged Anna back to their room.

Ryan looked at her disappearing figure, lips pursed into a thin line, he squinted his eyes, an evil glow flashing in his eyes...

He removed his phone from his pocket slowly and dialed a number, it was Jennifer's.

Anna swayed her way back to their room. Her classmates all started to holler, chanting for her to sing.

Anna was drunk, under her classmates' words of encouragement, she raised the mic and sang a song. When the song ended, all her classmates clapped.

"Anna is not just pretty, she's smart and she even has a beautiful voice! God is biased!" A boy sighed.

"If only Anna didn't have someone protecting her, I would like to pursue her..."

"Everyone, look! Charles is organizing a lucky draw to give Anna compensation money again!"

The students hurriedly picked up their phones to enter the lucky draw. They even sent a photo of her looking tipsy to him, and another round of lucky draws were given. "With Charles here, our meals have been taken care of!"

When everyone was having fun and laughing in the room, the room door was suddenly pushed open.

Everyone looked at the newcomer and was frozen to their chairs.

Jennifer wore a stunning dress with immaculate makeup on her features. She stood in front of the small crowd and smiled gently.

"What? Already forgot about me? How can I not attend a party celebrating the end of our practical assessments?"

Everyone was confused, she was the one who left first, why did she come back and join the party?

Jennifer poured a glass of wine and approached Anna. Laughing coyly, she said, "Anna, congratulations and thank you."

Jennifer handed her a glass of wine, Anna hesitated but took it anyway.

"Anna, I'll drink first as a sign of respect." Jennifer raised the glass and gulped it down in one go.

Anna scrunched her brows but immediately followed suit, raising her glass and emptying it.

At the sight of their reconciliation, everyone clapped and raised their glasses in celebration.

"Anna, it was all my fault. I'll drink another glass as a sign of my apology."

Anna was already tipsy, this glass was too much for her, but her classmates wouldn't let her off the hook. They chanted at her to finish it so she had no choice but to empty it. "Anna, are you drunk? I'll help you sit over there." Jennifer helped Anna into the neighboring sofa and sat down.

Anna's head was buzzed. Her body felt light as if she was floating. Her muscles softened and she leaned on the side of the wall as her mind grew increasingly fuzzy.

"Anna what happened? Are you drunk? I'll send you home." Nina heaved Anna up with all her strength but she was feeling tipsy herself and couldn't move her at all. Anna felt like she was burning up, she tugged at her collar and mumbled incoherently, "So hot..."