MAXINE'S POINT OF VIEW
Uck!!! This news is everywhere. I can’t believe Mum is suddenly like... wealthy and all. Eww. It’s literally making me sick. How does she even pull this off? The woman can’t even tell the difference between vintage and tacky! And now the internet is calling her Ari, the fragrance queen? Please. She doesn’t even know how to pose for a camera properly.
Everywhere I turn, there’s her stupid perfume ad—on billboards, online, even in those short clips before a YouTube video starts. Her smile looks so fake, so forced, and that tagline, “Smell good, Feel good”? Ugh, cringe. I switched off my phone after seeing her video on loop this morning.
I stomped into Marcus’s room. “Can you believe this?!”
He was on his bed, earphones in, looking completely unbothered as usual. “B
