Chapter 5 Tell Me Who She Is
After hanging up on his call, Andy rushed out of the office and cried, “Please wait, Old Mr. Tanner. I’ll take Ms. Sophie Tanner as a student.”
His attitude had taken a one-eighty from before.
Even Josiah had no idea why the principal had suddenly changed his mind.
“Are you sure, Mr. Langston?” Josiah asked.
“That’s right, Old Mr. Tanner. I’ll have her placed in a class right away.” Then, Andy immediately called the high school’s academic head and informed her about Sophie’s immediate enrolment.
Sophie went along with the enrolment, but even she knew things were hardly as simple as they seemed.
The academic head promptly assigned Sophie to the worst-performing class in the school. After receiving her school uniform, Sophie was handed over to the homeroom teacher of Senior Class 8, Derrick Hayes.
Before Josiah left, he said to Derrick, “I’ll have to trouble you to keep an eye on Sophie, Mr. Hayes.”
“It’s no trouble at all, Sir! You should head back. I’ll lead Sophie to her class soon,” came Derrick’s courteous reply.
That was the only answer he could give, seeing as every student at Jipsdale Premier High had a wealthy or influential parent that the teachers could not afford to offend.
Derrick happened to be in charge of the third lesson of the day for Senior Class 8, so he personally escorted Sophie to her new classroom.
When he arrived at the classroom, he announced, “Hi, everyone, we have a new student in our class. She’ll introduce herself. Please give her a warm welcome.”
Sophie walked onto the podium at the front of the room and wrote her full name on the board.
Then, she declared, “Hi, everyone, my name is Sophie Tanner.”
Sophie Tanner? Her new classmates immediately whispered furiously among themselves.
“Isn’t she the Sophie Tanner who was expelled five years ago?”
“I think so! She used to be in my class.”
“I heard she had an abortion around tenth grade. Do you know if it’s true?”
“It was! Back then…”
down. There’s a seat at the end of
and ignored the spiteful glares directed
in Senior Class 8 did not produce spectacular grades.
farthest thing from cowards. Once Derrick ended his lesson, Queenie Lane sauntered to Sophie and taunted, “It really is you, Sophie! I can’t believe you’re
cut in abruptly. Queenie had always been a member of Willow’s clique and had
after a sleepless night in an unfamiliar house, and she was in no mood to entertain
at all. She grabbed Sophie’s hand and continued, “We’re not in Horington anymore, Sophie. Did
eyes
twisted her
Queenie yelped in
threat in Sophie’s eyes, and no
same Sophie from five years ago. Not just anyone can trample over my dignity. Oh right! I’m sure you remember
though coming back
she shoved Queenie roughly, causing the latter to
Queenie was dumbstruck.
Sophie was utterly fearsome.
to remain in Jipsdale. We have to get rid
lessons of the class sprawled across her desk,
had just set foot outside the school gates when
must’ve changed his mind because of
a thing, Sophie decisively got into the car beside
single word of
I saved you last time, and you helped me today, so we’re even.
believed Felix and Tristan were complex characters, and she did not wish to be
Felix to make a call, and it was nothing compared to what she did for
of Lombard Group, and I need
anyone we want in the world. Why must Mr. Tristan
poor grades and poor morals. What
Tristan straight in the eyes, and he knew in that instant that he was staring
medical skills,” came Tristan’s
an eighteen-year-old high school student. What would I know about medicine? I’ve said this many times; I managed to remove the bullet from your body out of sheer luck. You would be dead now if
dead serious, Sophie. Please