Bertie went silent when he heard of the news. He remembered grandfather’s advice to let Kathy stay in Country B and leave Ocean University.
The trouble would still come again and again.
“Yeah. You have to be there for her.”
“I’m not close with her though.” Zofia raised her eyebrows, “Don’t you love her? If you can help her overcome this, maybe she’ll fall in love with you after this.”
“Not this time.”
“Why not?” Zofia’s curiosity continued to increase.
“Just focus on your studies and stay out of other matters,” he warned.
“Then I can’t be there for Kathy.” Zofia blurted out.
“Don’t you want the ticket to your beloved singer’s concert?” he threatened.
Zofia’s expression immediately changed. “Fine! I’ll console her! I want the first row seat!”
When she got back to her dorm, she thought that Kathy would be hiding in her bed with tears flowing down her cheeks. Surprisingly, she was reading.
“I’m pretty sure you haven’t eat anything. Here, I bought you fried rice.” Zofia gave her the food container.
“Thank you, Zofia.”
“Don’t thank me. My brother forced me to do this.”
“This time, how are you planning to solve it?” Zofia asked her again.
“I don’t know,” Kathy answered honestly.
She looked at Zofia. She knew that Zofia had a huge circle of friends. “Hey, do you know where Caelan stays?”
“Two floors above you. 1208.”
“Thank you.”
Soon, she was standing in front of his dorm door, unsure of her decision. However, before she could knock on the door, she heard a boy’s words from nearby.
“Caelan, isn’t that Kathy who copied your answers?”
Two boys could be seen. The one who spoke was Cohen, and the one beside him was most probably Caelan.
Kathy felt disgusted as soon as she saw the both of them.
“Cohen, don’t spout nonsense. I never copied his answers.”
Her face gradually became pale as she said.
The word ‘copying’ was a pain from the bottom of her heart. She curled her fingers into a fist.
“Why are you here, Kathy?” Caelan asked.
“You know that I didn’t copy your answers.” Kathy looked at him.
But Caelan was calm.
“The school will decide whether you copied or not. I can also said that I didn’t copy your answers.”
“Kathy, students like you should be kicked out from the school.” Cohen roared in anger.
“I won’t get kicked out! Never!”
She must prove her innocence.
She didn’t go back to her dorm. Instead, she walked around the area.
At that time when the results were out, no one had realized that their answers were the same. This only happened when school restarted. Was someone plotting against her?
Now she thought about it, Cohenwas jealous when Benedict Watson chose her. It made sense if he’s the one behind all this.
When she confronted Caelan just now, even though he looked calm, she couldn’t miss the way he avoided eye contact with her.
What should she do in this situation…
She looked around and observed the students who were discussing about their academics. She couldn’t believe that she would be kicked out of school before class even started.
Annoyed, she sat down on a bench beside the man-made lake, her leg kicking the pebbles around the bench.
Soon after, one of the pebbles was kicked back to her. She curiously looked up and saw Joseph walked over to her from afar.
“Why are you here?” Kathy immediately looked away.
Joseph sat down beside her and stretched out his leg, kicking away the other pebbles in the process.
“To look at my ex-wife.”
“Then you can leave now.” Kathy said blankly.
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