Charles quickly pulled Flora into his arms, comforting her gently.
"Aria, why did you get so close? There's no work for you to do here!"
Hazel seethed with jealousy watching Charles be so tender with Flora.
"Now you've scared Ms. Keene. Aren't you going to apologize?"
"She pushed me, and you want me to apologize?"
It took Aria a moment for the sharp pain in her back to subside.
She didn't need to look to know it would be bruised.
"If you hadn't been bullying Flora, she wouldn't have reacted so strongly."
Charles had only found out yesterday, after asking Flora, that Aria had bullied people in high school.
Flora had even shown him a video.
He still felt a pang of heartache remembering her sobbing pitifully in his arms.
"Me? Bully her?"
"Isn't that what school bullying is? Looking at Ms. Keene now, who would have thought she was bullied so badly in the past?"
"Aria looks so fragile. How could she be a bully?"
"And here I was just feeling sorry for Aria!"
"..."
At the mention of bullying, the people who had just been concerned about Aria quickly moved away from her.
Aria laughed in disbelief. She took out her phone and pulled up a video of Flora bullying her. "Let's see who was really bullying who, shall we?"
Back then, Flora had blocked her way home, dragged her into an alley, pulled her hair, and forced her to crawl like a dog, even recording a video to humiliate her.

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