[Mika: Seraphina sprained her ankle, so Jude rushed her to the hospital.
I ran into a little trouble on the mountain myself and just got back... It's okay, there's always next time~]
Mika kept her eyes lowered, her expression deadpan as she typed out the warm, forgiving message.
[Wait, what? Did they just leave you up there by yourself?]
A classmate couldn't help but ask.
[Mika: We had three backpacks weighing almost seventy pounds combined. It seemed a waste to just leave them behind...
If I had gone with them, I would have slowed them down, and Seraphina's injury was an emergency~]
A heavy silence fell over the group chat after reading Mika's reply.
When everyone first heard that Mika was dating Jude Jensen, the consensus was that she was punching way above her weight.
But after joining the group and getting to know Mika personally, public opinion had slowly shifted in favor of the kind-hearted girl.
Especially since some students had personally witnessed Jude carrying a drunk Seraphina back to campus while Mika trailed behind them, looking utterly abandoned.
Now, finding out that Jude had ditched Mika on a mountain just for Seraphina's sake struck a nerve.
People were beginning to suspect that Jude had ulterior motives for dating her.
Still, seeing Mika's absolute trust in her best friend and boyfriend, no one felt it was their place to intervene.
Mika arranged a meeting spot with the classmate who had the stiff neck. After limping her way through the physical therapy session, the student inevitably asked her what was wrong with her leg.
Mika offered a helpless smile. "My knees used to take a beating back when I was heavier. They got a lot better after some rehab...
But hauling all that gear today probably aggravated the old injury. It's fine, I can treat it myself."
She didn't specify exactly what she had been carrying, leading her classmate to naturally assume that Jude and Seraphina had dumped all their bags on her, triggering the relapse.
Overwhelmed with gratitude and guilt, the student immediately flooded the group chat with praises for Mika, highlighting how she had pushed through her own pain to help others.
The group rallied around Mika with messages of support, but the underlying mood quickly turned icy toward her supposed friends.
That evening, Mika picked up the couriered backpacks from the dorm supervisor.



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