As soon as she said that, everyone looked over.
Sheril immediately felt her face flush in embarrassment as though she was living on someone’s charity.
Rachel, however, didn’t let her off. She continued and said, “You can ask your mother to make an appointment for you, though. That way, you’ll also be able to attend her classes! By the way, does your mother have any connections? Do you want my mother to hook her up with the relevant people?”
After the Andersons fell into decline, as Simon’s wife, Melissa’s status had also dropped.
However, not only did her family, the Woods, not help her in any way, but they even rubbed it in.
Take, for example, what was currently happening. What Rachel said had in no uncertain terms told everyone that even though Melissa had been part of the Woods in the past, her current authority and connections were actually not as good as the Woods’.
Sheril clenched her fists and tried her best to make herself look calm as she replied, “No, it’s fine. I’m not very interested in dancing anyway…”
Rachel curled her lip. “Is that so?”
She glanced at Caden. Then, as though she was talking about Sheril yet also as insinuating something else, she said, “What a shame.”
After that, she turned and looked at the other people there.
However, when she did, she saw that everyone who had been circling around her and asking about Tanya just now was instead now staring curiously at Nora.
The young woman, who was dressed simply, easily became the focus of the crowd just by gracefully standing there.
Rachel frowned. She took the initiative to walk over, held Sheril’s hand with a smile, and asked gently, “Who’s this, Sheril?”
Sheril suppressed her awkwardness and embarrassment and naturally made the introductions. “This is Nora, my eldest aunt’s daughter.”
A surprised Rachel immediately exclaimed rather loudly, “Huh? So that’s who you are! I totally couldn’t tell from your figure that you’ve given birth before!”
The words “you’ve given birth before” astonished everyone there.
Rachel covered her mouth and looked at the two of them apologetically. She said, “S-sorry, I accidentally spoke without thinking for a moment there. Nora, you don’t mind, right?”
To outsiders, premarital pregnancies were seen as immoral behavior. Under normal circumstances, even if one’s family didn’t help them to hide it, they wouldn’t publicize it like that, either.
However, Rachel had mentioned it the moment she came over. This made everyone instantly look at her in a different way.
Nora could hear someone nearby whisper, “Tsk, she looks pretty pure and innocent. I didn’t expect that she already has kids.”
“Why is someone like her here to dance? Is she trying to hook up with someone?”
Sheril frowned. She stood in front of Nora and said, “Don’t spout nonsense, Rachel. Nora’s just here to learn how to dance!”
Rachel cast her eyes down and smirked. “In that case, does she have a dance partner yet?”
Sheril looked at the other people there.
Most people who came here to dance didn’t come at fixed intervals. Neither did they have fixed dance partners. She had originally thought that it would be very easy to find Nora a dance partner since she was so pretty.
However, Rachel’s words just now had obviously made everyone averse to Nora.
She was about to say something when Nora smiled and said, “It’s okay, Sheril. I’ll just watch you dance.”
Sheril said, “Nora, you…”
Nora cast her eyes down. “It’s fine, really.”
Sheril knew that trying to comfort her further now would only result in the opposite effect, so she could only give her a resigned nod.
When the dance teacher arrived, everyone split into pairs and started to dance.
A bored Nora leaned against the wall and played with her cell phone while she watched Sheril out of the corner of her eye.
Caden was unexpectedly a pretty good dancer.
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