Just as Robert was jesting around with his roommates, Whitney raised her head and shouted," Come down here, Robert Ares!"
As if he was stung by a bee, Robert poked out his head tremblingly. While looking at Whitney, he stammeringly asked, "I wasn't the one who broke the rules, Ma'am. Why are you calling me down?"
Whitney said, "If you hadn't seduced her, would she have run over here to you in the middle of the night to confess her feelings?"
Robert was immensely speechless.
He was so enraged by Whitney’s way of thinking that h e could not speak. "You're siding with her on purpose, Ma'am."
Whitney said sharply, "Boys must be more gentlemanly. You’ll be punished for this matter."
Robert was still someone who had tender, protective feelings for the opposite sex. He did not want the girl t o be punished for this. Hence, he could only brace himself and head down.
The darkness of night was lifting.
Whitney brought Robert to the huge field.
Robert looked at the running tracks dispiritedly and accepted his misfortune. He asked, "So, how many
laps am I running?"
Whitney suddenly turned to face Robert, and her expression seemed aggrieved.
"Do you know how many difficulties I had to endure just to see you again?"
Robert,
Whitney raised her hands and said, "My powerful hands had to pick up embroidery needles for you and embroider the things that little girls like on a canvas..."
Robert felt that something was amiss with this and he quickly stopped to say, "What does that have to do with me? I've never forced you to do anything."
Whitney immediately burst into tears. "You have no conscience!"
Robert got goosebumps from this and retorted, "Can I take this as you're trying to hook up with me, Ms. Cornelius? As an instructor, you’re trying to tempt a minor. Aren't you afraid of me suing you?"
Whitney simply pressed her luck and said, "Do you think that I want this job? If it weren't for you, I would never have started teaching in the first place."
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