To keep his cover from being blown, Dalton was really putting in the work.
+8 Pearls
As her thoughts slowly drifted back to the present, Jean stared at the chat window on her screen and began typing swiftly in response to Winston.
Wingflare: “I’m actually older than I sound. People always say my voice makes me seem younger. You’re not
the first.”
The other side went quiet for a while.
It was not until half a minute later that Winston finally replied.
Deadmark: “Alright then…”
Once that brief exchange ended, Jean switched over to her phone and started replying to a message from Sofia.
She had sent her some updates about what had been going on at school.
Sofia shot her a few text messages.
“You left so fast last time, you didn’t see the looks on those students‘ faces in the auditorium… I swear, I saw shame and regret written all over them.”
“The things you said, they’re really powerful. It hit people hard.”
“The campus forum’s taken a complete turn. No more hate posts about you. I used to open it, and half the feed was trashing you. Now? Poof. All gone.”
“Looks like you really woke everyone up.”
Jean read those words, and the corners of her lips curved slightly. She replied: “Thanks for telling me. If they’re truly turning over a new leaf, then I suppose that’s a good thing.”
Yeah, right.
Though her message sounded gracious, she could not care less what the students at Stellarford Academy thought.
She had not said those things to enlighten anyone or to make them feel guilty.
She said them simply because she wanted to. Because she had bottled it all up for too long, and if she did not let it out, it was going to suffocate her.
She never expected, or hoped, for them to change their opinions of her.
Besides, odds were she would never have much to do with those people again.
Once she was forced out of the Ginger family, she would no longer be attending Stellarford Academy. All these petty grudges and schoolyard whispers would naturally fade away.
Still, it was surprising that her emotional outburst, initially intended for herself, actually stirred some semblance of guilt in those students.
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13:12 Sun, 25 May N
Who knew they were even capable of shame? That was new.
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