Being Pursued By Ex-husband

For some reason, Katherine liked Sophia a lot, so no amount of hostility from Joshua would change anything.

Katherine and Joshua were neighbors, but Katherine loved clinging to Sophia and would often walk her to her house before collecting bottles with Joshua on the way home.

Although Joshua's household didn't fare any better than Katherine's, he always kept himself and his clothes clean and tidy. As a result, the girls in class loved playing with him.

Katherine, on the other hand, was very skinny and tanned when she was little. Oblivious to the fact that Joshua liked her, she did not feel upset at all when other girls sat next to Joshua. In fact, she even walked up to him and said, “This is awesome! You won't be lonely now that you have someone sitting next to you, and I get to sit with Sophia!”

Joshua ended up getting mad at her for two weeks.

Even so, Joshua still walked home with Katherine every day and tutored her whenever she had trouble with her homework. They even picked up bottles together as usual, except Joshua wouldn't talk to her unless absolutely necessary.

Katherine was so oblivious that she asked if he wasn't talking much due to a sore throat.

That was when Joshua realized there was no point in getting mad at her because she wouldn't understand it.

The three of them remained in the same class for six years straight in elementary school, and they somehow got into the same class in their first year of junior high as well.

It was common for junior high school students to begin experiencing physical changes in their bodies due to puberty and develop crushes.

Katherine looked like a completely different person after her first stage of puberty. Not only did she slim down, but her skin also became a lot fairer.

This marked the end of her “ugly duckling” era and resulted in lots of boys trying to ask her out. They would either do so verbally in person or leave love letters on her desk.

However, Katherine was not exactly the brightest when it came to romance.

She knew that boundaries were a must between boys and girls at that age, but she didn't exactly understand the confessions she received from boys.

If anything, she simply assumed the boys admired her character and capabilities.

When Katherine first received love letters, she would show them off to Joshua and brag about them. “Ha! See this? You're not the only one receiving love letters! I get them too!”

Sophia simply sat there on the side and observed Joshua's interesting facial expressions. He was obviously displeased about it, but he couldn't show it or Katherine would get mad at him.

When they were in the second year of junior high, a boy from a different school would wait outside their school gate every day to confess his love for Katherine. Although Katherine enjoyed the feeling of having the boy confess to her while the surrounding students cheered them on, she found it annoying after a while.

Little did Katherine know, the boy's family had some ties with the local gangsters, and he was quite the hooligan as well. Eventually, he got impatient after being rejected by Katherine several times and decided to force her into accepting his confession.

One time, he refused to let them go until Katherine said yes. Seeing as Katherine still wouldn't accept his confession, he tried to drag her away by force. However, Joshua smacked his hand aside before he could even touch Katherine.

Naturally, the boy and his cronies did not take kindly to that. He grabbed Joshua by the collar and asked him why he had to butt in like that.

“Because she doesn't like you,” was Joshua's response, and he swiftly punched that boy in the face.

That was the first time Joshua had gotten into a fight for Katherine. Although he fought aggressively, he was at a significant disadvantage due to being outnumbered. Eventually, the teacher had to step in and break them up.

Despite the fact that Joshua's academic results had always been excellent, fighting outside the school gate had ruined his reputation. Not only did he receive a warning for his misbehavior, but he also lost his scholarship for the entire academic year.

Katherine cried several times at home after finding out what happened. Since then, she would place all the love letters she received into a paper bag and burn them.

Katherine did not perform well during the midterms and failed to make it into the same class as Sophia and Joshua.

Those two, on the other hand, excelled academically and were among the top scorers in the city.

A few high schools even competed with each other over Sophia and Joshua. Silverleaf School went to the extent of offering them a thirty thousand allowance on top of exempted tuition fees, but they both turned the offer down.