Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

441 Search him yourself

The two–hour nap time was over and the class teacher returned from the meeting she had attended with the other staff. There was no need for her to wake the kids because the school alarm already did. 1

She waited for about thirty minutes for them to get a hold of themselves before she started calling the monthly register.

The school, although documents everything on the system, is still adept at using traditional registers monthly to track the number of times their students appeared in class in a month.

Their reason for doing so was that, a few years back, a student was caught hacking his class‘ system and making sure he always marked himself present, whereas he skips school almost every day. The reason that the junior high schooler wasted so much money to get a hacker was because his grandfather promised to pass on his company to the boy’s younger brother if he skips–class again.

The issue caused a lot of trouble for the school, so because of that, they settled for book registers.

Presently, Valen’s class teacher was calling registers and nothing seemed to be wrong until he got to Valen’s name.

She looked up from the Register to see Valen reading a book.

“Valen Lu!”

The young child raised his gaze and looked at her.

“Come out here,” she instructed, pointing to the space in front of her.

Valen got up and trudged to stand in front of her.

“Do you

in school so much?” the class

don’t hate to be in school, but hate to be in this class,” he

that, you took things

was talking about

“Answer me, boy!”

You haven’t told me what I’ve done wrong.” Valen stood his ground.

the lady grabbed the register and pointed at a spot where a black marker was used to

you conclude that’s my doing?”

at the register and pointed. “Number 35, isn’t that

name. You’re accusing me without proof and

she looked at the child, whose hands were inside his pocket. His bangs that were covering one eye wouldn’t give her access to see the wild look

make your punishment double. But if I wrongly accused you, then

I don’t need an apology. Whoever did it should be transferred to class B. I can’t share the same class with

and yelled, “All of you,

she couldn’t find a black marker. She went

watched from his seat. He believed that Valen

her lower lip and clenched her uniform. She didn’t

said.

black marker. She searched all the smaller parts of the bag but couldn’t find

got angry and slapped the table. She stood up and faced the class. “After the count of three if you don’t come out here, I’ll ask for the CCTV footage!”

immediately got up and pointed at Valen, “He

lay false

him. Right, everyone?” he asked his friends

writing in that book with that black permanent Marker he is

frown. Ever since he came into this class, the boy

“Valen?” she called.

child didn’t argue and just grabbed his teacher’s hand. He pulled her sleeve up and wrote with the marker on her arm. The teacher was startled for a moment that she missed the