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

school so much?”

hate to be in school, but hate to be in this class,”

took things into your own hands?”

no idea what she was talking

“Answer me, boy!”

what I’ve done

at a spot where a black marker was used to erase

could you conclude that’s

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

You’re accusing me without proof

stunned as 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

punishment double. But if

transferred to class B. I can’t share the same class with

stood up and yelled, “All of you, bring out your bags and

to find a black marker. After searching the whole 50 students, she couldn’t find a black marker.

to get his bag. Fatty was all smiles as he watched from his seat. He believed that Valen would

her uniform. She

said.

books on her desk and brought out a black marker. She searched

She stood up and faced the class. “After the count of three if you don’t come out here, I’ll ask for

pointed at Valen, “He

lay

saw him. Right, everyone?” he asked his friends and they all chorused.

saw him writing in that book with that black permanent Marker he is holding.”

class, the boy had been finding ways to get suspended, which is

“Valen?” she called.

just grabbed his teacher’s hand. He pulled her sleeve up and wrote with the marker on