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

to be in school so much?” the class teacher asked.

hate to be in this class,” he

took things into your own hands?”

had no idea what she was talking about so

“Answer me, boy!”

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

the register and pointed at a spot where a black marker was used to erase the column.

could you conclude that’s my

it?” She looked at the register and pointed. “Number 35, isn’t that your

say that wasn’t my name. You’re accusing me without proof

his pocket. His bangs that were covering one eye wouldn’t give her access to see the

out you are responsible, I’ll make your punishment double. But if I wrongly

Whoever did it should be transferred to

up and yelled, “All of you, bring out your bags and leave them on your

the classroom, searching their school bags to find a black marker. After searching the whole 50 students, she couldn’t find a black marker. She went back to her desk and said to Valen, “Go bring

all smiles as he watched from his seat. He believed that Valen would be caught red–handed

lower lip and clenched her uniform. She didn’t want Valen to be punished like the

said.

gently placed Valen’s books on her desk and brought out a black marker. She searched all

class. “After the count of three if you don’t come out here, I’ll ask

pointed at Valen, “He did

mustn’t lay false

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

writing in that book with

at Valen with a frown. Ever since he came into this class, the boy had been finding

“Valen?” she called.

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