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 teacher

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

things into your

idea what she was talking about so he stayed

“Answer me, boy!”

me what I’ve done wrong.”

a spot where a black marker was used to erase

could you conclude

register and pointed. “Number 35, isn’t

name. You’re accusing me without proof and it’s wrong!”

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

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

did it should be transferred to class B. I can’t share the same

nodded. “Fine.” She stood up and yelled, “All of you,

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 your bag

get his bag. Fatty was all smiles as he watched from his

lip and clenched her uniform. She

said.

marker. She searched all the smaller parts of the bag but

the table. She stood up and faced the class. “After the count of three if you

got up and pointed at Valen, “He did it!”

mustn’t lay false

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

that book with that black

looked at Valen with a frown. Ever since he came into this class, the boy had been finding ways to get suspended, which is why she

“Valen?” she called.

and wrote with the marker on her arm. The teacher was startled for a moment that she missed the time