Coolest Girl in Town

Upon hearing Riley’s words, Samantha pursed her lips. “I don’t think Elise did it. Still, Elise, as the watch is in your bag, you’ll have to give me an explanation for this.”

“She didn’t take it.” Zachary emerged from among the crowd to defend Elise. His expression was grave as he looked at the classmates around him. “If she really took it, then she must have been a fool. She would be telling everyone that she was the thief by storing the watch in her bag.”

The crowd fell silent as no one spoke up.

After a long while, a classmate finally asked in a meek voice, “If she didn’t take it, then who did?”

“Yeah! If she wants to prove her innocence, she should find the real culprit! We can’t tolerate such behavior in our class!”

The corners of Zachary’s lips curled into a confident smile. “Actually, it’s effortless if we want to catch the culprit; we just have to report it to the police! The investigation techniques are extremely advanced nowadays, right? Anyone who touched this watch before would leave their fingerprints. Since everyone has unique fingerprints and our

class isn’t huge, we can just let the police compare our fingerprints and find out who stole the watch.”

Upon seeing that Zachary had a point, Samantha took out her phone right away. “Then, I’ll call the police now. No matter who it is, I’ll find the culprit before the day ends!”

He gestured for her to go ahead, so she dialed the number.

The other classmates waited patiently in the classroom while Elise stood in silence. She had never met with such a situation before, so she was a little flustered. Not to mention, it wasn’t a pleasant feeling to be accused of something she didn’t do.

Zachary looked at her and seemed to have summoned enough courage to pat her on the shoulder. He then gave her a look of assurance.

She understood that he meant well, so she quickly whispered, “Thanks!”

When the police arrived, Samantha told them a brief summary of what happened

asked them to compare the fingerprints on the watch to those present. However, this request had greatly troubled the

we cannot really do anything with the fingerprints, which would have been smudged. We can extract the fingerprints on the surface, but it wouldn’t

before she looked at Zachary, who simply smiled. “They are right,

was puzzled. “Then,

the crowd. “If my guess is correct, then there’s one person missing from our

they heard that, everyone exchanged glances with each other. Then, by the process of elimination, they found the identity

here just moments ago, but she has

Elise remembered how Amanda

That was such a dirty move!” Samantha

the fingerprints, so she escaped!” Riley agreed. She never

with Elise, for Amanda was the one trying to frame Elise instead. Samantha walked forward and apologized shyly, “I’m so sorry, Elise. I went overboard with my

that now. We have to find

then explained, “If you have concrete evidence illustrating that she was the one who stole the watch, she can be charged

bars for at least a

problem; we don’t have evidence!”

on the other hand, smiled. “Don’t

I hope everyone will cooperate

at her and asked,

Elise had wanted to say no, she eventually thought of

hearing it, his eyes brightened. “All right,

she saw a patrol car entering. Since she felt guilty, she hid before she watched as the car made its way toward the classroom. After that, she emerged from

already waiting for her at the gates, so she immediately jumped into the car