Pursuing Her

Chapter 5 Tell Me Who She Is

After hanging up on his call, Andy rushed out of the office and cried, “Please wait, Old Mr. Tanner. I’ll take Ms. Sophie Tanner as a student.”

His attitude had taken a one-eighty from before.

Even Josiah had no idea why the principal had suddenly changed his mind.

“Are you sure, Mr. Langston?” Josiah asked.

“That’s right, Old Mr. Tanner. I’ll have her placed in a class right away.” Then, Andy immediately called the high school’s academic head and informed her about Sophie’s immediate enrolment.

Sophie went along with the enrolment, but even she knew things were hardly as simple as they seemed.

The academic head promptly assigned Sophie to the worst-performing class in the school. After receiving her school uniform, Sophie was handed over to the homeroom teacher of Senior Class 8, Derrick Hayes.

Before Josiah left, he said to Derrick, “I’ll have to trouble you to keep an eye on Sophie, Mr. Hayes.”

“It’s no trouble at all, Sir! You should head back. I’ll lead Sophie to her class soon,” came Derrick’s courteous reply.

That was the only answer he could give, seeing as every student at Jipsdale Premier High had a wealthy or influential parent that the teachers could not afford to offend.

Derrick happened to be in charge of the third lesson of the day for Senior Class 8, so he personally escorted Sophie to her new classroom.

When he arrived at the classroom, he announced, “Hi, everyone, we have a new student in our class. She’ll introduce herself. Please give her a warm welcome.”

Sophie walked onto the podium at the front of the room and wrote her full name on the board.

Then, she declared, “Hi, everyone, my name is Sophie Tanner.”

Sophie Tanner? Her new classmates immediately whispered furiously among themselves.

“Isn’t she the Sophie Tanner who was expelled five years ago?”

“I think so! She used to be in my class.”

“I heard she had an abortion around tenth grade. Do you know if it’s true?”

“It was! Back then…”

“All right, everyone, settle down. There’s a seat at

obediently went to the last row and ignored the spiteful

students in Senior Class 8 did not produce spectacular grades. Naturally,

meant they were the farthest thing from cowards. Once Derrick ended his lesson, Queenie Lane sauntered to Sophie and taunted, “It really

been a member of Willow’s clique and had had her fair

an unfamiliar house, and she was in

anymore, Sophie. Did you think you

eyes narrowed

her hand

yelped in

Sophie’s eyes, and no one dared to step forward

I’m not the same Sophie from five years ago. Not just anyone can trample over my dignity. Oh right! I’m sure you remember what you all did to me five

as though coming back had been

roughly, causing the

Queenie was dumbstruck.

Sophie was utterly fearsome.

to remain in Jipsdale. We have to get

across her desk, asleep. After school ended, she grabbed her

set foot outside the school gates

his mind

Felix had said a thing, Sophie decisively got into the

word of the speech

brimming in her gaze, Sophie announced, “Tristan Lombard, right? I saved you last time, and you helped me today, so we’re even. Don’t look for

and she did not wish to be

to make a call, and it was nothing

of Lombard

can have anyone we want in the world. Why must Mr. Tristan insist

said drily, “I have poor grades and poor

rarely stared Tristan straight in the eyes, and he knew in that instant that he was staring

medical skills,” came

about medicine? I’ve said this many times; I managed to remove the bullet from your

dead serious, Sophie. Please consider