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…”

settle down. There’s a seat at the

row and ignored the spiteful

students in Senior Class 8 did not produce spectacular grades. Naturally, most of them came

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

trap, Queenie,” Sophie cut in abruptly. Queenie had always been a member of Willow’s clique and had had her fair share of picking on Sophie in the

in an unfamiliar house, and she

and continued, “We’re not in Horington anymore,

eyes narrowed

an eye, she twisted her hand and grabbed Queenie’s wrist,

yelped in

eyes, and no one dared to step forward to break up

I’m not the same Sophie from five years ago. Not just anyone can trample over my dignity. Oh right!

suddenly felt as though coming back had been the

she shoved Queenie roughly, causing the

Queenie was dumbstruck.

Sophie was utterly fearsome.

to remain in Jipsdale.

last two lessons of the class sprawled across her desk, asleep. After school

the school

Langston must’ve changed his

thing, Sophie

a single word of the

I saved you last time, and you helped me today, so we’re even. Don’t look

were complex characters, and she did not wish

fortune.” He merely asked Felix to make a call, and it was nothing compared to what

Lombard Group, and

flustered Felix, who wondered, We can have anyone we want in

grades and poor morals.

Tristan straight in the eyes, and he knew in that instant that he was staring at an

skills,”

eighteen-year-old high school student. What would I know about medicine? I’ve said this many times; I managed

dead serious, Sophie. Please consider