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…”

down. There’s a seat at the end of the classroom, Sophie. You can

last row and ignored

in Senior Class 8 did not produce spectacular

ended his lesson, Queenie Lane sauntered to Sophie and taunted, “It really is you, Sophie! I

member of Willow’s clique and had had her fair share of picking on Sophie

was nursing a headache after a sleepless night in an unfamiliar house, and she was in no mood to entertain

not fear Sophie at all. She grabbed Sophie’s hand and continued, “We’re not in Horington anymore, Sophie. Did you think you were something in Jipsdale?” She still

beautiful eyes narrowed

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

yelped

no one dared to

years ago. Not just anyone can trample over my dignity. Oh right! I’m sure you remember what

suddenly felt as though coming back

that, she shoved Queenie roughly, causing the latter to

Queenie was dumbstruck.

Sophie was utterly fearsome.

in Jipsdale. We

her desk, asleep. After school

outside the school gates when she spied Felix

changed his

thing, Sophie

single word of the

Lombard, right? I saved you last time, and you helped me today, so

Felix and Tristan were complex characters, and she did

to make a

Lombard Group, and I need your

Felix, who wondered, We can have anyone we want in the world.

have poor grades and poor morals. What exactly do

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

skills,”

you pulling my leg? I’m an eighteen-year-old high school student. What would I know about medicine? I’ve said this many times; I managed to remove the bullet from your body out of sheer luck.

serious, Sophie. Please consider my offer