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…”

seat at the end of the classroom,

last row and ignored the spiteful glares directed

spectacular grades. Naturally, most of them came from elite

meant they were the farthest thing from cowards. Once Derrick ended his lesson, Queenie Lane sauntered to Sophie and taunted, “It really is you, Sophie! I can’t believe you’re thick-skinned enough to return to Jipsdale. If I were

your trap, Queenie,” Sophie cut in abruptly. Queenie had always been a member of Willow’s clique and had

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

fear Sophie at all. She grabbed Sophie’s hand and continued, “We’re not in Horington anymore, Sophie. Did you

beautiful eyes

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

Queenie yelped

the threat in Sophie’s eyes, and no one dared to step

a target for you to pick on, either. Remember this, Queenie. 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 years ago. I’ll make sure you all have

as though coming back

shoved Queenie roughly, causing the latter to

Queenie was dumbstruck.

Sophie was utterly fearsome.

Jipsdale. We have to get

spent the last two lessons of the class sprawled across her

foot outside the school gates when she

must’ve changed his mind because of

had said a thing, Sophie decisively got

a single word of

last time, and you helped me

and Tristan were complex characters, and she did not wish to

replied, “My life is worth a fortune.” He merely asked Felix to make a call, and it was nothing compared

continued, “I’m Tristan Lombard of Lombard Group, and

wondered, We can have anyone we want in the world. Why must Mr. Tristan insist on

stared at Tristan and said drily, “I have poor grades and poor morals.

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

medical skills,”

I’ve said this many times; I managed to remove the bullet from your body out of sheer luck. You would be dead now

serious, Sophie. Please consider