The Rewritten Love: A Second Beginning Max Charming

Each class stretched out to 45 minutes. When the bell finally signaled the end of the lesson, Madelyn, almost with a sense of doomed acceptance, walked to the back of the room. She quietly righted Forrest’s knocked-over desk and gathered the scattered books from the floor, tidying them neatly into his drawer. Her actions elicited a flurry of astonished whispers from her classmates.

“No way! Madelyn, who’s always acting high and mighty, is actually picking up books for Forrest? Did she hit her head or something?”

“Can’t believe what I’m seeing. Madelyn, who couldn’t be bothered to speak, is now serving her arch-nemesis Forrest? Holy cow, I must be hallucinating!”

Someone had discreetly snapped a photo of Madelyn’s surprising act of humility and anonymously uploaded it to the school forum.

Madelyn ignored the buzz around her, focusing on straightening up Forrest’s desk. Despite everything, she was just too good-natured to hold Forrest’s temper against him.

Meanwhile, in the grimy alley behind the school, Timothy was debating about which bar to hit that night. Adrian was engrossed in his phone when a headline suddenly popped up.

[Shocker of the Century! Madelyn actually…]

Before he could finish reading, Adrian saw Madelyn’s name and clicked on the link. A photo loaded, revealing Madelyn crouched down, books cradled in her arms. “Holy smokes! Look, Forry, look at the school forum, Madelyn is picking up your books again!”

his hearing for a

eyebrows raised ever so slightly as he peered at the photo Adrian shoved his way. A girl crouched on the floor, her skirt pooling around her. The camera captured Madelyn’s smooth, elegant profile perfectly. Light streamed in from the window, illuminating her, her eyelashes cast in shadow like the feathers of a raven, one hand clutching books, the other

‘Well, I’ll be damned.’

brought her own lunch due to her selective palate and her aversion to cafeteria food. Now alone in the

final math problem. The

back to settle the score with Madelyn, is

I’ve had it with that lowlife girl. I

who nearly cost my dad his life over a plot of

your mouth. My dad said the Jent family are big fishes in Ventropolis, getting on their bad side always spells trouble.

ever whispered behind Madelyn’s back. Many in their class had parents whose businesses had suffered at

a formula for the major math problem when a shadow loomed over her. In the next instant, a hand swept across the desk, scattering her books to the floor. She

“Can

Looking for trouble?” His sneer was cruel,

because I picked up his books, he has come to

thought cleaning up for him might serve as a sort of quiet apology. She had never imagined that simply tidying his things would provoke such a

from her class and even the neighboring one had

messed with my books, too. We’re even. Besides, it’s my turn for cleaning duty today. If you’re unhappy with