Chapter 392

The next morning, as Zach and Jadie shared the same car, Jadie sat grumpily in the passenger seat. They didn’t exchange a single word during the entire ride.

Zach rested his eyes, sensing the unusual silence. Upon arriving at the school gate, Jadie didn’t utter a single word. She simply opened the car door and stepped out.

Kevin reminded her, “Ms. White, your breakfast.”

Jadie ignored him and went straight into the school.

Kevin, worried, said, “Mr. Jardin, Ms. White is still young. Maybe… you should try to be a bit more understanding?”

Zach’s eyes blinked open, and as he glanced around, he spotted a familiar figure in the distance.

Madelyn was holding a paper bag filled with fried gnocchi from a roadside stall while sipping on a cup of hot chocolate. As she walked, a dog suddenly ran up to her and barked. Startled, she dropped her fried gnocchi on the ground. She panicked and even spilled her hot chocolate, then quickly ran into the school.

A security guard promptly chased the dog away when he spotted it. Madelyn put some distance between herself and the dog, and when she looked back, she felt relieved to see that it hadn’t followed her.

ran deep, stemming from the trauma inflicted by her family’s mastiff. When Zach witnessed her reaction, a smile spread across his face. It was a smile he didn’t even realize was forming, one he couldn’t contain.

sleeping with his head against the wall. It had been a while since

“Madelyn, Madelyn, Madelyn!”

turned around and saw Mya approaching with two bags of fried gnocchi and hot chocolate in

tracks and waited for Mya.

I saw you got scared by the dog, and your breakfast got ruined,

of breath and sweating on her forehead. “Thank

bought it, so Madelyn didn’t feel

“You’re welcome.”

for you. I’ll be waiting for you outside the test venue,” Mya said as they entered the

you don’t have to

took out a glass bottle filled with tiny stars from her backpack. “There are over a thousand little

a friend feels like?‘ She smiled, feeling a warm glow surround

and affordable gifts might seem ordinary to most, but for Madelyn, Mya’s sincerity meant

the exam, I’ll get

and exclaimed,

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