Aurelia, who was drowsy, was awakened by the bustling crowd outside the classroom.
She clearly saw people crowding the classroom door and windows, pointing and looking at her with contempt. “Isn’t that Aurelia? How dare she sleep in class?”
“She is such a disgrace to our school. Who does she think she is to covet Mr. Finnegan?”
“That’s right. She’s really shameless.”
Bang!
Everyone was whispering quietly, but was interrupted by a loud noise. Seeing Briar slamming the table and standing up, the timid ones scattered.
Briar was a notoriously bad student at school. No one dared to mess with him.
Only two fearless men at the door had the balls to shout provocatively at Aurelia in the classroom, “Miss Sheridan, I heard that you like Mr. Finnegan?”
What? Who are you talking about? Mr. Finnegan? Callum?
Aurelia glanced at them and asked, “Who told you that?” She would beat him to death! How dare he spread rumors about her!
“Hah, Miss Sheridan, don’t you know? You’re already famous. Everyone knows that you confessed your love to Mr. Finnegan!”
“The video of you confessing your love to Mr. Finnegan in the woods went viral! Haha!” said the man with a crew cut. When he repeated what Aurelia said in the video, he deliberately pinched his throat to imitate Aurelia’s tone.
Aurelia was confused for a moment. There was no one around when she was in the woods. Why did everyone know about it? No! Elliot was there too.
Did Elliot spread that?
Very likely.
Thinking of the possibility, Aurelia angrily yelled at the two men at the door, “Shut up! Get lost!”
They were startled by her rage, feeling embarrassed. They had heard so much about Aurelia, but they had never confronted her like this before.
The man with a crew cut and the tubby man looked at each other before walking into Aurelia’s classroom with an increasingly menacing aura and and finally stopping in front of Aurelia. The man with a crew cut picked up the book in front of Aurelia and slammed it heavily on the desk in a provocative manner.
When Aurelia’s classmates saw this, they all stood up immediately and ran out of the classroom.
Damn! They didn’t expect these two idiots would dare to mess with Aurelia blatantly. In order to avoid being involved, they’d better stay away from her.
Two men and Aurelia ‘s friends were left in the classroom.
As Aurelia leaned against Briar’s desk and smiled at the two of them, they immediately changed their expressions. Why was she so beautiful when she smiled?
Just when one of the idiots was about to drool over Aurelia, a girl who was sitting in her seat suddenly stood up, picked up the book that the crew-haired man had just slammed, and slapped him hard on the face.
The man with the crew cut screamed in pain several times. “Bitch, you… Ah!” As soon as the book fell to the ground, another fist hit his eye. He instantly got a black eye.
Briar sat on his desk, retracted his fist, and blew on his sore fingers. “Do you know who Aurelia is? How dare you mess with her? Do you have a dead wish?”
At the same time, a bottle was thrown over. And this time, the tubby man groaned in pain, because the bottle thrown by Cathy hit him on the head.
“You guys just wait and see! You all will answer to me!” The man with the crew cut saw that he was outnumbered, so he endured the pain and took out his cell phone from his pocket with trembling hands and made a call. “I need your help to take care of some assholes. Come to the classroom on the third floor of the teaching building!”
How dare he cause a fight in the classroom!
Aurelia continued to lean against the desk while stretching. “Call me when your helper comes!”
It was obvious that she didn’t take them seriously, which made two men so furious.
Briar patted her shoulder and said, “Why do you look sleepy? Take care of them first!” Since Briar started to hang out with Aurelia, he had fewer opportunities to fight with fists. Just when he began to miss the thrill of fighting, these two guys happened to show up.
Aurelia stood up helplessly, took a step back, and kicked the chair she was sitting on onto the leg of the man with the crew cut closest to her.
“Ouch!” The man with a crew cut covered his leg, moaning in pain.
As the tubby man was thinking of teaching Cathy a lesson first because he was hit by her, Larry and Liana stood up and stood side by side with Cathy, looking at the shivering tubby man with contempt. “Come on, let me teach you how to fight!” Liana put her long hair behind her back, crossed her arms, and waited for the tubby man to come over.
The whole atmosphere in the classroom immediately became tense because of Aurelia’s fighting gesture. Five versus two. Two men subconsciously shrank.
Larry was a good student and would not fight. As usual, he walked to the classroom door and kept watch for them.
When the helper of these two men arrived, he found the two of them had been beaten badly. Covering his swollen face, the crew-haired guy pointed at Aurelia and said, “Beat this bitch for me. It’s her…”
“What’s going on here?” Before any of them could react, a calm voice sounded at the door, attracting everyone’s attention.
There were too many people crowding outside the classroom. Larry concentrated on the commotion in the classroom, without noticing a man’s sudden appearance.
Before he could tell Aurelia about it, a tall figure appeared at the classroom door. It was Elliot.
Perhaps years of being a scholar enable him to have a gentle and polite temperament.
In the Principal’s office.
Several students lined up and stood obediently.
None could afford to offend the Richmond family. Even though they were not ordered to stand still, they couldn’t help but show their greatest respect in front of Elliot.
“Anyone care to tell me about what happened?” Looking at the students in front of him, 30-year-old Elliot looked calmer, his voice low and magnetic.
The crew-haired guy just opened his mouth but was forced to shut up by Aurelia’s vicious glare.
Humph! Wasn’t it just a fight? He would find another chance to beat her up someday!
Elliot noticed their little movements and kept his gaze on Aurelia for two more seconds.
Why would Aurelia grow into a rebellious girl? Maybe it was because she didn’t have a mother to discipline her since she was a child.
Elliot pushed the frame of his glasses up, asked the names of them, and then sent an email to the Academic Affairs Office.
The only one he didn’t ask was Aurelia. Regarding this, everyone, including Aurelia, looked at Elliot suspiciously, with different thoughts in their minds.