The two of them chatted until almost 7AM in the morning.
Today was Monday and Janet had to go to school.
All of a sudden, they heard the sound of someone knocking on the door. “Janet, Mom sent me to ask you whether you want to take the SUV to school.”
When she suddenly heard Emily’s voice, she was a little nervous, but she calmed down after a few seconds and softly answered, “No.”
Emily, who stood outside the door, clicked her tongue as she looked at Janet’s firmly closed door before leaving.
Mason raised his brows, never expecting that Janet would remain calm. If it were to happen to another girl, she would have been flustered. After all, she was actually hiding a man in her room.
“I’m going to school. You should leave now and make sure that the Jackson Family doesn’t notice you,” she uttered while packing.
“Do you want me to drive you there?”
“No!” Janet answered without giving it a thought. If she went to school in his car, rumors about her being someone’s mistress would spread like wildfire.
Maintaining a low profile would save her a lot of trouble.
The first class on Monday was supposed to have been Spanish, but the French teacher had insisted on having her class for the sole purpose of catching students who arrived late.
Janet usually arrived at her classroom on time, but she ran behind schedule as she had talked to Mason for a while at home.
At 8AM, Miss Lilian entered the classroom—and the first thing she looked at was Janet’s seat. She asked with a frown, “Where’s Janet?”
Abby was worried for Janet. This is bad. Miss Lilian will pick on Janet from now onward.
“Abby, where’s Janet? She’s supposed to sit next to you.”
Abby stood up and lowered her head before tentatively answering, “Miss Lilian, she’s usually on time. Maybe she has something urgent, which caused her to be late today.”
“Huh, something urgent? What about me? I need to take care of my family and my kids, but I have to arrive at school on time as well. What kind of an emergency will a student like her have?” Miss Lilian scoffed.
Upon hearing her words, all of her students covered their ears, as if they were tired of hearing her same excuse, which she had repeated from time to time.
Due to incidents that involved Janet, Miss Lilian was humiliated in school a few times, but she was unable to find a suitable opportunity to take her revenge and this time, she would certainly teach the former a lesson.
She criticized coldly, “A student from Class A should behave like one. How could she be late?”
At that moment, Janet arrived at the door of the classroom.
Miss Lilian glanced at her watch. “Janet, you are late.”
Janet impassively stood at the door—she seemed meek and quiet.
However, Miss Lilian was unwilling to let her off the hook and continued to reprimand her, “Don’t think that you are above all of us after receiving full marks and being in first place in the school festival. You will never know that you might be at last place instead the next time. You need to change your attitude!”
She had never believed that Janet could score that kind of a result since the latter had never attended high school. However, it was proven that Janet didn’t cheat during the test, so it wouldn’t be wise of her to mention that episode again.
Janet kept her mouth shut as she had no intention to beg Miss Lilian.
Miss Lilian scoffed, “Aren’t you going to answer? Go and stand outside for this period, then.”
She had already made up her mind to have Janet stand outside the classroom during the first period.
Janet stood outside and admired the view downstairs in a carefree manner. Whether or not I pay attention in class doesn’t matter to me since I know everything that she’s teaching.
Gordon felt uneasy, looking at her standing outside alone. I’m going outside to accompany her! Then, he rose to his full height. “Miss Lilian, I would like to head out too. It’s kind of stuffy inside.”
Upon hearing that, Miss Lilian was put on the spot. “Gordon, our air conditioner is switched on and it’s a little inappropriate for you to stand outside.”
Nevertheless, he wasn’t asking for her permission and directly walked out.
Her expression immediately darkened, but she couldn’t say anything for the fear that his fans would think that she was bullying him.
