로그인Pauline Ashby, my senior homeroom teacher, is extremely childish. She tends to decorate everything she owns in a childish style. Even the exam admission tickets she has prepared for our SATs are printed on pink paper. On top of that, she even pastes many cartoon stickers on them. "Pink is a great color! This color represents cute little girls like me! Just use these admission tickets when you're about to enter the exam venue! I'm very sure you'll definitely score top marks in the exam!" Upon realizing that Pauline is about to screw everyone over, I quickly call the head teacher. He rushes over and gives Pauline a good scolding before giving us the actual tickets, allowing us entry to the exam venue. Everyone in class completes their SATs at their own pace. In fact, my childhood friend, Caelum Thornley, and I even get into prestigious colleges thanks to our scores. But on the day our scores are announced, Pauline ascends to the rooftop while bawling like a baby. "I just wanted everyone to attend the entrance exam with cute pink admission tickets because the color can boost their mood! Why must Sienna tattle on me? "I did so much research just to pick out the prettiest shade of pink for everyone! I gave it my all to help everyone in the SATs!" As Pauline wipes her tears away with her sleeve, she accidentally steps on the hem of her long skirt, causing her to fall down the building. The next day, Caelum leads the entire class in tying me up and kidnapping me to the summit of a mountain, where they push me off the cliff. As such, all of my bones are shattered, and I die a painful death. "This is your fault for targeting Ms. Ashby! So what if we love using the pink admission tickets?" When I open my eyes again, I've returned to the moment Pauline digs out the pink admission tickets. This time, I choose to keep my mouth shut.
더 보기Some of the classmates who tore their tickets that day repeated senior year and got into average schools. Others were still working odd jobs to this day. Caelum was the only one among them who got into a top-tier university.A while later, someone shared a screenshot in the class group chat. It was a post from Ms. Ashby on social media. She said she was studying to become a counselor, because "nobody understands what it feels like to be misunderstood better than I do".I scrolled through the comments underneath. Some people reassured her that she did nothing wrong, and others asked if she could ever repay the 38 students whose lives she had derailed.I stared at the post for a long time, smiled to myself, and locked my phone.Time moved quickly. In my senior year, I was accepted into Hartfield's graduate program and stayed on. Caelum graduated from Bowman and took a position at an aerospace research institute down south. I'd catch glimpses of his life on social media every now an
Something twisted in my chest, but I kept my expression still."I don't think the way they classified the incident was fair." Ms. Ashby tucked the envelope back into her bag and spoke slowly, choosing each word with care. "Yes, I printed the tickets in pink. I'll own that. But the person who got the entire class to tear their tickets was Caelum Thornley."She took a step closer. Her voice was low, but every word landed with deliberate weight. "38 students missed the exam, and I shouldn't be the only one held responsible. But every last consequence fell on me."They revoked my license and banned me for life. Meanwhile, the students who led the whole thing didn't even get a warning, especially Caelum." She smiled when she said his name. "I did some digging. He repeated senior year, got into Bowman, and he's doing just fine. How is that fair?""If you're here to settle scores, you should be talking to Caelum, not me." I closed my book. "I didn't report you. I didn't file anything agai
Ms. Ashby had her teaching license permanently revoked and was banned from the profession for life. All 38 students were marked absent and received zeros across the board.Some chose to repeat their senior year. Others had families scraping together every last penny to send them abroad. Caelum chose to repeat the year.His mother came to the school twice to cause a scene. Once to confront the principal, and once to corner me. She was turned away both times, and after Principal Jones called the police on her second visit, they finally backed off.In September, I dragged my suitcase to Hartfield.The campus was enormous, and the leaves on the old oaks were just starting to turn gold. My feet slowed for a moment, then I pulled my gaze away, pushed open the door to my dorm, and set my bags down on the bed by the window. Behind me, my roommates were laughing.College turned out to be much quieter than I had expected. I went to class, ran experiments, wrote papers, and made some new fri
Our exam hall was the most unusual one in the entire building. There were 39 seats, and I was the only one sitting in any of them. Two proctors watched over 38 empty desks, their expressions somewhere between disbelief and pity.When the final bell rang, I set down my pen and let out a long breath. It was over.I walked out of the exam hall, and Principal Jones was standing by the door waiting for me. He saw me come out and gave me a nod. "How did it go?""About what I expected."He was quiet for a moment, his gaze drifting to the building behind him, which had already fallen silent. "39 seats and only one student. I've been a principal for 12 years, and I've never seen anything like it."I didn't respond."Pauline has been taken away." He paused. "When the people from the education board arrived, she was still crying by the fountain, saying she was going to stage a sit-in protest at their office."Her husband drove over from work and told her on the spot that he wanted a divorc












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