Layla hugged me. "Come on, don't show me that face. You have to eat and be well so you can go to school. You don't want any more absences, right?""Yeah." I started eating the porridge while feeling relieved at my heart. Thankfully, Layla understands."But. You can't go to school today. You just recovered.""What? I am healthy enough.""Nope.""Hey, I have a scholarship I am maintaining. I need to minimize my absences."In the end, our bantering ends up with me not attending the first half of the day and going to school in the afternoon with Layla.****When we left the house, Kane was still sleeping.It's been a long time since I went to school with Layla. So we were quite rowdy in the car.Even though we met daily, we don't lack things to talk about.We arrived at the school together. However, Layla who was not usually sensitive to people's stares still noticed the public's strange glances toward me."Is it just me?" Layla suddenly asked while we were walking around the campus."Hmm

We still couldn't process what was happening when the brunette girl started talking again."We would never do something outrageous in the future. We would never dare cross paths with you. If ever see you, we will humbly make way for you. So please forgive us, okay?"They looked sicnere....no- they looked scared.What the heck happened for these prideful girls to run to me and apologize with tails tucked between their legs?Did Layla cause this?I am not clear about the situation but I still take advantage of it. I accepted the art tools. These were quite expensive. As someone who was saving money, these gifts were helpful."Alright. I'll accept this. But where's Michelle?"The brunette girl paled. "I don't have anything to do with Michelle. She is not my friend in the first place. We just happened to be in the same class."The girls behind her also nodded their heads and denied Michelle's relationship with them."We are not friends with her.""...I am just asking where she is. Does sh

Who might have done it? It was impossible for my softhearted co-art department students to damage the spirit of those four men. They don't have much power to throw such threats or be someone those men could fear. The only possibility was that person was from Golden Heirs. Levi and Gabrielle don't have any idea of what was happening. The threats much looked like Eduardo but that man would not help me or hide his achievements from Layla. And he was abroad. So....it must be Kane. But I could not imagine Kane being cruel and vicious to someone because of me. When I asked Layla if she had told Kane about my situation, Layla avoided my eyes. I narrowed my eyes. Layla obviously told Kane about it. "Alright, I'll confess. After I learned about it, I was so angry and asked Kane. It turned out he also doesn't know anything. So I told him to check the university's forum." I slapped my forehead. Dang. So he had known it since yesterday? "Then?" "And then...he said it is better if the

A/n: This chapter is fixed. *** Because of that conversation, I wasn't able to sleep that night. I ate breakfast with panda eyes. Layla woke up early and joined us for breakfast. She looked at me stunned, "Did you work all night? Do you want to kill yourself? You just got sick!" I accepted her nagging. I have no energy to bicker with her. "Gosh, Stella. Do you really want to be taken care of by Kane that much?" I glared at Layla while chewing the sandwich that Kane made. Layla took my hint and stopped talking. She must have remembered that I don't like to be ship with Kane and I don't want to hear jokes like that. Layla turned to Kane who was silent this morning. "Kane, you don't have to pick me up during your break. Gabrielle won't have classes later so she will accompany me." Kane nodded then eat quietly. He looked so lethargic as if his soul had left him. Even Layla noticed Kane's gloom. "Hey, are you alright? Or did you catch Stella's cold?" I halted chewing and looked

*** When I went to the parking lot, I saw Kane waiting for me. Since a lot of students ended their classes during this time, the parking lot was a bit crowded. With Kane's appearance, there were a lot more students who chose to stay while glancing at him. My appearance in the parking lot just added spice to the situation. Their whispers become more obvious. Kane saw me and waved at me. I approached him and we left the school together. That little episode was of course included in today's forum by the witnesses. They added bits of their own guesses which strongly point out that Kane and I were dating. The next day and the day after that, Kane and I were always seen together. We went to school using the same car, eat together at lunch in the cafeteria, visited the library together, and left together after school. Some students who were not busy preparing for the exams made a voting poll guessing my relationship with Kane. The majority of the students don't believe that Kane and I