Chapter 42“Please, sir,” Leon blurted out, voice cracking with desperation. He stepped forward, eyes wide and pleading. “Don’t call my father. Not yet. I’ll fix everything. I swear. I’ll retake the assignment, do extra credit, stay after school every day if I have to. Just… please give me a chance first. My dad — he won’t understand. He’ll make it so much worse.”Principal Hargrove leaned back in his chair, studying Leon with a mixture of surprise and reluctant sympathy. The boy in front of him was usually composed, top of his classes, the model scholarship student. Seeing him this rattled was unusual.“Leon… policy is clear for scholarship students.”“I know,” Leon said quickly, his voice gaining urgency. “But I’ve never had a slip like this before. It’s one grade. One bad week. If you call him now, it could ruin everything. Please. I’m begging you. Just one opportunity to prove I can turn it around.”The principal was silent for a long moment, fingers tapping slowly on the desk. Fi
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