Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Cheat Queen Reads My Mind Every Test: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 14

After the ceremony, I checked my phone. The story had been reposted under the headline "State's Top Scorer Had Her Answers Stolen by Her Own Sister and Got Framed for It," and it had climbed to the third-most trending topic in the country.The momentum was still building. The influencers who'd been calling Joey a "genius" and a "prodigy" were either scrubbing their posts or issuing public apologies, and their comments sections were flooded with people calling her out.I walked home with the scholarship check in my pocket. The second I stepped through the door, I saw Dad sitting on the couch. He was holding the acceptance letter from Whitmore that had just arrived in the mail. He slammed it down on the coffee table."You want to go off to college? Fine. First you're going to wire us 200 thousand dollars for support payments. Otherwise you're not getting this letter."Mom backed him up without missing a beat, as brazen as ever. "Your sister's going to need over 100 thousand to repeat

People around me were pointing and whispering. A few had their phones out, filming for social media and muttering about how the state's top scorer could be so ungrateful to her own family.The live comments came again. "These three are like stray dogs who won't stop following her. They actually showed up at the train station. Have they got no shame?"I looked at the three of them making a spectacle of themselves. My fingertips tapped lightly against the portable hard drive in my pocket.Everything was in there—all the evidence and even a response video I'd already edited and captioned ahead of time.Did they really think cornering me at the train station gave them the upper hand?I looked at Mom's white-knuckled grip on my suitcase handle. I didn't argue with her. I just pulled up the screenshot of the short-route ticket I'd bought in advance and held it in front of her face."Sorry, but the train I'm booked on stops boarding in three minutes. You're welcome to keep this up, but