Chapter 340

“What were you about to say?” Juniper asked Shanley as she ate her toast.
“Nothing.” Shanley had lost his appetite. He was determined to investigate this Langley person thoroughly. Know your enemy, and you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.
Juniper’s chewing slowed as she stared at Shanley. He’d been acting strangely since yesterday. Who had set him off? Felton? Or Flint?
…
At Aurora High School.
After bringing in the new review materials and getting Mr. Tate to perform, Juniper had become the undisputed queen of the school. Teachers greeted her warmly in the halls. “Juniper, have you eaten today?” Students respectfully bowed their heads when they saw her. The five-minute walk from the school gate to her classroom involved at least a hundred greetings of “Hi, Juniper.” She was numb to it.
She had barely sat down when Qadir, Queenie, and Dolce marched over and sat across from her. Other classmates followed, surrounding her desk, propping their chins on their hands and staring at her with gleaming eyes.
“You can get Jimmie’s autograph, but you have to trade your grades for it,” Juniper said, putting her backpack in her desk and lazily taking out a textbook.
“For the weekly test, every point you improve your total score gets you one signed photo. If you improve by more than thirty points, you can choose which part of him is in the signed photo.”
“Choose… which part?” The girls in the class instantly got excited at the thought.
“Appropriate parts only,” Juniper added with a frown, her tone serious. “Keep it classy. Like his abs, or a shirtless photo… ”
The girls’ faces all turned red.
Juniper narrowed her eyes. “Understood?”
“Understood,” they all chorused.
“If you understand,” Juniper said, looking at the crowd still standing in front of her, “then why are you still here? Don’t you want the autographs?”
In an instant, everyone scattered back to their seats.
A few seconds later, a girl from the front row timidly approached her again. “Juniper,
this this promotional event, is it open to students from other classes?”
Promotional event? Juniper, who was taking a sip of water, almost choked What the hell? There were hundreds of seniors, If they all participated, Jimmie’s hand would fall off from signing.
No. She had to be a kind sister.
“Yes, it is,” Juniper replied with a smile after a moment’s thought.
“Thank you, thank you!” The girl excitedly ran to the doorway and yelled to her friends, “Juniper said yes!”
A brief commotion erupted outside, and then it fell silent.
Juniper found it odd and glanced outside. It wasn’t class time yet; usually, students
would still be messing around in the hallway.
“They all went back to their
classrooms to study for the
autographs, Qadir said, giving
Justiper a thumbs up. “Juniper, ryou
had come to Aurora High sooner, Eclara High wouldn’t have stood a chance.” sŵnovels
“Cut the crap,” Juniper said, shooting him a look and tilting her chin. “Have you finished memorizing your vocabulary?”
“Oh.” Qadir immediately ducked his head and went back to his book. He wanted one of Mr. Tate’s autographs too.
Just as Juniper finished dealing with
the autograph frenzy, her phone
vibrated. It was a message from Luella: This year’s pharmaceutical auction is in Eclara City This weekend. Perfect. Our research institute is running low on medicinal herbs.]