Chapter 58 

Elise flashed a smile and said, Im Elise.” 

Samantha gaped at her in astonishment. Wait, youre Elise?” 

Elise nodded. In the flesh.” 

For a moment, Samantha could not recover from her daze. She thought about what Elise had said to Amanda minutes ago, and only then did all the pieces click. That explains why you put Amanda down the way you did; if someone was badmouthing me to my face, Id have slapped them!” 

Seeing how serious Samantha was amused Elise. She liked that Samantha was not the stereotypically aloof heiress that one might expect, but she gave off the impression that she was kind and approachable instead

By the way, Elise, I heard that Zachary Newman is here at the boot camp, too. Having the both of you here is like waiting for a legendary showdown to happen! I can’t wait to see which of you will emerge victorious at the end of the boot camp!” 

Daily new chapters in www.noveljar.com  This was the second time Zachary’s name was brought up in Elises presence. She figured he must be some kind of math whiz for everyone to praise him behind his back.

Presently, Elise and Samantha came to a stop at the classroom doorway, whereupon they saw that the room was filled to the brim with other boot camp participants. Their arrival instantly caught the room‘s attention, though everyone’s gazes lingered on Samantha the longest. After all, it was hard for a finelooking girl like her to keep from standing out in a crowd.

Excuse me,one of the boys piped up boldly, addressing Samantha. You can sit next to me if youd like.” 

However, his invitation was swiftly rebuffed when Samantha, having taken one glance at the vacant seat next to him, said apologetically, Sorry, but Im going to sit with my friend.” 

With that, she pulled Elise over to the last row of seats and declared, Lets sit here, Elise.”

that there was a new message from Jamie, which read, ‘Hey, Boss. Heard that you‘ve gone into isolation or something. Send me your location, and I‘ll bring goodies for

thought with a rueful smile. A few taps on the

kept her phone just as a middle–aged man appeared at the classroom entryway. He was holding a thermos flask

be in charge of your studies for the next half a month, and as we kick off this boot

this, Samantha immediately grew reluctant. She had initially hoped that she could play a game or two that evening, but now that she was going to surrender her phone, she might very well die of boredom before tomorrow. Dread filled her as she groaned. “Do we really have to hand over

She didn‘t think having a phone would make a difference to her boot camp experience. When the student in charge of collecting everyone‘s phones reached

phones throughout this boot camp. Should any of you have an urgent call to make, come see me privately,” Mr. Bolton announced. “Seeing as today’s the first day, I‘ve prepared a set of exercises for all of you to get a feel of what this camp is all about. Think

Boot Camp

each row, and silence filled the room as everyone set themselves to work. When Elise got her papers, she perused each page fervently and found that almost all the questions were doable, though the last one

began writing down her workings and

another teacher came down the hallway and asked

“I figured I should see how well they cope right off the

of the students here got full marks in the City Mathematics

wind of this, but he admittedly had higher regards for another student–one of his own, no less—by the

a test run. It‘s the only way for us to pick out the cream of the crop,” Mr. Bolton pointed out with a long sigh. There had been a make or-break question from the National Mathematics Olympiad last year, and no student had

guess I‘ll be waiting for your good news, Henry,” the other

eye, and everyone looked defeated as they handed

question got me beat; I couldn‘t come up with

on it. I dread to think about how I did on the test.” A couple of students huddled together to lament over the paper, and

lips and answered plainly, “I gave it my

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