Chapter 63

Elise opened the take-out carrier bag to reveal the delicately-prepared dishes. Her stomach rumbled at the sight of the food and before long, the three girls sat on their stools and began to dig in.

“This is so good!” Samantha exclaimed in delight as she took a bite of one of the dishes.

Upon hearing this, Riley quickly sampled a mouthful of the food as well. “That’s incredible. I need to know the name of the restaurant so that I can drop by in the future.”

“I could bring the both of you along next time,” Elise offered heartily.

The two girls agreed earnestly, and as Riley ate her supper, she caught a glimpse of Samantha’s wrist watch. “Samantha, is that a new watch you’re wearing? It’s gorgeous!”

“Thanks. My daddy gave it to me for my birthday,” Samantha explained. “It’s a limited edition from Chanel; I couldn’t bear to take it out of the box until two days

ago.”

“It’s beautiful. I should get my dad to buy me one, too,” Riley said. She glanced over at Elise and asked cheerily, “Do you have a watch that you like, Elise? I’ll get it for you as a gift one of these days.”

Elise, however, made her opinion known. “I’m not really into watches. I’ve always thought of them as impractical accessories.”

“Come on, you can tell a lot about a person from the watch they’re wearing and it’s scarily accurate,” Riley argued. “It’s like a symbol of your status or something.”

Samantha nodded in agreement. “My daddy and his business partners all have a staple piece in their watch collection. The watches represent who they are.”

Elise hummed in response, conceding to the argument. “Well, in that case, I should probably read up on this theory.”

while they devoured the food and after they had polished the take-out containers clean, they worked through a couple more questions before washing

 

for bed.

classroom only to find that it was empty save for Zachary,

she went closer to him that she noticed the crumpled papers being littered on the floor around

to Zachary’s ear and he was so stunned that he stopped scribbling at once. He looked

had been trying to solve that question with all the workings he could come up with, all to no avail. He didn’t think she would show up just as he was

know how to solve it?” he asked,

and drew an auxiliary line on his diagram. “You should have drawn the auxiliary line here instead and used Pythogaras’ theorem to determine the remaining two angles. After that, you use the same formula for this side of the triangle, and finally use trigonometry to come up with the final

diagram on the draft as she did so. He could just detect the faint scent of her shampoo

away and responded, “I’ll

gave her method a shot. She watched as he scribbled his

after having followed her workings, he found himself solving the question. His eyes brightened and he turned to look at

 

admiration.

class, was distracted. As soon as each lesson was over, his gaze would unknowingly

wasn’t long before lunchtime rolled around. She was packing her things when Samantha and Riley came

to keep my stuff away.” After having said that, she kept her things

cafeteria and absentmindedly brushed her wrist. With a start, she spoke urgently, “Hey, where’s my

girl on her head. “Dude, don’t you remember removing it

her in bewilderment. “I did? Okay, let’s hurry back

girls returned to class, they discovered that the watch wasn’t in Samantha’s bag at

“I know I’ve left it in my bag. It couldn’t

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