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.”

had polished the take-out containers clean, they worked through

 

for bed.

arrived at the classroom only to find that it was empty save for Zachary, who had his head down as

him that she noticed the crumpled papers being littered on the floor

are wrong in the first place.” Elise’s voice rang out close to Zachary’s ear and he was so stunned that he stopped scribbling at once. He looked up

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

know how to solve it?” he asked, gazing at

him as she took the pencil on his desk 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

and steadily, her voice calming Zachary in an instant. She had lowered her head as she explained the workings to him, drawing his attention to the diagram on the draft as she did so. He could just detect the faint scent of her shampoo lingering on her hair and for a

embarrassed Zachary quickly looked away and responded,

up his pen and gave her method a shot. She watched as he scribbled his workings and when she was sure he could figure it out, she

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

 

admiration.

hectic than usual, but Zachary, who had always been focused in class, was distracted. As soon as

wasn’t long before lunchtime rolled around. She was packing her things when Samantha and Riley came over. “Hey, Elise, let’s grab

in response. “Okay, give me a second to keep my stuff away.” After having said that, she kept her things in

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

her head. “Dude, don’t you remember removing it and putting it in your

blinked at her in bewilderment. “I did?

class, they discovered that the watch

I’ve left it in my bag. It couldn’t have just

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