Flora’s Guide to a Second Chance at Love and Life

Chapter 1412

Class 5.

It was study period, and with no teacher around, the students were all bunched up, chatting animatedly.

"Hey, did you hear? Fiona didn't show up at school yesterday because she got kidnapped!"

"Really? I just saw her at the entrance earlier, and she looked totally chill, not like someone who had just been kidnapped, right?"

"She's probably just putting on a brave face!"

A girl let out a cynical laugh, "The guys who took her were all men. I don't need to spell out what they might've done, do I? Who knows, maybe she's already been..."

She trailed off, but everyone got the gist. They weren't kids; they knew what she was implying.

The mood shifted, becoming awkwardly tense.

Fiona had been missing for a day, and everyone assumed her reputation was shot.

"If I were her, I'd be hiding at home, too embarrassed to show my face. But she's got the nerve to strut around school," the girl continued, then turned to Louise: "Louise, doesn't your family work with the police? Do you know what really happened?" Louise was scribbling in her notebook, her long hair cascading over her shoulders, giving her an impossibly gentle look.

Hearing them, she just smiled softly.

"I know a bit, but... Fiona's a victim in all this."

only confirmed their

in the room grew

her head, a slight, involuntary smile playing on her

rescued, Louise had

in getting out unscathed and worried her own role might

warn Rosa at the station, but couldn't get

overnight, likely because Rosa chose not

her distance; it was

Fiona's

in Class 9 will probably

steer clear, afraid the

something." Col

belongs

you should tell your cousin Nash

a deafening "bang" as

Class 5 jumped and spun towards

the doorframe, arms crossed, looking defiant

she'd used to kick the

It was Fiona!

have you

caught bad-mouthing

audacity to kick the door open, making

room buzzed with