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."

their suspicions-Fiona's

in the room grew

head, a slight, involuntary

Fiona was rescued, Louise had spent

envious of Fiona's luck in getting out unscathed and worried her own role might be

station, but couldn't get in,

overnight, likely because Rosa

her distance; it was all Rosa's doing, nothing could

Fiona's reputation

Class 9

steer clear, afraid the

something." Col

belongs

your cousin Nash to keep away from

a deafening "bang" as

jumped and

leaning casually against the doorframe, arms

she'd used to

It was Fiona!

have you

her, they felt a bit awkward, having been caught bad-mouthing her. But this

the audacity to kick the door open, making

room buzzed