I Love You, Miss Genius

Chapter 5

“Her name? Bonnie Shepard, B–O–N–N–1–E, S–H–E–P–A–R–D.”

“Please hold, sir. Let me check the records.”

A minute later, the voice came through, stammering this time.

“Y–you’ve made a mistake. Bon” she coughed, “Bonnie Shepard hasn’t broken any law or escaped from the police.

“If you make a false report again, we’ll charge you!”

With that, she hung up.

Gresham was stupefied. Vera was beside him and had heard everything the police officer said.

“Are you done? I’ll go upstairs then.” Bonnie left.

Vera felt a sense of pity as she watched her walk away.

After all, Bonnie might be a loser, but she was still her daughter.

“I’m sorry, Bonnie. We were wrong about you.”

Saddened, Bonnie stopped and looked over her shoulder at Vera. That woman hardly ever apologized to her and was never so gentle to her.

Gresham sighed.

“I was just worried about you. Anyway, I apologize.”

Bonnie frowned. “It’s okay.”

The living room fell silent, and Bonnie spoke first.

“I’m hitting the sack.”

“Wait!”

Vera stopped Bonnie. “What on earth happened the other day? Why did you get taken away?”

“I told you, it’s classified. I’ll tell you when the time is right.”

Bonnie told her the truth.

Vera was losing her patience and felt disappointed and angry.

She didn’t want to hear any more lies, so she changed the subject.

“The school called. They said they might kick you out if you skip classes again.”

“I’ll handle it.”

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wasn’t worried about getting kicked out of school because she could easily

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if

you, but she’s already a sophomore at Pyralis

around like this, you’ll never get into

do, it’ll probably

to take a break from school back then.

believe her and had scolded her

didn’t bother trying to explain

worry, I’m not going to some third–rate college. I’ll be

“Pyralis University?”

hardly believe her ears.

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

in Pyralis! Only the cream of the crop gets

because she studied hard day and night.

What makes you think you can get in?”

become the top scorer in the entrance

Bonnie was confident.

she regained her composure, Bonnie had

bedroom.

on her research for two days straight, and she was exhausted.

ready to shower, she received a video call

handsome

the Knight wants to have a

intrigued. “Are you sure

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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of the chess world. This will be the game of the century! I’m

“Sure.”

up, Bonnie took a hot shower and lay

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6:00 a.m. the next day, Bonnie left her house in a tank top and

hadn’t done any kickboxing training in a long time, so she decided to work

saw an old man shadow boxing while his peers looked

to go,

one can take a

elderly onlookers showered the man with

and muttered to herself, “Your footwork is poor, and

learned kickboxing from a young age, so she