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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of school because she could easily get

care of

But Vera exploded.

you think you’re the principal or something? You’re 20 years old, Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if you hadn’t skipped school so often. Hell, you even took

same day as you, but she’s already a sophomore at

like this,

do, it’ll probably be some third–rate

told Vera why she had to

parents didn’t believe her and had scolded her for

bother trying to

some third–rate college. I’ll be going

“Pyralis University?”

could hardly believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

Pyralis! Only the cream

studied hard day and night.

for two years. What makes you think

in if I become the

Bonnie was confident.

the time she regained her composure, Bonnie had returned to

bedroom.

on her research for two

getting ready to shower, she received a video

it, and a handsome man showed up

have a game with you.”

intrigued. “Are you sure it’s him?”

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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“The Shepherd and the Knight are the titans of the chess world. This will be the game of the century! I’m really looking forward to

“Sure.”

hanging up, Bonnie took a hot shower and lay

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Bonnie left her house in a tank top

time, so she decided to work out

old man shadow boxing while his peers looked on.

to go, Orson!”

a

onlookers showered the man with

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

had learned kickboxing from a young age, so