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

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

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 one whole year off before!

you, but she’s already

you keep fooling around like this,

if you do, it’ll

had told Vera why she had to take a break from school back then.

her and had scolded her

bother trying to

going to some third–rate college.

“Pyralis University?”

believe

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

university in Pyralis! Only the cream of the crop gets in there!

studied

grades for two years. What makes you think you can get in?”

getting in if I become

Bonnie was confident.

exasperated. By the time she regained her composure,

bedroom.

research for two

to shower, she received

and a handsome

Knight wants to have a game

you sure

“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 it. I’ll reply to

“Sure.”

a hot shower and lay down in bed to sleep.

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house in a tank top and

training in a long time,

shadow boxing while his

go, Orson!”

a punch like

the man with

herself, “Your footwork is poor, and your strikes

kickboxing from a young age, so she couldn’t help pointing out his mistakes.