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 someone to

of

But Vera exploded.

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

as you, but she’s already a sophomore at Pyralis University!

you keep fooling around like this, you’ll

do, it’ll probably be

had to take a break

didn’t believe her and

bother trying to explain herself again.

going to some third–rate college. I’ll be going to Pyralis

“Pyralis University?”

believe her ears.

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

Pyralis! Only the cream of

studied hard

for two years. What makes you think you can

no problem getting in if I become the

Bonnie was confident.

she regained her composure, Bonnie had returned to her

bedroom.

on her research for two days straight,

to shower, she received a video call

answered it, and a handsome man showed

to have a

intrigued. “Are you sure

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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

“Sure.”

hanging up, Bonnie took a hot shower and lay down in bed

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next day, Bonnie left her house in

in a long time, so she decided to work out

old man shadow boxing

to go, Orson!”

take a punch

the man with their compliments.

frowned and muttered to herself, “Your footwork is

kickboxing from a young age, so