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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worried about getting kicked out of school because she could easily get someone to

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

something? You’re 20 years old, Bonnie! You could have graduated long

as you, but she’s

like this, you’ll never get into

do, it’ll probably be some third–rate

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

and

didn’t bother trying to explain herself again.

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

“Pyralis University?”

hardly believe

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

in Pyralis! Only the cream of the

in because she studied hard

years. What makes you think you can get in?”

have no problem getting in if I become the

Bonnie was confident.

was truly exasperated. By the time she regained her composure,

bedroom.

her research for two days straight,

to shower, she received a

answered it, and a handsome

have a

you sure it’s him?”

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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Heath Rice sounded excited. “The Shepherd and the Knight are the titans of the chess world. This will be

“Sure.”

hot shower and lay down in bed to

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day, Bonnie left her house in a tank top and a

in a long time, so she decided to work out in the

saw an old man shadow boxing

to go,

can take a punch like

showered the man with

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

young age, so she couldn’t help pointing