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

of

But Vera exploded.

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

on the same day as you,

like this, you’ll never get into

do, it’ll probably be some third–rate college!”

to take a break from school back

didn’t believe her and had scolded her for lying.

bother trying to explain herself

to some third–rate college. I’ll be

“Pyralis University?”

could hardly believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

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

because she studied hard

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

become the top

Bonnie was confident.

she regained her composure, Bonnie had

bedroom.

on her research for two days straight,

shower, she received a video call from

handsome man showed up on

the Knight wants to have a game

you

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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and the Knight are the titans of the chess world. This will

“Sure.”

hot shower and

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a.m. the next day, Bonnie left her house in a tank

time, so she decided to work out

an old man shadow boxing while his peers looked

go,

take a punch like that!”

the man with their compliments.

frowned and muttered to herself, “Your footwork

from a young age, so