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 easily get someone

of that.

But Vera exploded.

could have graduated long ago if you hadn’t skipped school so often. Hell, you even took

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

you keep fooling around like this,

it’ll

to take a break from

and had scolded

didn’t bother trying to explain herself again.

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

“Pyralis University?”

could hardly believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

the cream of the crop gets in

studied hard day

repeated grades for two years. What makes you think you can

if I become the top scorer in

Bonnie was confident.

truly exasperated. By the time she regained her composure, Bonnie had returned

bedroom.

for two days straight, and she

was getting ready to shower, she received a video call from one of her best

it, and a handsome man

wants to have a game

you sure it’s him?”

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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sounded excited. “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 him

“Sure.”

up, Bonnie took a hot shower

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house

training in a long time, so

saw an old man shadow boxing while

go, Orson!”

can take a punch like that!”

the man

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

young age, so she couldn’t help