Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 524

"What's up?" Roseanne asked, breaking the silence.

At her words, both Mamie and Scales jerked their heads up, their expressions suddenly mirroring that of kids caught in a mishap, finally seeing a comforting adult.

Mamie rushed over, her voice choked with emotion, eyes brimming with tears that she stubbornly fought back.

Scales was right behind her, his face tense and fists clenched, clearly agitated.

Roseanne immediately sensed trouble but tried to remain calm, "What happened? Why are you guys sitting out here instead of being inside?"

"Roseanne..." Mamie struggled to hold back her tears, "We can't get in anymore!"

"What do you mean you can't get in?" Roseanne was taken aback.

"Yesterday, the school's safety committee and the local fire department showed up unexpectedly at the lab for an inspection..."

nothing new, so Mamie and Scales didn't think much of it and cooperated, opening up the

inspectors had made their rounds, poking here and there, they dropped a

fire safety inspection and was given a week to vacate and rectify

for questions or explanations, they slapped a notice on

was all over in a jiffy, just a quick check and the inspectors left. Why were we flagged for violations and ordered to make changes? And to vacate?" They had just set up their lab, with brand new equipment barely used. It

"So why are you sitting out here? If

local fire department that issued the notice. Director White said we need to undergo a self-inspection process, so they took

Roseanne still

"Let's go in

it felt like they had found their

handing each of them a bottle of water as

do now? heard being ordered to rectify is just a polite way of kicking us out. Does this mean we're going to lose the

few days for some or drag on for years for others. The ambiguity left too much room for

moment

it down right after the inspectors left. Roseanne skimmed through it. The

fire safety equipment: missing fire extinguishers,