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"Okay, class. This is your new classmate. I know it's almost at the end of the year, but be nice to her, alright?" the homeroom teacher announced before casting the headmaster a look. When her eyes were on the adorable little girl, she smiled.

"Please introduce yourself."

Penny nodded and stepped in the front. "My name is Penelope. You can call me Penny. Let's get along well."

The class assessed the girl, who seemed to be just ten. She was short, but also very wide. One could tell she spent most of her time in the kitchen. But aside from her appearance and weird match of clothing colors, the students instinctively thought of her family name, Reed, a

Was there a family in the upper echelon named Reed?

"Penny, you may take a seat over there." The homeroom teacher pointed at the vacant chair in the farthest corner before facing the headmaster.

As y marched to her seat, the teacher politely

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walked out to the headmaster.

Eyes remained on Penny's figure even after she sat down. When she glanced at her classmates, the students didn't even look away, as if they wanted Penny to know they were assessing her value.

'Hmp. Kids.' Penny ignored them and placed her purple backpack on the desk.

"That's her?" Patricia smiled in satisfaction. Her initial

worry was that the transferee was pretty. But seeing this chubby girl, she felt at ease. However, suddenly,

she furrowed her brows.

"Why does she look so familiar?" she murmured.

Nina, on the other hand, peeled her gaze from Penny.

'She used the surname Reed. "The corner of her lips. curled up. As long as I ignore her, I-

"Oh, Nina, you're here?"

Nina froze as she felt everyone's eyes fall on her. Her little face slightly twitched as she slowly glanced at

Penny.

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Nina offered a kind mile to Penny but said nothing. She didn't want any interaction with Penny because

an

her friends would ask

know Nina?" Patricia blurted out, an

her eyes veered to the girl next to Nina.

widened,

"The crazy girl!'

her pupils dilated. She pointed a finge at Penny and

course! How can I forget that very wide face! Patricia hissed as she crossed her arms. "Nina, she's the

spilled juice on your

glaring at Penny. But right before she could cont e her anger,

an easy

followed by

Get back on your respective

Patricia rolled her eyes at Penny and stormed back

help but heave a sigh of relief. As for Penny, her face twitched, and she made a mental note not to associate herself with a troublesome girl like Patricia. "That girl is friends with Nina?' Penny scrunched up her nose in dismay. 'Goodness. What a taste in

shook her head, thinking she didn't remember Patricia from her first life. Though she remembered Nina having a friend named Patricia, she couldn't remember her face as a

didn't have so many good memories in her first life, so she only

I

an

planned to move up and graduate early. The

'Penny cupped her chubby cheeks and gazed at the window on the side. "That's Slater's building. I wonder what that stubborn coward

much attention throughout the classes. No one also bothered her, although her classmate's eyes would constantly fall on her every once in a while. When the first bell for

so quickly?" one of the classmates. followed

laughed. "She's probably excited

eat."

her. Didn't you see the headmaster walked

girl went ciet and

That piglet is running to

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an

if the

that brat

she'll eventually find out about the situation in the Bennet household. "How about we eat something

just smiled. "I'm not that kind, and who

and see that piglet!"

you! Didn't

student with the short bob-cut hair that only reached under her earlobe flinched. She pushed her glasses up, reluctantly getting away from her desk to Nina and Patricia. Patricia crossed her arms as she glared

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when you don't even use your head? Go.