Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

139 Rival in the future?

Penny decided not to talk to Ray and completely treated him as non-existent. A person who wouldn't mind risking his reputation for a petty reason was not worth the death of her brain cells. "Penny, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Ray apologized half-heartedly, but she chose to enjoy

her last snacks and ignored him. "You said you only have five of those, but that's the fifth one. If I count the one you gave me, that's six. I'm still hungry."

Still no answer.

Ray eventually gave up. He didn't know what came to him and spouted such lines. But he knew he didn't want to offend her that way.

For a good five minutes, silence enveloped the old and dusty classroom. Penny didn't even give him a glance throughout while Ray ended up staring at her.

"Hey," he called, this time, his tone was a little solemn. "I'm sorry about the fans and what they did to you. I'm not bragging about their dismissal, but I want you to know that I didn't want that to happen. It's a lesson learned."

Strange for him to say this, but Ray always thought he was even smarter than most adults. It was. why he liked playing because he often thought there was nothing to learn anymore.

"I'm really sorry," he repeated sincerely. "I already talked to the other members of the fan club," "It's not them.

"Hmm?"

Penny slowly set her eyes on him. "The students who were kicked out weren't the people behind the flowerpot. They were just victims as well."

"What do you mean by that? I got their confession on record." He frowned. "You might've moved on from it, but I can't just do that."

"They talked to me last week."

"What?" this immediately didn't sit well with him. Before he could jump to a conclusion, she continued.

story. Because of that, we found out that someone pretended to be a part of the club," she explained, jumping from the chair and

out a small box before she advanced to the desk he was sitting on. "Your fan club has a sophisticated and

him and handed the box to him. Confused, Ray still accepted the

in the

"What's this?" he asked.

time the flowerpot fell on Lily. Fortunately, keychains from your club have serial numbers. I already told the people involved about the serial

sure about the next course of action, but I hope the school will deal with this justly, she continued. "You

saying her piece, Penny took a step back and turned on her

The broken piece had his face on it and on the back. were

her. "Do you know the person

shoulder, a little taken aback.

and smiled subtly. "I just know someone who always falls into such terrible tricks, but still ends up doing the right thing without any lingering vengeance. And that person

those words somehow struck her in a way she didn't expect. It wasn't like she knew the person he was talking

her lips before she said, "Do what you think is right." This time, she offered

without looking back. Ray remained in the same

the piece of evidence in between his fingers and smiled. "She

he walked out of the classroom. He thought since the bell rang minutes ago, Penny's brothers

would just hide again during lunch, was what he

might be a little embarrassing, but they had to make things right. He might not know who was behind the flowerpot, but he

sauntered through the hallway leisurely, not expecting any more big events. His brows rose when he saw a figure

in the

recognized Hugo. Heh. I heard he and Max don't get along

smiled from car to ear until his eyes were squinting