Pursuing Her (Sophie and Tristan)

Chapter 122 What A Bummer

led to the present-day circumstances, he thus decided that five years later on this very day, he was going to stand by her no matter what.Hearing that from him only left Willow even more infuriated.Does he really trust her that much?Ignoring her, Mason continued into Nocturnal.As much as Willow wanted to follow, she found herself stopped at the door by the security.“No entry without a valid ID card, miss.”“I’m of legal age.” Willow was actually older than Sophie by a year and only had to take a year off from school because of poor health. That meant that she was already nineteen.“Sorry. You’re in uniform, so without the proper documentation to ascertain your age, we cannot allow you in.”Willow was irate, but since she was unable to do anything about them, she could only keep standing there.By the time Mason exited Nocturnal, it was already two past midnight.Owing to having one drink too many, he opted not to drive and hailed a ride over to Wisteria Apartments instead.The minute he got on, Willow, too, hired a car in pursuit, as seeing how drunk he was got her concerned that he might wind up in a sticky situation.What she had not expected was that his destination turned out to be Wisteria Apartments.After standing below the apartments for the entire night, Willow took ill the next day.When Charmaine saw the state her daughter was in, she poured a glass of warm water and also brought her some medicine.“Where were you last night? I know that Mason’s back, and the two of you want to be together, but you should also be mindful of your own reputation. Are you even listening, Willa?” Charmaine furrowed. What’s gotten into her lately?Throwing her arms around Charmaine, Willow then broke down in tears.“Why? What’s the matter? I wasn’t scolding you, silly girl. I’m just concerned! You’re to be married to Mason in the future, you know!”That got Willow bawling even more loudly.“What’s this about? Did Mason mistreat you?”“Would I really get to marry Mason, Mom?” She was not at all optimistic about this prospect at the moment.“Isn’t it why you’ve been working so hard all these years? To be married to Mason? Seeing how fond Mrs. Laird is of you, he surely must marry you.”Willow was not as confident of this. What would all the preparations she put together count for, with everything else that had gone down?In the end, the decision still laid with Mason himself.In order to get Sophie expelled, Whitlea purposefully called for a board meeting.It had been a while since such a meeting had been convened in Jipsdale Premier High, and even less expectedly, for the purpose of expelling a student.A dozen directors had already arrived inside the conference room.“All this over a case of expulsion, Mr. Langston? What’s the point of making such a big deal of it, really? Why don’t you just go ahead yourself and get it over with?”“Yeah! You should know well that we’re all very busy people.”“How would any of our opinions matter if Mr. Langston himself has already had his own mind made up?” said Whitlea mockingly.Andy wiped the sweat off the top of his own head.“My fellow directors, as the details of this case have yet to be established, I think—”“Yet to be established? What’s there left to establish? Bailey has always topped his grade. How could you not know that, considering that you’re someone who had watched Bailey grow up yourself? Also, I was told that you were the one who had admitted Sophie. That makes you the very reason why something like this has taken place inside this school. It makes me wonder whether you could have accepted something from her in exchange.”Transferring to Jipsdale Premier High in her senior year? Isn’t it obvious that some manner of bribery must be involved?That yielded a frown from Andy.“Isn’t it a normal thing for students to change schools, Mdm. Dixon? Does having this take place within your jurisdiction mean that I must necessarily be on the take?” said Andy as he stood to his feet.“Just look and see for yourselves Mr. Langston’s attitude.” Whitlea was positively livid.“Isn’t it true that the school won’t be able to continue operating without us, Mr. Langston?”The moment Sophie arrived at school, she found herself mobbed by a group of girls.“You have some gall showing your face around here again, Sophie.”“Yeah! How shameless could you possibly get? If something similar were to happen to me, I wouldn’t have been able to continue living.”“Do you figure that everyone must give a d*mn about that?”Pulling the hood back from her head, Sophie cast a cold stare that made the observers shudder.A couple of girls who dared not trifle with Sophie in the mood she was in automatically stepped aside and cleared a path for her.Sophie let out a sneer.“Was she taunting us just now?”“D*mn right, she was! How could that woman be so thick-skinned?”“The school has already called for a board meeting to get her expelled, so let’s see how much longer she could continue to be cocky.”“Yeah! What’s she being so smug about? She’s just a sl*t.”It took only Sophie turning and shooting them a look to cause the lot of them to stumble back in fear.Pulling out her phone, Sophie went on to post