Loving Mom 374

Chapter 374

Several groups before Sharon and Matty had done poorly. Some had forgotten their lines completely and ended up freezing on stage, eventually having to abandon the performance altogether.

But even then, the lowest anyone had ever received was 60 points-a baseline encouragement score.

A zero? That had never happened.

The room instantly erupted. People murmured, heads craned, conversations overlapping.

“What’s going on? Why zero?”

“Did they mess up something serious? Anyone here speak Spanish?”

“That can’t be it. Even if they slipped up, they finished the whole thing. It should be at least an eighty.”

“Honestly, I thought Matty’s group did better than Theo’s.”

“I speak Spanish. There were no mistakes. Not a single one.”

stared at the score, his little fists clenched. His nerves frayed, panic creeping in. He wondered if maybe… he had messed up. Maybe it was his fault. Maybe he’d dragged Sharon down.

gently brushed

Matty’s breathing evened

man in his thirties, wearing glasses, expression stiff and

voice cold and cutting. “Miss

“Cheating?!”

through the crowd like electricity. Even the

teaching children integrity. If the kids grew up

to his nameplate. Gregory

was no anger or panic. Her voice, when it

her to stay this

from high school. With that kind of education,

him. “Heard? From whom? Gossip?

when does a junior high diploma disqualify someone from learning Spanish? Are you discriminating, Mr. Finch? Should I start listing a few world-renowned figures who

Gregory’s face stiffened.

belatedly, that he’d overplayed his hand. His words

hard time-enough to embarrass her, not enough to cause a scene

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