Chapter 18

Chapter

18

The sterile scent of disinfectant lingered in the air of the school's medical room, mingling with the quiet rustle of papers and the faint hurn of fluorescent lights overhead

The atmosphere was tense, punctuated only by the sound of the school nurse moving carefully around her patients. She was delicately tending to the wounds of Stella and Grayson, her hands gentle but precise as she cleaned their injuries. Stella's scrape was on

her hand, a small but painful abrasion, while Grayson's injury seemed more concerning, a few scratches along his neck.

The scuffle had happened just moments before and there had been hardly enough time for anyone to react before it escalated. Teachers had rushed in as

they could, but even their speed couldn't

her small stature, her hand only reached his neck. Still, the slap

way to the elementary school section?" Grayson's teacher, a stern woman with an air of authority, scolded Sophia Johnson, the teacher responsible for Serena's class Her voice was sharp,

didn't

free time had begun, she hadn't made sure to keep a close eye on

The schoolyard was small-

from a distance, but the moment she'd stepped away to use the

the new intern to watch the children, but the intern had been too absorbed in her phone to notice what was going on, paying attention only to the children directly in front of her, completely unaware of Serena sneaking off in the other direction. "She pushed me, and my hand is all scraped up" Stella cried dramatically, lifting her finger to show the tiny scratch. Her voice was a pitiful wail, filled with exaggerated distress, "She even hit

shocked glances. Even Michelle Cooper, the principal, had been drawn into the commotion. Her brow furrowed deeply as she

Both came from families with deep influence, and if anything happened to them, it could spell the end of Michelle's tenure as principal. "Have you contacted Serena's

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