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

speed couldn't prevent the slap

thue to her small stature, her hand only reached his neck. Still, the slap was hard enough to leave several deep,

the children. How could one of your little ones wander all the 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 chest. She didn't

begun, she hadn't made sure to keep a close eye on her students. Serena had slipped away from the group

The schoolyard was small-

but the moment she'd stepped away to use the restroom, things had gotten

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 Sonny. Just get rid of her. Don't let her bully

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

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 parents!" Michelle's voice was tight with

she fixed it on

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