Chapter 152

Mandy’s expression softened a touch upon hearing her daughter’s reply. “Next time, give me at heads up, will you? Otherwise, I’ll start to worry.”

“Sure,” Summer murmured, drifting into the living room and collapsing into the plush embrace of the sofa with a distracted air.

Mandy glanced at Summer, finally registering her daughter’s troubled look, and asked with a frown, “What’s got into you? You look like you’ve lost your spirit.”

Summer hugged a throw pillow to her chest, her legs curled up on the sofa. She didn’t look at her mother as she spoke in a faint voice. “It’s nothing.”

“Is someone at work giving you a hard time?” Mandy probed, her brows knitting tighter.

“No.” Summer shook her head., “Everyone’s been really nice to me.”

Unaccustomed to such a forlorn expression on her daughter’s face, Mandy pressed further, “Then did something happen at school?”

After a pause, as if a particular name came to mind, Mandy’s face darkened instantly. “Is it Mirabella? Has she been bullying you again?”

a word,

back to her hometown, and now she’s causing mischief at your school. I really don’t understand what kind of upbringing she

descended from the second floor, jumped at the sound

finally looked up, a strained smile tugging at her lips. “Mom, don’t be

ire, “You’re just too kind–hearted, letting

laugh. “My daughter won’t be bullied for nothing. I need to have a word with the

quickly putting down the pillow and snatching the phone before Mandy could dial, “Mom, it’s really

the phone

mother, gently

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get the

exam results came out today. I scored 670,

improved by a few spots since the end of the last semester.

that her mother had dropped the Idea of calling the Davis family, Summer finally

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