Joel: [What’s up?]

Cicely: [Hey, Mr. Straight-A President, all done with your homework?]

Joel: [Yup.]

Peter: [That’s a first. It’s not often to see Joel reply so quickly to a message. The beauty treatment sure is different.]

Sam: [True that. Usually, you need to @ him to get a response.]

Max: [Only now we realize that our noble Mr. Joel isn’t just swimming in a sea of books.]d2

These boys were perennially active in the class, and everyone could tell they were teasing Joel. While Cicely was involved, they carefully avoided mentioning her by name. No one wanted to cross the Ellis family’s famous little princess. The consequences could be dire, though they weren’t quite sure what that would entail.

Somehow, the idea that Cicely was not to be trifled with had inexplicably taken root in everyone’s minds. No one wanted to step on that landmine.

Knowing that Joel had finished his homework, Cicely messaged him privately. She snapped photos of the blank problems with her phone and sent them over. [I can’t figure these out at all. Can you show me your answers?]

[If I just show you the answers, will you understand? Do you want me to explain them to you

[No need, I’ll see if I

Joel: [Alright then.]

Cicely received Joel’s solutions, but each one

it. [A genius, no doubt. You actually

in the future,

[okay] and then went silent. The classic

and glanced at the group in front of him before gathering his stuff

engrossed in his book, suddenly looked up

if he’d been sized up completely. Confused but realizing Seth had no

shifted to the window, where the evening sky was bathed in a warm

strike up a conversation, but

watched her for a moment, raised an eyebrow, then looked back at

a bit flustered. She stood up, said she needed to go to the

his book on the table, visibly annoyed. “What’s with these girls these days, huh? What’s so great about you? They say you’re handsome, but are we chopped liver? Why are they all falling

and gave

in closer, “Hey, bro, between Danielle and Cicely, who do you fancy more?”Books

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