The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 47

Vivienne hopped into a cab, telling the driver to head for Cloudcrest High School. Once she arrived, she paid the fare and made a beeline for the principal’s office.

Vivienne had never been to Cloudcrest High School before. She randomly asked a student for directions and quickly found her way.

As she neared the principal’s office, she heard voices inside.

Vivienne swore she wasn’t trying to eavesdrop; it just so happened that the door was ajar.

Because there were people talking inside, she didn’t want to barge in uninvited, so she decided to hang out by the door.

Consequently, the conversation inside made its way to her ears.

“Principal, I can’t deal with the students in Class Eighteen any longer, last time they put a trash can over my head and gave me a beating. I’ve still got the bruises. If you insist on me teaching Class Eighteen, I’ll have to quit.” Vivienne peeked inside the office, the speaker was a man in his forties, wearing glasses, looking like a gentleman. His face was filled with pain. as he rubbed his arm.

“I can’t handle them either, they used to put cockroaches in my textbooks, but this time they put a rat in it! You know how terrified I am of rats.” A woman in her thirties added, “These students are beyond redemption. I’m at my wits’ end.”

“Principal, you can’t keep throwing us under the bus, we’re not trying to shirk our responsibilities, it’s just we can’t get through to them. We’re here to teach, not to risk our lives!” Another male teacher chimed in.

The Principal Lysander Harper exhaled a deep sigh, “I understand, you’ve all been put in a tough spot. But we can’t just let it slide. The higher-ups have issued an order, if none of the students from Class Eighteen get into college this year like before, then our status as an elite school will be revoked.”

Lysander felt helpless hearing the teachers’ complaints. Havenwood was a big city, home to many high schools, but only Cloudcrest High School was an elite school.

The school fees for this elite school were astronomical, yet every year, many people would do whatever it takes to get in, causing a headache for the regular schools trying to recruit students.

Especially because Cloudcrest High School had a class known as the “demon class”-senior year Class Eighteen.

The students in this class all came from wealthy families, their academic performance was abysmal, and they were all lumped together in the same class. These students were notorious troublemakers, and things only got worse when they gathered together.

They often bullied teachers and classmates, it was all too common.

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issue was, Lysander

students’ parents all

the power to expel other students but not those in Class Eighteen, as that needed approval from the school

this to the Department of Education who took this matter seriously. They demanded that Class Eighteen be rectified. If none of the students from Class Eighteen got into

revoked.

the school board on edge, urging him to find a

What could he do?

understand that this will tarnish the school’s reputation, but sir, Class Eighteen… it’s a real hellhole, we all want to live a

felt troubled. He sat down, took a sip of water, and fell silent for a

figure standing outside the door. He took a closer look and his

His savior

to deal with

days were

Lysander.” Vivienne walked

at ease now that you’re

just buttering her up, he

started to worry that Vivienne. might change her mind

seeing Vivienne standing in front of him, he felt he could finally get

any further ado, she asked, “Shall we begin

the lowdown on Class Eighteen when he invited her to

the class was

some presumptuous rich children, but those more presumptuous than them

her.

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let me

teachers in his office looking at Vivienne with

for Class Eighteen, and she

Vivienne and introduced the forty-something man in glasses, “This

her thirties, “This

to the younger male teacher, “This is Mr.

other teachers have gone to their

few teachers, “Hey, Mr. Dennis, Ms. Abby, Mr. Arkle, what’s

teachers

They were freaking out!