Filed to story: That Campus Prince Is a Girl
Zach was completely at a loss.
Back in the classroom, Cameron looked down at the test in front of her. Hearing the conversation outside, she gave a faint smile.
In the classroom next to the music room, Amelia and Skyler had been waiting for a long time, expecting good news from Zach. Finally, they saw Zach trudging toward them, looking dejected.
The moment Amelia saw Zach’s defeated look, her heart sank. She wondered whether the plan had failed.
Skyler hurried over. “Zach, did it work?”
Zach looked worried. “No.”
Skyler frowned. “No? How could you mess up such a simple task?”
Zach shot her a glare. The whole plan had been Skyler’s idea, and he never thought he’d be the one to face the consequences.
Amelia frowned. “What exactly happened?”
Zach told them everything.
Skyler clenched her fists in anger. “Damn it! How is Cameron so insidious and cunning?”
Amelia’s frown deepened. She had never realized Cameron was this clever before.
Zach looked at Amelia and asked, “Amy, you’re Successfully unlocked! eally getting expelled, am I?”
The SATs were just around the corner. If he got punished by his father. omething this ridiculous-he would be severely
Skyler scoffed, “You’re such a good-for-nothing, messing up such a simple task, and now you expect Amy to ask her family to bail you out? Dream on.”
Zach was anxious. “But you guys promised met
Skyler shot back, “And did you do what you promised?”
Zach fell silent, clenching his fists in frustration.
Amelia frowned slightly and said, “Don’t worry. I’ll keep my word.” With that, she turned and walked away
“Wait-“Zach raised a hand toward her retreating figure and thought, What about the movie we were supposed to see together?
Skyler glared at Zach and then went to catch up with Amelia.
Amelia’s pretty face was cold. “Skyler, can you please stop coming up with dumb plans?”
She had originally planned to have her father step in and get Cameron expelled.
But Skyler said that she wanted Cameron to be humiliated before getting expelled and that this plan would provide a legitimate reason for Cameron’s expulsion.
And better yet, they wouldn’t even have to involve the Chapman family directly.
Amelia had believed her, only to see their plan fail.
To make matters worse, Skyler had gone behind Amelia’s back and told Zach that once the plan worked. Amelia would agree to go to the movies with him.
Amelia had always been proud. She disdained to associate with people outside her social circle. The Poole family, naturally, didn’t meet her standards.
Skyler didn’t want to deal with Amelia’s emotions, but to deal with Cameron, she had to keep fawning over Amelia.
She hooked her arm around Amelia’s and said, “Alright, it’s my fault. I didn’t think it through. How about we go back to the old plan and let your dad handle it?”
“Okay.” Amelia nodded.
After the practice test,Cameron expected that she would probably move up a few places this time.
There were thirty-six students in their class. This time, she’d likely place somewhere in the twenties in her class and over three hundred in her grade. Everything was under her control.
Seeing that Zach’s seat in front of Cameron was now empty, the students started talking among themselves.
“Hey, did you hear Zach got expelled?”
“Yeah, for trying to frame Cameron.”
“And he did that for Amelia, the prettiest girl in our school.”
“He’s an idiot. Amelia would never like him.”
Cameron twirled the pen in her hand, unconcerned. After class, she headed straight back to the dorm.
To her surprise, Xander had already returned. Usually, he’d be at the basketball court around this time, working up a sweat. Besides, with next month’s big game against Horizon Academy coming up, the school team was supposed to be ramping up practice. But Xander was in the dormitory and sat in Cameron’s chair.
Cameron frowned. “Move.”
Xander instantly shot up from her seat. “You’re back.”
Cameron said nothing as she picked up a sanitizing wipe and calmly cleaned off the chair.
The corner of Xander’s mouth twitched as he thought, ‘Only this little brat would do something so petty.
Cameron sat down on the chair, spread out the drawing paper on the desk, grabbed a pencil, and began sketching lightly on the paper.
“What are you doing?” Xander leaned in, clearly curious.
He blocked Cameron’s light, so Cameron frowned and said, “Move aside.”
Xander was pissed and thought, ‘Seriously?! I am and he has the nerve to boss me around?’
Successfully unlocked! whatever I want with a snap of my fingers,
He crossed his arms and shouted, “Hey, what are you drawing? Can you even draw? Don’t tell me you’re trying to get into art school or something now. It’s too late. You’re a total academic disaster. Stop dreaming about college.”
Cameron turned to him. “Can you shut your mouth?”
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Xander was furious. He wanted to throw a few more sarcastic jabs at Cameron, but decided against it, knowing a would only make him more frustrated since Cameron was better at snark than he was.
Fuming, he turned around and stormed into the bathroom, slamming the door with a loud bang
Cameron continued drawing without frowning. There were only four days left until the submission deadline for the fashion design competition organized by Noir Eclat. She was determined to finish the des draft tonight
Elijah returned to the dorm with his textbooks and went straight to his desk. He flipped through the exam paper with the correct answers on it, trying to recall the answers he had written during the test to estimate his score
Although he was always top of the class without fail, he still hoped that he could make some progress. His drive to learn had no limit.
After more than ten minutes, Xander came out of the bathroom. He glanced at Cameron, who was still engrossed in her drawing, rolled his eyes, and climbed onto his bunk.
He scrolled through his phone for a bit and then put it down, thinking, ‘Cameron’s drawing Elijah is a nerd. And Bradley hasn’t come back yet. I am so bored.’
So he leaned against the railing on his bed, tilting his head as he intently watched Cameron sketch.
Suddenly, his phone rang. Uninterested, he turned his head and saw he had received a message. The message was from none other than Milena, and it was a photo.
Xander tapped it open and froze. The girl in the picture had very short hair. Her face was strikingly beautiful, with a kind of intense charm. She wore a stunning red dress and lounged on a sofa. But her eyes were cold.
Xander was captivated, his heart pounding. He was still staring intently at the photo when a notification appeared: The sender has recalled the message.
He was confused, but another message followed almost immediately. Milena texted: [Sorry, Mr. Murphy, I sent that by mistake.]
Xander’s heart still was racing. That one photo instantly brought back the rush he’d felt the day he first saw “Milena” outside the mall. He quickly replied: [The photo’s gorgeous.]
Milena, on the other end of the phone, finally smiled.
Xander had been ignoring her for the past few days, and she’d been stressing out. She had finally come up with this plan: send Xander a picture of Cameron in women’s clothes and then recall it right after-just to see how he’d react.
The photo had been captured from the security footage in their living room. And sure enough, Xander had responded instantly.
Milena felt both jealous and thrilled. She then texted: [Thanks for the compliment, Mr. Murphy. And sorry again about the photo-it was meant for someone else.]
Without thinking, Xander replied: [Your boyfriend?] The second he hit send, he regretted it. He wanted to recall it, but before he could, Milena’s reply came through.
She texted: [Are you kidding? I’m still a student. There’s no way I have a boyfriend. My family’s super strict-no dating allowed.]
Xander was over the moon. Remembering that Cameron was in the dorm, he tried to keep it together, but he couldn’t stop smiling.
Milena sent another message. [Mr. Murphy, is my brother asleep yet?]
Xander replied: [Nope. He’s drawing something weird.]
Milena: [Really? Can you take a photo and send it to me?]
