Filed to story: That Campus Prince Is a Girl
Austin leaned down, planting his palms on Elijah’s desk. His handsome face under that short blond hair was completely devoid of its usual smile. “E remember you didn’t used to treat me like this, it’s because of Cam, ko’t it?
Elijah was at a loss for words. Something about Austin right now felt off. Elijah frowned slightly as he sensed the intimidating energy radiating from him.
This wasn’t the same frail Austin who used to coughs after walking just a few steps. Instead, he had this commanding presence that led the room.
Elijah leaned back in his chair, trying to put some distance between them. “What do you want?”
Austin stepped back, a light smile returning to his face, “Want? Nothing. Ell I’m just wondering if there’s some misunderstanding between us.”
“You’re imagining things,” Elijah said coolly. He studied Austin more carefully. Just like that, Austin had shifted back to his usual fragile demeanor. “Was that intimidating vibe just my intagination? Elijah thought.
“Am 12” Austin smiled. “I hope so. But Eli, Cam, and I are really close friends. He’s my only friend.”
“Friends?” Elijah repeated, testing the word.
“Very, very important friends.” Austin emphasized. Besides his mother, Cameron was the most important person in his world.
“I’m heading to to the library to study for a bit, Austin said, then left the dorm room.
Elijah sat at his desk, lost in thought. Austin and Cameron were friends. He and Cameron were friends too.
At Fraser Villa, Samuel lay in bed with broken ribs while his assistant stood nearby, reading documents aloud.
“Hold up,” Samuel interrupted suddenly.
“Mr. Fraser?” The assistant looked at him.
“What happened with that Cameron kid? Did the Wallaces get their theck back?” Samuel asked.
The assistant closed the file “Let me check on that, Mr. Fraser. Give me a minute.”
Ten minutes later, the assistant returned.
“Well?” Samuel asked impatiently.
“Cameron got his foster parents thrown in jail,” the assistant said.
Samuel’s jaw dropped. “What?”
There was a lot to unpack in that one sentence.
“Foster parents? Jail? What are you talking about Samuel asked, bewildered.
“Turns out Cameron isn’t actually the Wallaces kid,” the assistant explained. “His foster parents stole him from the hospital”
Samuel was speechless. No wonder that kid’s such a nightmare, he thought “And why the Wallaces didn’t have the guts to stand up to hin, even their real son snet
“So that little punk gets off scot-free?” Samuel slapped his thigh in frustration. He’d been counting on the Wallaces to deal with Cameron, but they’d proven completely useless.
“Mr, Fraser,” the assistant quickly cut in, “Cameron’s just a kid who doesn’t know any better. Let’s be the bigger people here and let it go
“You’re lying in bed with brakeh ribs right now, the assistant thought. “Keep pushing this, and who knows what might happen next.
“Hmph.” Samuel let out a cold snort. “I’m keeping score. And he’ll pay for this
Cameron and Bradley had barely stepped out of the school cafeteria when they were immediately swarmed by classmates.
“Cameron, i had no idea you were so amazing at pianol That was seriously cool,” one said.
“Are you playing again tonight? I really want to hear more. Could you play something just for us?”
Cameron’s mind went blank, “What the hell?’ she thought. Her plano skills were decent enough. On one of her world-hopping worlds, she’d been bor into a family of pianists and could play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” by age one.
How did they know about it? Cameron wondered. They all were at the music room last night?”
Bradley turned to her, eyebrows raised. “You play plano?” There was a plano at Noble Vista, but he’d never heard her play it once.
Cameron looked at ?nradley and nodded honedly. ” can play the plant a little bit.”
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Treaty someone posted a video of yes, and Austin playing piano four handed last night, and it blew upt pillions of people liked it?”
After stening to his classmates chatter, Cameron frally figured out what was going on
Camere thanked everyone with a sile, then took a gap to pull hadley away kmeka watched them from a distance and realized she’d never truly known Cameron
She hadn’t expected him to not only play basketball but also the piano, Cameron was much more amazing than she’d imagined
Shortly aher, Amela turned her gaze to Bradley, Thinking he was the more dazzling one
Cameron and Bradley reached the edge of the playground.
Bradley had already taken out his phone to look for the video his classmates had mentioned. He found it quickly, for as soon as he searched the keyword “”Auto”, the famous video popped up.
Bradley stared quietly at t phone screen, listened for a moment, and then said, “Your two piano sounds are mixed together. I can’t
Cameron smiled and said, “Does that mean you want me to play a piece just for you?”
Bradity put away fits phone and adjusted his pold-rimmed glasses. “If you don’t mind.”
Cameron asked, “Right now?”
Brady shook his head. “No, when we get back to Noble Vista.” He wanted to enjoy Cameron’s piano playing when they were alone
Cameron agreed and then said, “tirad, I need to go to the library now. I promised Xander I’d tutor him.”
Bradley said helplessly. “This is such a waste of your talent.”
Having Cameron tutor Fander was no different from wasting time, since Xander’s grades were so bad that tutoring wouldn’t help at all.
Cameron said, “T’re free anyway. It’s good to eam some pocket money. Besides, i still owe you over ten million dollars.*
Bradley said, “You don’t have to pay me back so so
Cameron nodded. “I know” But she wanted to pay off the debt as as soon as possible. Maybe when the mass al company officially started operating, she tould make it happen
Bradley patted Cameron on the shoulder “Okay, I’ll o the library with you and read for a
When the two armed at the library, Kanderhud alivaly be waiting for a long lana.
“What were you doing just now? You took so “Xander grumbled discontentedly.
When he saw Bradley sit down beside Cameron with a book, kander said. study” unhappily, “Brad, sitting here might disturb Cameron and me while we
“Desturb”” Bradley stayed firmly in his seat. “Even if I didn’t disturb your study, you couldn’t improve your grades, could you?
Kander fell silent, at a loss for words
Cameron tapped the desk. “Brad isn’t even talking. How could he disturb you? Open your book, and let’s start.”
Xander glared at Cameron. “Why are you taking his side?” was always like this. She always took Bradley’s side, which made Xander very annoyed. ameron said. “I’m just telling the truth.” kander pushed his textbook aside. “I don’t want to study anymore.”
Cameron stand up. “Tine, since you don’t want to study, I’ll go back to the dorm and sleep
Xander grabbed Cameron’s amin as “Wait a minute?
He’d said he didn’t want to study, just beping Cameron would send Bradley away, but the holly planned to following his words, which made
Kanderhurious
Cameron quickly pulled her hand back. “What are you doing?” She frowned and took out antiseptic wipes to scrub the forearm ander had grabbed.
Xander rubbed his fingertips, staring at Cameron “Your skin is te snooth
Although Xander often stayed in the sun and played basketball, his own skin was delicate, But Cameron’s skin seemed strangely smooth, almost smoother than his mother’s.
Cameron didn’t respond. Bradley bugged at Xander’s sleeve. “Xander, do you know men can harass other men too?”
Xander scoffed. “Like you’re really a lawyer. You’re just a high school student-stop acting all pretentious
“Are you sure?” Bradley’s eyes behind the lenses narrowed dangerously.
Kander felt a twinge of guilt. “I just grabbed him once. So what? Is that illegal?”
Bradley said, “Don’t you know he has mysophobia?”
Jander retorted, “No, I didn’t.”
