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“Expel him?”
“Amy, Cameron and his sister only got into this elite school thanks to you. Since you have the power to get him in, then you can get him kicked out too, right?
“Let’s kick him out first to vent our anger, and then force him to break off the engagement with you.”
Amelia took Skyler’s words to heart. The SATS an urgent matter, even more important than the
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“I’ll try,” Amelia said.
A triumphant smile appeared on Skyler’s face as she thought, ‘Cameron, get ready to be kicked out of Langford Academy for good.’
The next day, the SAT practice test began as scheduled, following the same format as the real exam the Reading and Writing section first, followed by Math
The first section went smoothly. Cameron wanted to show just a bit of progress, so she held back on purpose and ended up getting most of the answers wrong
While Cameron was working through the Math section, carefully calculating how dry multiple choice questions she needed to get right to hit her target score, a crumpled ball of paper suddenly landed on her desk
She was confused. And before she could even see what it was, the proctor quickly walked up to her and said sharply. “Don’t movel
Although Langford Academy was an elite school, the teachers here weren’t permissive, they were really strict. Otherwise, Langford Academy wouldn’t have the highest college acceptance rate in the country
“I didn’t move,” Cameron said calmly.
“What’s this?” The proctor picked up the ball of paper from her desk.
Cameron shook her head. “I have no idea.”
Hearing the commotion, other students turned to look at them.
The proctor said sternly, “What are you looking at? The exam is still in progress. There’s still an hour left-keep working Everyone quickly looked down and went back to their papers.
The teacher turned her attention back to Cameron. She unwrapped the paper and saw answers to the math questions. She was enraged and snapped, “You’re cheating. How dare you cheat right under my nose?!
Cameron’s expression remained unchanged. She deftly twirled the pen in her hand and said, cool and composed, “I wasn’t cheating.”
The teacher shoved the crumpled paper toward her. “You were not cheating? Then what’s this?”
Cameron glanced at the answers on the paper and replied evenly, “Either someone was trying to cheat and tossed it to me by mistake, or someone’s trying to frame me.”
She raised her eyebrows slightly and added, “Which do you think it is, ma’am?”
“Oh, so what you’re saying is-you’re being framed?” the teacher scoffed.
Cameron nodded. “That’s what it looks like.”
She thought, ‘Cheating? Who would be dumb enough to cheat on a mock exam? Even if they do well now, the real test will expose them anyway. So this must be a setup.
‘But who would do that? I’ve pissed off quite a few people, actually. Hard to tell who it might be right now.’
The proctor said, “Well, if it’s a setup, we can settle it right now.” She raised the crumpled paper and asked, “Whose is this?”
No one answered.
The proctor continued, “No one wants to confess? You all forget we have cameras in here? Are you going to stand up yourself, or should I have the footage sent over immediately?”
The classroom went completely silent. Almost a minute later, a rustling sound came from behind Cameron’s right side- someone stood up.
Cameron looked back and was surprised to find it was Zach. ‘What the hell is this guy doing? Why’d he throw that paper at me?’ she thought.
The proctor marched over to Zach and slapped the paper on his desk. “The paper was yours? Why did you throw it to him?” Zach: “He is my classmate. He is bad at math and asked me to tell him the answers during the exam, so…”
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“So you passed him a cheat sheet?” The proctor finished Zacts sentence for him
Zach immediately backed down. “I’m sorry, malam. I shouldn’t have let my sympathy get the better of me and agreed to help him. Please don’t report this to the Academic Office. I don’t want to be expelled”
Langford Academy had a strict academic environment. When it came to issues of integrity in the were clear-expulsion.
The proctor snapped, “Now you’re scared? Should’ve thought of that earliert
Zach quickly pointed at Cameron. “It was him! He made me write the answers. I’m the real Victim here. Can you please not expel me? Expel him!”
The proctor was furious. “Both of you will be kicked out of Langford Academy
Upon hearing this, Zach raised his eyebrows slightly. He completed the task assigned by Amelia, the gird of his dreams. Getting rid of Cameron-the annoying troublemaker-was way easier than he thought.
Amelia had promised Zach that he wouldn’t be expelled. So he wasn’t the least bit worried.
Cameron noticed every little shift in Zach’s expression and said, “Maarn, please wait. Like I said, I’ve been framed”
Zach snapped, “Framed? You’re saying you were framed? I’m the one being framed here. I wouldn’t be facing expulsion f weren’t for helping you. You’ve ruined my life, Cameron,”
Cameron ignored him like he was talking nonsense and looked at the proctor seriously
The teacher could tell Cameron wasn’t going to let this go easily. She grabbed the sheet of paper with the answers from Zach’s desk and tossed it onto Cameron’s. “If you’re innocent, then explain this.”
Cameron picked it up and smiled. “Ma’am, most of these answers are wrong. These are basic problems, and he still got them wrong. How is he qualified to give me answers?”
“Let me see that.” The proctor took the sheet back right away.
Zach immediately retorted, “Most of my answers are wrong? You’re one to talk, Cameron. You’re the last in our class.” Cameron glanced at him sarcastically. “And you think you’re any better?”
Zach was left speechless by Cameron’s words.
Cameron had a point. Although Zach wasn’t the absolute worst in the class, his academic performance wasn’t significantly better than Cameron’s.
After all, seating arrangements were based on grades, so everyone in this classroom had scored around the same. The proctor happened to be a math teacher. Zach had only written the answers to the multiple-choice section. Out of the 44 questions, he got 30 wrong and only 14 right. So, Cameron was right that most of his answers were wrong.
The teacher glanced at Cameron’s test and noticed that out of 44 questions, she got 22 right and 22 wrong-even correctly answering the ones Zach had gotten wrong.
There was no way Cameron would’ve asked Zach for help, given how bad he was at math.
“What on earth is going on here?” the proctor barked. “Both of you, outside!”
They were still in the middle of the exam. If this dragged on, it would only distract the rest of the class. The proctor led Cameron and Zach out of the classroom.
Zach had been sure everything would go according to plan. He didn’t expect this turn of events. His face darkened. He stood a head taller than Cameron, and his frame was broad and solid. Next to him, Cameron was slim and looked almost half his size.
Cameron acted before Zach could. Her eyes were slightly red as she explained, “Ma’am, ever since I transferred into Class 15, Zach has been picking on me. He knocked my books off my desk in class and threw my drinks into the trash can.
“I sit in the last row, and he’s right in front of me. He always leans his chair so far back that I have to press myself against the wall.
“He did this today just to get me expelled. I rea” den 26 ke him hate me so much.”
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Zach was dumbfounded, staring at Cameron, who suddenly looked so pitiful and fragile, like he’d just been bullied
He thought, What the heck is this guy doing? If he’d acted like this a week ago, I might’ve actually believed it. But now? I’m just hoping he doesn’t bully me. And now he’s claiming he got bullied? Like I would dare
Cameron looked so ‘delicate’ that the proctor instantly bought the whole story and found it unacceptable that such a pretty young man had been bullied so much.
The proctor turned to Zach, furious. “How could you be this awful at such a young age? What kind of upbringing did you have? Go to the Academic Office now. Grab a form and get out of Langford Academy!”
Zach pointed at himself and then at Cameron, totally stunned. “Me? You’re kicking me out? What about him? Isn’t he getting expelled too?” He was so angry that he almost failed to string a sentence together.
The proctor said coldly, “He was framed. Of course, you’re the one getting expelled. You’ve been bullying others for who knows how long, and now you’re even setting people up for cheating. A student with such low moral standards doesn’t belong at Langford Academy.”
Zach panicked and thought, I’ll be expelled? How did this happen? Isn’t the plan that both Cameron and I will get expelled? Then the Chapman family will step in, and I’ll be fine? So how does it end up with only me getting kicked out, while Cameron walks away scot-free?
The proctor looked back at Cameron. Seeing Cameron’s red eyes, she couldn’t help but soften her voice as she said, “I’m sorry for wrongly accusing you earlier. It’s okay now. You can go back and finish your test.”
Cameron wiped the corners of her eyes. “Thank you, ma’am.”
The proctor sighed. “You need to be tougher, or you’ll keep getting pushed around. The only way to protect yourself is to become stronger.”
Cameron immediately stood up straight, puffed out her chest, and said, “I understand. Thank you, ma’am.” Then she walked back to the classroom.
Zach was still frozen on the spot.
The proctor said impatiently, “What are you still standing there for?”
Zach came to his senses and said, “Ma’am, I-“
“If you want to argue, go do it at the Academic Office.” The proctor interrupted him.