Prince Bryce? Yolanda heard the murmurs of the crowd and arched her brow at the boy in front of her. She found the whole "Prince" thing a bit cringey. She searched through the memories of the original Yolanda and realized she'd seen him before.
"Yolanda, do you remember me?" Yolanda noticed that the boy didn't seem bothered by her weight or appearance. In fact, when he saw the acne on her face, his eyes softened with a hint of sympathy and concern.
"Are you Bryce Cooper?"
Yolanda recognized the boy before her from the original Yolanda's memories. He was Bryce Cooper, the second most popular guy at First Academy. The reason the original Yolanda knew him was they had attended the same junior high school, and he was one of her closest friends at the time.
Bryce was willing to befriend the original Yolanda because she had inadvertently saved his life. He had a sudden heart attack on his way home from school, and the original Yolanda, who happened to be passing by, called for an ambulance.
The original Yolanda considered it a minor act of kindness, but Bryce had never forgotten it. Hence, when he learned Yolanda had enrolled in First Academy, he immediately sought her out.
When he saw what Yolanda had become, he didn't turn away with disgust. Instead, his heart ached for her, imagining all the hardships she must've endured in the juvenile detention center to end up like this.
"You remembered me?" Bryce's eyes lit up when Yolanda got his name right.
"Yeah, I remember you," she said calmly. "We were classmates in junior high school."
He wasn't bothered by Yolanda's cold demeanor. Instead, he was delighted that she remembered him. "I heard you're attending First Academy as well! If you need anything, just come by Class B, and I'll help you out!"
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