Hera got out of the car while yawning tiredly. The moment she walked through the school gate, she attracted countless students' attention. Gossip began to break out among the crowd.
"Hera Youngworth, you actually escaped from prison! To think you even have the guts to come to the academy!"
Lily appeared out of nowhere and blocked Hera's way.
Ever since she made a fool out of herself in the auditorium last Friday, she had applied for one week's leave from the academy. She planned on returning to the academy only after everyone had forgotten about her humiliating incident.
However, Lily had been seeing threads featuring rumors about Hera committing a crime and getting taken away by the police on the academy forum yesterday. Hence, she voided her official leave and resumed her classes at the academy just to listen to more juicy gossip.
She didn't expect to bump into Hera so soon.
Meanwhile, Hera was jolted awake, thanks to the embarrassing dream she had. Because of that, she had quite a volatile temper. "Get lost."
But Lily refused to step out of Hera's way. "What makes you think you can order me to leave? You don't own this path!"
"Boss!" Katie had caught sight of Hera from far away. She wasted no time in rushing over to Hera's side.
When she noticed Lily standing in Hera's way, she jeered, "Oh? It seems that you haven't had your fill in performing the bunny dance last Friday, huh? Are you planning to perform it again?"
"You!" Lily's anger was stoked.
"You should go ahead and dance in the sports field if that's what you want to do. Don't block my boss' way, you hear?"
Katie shoved Lily away roughly before saying to Hera, "This way please, Boss."
Lily was so furious that she almost had an aneurysm on the spot.
The reason why she resumed her classes at Cavenridge was that the gossip threads featuring Hera had overtaken the threads which primarily mocked her bunny dance. She didn't expect Katie to bring up that stupid dance again.
Lily gnashed her teeth together while glaring at Hera's silhouette. Finally, she decided to look for Zyler in Class A in the junior year's classroom block.
While surfing the forum and reading the gossip last night, Lily found out that Zyler was tied to the reason behind Hera's arrest. It turned out that Zyler had applied for leave today, so he wouldn't be attending classes at all.
Coincidentally, Christopher took charge of clearing Hera's name on the forum around the same time. He told everyone not to make malicious speculations about the incident.
On the other hand, Katie started spamming custom-made stickers featuring Lily's bunny dance as a warning for troublemakers who dared to voice out malicious speculations on the forum.
Lily was so pissed that she barely focused on her classes throughout the morning. During lunch break, she sought out her homeroom teacher and got pardoned from classes for the day before rushing to the Gaskell residence.
Meanwhile, things at the Gaskell residence were a huge mess because of Queenie's arrest.
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