"Hey, have you heard of Nina and Ann?"
"Yeah, I heard their company declared bankrupt overnight, and they were forced to leave school because they could no longer afford it."
"What could possibly have happened to those two?"
"I don't know. They just packed up and left without a word."
"Where did they go?"
"Beats me."
"Who could have done it? To cause Chu and Roger's company to go bankrupt overnight. That company must be very powerful."
In the middle of gossips, the real culprit was sitting comfortably at her chair while gazing over at the window, chin on her palm.
The class ended, and like yesterday, Evangeline was once more in detention. Her punishment this time was to water the plants. And like always, it was Eric who was doing her chores while she sat on a bench under the shade of a tree, watching him doing his usual cleaning routine of sweeping the pathway and throwing the trash –– after he finished all her chores that is.
