Chapter 3

At the same time the injured girl continued to bite her lip so she didn’t let them know that she was hurt.

Instead she lifted her hand containing the notebook gingerly and placed it on her desk, ignoring their jabs against her.

“Look at her! She’s so pathetic, how is she still here is beyond me” The first female said darkly.

“I know right Jenny? How they even allowed her to study here even though no one wants her here is shocking” said the second female as she sat beside Jenny.

“And she killed someone as well let’s not forget Agatha, if we’re not careful we’ll be next” the third one hissed coldly causing them to glare at Chloe who was still trying to keep to herself.

Eventually the classroom started to fill up with students until it was time for everyone to begin their lesson.

However to the students’ surprise their teacher who was a young brown haired male with cheerful blue eyes entered the room, his suit as usual was unwrinkled leaving everyone to wonder how he had managed to keep it in one piece.

Smiling the teacher tilted the frame of his blue glasses as he tried to see who was in and who was not.

“Good morning class, I hope you’ve all done your homework during the weekends” he said with a chipper voice causing the students minus Chloe to whine and grumble from his words, why he had to bring THAT up was beyond them.

The teacher however seemed unfazed by their responses as he continued to smile at them.

“I am happy to report that we have a new student today and he’s come all the way from America” the teacher said with a smile causing the class to either murmur while some were silent from the sudden announcement.

Chloe however wasn’t bothered nor did she care since the results would be the same- hatred, isolation and gossip.

Each thought was more distressing than the last but what could she do?

Everyone hated her and didn’t want her in the college, who would want to be friends with someone who was suspected of murder?

The teacher continued to smile as he looked around the room.

“Is Daniel Stevenson here?” he asked causing the group to blink and look round, seeing their reactions he then went to the door and looked at both sides of the hallway before closing the door.

“That is really weird, he should be here today” he muttered before looking at his class.

“Sorry students but can you stay seated for a bit before I contact the receptionist and the headteacher to see where he is” he said before rushing out the classroom to the students’ surprise.

Chloe however was mentally relieved that the attention was now shifted from her to the new student, although she was surprised that a student was even joining when almost half of the year had already ended.

Just as she was about think about ponder on what was going on the teacher then came back in to the room.

“Mr. Williams, where is the new student?” asked a brown haired male with light blue eyes, the teacher however smiled weakly.

“It appears that he’s chosen not to come today” was all Mr. Williams had said causing complete confusion in the class, even Danielle was at a loss of what to say since this was the first time a new student had decided to skip class.

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Chloe walked home feeling tired as she juggled with the weight of her bag while her mind was still on school.

Unlike the other students she refused to think about the new one who decided to miss his first day at school for what ever reason.

After all it was his problem not hers, he wanted to ruin someone’s chances of joining getting a good education, just because he wanted to be selfish and not turn up when expected to by their teachers.

It was his problem not hers and there was no way that she’d ever allow herself to stoop low and waste any time on it because of someone who wanted to be irresponsible about their future.

Chloe knew that some people wanted to be something in live, some sadly don’t even get the chance to even go to school, college or university for specific reasons.

For example the costs of travel and the fees that the education system is making the parents or students payout.

It wasn’t fair to some degree because the prices always increased every year because the government chose to do so for whatever reason.

Yes teachers need to be paid but what was the point if there aren’t any students turning up because of low incomes.

Even Chloe had almost struggled because of how pricey all the colleges were but was lucky to even get to a college that would accept her.

Even if the prices were cheaper it was still a battlefield just to get accepted thanks to what had happened to her two years ago, another reason to resent the media since she was never able to secure a job after all who would want to work with a suspected killer who could ‘snap’ at any moment.

It left her sick and angry but she was grateful that her parents still had their jobs.

In fact their bosses even though they listened to the news were in fact parents themselves and were surprised by what they were listening to.

Especially since they had seen Chloe more than once to know that she would never be capable of murder at all.

So what made the distressed girl more at ease was that both bosses- even though her parents didn’t want Chloe to be seen by their bosses for various reasons.

They had actually arrived at the house to listen to her side of the story and chose to listen to her plight without any hesitation.

Shocking her and her parents a lot as they witnessed both bosses and their spouses asking Chloe questions that were not relevant to her story.

“How are you fairing through all this though darling?” Asked her mother’s boss’ wife who could see how stressed and upset Chloe was as she looked distant, almost out of touch with everything when she was in the room with them.