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Seeing Zayden sitting motionless in his chair, Grace said, “I told you to focus on your studies. Why are you daydreaming? Where’s my phone? I still need to call the Rivers family about those supplies.”
Grace didn’t actually want to deal with the Rivers family’s affairs at all, but for Zayden’s sake, she had to.
“Here,” Zayden said, sliding the phone over before walking alone into the bathroom.
“What’s with this kid…” Grace muttered, confused. Zayden had never acted like this before.
While puzzling over it, she opened her phone and saw the most recent call in the history–a number she didn’t recognize.
She didn’t remember dialing it, and quickly realized it must have been Zayden.
Could it be that call?
Was that why he was acting so off?
Grace frowned and hit\redial.
The call was answered again.
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“Hello? Who’s this?” Eliza’s voice came through clearly.
Grace froze.
It was Eliza.
“Hello?” Eliza said again.
“Hang up. It’s probably just a scam call,” came a low male voice in the background.
Hearing the man’s unfamiliar voice, Grace blinked in confusion.
Who was that?
Was Eliza living with some strange man?
As the realization hit, Grace immediately hung up.
That girl, Eliza–she always seemed so well–behaved. Who knew she’d be living with a man?
Realizing the weight of this, Grace immediately called Evelyn to see if she knew anything about it.
After a few quick pleasantries, Grace casually brought up Eliza.
And sure enough, when Evelyn found out Eliza was living with a man, she was stunned.
“You’re saying Eliza’s living with some strange man?”
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“Yes. I just called, and I clearly heard a man’s voice in the background,” Grace said firmly.
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“That little brat! She already cut ties with us and moved out, and now she’s doing something this shameless? She’s just a kid! I’m going to get to the bottom of this. She’s making our family look bad!”
Without another word, Evelyn hung up on Grace.
She’d already been holding a grudge against Eliza for not selling them supplies or helping them find any channels. Now, she finally had an excuse to unleash her anger.
At first, she wanted to call Eliza directly. But thinking it over, she figured the brat wouldn’t admit anything -and might even hang up on her.
So instead, Evelyn called Eliza’s homeroom teacher.
When the teacher saw Evelyn’s name on the caller ID, she really didn’t want to answer–but Evelyn was still a parent, so she had no choice but to pick up and respond patiently.
On the other end, Evelyn got straight to the point. “Teacher, as the homeroom teacher, where is your sense of responsibility? We entrusted our child to your care, and what have you done? How can you be so negligent?”
The teacher was stunned. What did this have to do with her?
“Madam Evelyn, could you please tell me what happened? Right now, school is being held online, and the students aren’t physically in school, so there might be things I can’t keep track of…”
Before the teacher could even finish, Evelyn snapped, “Our daughter Eliza–when she got transferred to Class 6, I was already unhappy! And now she’s dating and living with a man? If it were your kid, could you tolerate that?”
The teacher paused. “Madam Evelyn, are you sure there isn’t some misunderstanding? Naomi’s always been a good student. At her age, it’s hard to believe she’d be living with a man-”
“Do you think I’d falsely accuse your school? If you don’t take care of this, I’ll report you to the school board! You won’t be able to dodge this!”
“But-”
Before the teacher could say anything more, Evelyn hung up.
Still not satisfied, she stormed into the school’s main group chat and tagged Eliza directly.
“@Class6Eliza Call home immediately! Or I’ll report you to the police!”
The students in the group chat instantly entered gossip mode.
“What happened? What’s going on with Eliza?”
“I have no idea. Did she really do something illegal?”
“She might’ve. I mean, it’s serious if they’re threatening to call the cops…”
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The chat was buzzing, and before long, Eliza was being treated like a criminal.
Meanwhile, Eliza–who had been quietly working through worksheets at home–received a call.
It was from her homeroom teacher.
She picked up, and the teacher asked, “Eliza, where are you right now?”
“I’m renting a place outside, why?” Eliza replied.
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