Chapter 205
Chapter 205 You Still Have a Second Choice
"I want you to publicly apologize to me by posting a hand-written letter of apology on the bulletin board. Also, I want you to clarify the truth of this matter to all of our classmates in person and admit that you fabricated all the lies out of nothing."
Jacinda immediately rejected the idea. "Never!"
However, Elise wasn't giving her any chance to do so. "You still have a second choice, but I don't think you'll be able to handle it."
Her words were blatant threats. At this moment, Jacinda finally saw Elise's true colors and the former clenched her fists tightly without uttering a word.
After reading the situation, Mr. Harris said, "I feel that Elise's request is reasonable. That settles it, then! Jacinda, since you were the one who caused all this, I hope that it will end with you too." "No, I—"
Jacinda wanted to say something, but the homeroom teacher didn't give her the chance. Instead, he turned toward Alexander and asked, "Young Master Alex, what do you think?" Upon hearing that, Alexander slowly uttered, "As long as Elise is fine with it."
Listening to him, Mr. Harris finally realized that Elise was now calling the shots, so he quickly replied, "Alright. In that case, we'll just follow what Elise just said. We can go to the hospital now."
Naturally, Elise was fine with it and Jacinda had no choice but to take a gamble, so all of them went to the hospital. After a series of inspections, Jacinda turned pale as she looked at the medical report in disbelief.
"T-This is impossible..."
However, Mr. Harris wasn't intending to hear what she had to say. "Miss Kate, I hope you know what you should do now. I will only give you one day. If you don't publicly apologize to Elise and clarify this matter tomorrow, I will do all I can to expel you from the school."
Jacinda staggered as she wanted to say something, but the head teacher had already walked away without giving her a chance to explain.
Meanwhile, Elise glanced at the other girl emotionlessly, not having the slightest sympathy for her outcome. As they say, what goes around comes back around.
Alexander then took Elise's hand and murmured, "Let's go. I'll send you back to school."
The two of them walked away, leaving Jacinda standing there with a dissatisfied expression. What's going on? Didn't Ashlyn tell me that Elise's private life is a mess? How did it come to this? Speaking of, I really need to talk to Ashlyn!
And so, she quickly took out her phone and made a call. "Ashlyn, this is Jacinda..."
After arriving at school, Elise said to Alexander, "I'm fine now. You can continue with your work."
"I'm not busy," he replied.
She then looked at the time and added, "But I have class this afternoon and I need to go to class now."
"You can go. I'll come pick you up in the afternoon. Try and leave early."
After waving at him, she went into the school.
Rumors had already started to spread around the school regarding the situation, but the head teacher was righteous enough to help clear Elise's name. Therefore, many students already knew about the truth and were sorry for spreading the rumor, so they all got together to apologize to Elise.
"Elise, I'm so sorry. It's my fault not to find out the truth before spreading this nonsense. Can you forgive me?”
"Me too, Elise. I didn't do it on purpose. It's because that was what Jacinda told me. In fact, I didn't quite believe her at first, but she made it sound so real that I believed her."
Elise knew that they didn't harbor any malicious intent as they only liked to gossip.
"It's fine. I won't hold any grudges."
"You're so kind, Elise!"
Upon hearing that, Elise smiled.
During class, she listened to the teacher attentively because she felt that she didn't spend enough time on her studies lately, so she had to be more diligent.
After school, she quickly packed up her stuff and went toward the school entrance. However, as soon as she got there, she could see a familiar figure walking into Alexander's car and sitting in the passenger's
seat.
At that moment, she felt a thump inside her heart, as if something had been torn apart painfully.
Inside the car, Ashlyn sat on the seat without Alexander's permission and murmured to him affectionately, "Alexander, what a coincidence! I'm surprised to see you here."
Meanwhile, Alexander had an indifferent expression as he immediately ordered, "Get out!"
However, she pretended not to hear him and smiled. "Alexander, how could you say that to me? Have you forgotten our years of friendship?"
"Miss Lawson, if I remember correctly, I have nothing to say to you. If you refuse to get out of the car, then I'll go out by myself. As for the car, I'll just throw it straight into the recycling plant."
With that, Alexander opened the door and was about to leave, but the next second, Ashlyn quickly grabbed his shirt. "Alexander, please wait! I came here because I have something to tell you." He then cast his cold gaze at her, causing her to withdraw her hand immediately. "Alexander, I really have something to tell you. Can you please give me a few minutes?" Seeing that he was remaining silent, she knew that her opportunity had come, so she quickly said, "So here goes-my cousin has been transferred to this school recently and she is in the same class as Elise, but there seems to be a misunderstanding between the two of them. My cousin is a naïve girl and she doesn't have any bad intentions but sometimes, she will do something without thinking about it first, which is why she has caused so much trouble. Alexander, why don't we just forget about what happened between them? I'll teach my cousin a lesson so that she won't do such a thing in the future again—"
After all that, all she wants is to beg for forgiveness.
However, Alexander wasn't interested in her cousin at all.
"Are you done?" After Ashlyn nodded her head, he added, "Then get out of this car."
Even so, she still stubbornly did not want to leave. "Alexander, I know that you don't like me, but I also know that Elise is not worthy of your love. Do you really think she is the person that you think she is on the surface? I have something to show you about her. I know her secrets. If you're interested, come and see me in room 502 of this hotel at 3 PM tomorrow. I won't let you down."
After that, Ashlyn didn't plan on staying long, so she opened the door and got out of the car right away. The next second, she looked in Elise's direction with a cunning smile on her face. Truth was, she had noticed that Elise was watching her just now and yet, the former still did it all on purpose. I don't believe that she won't have any suspicious thoughts after seeing me.