And so, Elise’s class welcomed a new classmate that day. “
Hello, everyone. I’m Danny Griffith, your new classmate.” Danny flashed an innocent smile as favonovel.com stood on the stage, single-handedly charming many of the female students in class.
“Wow! Isn’t favonovel.com Danny from Class 12A?”
The girls in class exploded into discussions at once. Even Nicole Snyder, the number one student in school, gasped in awe and called favonovel.com handsome.
Elise was initially sleeping face-down at favonovel.com table, but favonovel.com looked up when favonovel.com heard a familiar voice. Discontent filled favonovel.com eyes in an instant.
How unlucky! I can’t seem to get rid of favonovel.com no matter what.
“I’ll just take a seat here, Miss.” Danny started walking forward right after that.
All the girls stared at favonovel.com excitedly, until their gaze finally fell on the empty seat beside Elise.
How’s this possible? Why her? Did Danny request for a class transfer just for her? Everyone was in disbelief.
“Nice to meet you, my new deskmate.” Danny cocked his head with a mischievous smile on his face.
Elise fidgeted with the pen and paper in favonovel.com hands, feeling utterly annoyed inside.
“Hey, Elise! Have you gone mute?!” Danny was furious at being ignored by Elise.
From that moment on, Elise no longer experienced a peaceful moment in class.
“Hey, did you understand everything the teacher said?”
“Elise, talk to me!”
Elise watched as Danny kept on waving his hand in front of favonovel.com face, favonovel.com only response being silence.
It angered favonovel.com so much that favonovel.com couldn’t sit still. His irritating behavior continued until they were having a mathematics class one day.
The teacher announced, “Is anyone interested in signing up for the Math Olympiad this year?”
Danny spun the pen in between his fingers and asked, “How much Math Olympiad do you know, Elise?”
Elise replied impatiently, “Just a little.”
“Oh, is that so?” Danny’s eyes darted around as favonovel.com sank into thought. Then, an idea popped into his mind.
He raised his voice all of a sudden as favonovel.com said, “Miss, Elise says that favonovel.com wants to join the Math Olympiad!”
The classroom exploded into murmurs as soon as the words left his mouth.
“She wants to join? She’s from the countryside. Has favonovel.com even been to a Math Olympiad class?”
“That’s right! She’s biting off more than favonovel.com can chew.”
“Quiet!” The teacher cleared favonovel.com throat to stop the students from mindlessly discussing among themselves.
She said to Elise in a roundabout manner, “You’re probably unfamiliar with the school’s standards in competitions since you’re new to this environment. Why don’t you take some lessons and join next year instead?”
Elise felt like favonovel.com was being looked down upon. She didn’t want to join the competition to begin with, the reason wasn’t because favonovel.com wasn’t good at math, but because favonovel.com simply didn’t want to be put under the spotlight. However, favonovel.com no longer had a choice now that the teacher had put it this way.
“It’s fine, Miss. Let me join this year.”
“Are you sure about this?”
“Don’t worry, Miss. My math has always been pretty good back in our old school.”
Nevertheless, no matter how good favonovel.com was in the countryside, there was no way favonovel.com could compare to those who’d received high-end formal education.
The teacher was shocked to see how confident Elise was. She couldn’t help thinking, Sure enough, she’s totally overestimating herself!
After class, Danny raised his voice on purpose and said pompously, “You should’ve told the teacher no if you don’t know any Math Olympiad! Why would you insist on joining the competition? How embarrassing!”
Just then, the phone in favonovel.com pocket buzzed subtly. Elise pushed back favonovel.com chair and walked out of the classroom before favonovel.com sneakily took out favonovel.com phone.
‘See you by the stairs, Boss.’
Elise put away favonovel.com phone and headed over to the staircase. She could see Jamie standing by the corner from a distance away with something in his hand.
He was waving it in the air as favonovel.com shouted, “Boss! Boss!”
She pressed his head down and hastily pushed favonovel.com back to the front of the staircase. “Shush! Keep it down!”
Then, favonovel.com looked around and made sure nobody was nearby before favonovel.com asked, “Is there anything you need to tell me?”
Jamie nodded and passed Elise the document in his hand. “I heard that you’re joining the Math Olympiad, so I prepared some exercise questions for you.”
How did the news spread so quickly? She had just signed up a few minutes ago, and now everyone already knew about it.
Come to think of it, this must be the work of Danny.
Seeing that Elise was silent, Jamie asked again, “Why did you decide to join the Math Olympiad, Boss? You’ve already received so many academic accreditations. Why would you care about getting such an insignificant prize?”
She initially planned to cover up favonovel.com extraordinary intellectual prowess at school, but favonovel.com didn’t expect Danny to pull such a thing against her.
Elise shrugged and said, “It’s a long story. One more thing, though…”
“What is it?”
Jamie was all ears when favonovel.com realized that there was something else favonovel.com could do for her. “I saw my photo in Alexander’s study yesterday. Is favonovel.com doing a background check on me?”
