The School Beauty Heard My Thoughts

chapter 4

The day for SAT results to be announced arrived quickly.

The school organized us to check our scores in the computer lab, but I already had a rough idea of my score.

I did very well in the morning's reading and math, scoring close to full marks, but I got zero on both afternoon exams. Out of a total of 1600, I ended up with just 780.

This score shocked everyone. In the classroom, the teacher stared at the score on my computer screen, refreshing it over and over, but it always showed 780.

The teacher, unable to hide their disappointment, questioned, "Shirley, didn't you say you did well before? How could you get two zeros? You're the only student in our school with a chance to get into Harvard, and now you've ruined it for yourself!"

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Hearing that score, my heart sank again. I thought, "Why? Why does Ellen always score one point higher than me?"

Before I could figure it out, Ellen had already rushed over from the other end of the classroom. Like a wild beast out of control, she tackled me off my chair, grabbed my neck tightly, and slapped me hard across the face.

She shouted, "Shirley, you b****! It's all because of you! I'm going to kill you!"

Ellen's crazed behavior shocked everyone present. The teacher tried to pull her away, but her strength was astonishing, and no one could restrain her for the moment.

Lying on the ground, watching her hysterical appearance, a surge of satisfaction rose in my heart. I thought, "After two lifetimes, I finally beat her once!"

Ellen saw me laughing and suddenly started laughing too, "Shirley, do you think handing in a blank paper can change your fate? Fool! Now forget Harvard, you might not even get into a community college! But your two seriously ill parents are still lying in the hospital, waiting for your scholarship to save their lives! Id like to see how you, without getting into a top school, plan to save them!"

At that moment, there was a knock on the classroom door. A staff member from the administrative office peeked in and asked, "Is Shirley May here? A scholarship has arrived at the school, and you need to sign for it."

This sentence left Ellen completely stunned. She shouted in disbelief, "How is that possible? You only scored 780 points, how could you get a scholarship?"