Chapter 112: Sign ups

When Penny arrived in her classroom, she met with Miss Sandford outside. Gazing up, Miss Sandford had this satisfied smile spread all across her face. Miss Sandford didn’t even need to say what made her happy. Penny already heard she helped Ray make the case against his fans.

"Get in, Penny," said Miss Sandford, and Penny nodded.

The thought of interrogating Lily and Ginnie about the fans’ club sign-up was moved to later since their class started. Unbeknownst to Penny, the interrogation wasn’t the only thing that was moved for later, but also Lily and Patricia’s confrontation.

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[Building 2]

"Hah!"

Slater flinched a little when Keith scoffed aloud. Taking a peek at Keith’s spot, he saw the latter was just in a bad mood and letting everyone know about it as he sat down in his seat.

When Keith sat down, he intuitively glared in Slater’s direction.

Slater quickly looked away to avoid the guy’s gaze.

"Hey, Slater!" Keith called and pushed himself up as if ready to vent his anger on him. But just as he approached, James quickly ran to Slater’s desk.

"Slater, do you know why the teacher is late?" James asked.

Slater gazed up at James and blinked, confused. "Why are you asking me about that?"

"He he." James chuckled nervously. "Just because."

Meanwhile, Keith’s lackey also ran to Keith and clasped his shoulder. "Keith, the teacher is late! How about we go to the cafeteria first? Hmm?"

Keith frowned at this cowardly lackey of his. The bitterness in his heart of how these guys forsaken him was still fresh.

"Get your hands off of me, will you!?" he flung his arms away and then pushed the other boy down. "This coward. Hey, do you think I already forgot what you guys did, hah!?"

"You and that traitor..." Keith hissed at the boy on the floor and at James. "You guys had no balls at all. Well, what else can I do? You guys are nothing without me!"

James and the other boy looked at Keith incredulously. It was better to be called a coward because they knew they would literally lose their balls if they picked on Slater more! Hadn’t Keith remembered how they got beaten up by a kid?

Keith seemed to have hit his head and forgot how he even kowtowed.

"Keith, will you shut up?" James scoffed, now miffed at this hypocrite. "We are nothing without you? Bro, you are nothing without the Miller family."

Slater gasped and discreetly scooted away from his desk. Ignoring Keith was one thing, but he didn’t want to be involved in this fight! James, Keith, and even the other boys were all bullies and delinquents. The only reason the other two were being submissive was because of Penny.

But Slater was well aware these three knew how to fight!

"What did you fucker say?" Keith scoffed as his eyes slowly dilated in anger.

"Hey, James." The other lackey called James in surprise. "Take that back now."

James ran his tongue across his inner cheeks. "Back then, I respected Keith because I thought he was a little cool. But I now have a new boss and if you touch me... I’ll tell her to stand up for me!"

"..."

’Huh? That’s it?’ Slater’s face died, looking at James blankly.

Even the other lackey couldn’t decide what to feel or think about James’s remarks. He thought James had had enough, but he actually planned Penny to get involved!? Wasn’t that a little too low!?"

Meanwhile, everyone in class went quiet and enjoyed the show. All the students in this section were the most notorious. Hence, a confrontation so early in the morning was no surprise. They simply hoped this would be entertaining enough. Others, however, were curious about who was the person these boys were talking about.

"Hah!" Keith laughed in ridicule. "That kid is your new boss? Wow! She was only lucky one time, and you think she’s that great?"

"If you don’t think she’s not great, then I’ll tell her about it."

"You fucking tattletale!"

"Ah, shit!"

Suddenly, another voice rang in the classroom. Everyone instinctively searched the owner of the voice and their eyes fell on Mark.

"You guys are so damn loud!" Mark grumbled irritably. "Can’t you see someone is sleeping here? If you want to fight, go fight! Take it outside!"

"This damn fucker..." Keith scoffed, shifting his anger toward this transferee, who was said to enter the school just because his family saved an important person. Hence, the wealthy family was aiding his schooling.

"Oy, Mark, you better fucking shut up —"

"What if I don’t?" Mark slowly rose from his seat as if he was ready to throw a fist at this guy. "What are you gonna do about it?"

Keith laughed and ran his fingers through his hair. When his eyes landed on Mark again, he took a step. "That’s it. I’m gonna teach you a lesson —"

"Hello, Section F!"

Just as Keith took a step, he stopped at the jolly voices from the door. Everyone stopped at this "commercial," gazing at the door, and saw some girls from the other section.

"Oh, Mark!" one of the girls jumped and dashed toward Mark’s desk.

Mark intuitively drew away at this group of abominations. "What — what now?! I hadn’t done anything yet!" he thought these girls were here to harass him again after he "bullied" a little girl. These girls even blamed him that they lost their little sister.

"You sign up!" the girl handed him a sign-up paper with a grin. "If you were really sorry to us, then sign up!"

"I was never sorry since there’s nothing I should apologize for!" Mark hissed, only to sense this deadly aura from the girl’s smile. "Shit."

Mark clenched his teeth and hissed, taking the paper from her reluctantly. Skimming through the paper, he scrunched up.

"Isn’t this that girl — why is she having a fans club?!" he gasped in disbelief. "I don’t want to be in any stupid fans club!"

The girl chuckled, handing him a pen as she said, "Sign up."

"Are you girls out of your mind?!"

While Mark was being harassed — forced to join a fans club, the other girls handed posters to the other students.

"What’s this?" James muttered, and his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when he saw Penny’s stolen photo attached to the small poster.

Slater furrowed his brows as he watched the girls distribute some small invitation posters. When it was his turn, he casually picked it up without expecting anything.

His face twitched the second he saw Penny’s stolen photo while chewing. Her cheeks were full of food and it didn’t seem she knew she was being photographed.

"I’ll sign up!" James quickly raised a hand without a second hesitation. "Also, do you have a slot for the campaign? I want to help with the recruitment!"

"Me too!" the other lackey, who knew his bleak future at Keith’s hands, stammered. "I want to join too and help too!"

"Great!" the girls clapped happily and gave the two boys more attention.

"Hey..." the girl poked Mark’s side with the pen. "Sign."

"Shit!" Mark hissed and while grinding his teeth, he signed up just to stop this harassment! He didn’t even do anything to the little girl, but these girls never moved on from that "incident."

In class F, out of thirty students, nine signed up all for different reasons.