Chapter 187

“Alright, I'll drop you off first so you can ask him. If he says no, we'll just have to wait until the weekend to hang out."

Marguerite really wanted to catch up with Lindsay. She nodded. "I'll send you the address."

Lindsay waved a hand dismissively. "No need. I remember where you live."

The red sports car roared to life.

Marguerite had been so absorbed in their conversation that she hadn't noticed her

phone buzzing. She opened it now to several messages from Aaron.

[Maggie, bad news. Someone's posting about you on the school forum.]

[I don't know who did it.]

[Don't look at it, Maggie. Don't click the links in the group chat.]

Marguerite frowned at the messages and typed back: [Aaron! Aren't you supposed

to be at your tutoring session right now?]

Aaron: [...I saw it during my break.]

Tutoring was exhausting, and he'd just wanted to relax on his phone for a minute. Now he was too furious to function.

Marguerite closed her chat with Aaron and saw a message from Cedric.

[Milady, you are NOT an old hag!]

Hag?

She was confused. Before replying, she opened the class group chat, which was flooded with 99+ messages. She scrolled up, found the link to the forum post, and tapped on it.

It was an anonymous post.

Title: [SHOCKER! New Transfer Student Marguerite is a 29-Year-Old Brain-Dead Hag!]

Body: "Sources have confirmed that Marguerite is actually twenty-nine years old. She was in a car accident at eighteen, was pulled from the

river, and spent the next elevene

years in a coma. And now she's back trying to finish high school!"

"Think about it after eleven years in tita a coma, is she even a normal person anymore? She's basically

brain dead. She ca

probably on

write her name on tests! She's going

to drag down our school's average and ruin our ranking!"

"And she's twenty-nine! She probably smells like an old person! What right does she have to sit in class with us seventeen and eighteen-year-olds? It's disgusting!"

"She should be expelled! Let's keep Pinecrest High pure!"

The post had gone up that afternoon and already had hundreds of comments. At

first, many were skeptical. Anyone who had gone to see the rumored new campus beauty knew she looked far too young to be twenty-nine.

But someone quickly dug up news articles about Marguerite being the top scholar who had died in the 2014 car crash. When they posted the ol@photos, everyone saw it was her. Eighteen in 2014 meant she was indeed twenty nine now And after eleven years in a coma? Even if she'd been well cared for, her mind had to be shot.

Suddenly, a chorus of voices rose up, demanding her expulsion.

Pecking OrderNoob: [OMG, this is terrifying! I was checking her out today, and it turns out she's a 29-year-old hag!]

BigFaceKitty: [I won't stand for her dragging down our school's ranking! I worked my butt off to get into Pinecrest!]

AlwaysLate To TheParty: [Get out! I don't care if you're pretty, you're too old!]

JustVibing: [I'm a freshman, and I support expelling Ms. Sharp!]