Filed To Story: A Little Princess's Journey from Darkness to Light Novel
What was the point of beating her up?
Josh grunted. “I wasn’t even that heavy-handed.”
Ms. Watson crossed her arms and frowned. “What’s wrong with Cheryl reporting you for pa*sing notes in cla*s? What nonsense is this? You were the one in the wrong and yet you beat her up?”
Josh smiled coldly. “Duh. Reporting it is fine but I just wanted to hit her. So what?”
Ms. Watson was stunned speechless.
Theo was impressed by the display and decided Josh could boss him around all he wanted!
He had just pa*sed a note to ask Lilly if he could pat her parrot and tortoise after cla*s.
It resulted in Cheryl accusing Lilly of pa*sing notes, leading to the girl being put in time out.
The petty Theo was also upset.
Anthony cut in. “Yes, a*saulting someone isn’t right. We’ll take responsibility for what happened.”
He turned to Charlie.
“We’re making a public apology. Mention the Miller family’s daughter dragged a scion of the Crawford family to the grove to confess and he hit her. The Crawford family will formally apologize and offer compensation of 10 thousand.”
Ten thousand was no small amount but it was simply a drop of water in the ocean for the Crawfords.
Tina immediately said, “No, there’s no need…”
Cheryl would be publicly humiliated if it were made public!
She didn’t know what to do. Was this what an apology was like for the Crawfords?
She couldn’t find any fault in the offer to offer compensation and publicly apologize.
She forced a smile. “It’s normal for kids to fight. Nothing to worry about.”
Cheryl continued to wail. “Mommy, I didn’t…”
Tina hissed at her daughter. “Stop talking!”
The girl pinched her lips shut as tears continued to spill from her eyes.
“Alright. Feel free to contact my a*sistant if you ever want to follow up on the matter,” Anthony said indifferently.
He then picked Lilly up into his arms and left with Drake and Josh.
Ms. Watson chastised them for being hedonistic.
Josh excelled in his cla*ses but those were in other subjects. He had only scored 90 on his foreign language test.
Having a mere score of 90 had her seeing him as an underperforming student.
She hated underperforming students.
Anthony stopped in his tracks and turned to glare daggers at Ms. Watson.
“How do you think we should handle Ms. Watson over here, Mr. Lane?”
Ms. Watson felt her heart drop to the pit of her stomach.
What?
Was he blaming all of this on me?!
All she did was stand her ground. What was wrong with that?
Why are the Crawfords taking it out of me?
Ms. Watson got indignant but remained steadfast that the problem wasn’t as big as it made itself out to be.
She was, after all, the best foreign language teacher in the school!
Animaux Private Academy relied on her to beat their rival, the North City Public School.
Mr. Lane, the headmaster, was going to keep her around even if he agreed with Anthony. It was all just a show after all.
Mr. Lane, who had tried to blend into the background, finally had no choice but to step up. “Ms. Watson was also in the wrong for having punished a student without a proper reason. She’ll be disciplined for it.”
Ms. Watson could barely believe her ears. “I’m just doing my duty as a teacher! I dole out punishments because I have a responsibility to see them better.!”
“Your students are punished without reason and treated differently based on your segregation of their grades,” Anthony started coldly.
“Posting students’ grades on the blackboard to blatantly discriminate and discourage students.”
“Is that what you mean by taking responsibility?”
“What students grow to be outstanding without a bit of a teacher’s scolding? This is all for their sake! Frankly speaking, aren’t you doing this to me because of Lilly? You’re all terrible people!” Ms. Watson had grown greatly agitated.
“Oh, really?” Anthony smirked.
He already had Charlie look into the foreign language teacher.
Charlie began to read the details of the investigation out loud, “Ms. Watson tried to bribe the head of department with gifts two years ago and received disciplinary action.”
“Since September of last year, Ms. Watson has taken advantage of her position to refer students to off-campus tutoring cla*ses, from which she receives referral fees from.”
Anthony kept his steely gaze on the teacher.
“It’s fine even if Mr. Lane doesn’t take action against a teacher like you. I’ll just have to take it up elsewhere.”
“I’ll also be reconsidering my investment in the school.”
Why would he be so generous as to donate to the school? It was charity, yes, but realistically, he wanted the Crawford children to receive the best at school.
The headmaster fell silent. “…”
What was he supposed to do? He was at a loss for words as he watched Anthony walk away.
Ms. Watson was indignant. “These people are going too far, Mr. Lane!”
The headmaster immediately silenced her. “Shut up! Pack up your things and leave!”
That stunned her. Was this for real?
“You can’t do this, Mr. Lane! We’re preparing for the midterm exams right now…”
Mr. Lane turned to leave.
Half an hour later, she was kicked out of school.
Every parent stared at her. She suddenly felt like a student that had been singled out…
Embarra*sment, humiliation, unsettled…
“Corporal punishment… Hah, I can’t even bear to raise my voice at my daughter… And here she is…”
“I never liked her… I was wondering what connections she had the entire time…”
“Referring students to off-campus tutoring institutions and collecting referral fees… Tsk. What a great teacher.”
Ms. Watson fled from the scene!
She hadn’t just been fired.
Her teaching qualifications had also been revoked.
How was she going to make a living now?!
Anthony held Lilly firmly in his arms. His pace was neither quick nor slow.
Both Josh and Drake trailed behind him. The former was still carrying Lilly’s school bag with a long face.
Lilly hesitated to speak.
“Uncle…”
“I wasn’t in timeout for very long!”
She had left with her brother to get food too!
Anthony eased his tone. “It has nothing to do with you, Lilly.”
He was trying to comfort the girl.
It was true that Ms. Watson deserved to be punished but how could it have nothing to do with Lilly?
Charlie had inquired a few students on the ins and outs of Ms. Watson dolling out punishments to Lilly and also vilifying her in cla*s.
She had even claimed that Lilly’s return caused Liam and Winona’s divorce.
It would be odd if Anthony let her off the hook so easily.
His eyes were glazed by cold steel. What happened has happened.
This was a warning to everyone that there was a price to pay for messing with the Crawford family’s youngest daughter.
So what if everyone thinks we’re overbearing?!
“Let’s go. You can come shopping with me. Do you want anything, Lilly?”
Lilly immediately put the matter behind her and nodded. “Yeah!”
She wanted silver needles to treat Granny’s legs.
She wanted to see her grandmother jumping!
She suddenly asked, “We’re not taking the school bus, Uncle Anthony?”
The yellow school bus was going to leave soon.
Anthony looked at Ivan who was lined up to get on the school bus and said, “No. We’re going to the mall.”
“Yay!”
Ivan was throwing glances at Lilly who was beaming like the sun.
When he broke out of his stupor, he found her waving at him which prompted him to wave back.
He then stumbled his way into the school bus.
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