Chapter 0059
“Think what you want,” I murmured. “I don’t need to prove anything to you.
“Maybe you should be worried about yourselves,” Nan said, folding her arms across her chest.
“Just forget about it, Nan,” I said, shaking my head. “I’m going to get to class. I’ll see you later.”
I didn’t wait for her response, I just left.
Even class was weird; everyone was looking at me and whispering. The teacher was eyeing me as she passed out our assignments and I frowned when I looked at the paper.
Was it just me, or was the font a little different?
I glanced at the girl beside me and noticed that her paper looked normal.
Can I see that for a second?” I asked
She frowned but she nodded and handed me her paper. The wording was different too; the words on my
paper were smaller.
“Thanks,” I murmured and handed it back to her.
We spent class working on the assignments and as I was leaving the professor stopped me to say, did a very nice job today, Judy.”
She spoke slowly like she was speaking to a child.
I frowned.
“Uh, thanks Miss Prescott,” I said, my brows furrowed together.
“You
I quickly left the room and went into my next college reading class. This was one of my favorite classes besides my combat, shifting, and defense courses. The professor gave us a book to read, and we pretty much just journaled about it the entire class. We finally finished our last book and were supposed to receive a new book today.
The professor handed out a book to each student upon entry to the class but when I walked in, she didn’t hand me a book like she did the others.
“Hi, Judy,” she said, giving me a soft smile. “I’m not going to make you read this book; it’s kind of long and can be pretty difficult. I’ll write you out some cliff notes and you can write your entry based on that and class discussion.”
I frowned at her; I couldn’t believe what she was saying. I had always read the books she assigned, and I read them quicker than most in the class. I narrowed my eyes at her and deepened my frown.
“I’m sorry, I don’t understand,” I said hesitantly. “You don’t want me to read the book?”
She sighed and set the books on the table.
“Look, I think it would be better if you sit this one out, she told me. “I know this kind of thing doesn’t come easy for you.”
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This kind of thing?
Was she talking about reading?
I never gave her a reason to believe that I wasn’t good at reading. Sure, I was dyslexic, but that doesn’t mean I’m incapable. Besides, it’s not like she knew of my disability. The only ones who knew were my adoptive parents, Nan, and unfortunately Ethan.
“Please, take your seat, Judy,” she said politely.
I pressed my lips together and walked to my seat. As more students walked into the class, one by one, she handed them each a book.
Soon, I was the only one without a book. I sat in class, fuming, but I continued to bite my tongue. I was going to the dean after my last class and speak with him about the behavior of my professors today.
I was relieved to be in my shifting and combat course; it was my last course of the day and my favorite. Now I could take my frustrations out on my sparring partner.
When I got there, I overheard Nicole speaking to the professor and she sounded upset.
“Professor Morgan, I don’t think that’s necessary. Judy is more than capable of this new routine without me holding her hand,” she told him firmly.
Professor Morgan was the assistant professor for this class; I’m assuming since Carol was expelled, that our normal professor was fired for his part in trying to get me kicked out of the school. That would make Professor Morgan our new professor.
“There’s a lot of notes to go over today and I need her to properly understand the material,” Professor Morgan replied.
“She always understands the material just fine,” she told him. “She’s one of the top students.” “You heard the rumors. She didn’t earn that spot, she bought it.”
“You don’t honestly believe that crap, do you?” Nicole asked, folding
her arms across her chest.
“Nikki, please,” Professor Morgan sneered. “Do me this favor for once in your life.”
“Don’t call me that here, Noah,” she said in a hushed whisper. “I don’t want people here knowing that you are my brother.”
Professor Morgan and Nicole were siblings? I guess that made sense considering that Nicole’s full name was Nicole Morgan. But I thought that was a coincidence.
“Look, I need you to do this for me. You care about her don’t you? I know you want her to succeed, so help her succeed.”
“Why suddenly are you treating her so differently? Why do you think she’s incapable?”
There was a long stretch of silence at first and then his next words stunned me frozen.
“Because the dean called for a faculty meeting this morning and he told us that Judy is suffering from Dyslexia.”
