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“You’d better apologize to Lauren. Now.”
The director’s words stunned Lauren for a moment.
She’d heard this exact sentence too many times in her previous life.
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But back then, it was always the Bennett family saying it–except it wasn’t to defend her, their own flesh and blood. It was to defend Willow.
David, Alice, Elliot. They would scream at her without asking questions, and then force her–the victim to apologize to Willow, the bully.
She had swallowed too many such injustices in that house.
And now, in this life… someone was actually standing up for her.
No wonder Willow was always so smug. Being protected like this–it really does feel good.
“Director, my nose is bleeding.” Lucas whined. “How can you be so biased toward Lauren?”
He lifted his shirt to reveal the purpling bruise on his stomach. “Look! She didn’t just hit me in the face with a ball, she kicked me too! Just because she’s good at studying doesn’t mean she gets to be your favorite!”
The director’s face darkened.
Her tone turned cold. “Lucas, you’re always stirring up rouble. If I had to guess, I’d say you were the one who started this.”
She turned to Lauren, and her expression softened immediately.
“Lauren, sweetheart, did Lucas pick on you first?”
Five–year–old Lauren looked up with her chubby, soft little face.
Her big round eyes shimmered like glass, innocent and unguarded..
Even without saying a word, just her sweet expression was enough to melt hearts.
The director’s tone gentled even more as she met those clear, pure eyes.
“Don’t be afraid, Lauren. If he bullied you, you can tell me. I’ll take care of it.”
Lauren nodded.
With that simple movement, the baby fat on her cheeks jiggled just a little–making her look even more adorable.
“It was him,” she said. “He hit me in the head with his ball, then told me to fetch it like a dog. He said if I didn’t, he’d beat me up. He also said I’m just a useless nerd who only knows how to study–and that studying doesn’t matter.”
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stop too and just play every day like the rest of them?”
Lauren had deliberately turned the tables.
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In her past life, Lucas had been an ungrateful little snake. She worked herself half to death to send him to college. He took the money without question, bought designer clothes, lived it up–then helped Willow frame her and send hento prison.
So now! She was going to give him a taste of his own medicine.
Let him be the one falsely accused.
The director’s face turned pale, then red with rage.
Lauren wasn’t just some bright kid–she was a national asset.
She was only five and had already taken the SAT. A genus like that needed nurturing, not discouragement.
And now Lucas had bullied her–and tried to convince her studying wasn’t worth it?
That wasn’t just troublemaking. That was sabotage.
The director had to force her temper down in front of the guests.
But her voice was sharp and cold. “Lucas! Who gave you the right to tell Lauren not to study? You want to play all day and fight people, fine. But don’t drag her down with you. You’re only a child, yet you’re
so twisted.”
Lucas’s eyes filled with tears.
“No, Director, I didn’t! She’s lying–she made it all up
“Still denying it?” the director snapped. “Trying to frame Lauren, even now?”
“She’s lying! I didn’t say anything like that!” Lucas’s voice cracked.
already
“Enough!” the director barked. “Lauren has always been polite, gentle, and honest. She’d never pick a fight. She’d never lic.”
Lucas, still just a kid, was overwhelmed.
He was angry, ashamed, and devastated all at once.
Tears spilled freely down his face.
“5–she’s lying! I didn’t say those things–I didn’t! Please believe me, Director…”
But it didn’t matter how loudly he cried.
No one believed him.
The director shook her head. “You’re crying? After what you did? Look at Lauren. She got hit in the head. and she’s not even crying. And you? You hurt someone then tried to play the victim.”
Lucas bir his lin red–faced humiliated. His tears fell faster
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That look of helpless frustration–being wronged, powerless to change it–was all too familiar.
And watching is unfold, Lauren felt a deep, vicious sense of satisfaction,s all too familiar.
So? Hurts, doesn’t it? This is what injustice feels like.
