"Cheating? Who cheated?"


    The conversation grew louder, drawing the attention of other students in the ssroom.


    "I don''t know," the girl said, shaking her head and deliberately lowering her voice. "I was just passing by the office and heard the teachers talking about it. They said someone got perfect scores on both exams yesterday."


    "What?" The students were so shocked their jaws dropped. "A perfect score in math is possible, but in literature..."


    "The teachers think it might be cheating," the girl added after a pause.


    Not even a genius could get a perfect score in literature. This had to be the most ridiculous cheating scandal in Aurora High School''s history.


    "I know who it is..."


    As the students were gossiping, Jolene walked in, a triumphant smile on her face.


    "Who?" The others immediately gathered around, their curiosity piqued. They wanted to see who was foolish enough to cheat and get a perfect score in literature.


    "This person..." Jolene lifted her chin, her eyes scanning the ssroom before finallynding on a certain girl. "I heard she sits next to the top student, Queenie."


    Instantly, all eyes followed her gaze, their pupils widening. Juniper?


    The girl in question was slumped over her desk, idly poking her bottle, looking bored andpletely oblivious to what they were saying.


    There were only two people sitting next to Queenie: Qadir and Juniper. They all knew Qadir was a terrible student who sometimes didn''t even bother to write his name on the test; he couldn''t be bothered to cheat. That left... Juniper.


    After all, if she failed this exam, she would be expelled. It wasn''t surprising that she would resort to desperate measures. But to not only cheat but to cheat her way to a perfect score in literature... she really wasn''t afraid of getting caught.


    It just proved the saying: all beauty, no brains.


    "Anyway, we att have a pretty good idea who it is, so let''s not make usations," Jolene said, her smile widening as she feigned innocence. would be awkward if it turned out not to be her." Not her? It was almost certainly her.


    ...


    "What the hell, cheating?" Qadir, chewing gum, vaguely heard the voices from outside.


    "Sounds like it," Queenie replied, engrossed in her science review materials. She wasn''t paying much attention to the gossip. It had nothing to do with the three of them, anyway.


    Juniper was even less interested, her mind already wandering to what she would eat after the exam.


    ...


    Fifteen minutes before the exam


    was scheduled to start, a male student rushed into the ssroom, shouting excitedly, "The Dean of Students is here! I can''t believe the cheater is actually in our exam hall."


    "Oh my god, it can''t really be Juniper, can it?"


    As soon as he said that, all eyes turned to Juniper, their expressions a mix of emotions. It had to be her.


    "What are you looking at?" Qadir, sensing the tense atmosphere, immediately stood


    up. "What does cheating have to do with Juniper?"


    Juniper was toozy to even write, let alone waste time cheating and copying


    answers.


    "Perfect scores in two subjects? The


    person is definitely in our exam hall," Jolene said, pretending to calmly


    organize Merexam supplies.


    gloating smile on her face. "As for


    who it is, we''ll find out soon enough, won''t we?"


    "Perfect scores in two subjects?" Queenie finally registered the key information and


    whipped her head around, her round eyes staring at Juniper in disbelief.