His Juniper, with her unwavering integrity-cheat? As for the perfect scores...


    A small smile yed on Shanley''s lips, his expression turning deep andplex. It seemed the girl was about to give him another little surprise.


    "This meeting is adjourned."


    Hanging up the phone, Shanley stood up abruptly, tossing out the single sentence before striding out of the room. On his way, he dialed Salma''s number to inform her of the situation.


    “What?” Salma was clearly caught off guard. Hearing that Juniper had achieved perfect scores in two subjects, she nearly dropped her phone. After calming herself, she replied gravely, "Mr. Schwartz, I''m on my way back to the school right now." Salma had always felt there was more to Juniper than met the eye, that she wasn''t as poor a student as she appeared. She just never expected this. In the entire history of Aurora High School, no student had ever achieved perfect scores in both Literature and Math simultaneously.


    Watching their workaholic boss leave so suddenly, the executives exchanged confused nces. It had to be that girl again, the one who had calledst time. Only she could make Mr. Schwartz lose hisposure like this. Had anyone figured out who this girl was, this kryptonite to their formidable boss?


    ...


    Back at Aurora High School, in the Dean''s office, the room was now upied only by Juniper and the senior year teachers after Queenie and Qadir had left.


    “Juniper.....” The Dean took a moment topose himself, his tone softening into one of earnest guidance. "Just tell me where you got the answers. If you''re honest, I''ll be lenient."


    Juniper felt a wave of exhaustion wash over her. With her longshes lowered, a hint of weariness touched the corners of her eyes. “Sir, I''ve already answered you. The answers are in my head."


    "So you''re going to keep spouting nonsense, are you?" Before the Dean could respond, the literature teacher, who had been sitting by, shot to her feet her face vid. "This was not an easy exam. Do you really think youre the only one capable of a perfect score? Do you have what it takes?"


    Initially, the literature teacher hadn''t held any particr opinion of Juniper, even thinking she might be salvageable. But seeing the perfect score on her paper, she had nearly had a heart attack. A perfect scare? In all her years of teaching, she had never seen one.


    "Hmm?" Juniper sighed, a note of resignation in her voice. "To get a perfect score, I''d say I''m pretty capable, wouldn''t you?"


    The literature teacher was speechless.


    "And as for why no one else could get a perfect score," Juniper continued, her lips pressed into a thin line, "you''d have to ask them. I can''t answer that for you."


    The literature teacher was once again at a loss for words, unable to form a rebuttal. The girl was impossibly quick-witted.


    “Juniper!” The math teacher stood up next, his expression stern. “We suspect your scores are fraudulent. We believe you obtained the answers beforehand and cheated."


    Her academic record was clear in her file. She had dropped out after her freshman year. Was she going to im that a few tutoring sessions were enough to get her a perfect score? Unless she was a genius!


    "I didn''t cheat, and I didn''t copy any answers," Juniper said, lifting her face. Her pure eyes met theirs calmly as she stated, word by word, "I earned those two perfect scores through my own ability."


    "Ability?" The math teacher, a man in his fifties who had seen every type of student imaginable, had never encountered one who could he so brazenly. "If you really earned that perfect score, I''ll call you myo master!"