Chapter 6 Taking Without Prior Notice Is Stealing
Ding-a-ling... The bell rang. The second ss was Chinese.
The Chinese teacher''s surname was Liao, a short fat middle-aged man. He had a good sense of humor
and liked to quote ssic authors in ss, so Alina quite liked his ss.
Students were obviously more enthusiastic about Chinese than mathematics.
The ss flew by in a happy and rxing atmosphere.
Generally, after the second ss, it was for morning exercise. Alina didn''t know if it was the same in the
novel.
Bong! Bong! Bong... Bong! Bong! Bong...
A smile appeared on Alina''s face as she heard the familiar music.
As the music started, students in her ssroom began to walk towards the door. Alina stood up and
turned to her desk-mate, "let''s go, shall we?"
Yana was still angry with Alina''s prank, so she refused relentlessly. "No!" she said.
Well, Alina wanted to find a guide, but since Yana didn''t want to show her the way, she decided to
follow her ssmates.
The morning exercises were on the campus yground. All students in the ssrooms rushed to the
stairs, which became overcrowded all at once.
Alina followed her ssmates closely to the yground.
When students arrived at the yground, those who came from the same ss stood consciously
together and boys and girls stood separately in two straight lines. Alina was behind a girl in the middle
of the queue.
"The ninth set of morning exercises begin. The first section, stretch..."
A student was demonstrating on the stage. Alina followed earnestly.
When morning exercises finished, Alina felt veryfortable.
With the teacher saying "dissolve", the crowd returned back to the ssrooms. Seeing so many people
packed together, Alina decided to wait for a while and go upstairster.
She stood under a tree besides the teaching building. The warm breeze was blowing, she felt cozy and
rxed.
Hand in hand, two girls passed by and nced at Alina quickly, whispering
"See? She is THE ina!"
"Really? She''s not that pretty. How can she be confident..." She couldn''t hear what they said next.
After the two girls, some more girls made a detour intentionally to pass by Alina.
Alina pretended that she didn''t notice and kept enjoying the view. ''After all, it won''t hurt!'' she thought.
The corridor was almost empty. She let out a sigh of relief and walked into the teaching building.
Before she approached the door of the ssroom, she heard noisesing from inside.
A boy, short and thin, held up a piece of paper and read it with a grin. His ssmates all burst into
The paper in the boy''s hand looked a little familiar to Alina. With a poker face, she walked into the
ssroom.
"You didn''t know. I often peeked at you and my heart beat fast every time I looked at you..."
Seeing Alinaing in, the boy stopped reading with a guilty conscience. The other students looked at
each other nervously, and then fixed their eyes on Alina, waiting for her response.
Alina thought she might be wrong at first, but the other students'' reaction told her that the paper in the
boy''s hand was exactly the love letter she put on the desk.
Well, being stared by so many ssmates, she probably should say something, or else they might feel
disappointed.
The boy stood stiffly on the stage and looked uneasily at Alina.
When Alina met his eyes, a slight smile appeared on her lips. She said, "Take something without prior
notice is stealing. Do you think you can steal from your ssmates without usation?"
Hearing himself was used of stealing, the boy''s face turned red in embarrassment. He thought it
would be funny, so with the support of his friends, he took Alina''s love letter secretly and read it on the
stage.
Now being confronted and questioned by Alina, the boy was so embarrassed.
However, teenagers usually have a strong sense of self-esteem. Even though they know they are
wrong, they won''t apologize, especially to a girl publicly.
"Although this love letter is written by you, the receiver is Leo. What''s the problem of reading it out
loud? Leo didn''t reject!" The more he spoke, the more he thought it was a piece of cake. He gradually
calmed down.
Hearing this, Alina couldn''t helpughing, "This ssmate, did you forget to bring your eyes, ears and
brain with you today? Yes, I wrote this letter to Leo, but he gave it back to me before ss this
morning. So this letter has nothing to do with him now. "
Alina paused for a while and continued, "without my permission, you stole my letter and used it to make
fun of me, have you considered your behavior might hurt me?"
The boy''s face blushed scarlet. He wanted to retort, but couldn''t find a word. After all, he was wrong.
"Eddie just read your love letter. How much harm can it cause? By the way, you evenmitted
suicide for Joseph in ss 125, this prank is nothing to you. " Cary was a friend of Eddie. He saw
Eddie was humiliated by Alina in front of the whole ss, he couldn''t help jumping out to rescue his pal.
Hearing this, the other students became excited again. They had heard of the rumor and gossiped
about it for days, but no one dared to ask Alina whether it was true or not.
Now that Cary asked recklessly the question everyone wanted to know, the other students were willing
to hear the answer. They all held their breath and waiting eagerly.
Alina was speechless and amused. How came it couldn''t hurt her? Besides, "when did Imit suicide
for that Joseph? Who told you that? Why didn''t I know? "
"Everyone fresh students in our high school knew it! Youmitted suicide and were sent to the
hospital." Cary shouted.
Alina replied, sounding a bit frustrated, "Who said that I was hospitalized because Imitted suicide?
I fell down stairs by ident at night and lived in the hospital for a few days. Who started the rumor?
He must be insane! "
No wonder she was following by strange looks since she entered the school today.
"The rumor was not true?!" One of the ssmates asked in disbelief.
"Why should Imit suicide for him? I''m young and attractive. I have a rich and loving family.
Besides, I have a cute desk mate. Why would Imit suicide for someone else? He is neither
handsome nor talented. I would not give up my wonderful life for an ordinary boy! "
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The students looked at each other and said nothing. It sounded reasonable.
The third ss was English. For ss 126, their English teacher was Mr. Su, their head teacher.
Mr. Su arrived at the ssroom two minutes earlier, so he heard Alina talking about life. He secretly
agreed with her and spoke for her, "ina are right. There are rumors about hering from nowhere.
She asked for a leave because she fell down stairs by ident. I called her parents for confirmation. If
you are still not convinced, I have a medical certificate. "
Just at that time, the bell rang.
Hearing what the head teacher had said, the students finally realized that they misunderstood ina.
Then all her ssmates looked at her apologetically.
As soon as the head teacher finished speaking, Eddie dropped the letter and fled back to his seat.
Alina smiled gratefully to her teacher, picked up the letter and walked slowly to her seat.
As soon as she walked to the seat, the bell suddenly stopped. Seeing hering, Yana looked away
awkwardly.
When Eddie searched for the love letter on ina''s desk, she was right there, but she didn''t stop him.
"Ok, our English ss begin. Please take out your notebooks, we are going to dictate words in Unit
Seven." The second bell was still ringing, the head teacher was already impatient.
"Oh, my God! Dictation again?!"
"I can''t remember any of them. How about we copy them from the book secretly?"
"Go ahead if you want. I dare not to take the risk!"
"Coward!"
Because they were sitting closely to each other, Alina clearly heard the conversation between the boys
sitting behind. She just shook her head with a smile and took out a draft book and a pen. She quickly
found the word list in Unit Seven and started to memorize them in her mind.
She did go over English, but had not reviewed Unit seven yet, so she had to make some effort at the
Ding-a-ling... The bell rang for the second time.
"Put away your English books. Let''s start words dictation..."
In total, Mr. Su dictated eighteen words. Alina managed to wrote out fourteen ones, and she was not
quite sure about the rest.
"Well, everyone please hand in your notebook to the group leader who will correct your dictation. You
should copy those wrong words for 20 times each and let the group leader check again before school is
over tomorrow. Are you clear?"
"Yes," answered the students unwillingly.
Alina didn''t know who the group leader was, so she waited to see who the other students handed their
homework to.
Although the punishment was simple and harsh, it was actually very useful. As the saying goes, good
memory was not as reliable as written script, which could deepen memory.
"Have you all handed your notebooks over to the group leader? If yes, we''ll start our ss. Ok, boys
and girls, let''s begin our ss."
With a master''s degree, Mr. Su''s English pronunciations were very standard. Even though Alina
understood most of the content, she still listened very carefully.
When the bell rang, Alina stretched herself out. The fourth ss was history, which she was not quite
interested in.
During the ten minutes'' break, Alina intended to go to the washroom. Because she didn''t know the
location, she turned to Yana and said "would you like to go to the washroom with me?"
For girls, going to the washroom together during school days meant they were good friends.
ina hadn''t asked her to go to the washroom before, so Yana was about to refuse her without
consideration. However, when she thought of the love letter, she changed her mind and said "okay".
A big smile crept up on Alina''s face. ''Great! Now I don''t have to worry the location!'' she thought happily.
They walked out of the ssroom one after the other. As soon as they walked out, Alina slowed down
and let Yana walked in front.
They went downstairs from the third floor to the first, then they walked to the back of the teaching
building. There was a separate building, the washroom was right there.
Smelling the unique smell of the washroom, Alina felt lucky that she had invited Yana toe with her.
Otherwise, it was impossible for her to find the washroom by herself before the next ss began.
The washroom was divided into severalpartments. Alina found an empty one and got in. As soon
as she took off her pants, she heard someone speaking.
"Linda, have you heard of the rumor about ina, the girl in ss M?"
"I don''t know. What has happened?"
"I heard that shemitted suicide a few days ago."
"What? seriously? Why did shemit suicide? "
"I heard that it was because of Joseph of ss 125, the handsome boy..."
"Ah! Is she all right? "
"It''s okay. She survived. She came to school today. I saw her doing morning exercises."
"Well, the students in ss M are really idle. We''ve been exhausted from studying all day long, but
they are still in the mood to have a romantic rtionship. They are really different from us!"
"Of course, they are losers, being enrolled through the back door. We got the qualification, relying on
our sound ability. It''spletely different."
''It turns out that I am in a ss of underachievers. No wonder that I don''t feel like studying in a key
middle school, '' thought Alina as she put on her pants.
She pressed the switch, opened the door and walked out.
The wash basin was at the entrance of the washroom. When Alina finished washing her hands, she
didn''t see Yanaing out, so she waited for her at the gate.
Soon, sounds of flush came out of the washroom. Alina looked sideways and saw three girls whom she
didn''t know.
The girl in front saw Alina, she was stunned at first and looked away quickly. The girl turned on the tap,
washed her hands and nced at Alina from the corner of her eyes.
''It must be them talking about me just now, '' thought Alina. She nced at them quickly and then
looked away.
The three girls quickly washed their hands and passed by Alina. As soon as they walked out of the
washroom, they leaned against each other. One of them even looked back.
Why hadn''t Yanae out yet? Alina took a look at her watch. There were only two minutes left before
the bell rang.
"Yana, Yana, are you still in the washroom?" Alina went inside and asked loudly.
After a long while, there was no reply. Just when Alina thought that there was no one in the washroom
and was about to leave, there was a faint voiceing from apartment behind her. "... I''m here. "
With a relief, Alina asked, "what are you doing inside? Did you forget to bring tissues? Or are you ill? "
Inside thepartment, Yana''s face was pale. She tried to support herself with one of her hands on
the wooden wall. She was about to faint.
"I''m...fine. I''m just...having my period."