Chapter 46 Embarrassing Quentin (1)
Amelia was jolted awake by the sound of the dismissal bell.
Leroy noticed Amelia waking up from her nap at the desk and quietly removed the book he had placed by the window to block the sunlight for her.
Amelia had no idea what Leroy had done.
Feeling relatively refreshed from her nap during class, Amelia decided to head to the restroom to splash some water on her face.
However, as she exited the restroom and rounded the corner of the hallway, someone suddenly blocked her path, casting a shadow over her.
She looked up to see Quentin.
Amelia frowned, biting back the urge to tell him off with a snarky comment, and instead asked coolly, “What do you want?”
Quentin was taken aback by Amelia’s indifferent attitude.
Recalling how Amelia had previously asked Vaughn not to force him and Rachel to break up and to put their engagement on hold, he felt a surge of irritation.
He was a member of the prestigious Williams family. Every girl in the school either admired him or was shy around him.
Was Amelia’s aloof demeanor just an act to get his attention? Did she really not care about him, or was she pretending?
Quentin took a deep breath, suppressing his annoyance, and looked at Amelia.
“I came to ask you how you managed to score 700 points. Did you buy the answers in advance or copy from Leroy’s paper?”
“What does that have to do with you?” Amelia shot him a cold glance.
“It has everything to do with me!”
Quentin’s face was full of arrogance. “Our engagement hasn’t been officially canceled yet. You’re still my fiancée in name. If you do something disgraceful, it reflects badly on me too.”
“You want to get into the A class just to be with me and see me every day, don’t you?”
“But let me tell you, even if you see me every day, I’m not breaking up with Rachel to be with you.”
“So, you should just give up.”
“Are you an idiot?”
Amelia’s sudden remark caught Quentin off guard.
“What did you say?” he asked after a moment of stunned silence.
“I said you’re an idiot,” Amelia replied, expressionless. “Not just an idiot, but an ordinary one who’s overly confident.”
Quentin’s face turned red with anger. “Amelia! Are you crazy? How dare you talk to me like that! Do you believe I…”
“Believe you what?” Amelia coldly raised her eyes to Quentin. “What, Mr. Williams, are you going to hit a girl?”
Quentin’s raised hand froze mid-air before he reluctantly lowered it.
No one had ever insulted him to his face like this!
Never!
Was she counting on the fact that he wouldn’t hit a girl to provoke him so boldly?
Quentin struggled for a long moment but couldn’t come up with a retort.
Finally, he took a deep breath and said harshly, “I’m doing this for your own good.”
“I’m telling you, someone is already talking about reporting you on the forum.”
“If you really bought the answers or copied, I suggest you confess early and leave Prestige High School.”
“Don’t wait until Mr. Adams expels you and then have the Martinez family or the Williams family clean up your mess.”
Amelia tilted her head slightly and suddenly asked, “Do you have a weird taste?”
“What?” Quentin was again taken aback.
Amelia turned away, leaving him with a cold remark, “Your mouth stinks.”
Quentin was livid.
In just a few words, Amelia had either insulted him or mocked him.
She was just an illegitimate daughter with no power or influence in River City. What gave her the audacity to be so arrogant?
Quentin stormed back towards the classroom, fuming, thinking that if Amelia got expelled, he’d be the first to tell Vaughn.
But he hadn’t even reached the classroom when he ran into his good friend, Ben Rojas, who was rushing towards him with his phone in hand.
“Quentin, where have you been? I’ve been looking for you everywhere!” Ben exclaimed as soon as he saw him.
Quentin, still seething, took a deep breath. “What’s up? Why were you looking for me?”
“I have to show you this video.”
Ben handed over his phone. “An anonymous account posted two videos about your fiancée, Amelia, on the forum. Everyone in class is shocked.”
Videos about Amelia?
Quentin frowned, puzzled, and clicked on the first video.
It was clearly surveillance footage from the exam room, evidently from the special exam for the top students yesterday.
Quentin immediately spotted Amelia sitting in the back row.
“So what? It’s just the surveillance from their exam yesterday. What’s so interesting? Did they catch Amelia cheating?”
Ben quickly replied, “No! Fast forward to around 10:40.”
Quentin, still confused, slid the progress bar forward and saw Amelia finish writing, raise her hand, and announce she was done and wanted to submit her paper.
Was this a joke?
The top students’ exam was supposed to last six hours, and they might not even finish in that time.
It had only been forty minutes, and Amelia said she was done?
Ben seemed to read his thoughts.
“Crazy, right? You must think she either didn’t finish or just scribbled nonsense.”
Quentin frowned. “Isn’t that the case?”
“Nope. Keep watching.”
Quentin pressed play again. The proctor, looking more shocked than Quentin, immediately stood up and walked over to Amelia, picking up her paper to check.
The camera zoomed in, showing Amelia’s paper clearly.
Prestige High School had top-notch equipment, including high-definition surveillance cameras. They could see every page of Amelia’s test as the proctor flipped through it.
All the questions were answered, except for the essay.
Amelia had left the fifty-point essay section blank.
So, she only got a hundred points on that test because she didn’t bother with the essay?
Her other subjects were all perfect scores, meaning if she had written the essay, she could have scored 740 or 750 points?
“This is impossible. She must have memorized the answers in advance. She didn’t write the essay because it was too long to memorize!” Quentin immediately said.
“I knew you’d think that because I did too,” Ben said, opening the second video. “But watch this one.”
The second video was surveillance footage from Gilbert’s office.