Chapter 53 Encountering An Old Friend
"What is it? What do you want?" the girl with bangs asked cautiously, looking less aggressive.
Hearing this, Mandy just sneered and said nothing.
''What do I want? Of course, I want to fight, '' Mandy thought in her mind. When Mandy had studied in
Ennd, she had worked for a Taekwondo association with Daniel for three years. And generally
speaking, ordinary men were not her opponents.
"Mandy, why are you here?" Suddenly, a voice came from behind the door. Mandy turned her head and
spotted Fiona right behind her.
As soon as she saw Fiona in front of her, Mandy broke into a big smile. She gave Fiona a warm hug
and asked with concern, "Are you okay, Honey? I heard that you had a fight with your ssmates. Did
you get hurt?"
"I''m fine. Don''t worry. There was a bitch. I just pped her through the face." As soon as Fiona finished
her words, she gave a hard look at the girl with bangs.
Mandy chuckled to herself, ''That''s good. How could my cousin lose out? Fiona had started to learn
Sanda from the tender age of five.''
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The girl got angrier to hear the conversation between Mandy and Fiona. At that moment, the girl
spotted their headteacher standing behind the door. She walked up to her teacher with a disgruntled
face and grumbled to him, "Mr. Xu, look, they were humiliating me like this."
"Well, Jenny, the truth remains that you started it. Just let it go. Don''t stretch it too much." Bruce, the
headteacher, was a young man. He wore a pair of spectacles. He looked gentle and elegant, and there
was a ir of majesty in his words.
Jenny pouted her lips as she was displeased with Bruce''s reply. She had never expected that their
headteacher would support Fiona.
Mandy walked towards Bruce with an appreciative smile. Suddenly, she felt that the man looked
familiar. She had a very strong intuition that she had seen him before. Mandy ran her brain randomly,
and very soon, she remembered who he was.
As kids, Mandy and Bruce had been neighbors. That was right. Since all the students were there,
Mandy refrained from addressing him. However, as her gaze met with his, she saw him smiling.
Immediately, she knew that he seemed to have recognized her as well.
"I came to your dormitory to talk about what happened in the afternoon. After investigation, I found that
Jenny insulted Fiona, which made Fiona retaliate by taking action. There is no doubt that it''s wrong on
Fiona''s part to have hit Jenny. But the good part is that Fiona realized she was wrong and wrote a self-
criticism letter of five hundred words. Therefore, let''s let it go now. Jenny, now you have to write a self-
criticism letter of five hundred words too. You all know what I hate most is people who make trouble out
of nothing. Fiona will leave from Room 312. You should conduct yourselves. If this happens again, it
will not be so easy to settle like it was now. Mark my words," Bruce said coldly with his hands tucked
behind his back.
Since Fiona was the ss monitor, Bruce had always been fond of her. Fiona was excellent in her
grades and was ever ready to help others. Unexpectedly, someone had exposed her family
background on the school BBS. As a result, he was supportive of her. Bruce personally went to the
student affairs office to deal with this matter. He even spoke to the director of the student affairs
department to resolve the problem.
Jenny was left aghast at hearing Bruce''s words. Her jaws dropped as she could not justify the penalty
that had been decreed for her. Jenny asked, "Why? It was me who was pped by her! Is that fair?"
"Was it right that you insulted the monitor? What? Do you still want to carry on with the dispute?" Bruce
asked with a straight face.
"Mr. Xu, You are being unfair!" Jenny was so angry that tears began to roll down her cheeks.
"I''ve already taken care of this matter. If you want to carry on with this, you will be expelled by the
student affairs office. Don''t be silly," Bruce said coldly.
Mandy was just standing next to them. After listening to their conversation, Mandy could not help but
be impressed with Bruce''s sense of judgment. She almost pped her hands andughed.
After helping Fiona move to a new bedroom, with the approval of her teacher, Mandy decided to take
her out for dinner. Since even Bruce was yet to go for his dinner because he was busy solving the
trouble, they decided to have dinner together.
Then they got into the car. Bruce drove, with Mandy sitting in the passenger seat and Fiona in the
backseat.
A happy song called Red High-Heel was ying in the car. Slowly as the song unfolded, Mandy felt as
if a cool breeze was blowing to take away her bad mood. When she had learned that Fiona was fine,
she felt much relieved.
"I didn''t expect that you are Fiona''s headteacher. I have always heard that her teacher is very young
and handsome. And after I met you today, I must say, you''re indeed very handsome, just as she
described," Mandy said with an admiring smile. Her smile spread into her eyes to create a shining
crescent.
Fiona was surprised by the easy camaraderie between Mandy and Bruce. ''It turns out that Mandy
knows my teacher from before! No wonder he helped me to get a clean chit in this dispute, '' thought
Fiona. She was smart enough not to interrupt but to listen to their conversation quietly.
"Yeah, it was such a pleasant surprise. We are meeting each other after sixteen years. How are you?"
Bruce nced at Mandy and smiled.
"Not bad," Mandy replied with a faint smile. But there was a hint of bitterness in her words.
"Where do you work, Mandy?" Bruce asked.
"JR Hospital."
"That''s great! You became a doctor." It seemed that he already knew a lot about Mandy. He sounded
so confident that no one could say that he assumed Mandy''s profession out of sheer gut feeling.
Mandy frowned and asked, "How do you know I''m a doctor and not a nurse?"
"At that time, you were a legend of No. 1 High School. You had won a lot of awards and des for
our school. Even now, the honors earned by you are posted on the billboard."
"What? Really?" Mandy smiled and said, "That was a long time ago."
Mandy had met Daniel three years ago. Daniel had been wooing Mandy since she was a freshman in
No. 1 High School. It was known to all students in their school. But Mandy didn''t ept his proposal at
that time. Daniel had respected her decision and had waited for her until she graduated from secondary
school.
"Thank you for helping Fiona. Let me treat you to dinner tonight," Mandy suggested.
"No way. I''m a man. It''s not okay for a woman to give me a treat." Bruce frowned, expressing his
disapproval towards her remark.
"Okay, since you want to treat me for dinner, I''ll give you the chance," Mandy smiled sweetly and said
in a naughty tone.
The night fell, and the streetmps were lit all across the city.
They went to a robot restaurant for dinner. On their way back, Mandy bought two packs of snacks for
Fiona and her new roommates. She asked her to share it with them.
Mandy was relieved to see that Fiona was quite popr in her ss. Many girls liked her. She not only
did well in her studies, but she was also helpful to her ssmates. Only a handful of people were
jealous of her and hated her.
It was already eight o''clock by the time they got back to school. After exchanging phone numbers with
Mandy, Bruce hurried back to his office to review the homework submitted by the students. As the
headteacher of the second-grade students, he had to put up withte hours in the office every night.
The orange streetmps shone on the woods, through the gaps of the leaves, and sprinkled on the
shoulders of the two girls who stood in front of the dormitory bidding goodbye to each other.
"Mandy, you look so haggard these days," Fiona said as she turned to look at Mandy.
"What? Really? Maybe it''s because of work pressure." Mandy tried to cover her guilt with a smile.