Chapter 667 Is He Not Callous
A blush crept up Celine''s face, and she dared not argue with Harper anymore. She lowered her head
and gazed at the tips of her white shoes, noticing they were slightly dirty.
Harper had been interacting with Celine for over a month then, so she hade to understand the
latter''s personality.
At the silence presently, she knew that Celine was feeling guilty.
She harrumphed. “Don''t think I''m oblivious to it. The two of you didn''t go home straight on Saturday,
huh?”
Harper had been itching to gossip about the events on Saturday, but she held herself back upon
recalling Celine''s tear-streaked face and embarrassed expression.
Nearly two days had passed since everything happened, so she felt that there were some things she
needed to confront.
Of course, she was not saying that she wanted to ask Celine what exactly was going on right then.
Instead, she simply wanted to indulge in some gossip.
Celine had not expected Harper to continue pursuing the matter and felt downright embarrassed. “I was
in a bad mood that day.”
“Rowen consoled you?”
Harper''s eyes went wide, and she gaped at Celine in disbelief.
Celine shook her head. “No.”
ncing at Harper, she added, “Rowie said he doesn''t know how to console people.”
“Rowie?” Goosebumps rose all over Harper when she heard that. “Your way of addressing him is quite
unique.”
Celine was already feeling embarrassed. She flushed even redder when Harper teased her.
“If you keep this up, I''m not talking to you anymore!”
“Hey! No, please! I was wrong, and I apologize!”
Hugging her, Harperughed cheerily. “Where did you two go that day? Don''t tell me somewhere
nearby. I went back to look for you both!”
Celine nced at her. She pursed her lips, feeling inexplicably guilty. “Nowhere much. We just went to
the park by the riverbank.”
“You went to the riverbank, huh?” Harper quirked a brow. “I didn''t expect Rowen to actually apany
you to the riverbank.”
While saying that, she brought up some of the things Rowen had done in the past and started to gripe
about him.
As Celine listened, she realized that her feelings were somewhat different from before.
She knew that Harper would never lie to her. But hearing thetter talk about Rowen making girls cry
easily, she felt he was not such a person.
“Let me tell you this, Cece. Don''t be fooled by his decent appearance. His actions are downright
apathetic! He doesn''t know the first thing about cherishing girls. During Grade Eight, the prettiest girl
from the adjacent ss took a fall in front of him. She reached out for a hand from him, but he just
ignored her and walked right past. Say, isn''t he callous?”
Perhaps because she felt there was no hope for her to be with Rowen, but Harper found that she no
longer wore the rose-tinted sses of her first crush and saw ws in him everywhere.
Celine pursed her lips without responding to that.
As they walked, Harper chattered away. When they arrived at the bus stop, they did not have to wait
long before the bus arrived.
By the time the second ss of the morning ended, the literature test results were released.
The literature teacher of Grade Eleven ss Seven walked into the ssroom with a bundle of papers
in hand and joy written all over his face. “Well done! Our ss has produced the top scorer for the
entire grade for the midterm exam this time!”
ss Seven had always been at the bottom when it came to literature. Even at her best, the top
literature student in the ss, the ss monitor, Rhianne, only managed to rank tenth in the entire
grade.
Now that someone had suddenly topped the literature test, the excitement among the students was
palpable.
Harper was such a gossip that she ran over to Celine right after ss and said, “Rhianne is truly
amazing this time. She actually ranked first in the whole grade!”
Celine was not all that familiar with the situation in ss Seven, but she was also happy that a
ssmate had ranked first in literature in the entire grade. “Yeah, she''s truly amazing.”
Harper looked at Celine, remembering that thetter had only recently transferred to the school.
Consequently, she began to fill her in on the situation in ss Seven.
“You might not know this yet, Cece, but our ss and ss Three have been alternating at the bottom
of the grade in average literature scores. Rhianne has the best literature score in our ss, but even at
her best, she only ranked tenth.”
Upon hearing that, Celine blinked and said, “Then, she really did a great job this time.”
“Hear, hear!”
No sooner had Harper finished speaking than Rowen came back. She nced at him and curled her
lips before getting up and returning to her seat.
The following two periods were literature ss. The teacher had already asked the subject
representative to distribute the test papers.
Right after Rowen had sat down, the subject representative ced his test paper on his desk.
Celine happened to notice a hundred and seventeen written on the paper.
That score was not particrly good, but it was not terribly bad either.
Rowen promptly folded his test paper and set it aside. Just as he was about to get up, he saw Rhianne,
handing Celine her test paper with admiration etched across her features. “You scored really high,
Celine! A hundred and forty-six!”
Feeling a bit embarrassed, Celine reached out to take the test paper. “Thank you, Rhianne.”
She was pretty good at literature, always scoring above a hundred and thirty. Nheless, she was
surprised that she scored a hundred and forty-six this time.
In front of her, Isobel frowned upon hearing Rhianne''s words. “You must have seen it wrongly, Rhianne.
How could she possibly score a hundred and forty-six?”
“It''s a hundred and forty-six all right!” Rhianne asserted several seats away.
Her voice was somewhat loud, drawing many eyes toward Celine.
After Rowen had drunk some water, he turned and nced at Celine beside him, who was blushing.
“You''re partial to a particr subject?”
At first, Celine did not grasp his meaning. When she gathered her wits about her, she looked at Rowen
in embarrassment. “Yeah.”
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Rowen raised an eyebrow. “Your literature is good, so it doesn''t matter if you do a bit poorly in math.”
Celine was utterly baffled. She was not sure whether he was trying tofort her orpliment her.
Before the test papers were fully distributed, the bell rang.
The literature teacher stood at the podium with the report cards, calling out those who did not pass the
literature exam.
In a test paper totaling a hundred and fifty marks, anything less than ny was considered a fail.
Isobel was the first one to be called out. From several seats away, Harper threw Celine a look.
Celine could not help but lower her head andugh. Afterughing for a moment, she felt somewhat
guilty for mocking Isobel in such a manner. To her surprise, when she lifted her head, she found Rowen
looking at her.
She froze for a moment, her hand tightening around her pen.
For the midterm literature exam this time, a total of six students in the ss failed. Isobel was one of
them.
After calling out the students who did not pass, the literature teacher began to talk about those who did
well in the exam. “This time, Celine scored a hundred and six, ranking first in the entire grade. Her
score is six marks higher than the person ranking second! Everyone should learn from her. Her essay
has already been photocopied and circted. She only lost one point on her essay. I''ve read her essay,
and the originality of her ideas is quite impressive. Her use of ssical quotes during her arguments
indicates the vast amount of reading she usually does. Later, I''ll distribute copies of her essay for you
all to learn from!”
Celine had been praised many times before, but this was the first time for her there, so she blushed
slightly.
When the apuse began, she seemingly heard Rowen clicking his tongue softly beside her.
On instinct, Celine nced at him. Unexpectedly, she found that he was already looking at her. Feeling
guilty, she quickly averted her gaze.
Her heart started racing increasingly faster.