Chloe’s POV
“Good morning, Mrs. Ruby,” I stupidly curtseyed because of the nerves raking through my entire body as I walked into the reception of the principal’s office.
Mrs. Ruby, an elderly woman in her late 60s that worked part-time as a secretary because she was a co-founder of the school looked up from the novel in her palms and regarded me with eyes filled with kindness.
Ever since the rumors started, no one had looked at me that way asides Dera. It warmed my heart into a gooey mess and I relaxed a tad bit.
“Miss Anderson, you're here to see the principal I suppose?” she pushed up her glasses to the bridge of her nose and used a pen to hold the page she was reading.
I nodded slowly, “yes ma'am.”
“You’re the brilliant one, right? It’s worth confirming because your brilliance a
