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•𝒯𝒽𝓇ℯℯ•

IT WAS QUIET IN THE CLASSROOM.
The only thing that could be heard was the chalk writing on the small tables.
Anne sat on a bench in front of Amybella and suddenly flinched. She got the McCurthy-girl's attention, who eyed her critically as another chalk was thrown next to the redhead. Anne raised her head again.
Bella frowned and looked behind her just to see
Gilbert now standing up.
Bella looked at him in irritation as he slowly approached the redheaded girl and placed his apple on her table.

"Oops!" he whispered and crouched down. Amybella looked at Ruby, who was watching him the same way.

"Hey." he tried to get Anne's attention but she ignored him. He reached for her red braid and pulled on it.

"Carrots!"
The next moment, Anne had already stood up with a jerk, grabbed her table and was now hitting Gilbert in the face with it.

"I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU!" she shouted and everyone in the room turned to look at her. Now there was no more scratching of chalk and it was eerily quiet in the room. Amybella felt like she could literally touch the tension in the air and an explosion would occur as everyone looked around in horror between Gilbert and Anne.
Gilbert held his cheek and Anne looked at her now broken tablet in amazement.

"You just did." Gilbert then said and went back to his seat.

"SHIRLEY!!" shouted Mr. Phillips.

"Get up here. NOW!" Anne slowly climbed over her bench and walked towards the lectern.

"What a vicious display!" Mr. Phillips wiped the previous bill off the board.

"Is this, what they taught you in that orphanage?!" He began to write 'Anne Sherly' on the blackboard and gestured Anne to turn around.
Bella was surprised when she heard the word orphanage. She didn't know that Anne was an orphan.
Of course she had heard about a girl that also recently came to Avonlea but she had no clue it was Anne.
From her looks one could guess that it was Anne but she seemed so.. educated and she could read. Amybella always thought, orphan kids weren't good at reading.
She looked at Gilbert, who looked guilty towards Anne. He then locked eyes with Bella and if looks could kill, he would have been six feet under the ground by now.

"Anne Sherly has a very bad temper." Mr. Phillips pronounced the words he wrote on the board.

"You'll stay here and stay put. And the rest of you pipe down!" Amybella felt nothing but pity and empathy for Anne. She could imagine how the redhead felt now. She killed Ruby with her gaze as the girl started giggling again.

"Let this serve as a lesson to you, that we do not  tolerate such displays of temper here in a civilized society."

Civilized society? This was a joke.

"It was my fault." Gilbert had stood up and finally spoke up.

"Sir! I teased her," he said with a quick glance at Anne.