The Life of Renn Alrose: The Complete Petals

Chapter 31 - The Rising

3 weeks later…

Ahoy, Renn here. It's been 3 weeks since that whole fiasco. So, I'm just here right now taking up my remedial sessions for the 4th Quarter since I just got my expulsion revoked.

You might be asking: “Renn, what happened? You know… About them?”

Well, it's all over the news. The papers, the media, the televisions. News got out last week of what happened to those 2 individuals.

Apparently, they're now both proven to be falsely accusing an innocent boy, me, for “violating” them. The Principal said that accusing people with made-up bases is too much. He decided to just let the court settle this one and they ended up with a fine of $2,000,000 along with expulsion in their respective schools.

But wait, there's more. Feliciana Desmond was found guilty of abuse of monetary power. She used money to bring herself to the top. Bribery at its fullest. Feliciana ended up with an additional $75,000,000 fine plus the amount of money she used to gain power, which is going to be either in millions or in billions.

Did she not realize how stupid her thinking is to use money for her personal gain? Now she'll reap for what she did.

And apparently, Hotel Gigante decided to not rely on the Desmond family business anymore due to the incident. Oh, and the employee who posted those pictures was fired.

Sucks to be that employee.

Oh, and the Desmond family as well. They're no longer rich due to those charges. The last of their money was used to pay for their daughter's fine. They are now broke. What's even worse is that the fine was so much that the business had to shut down to make up for the money Feliciana used for corruption.

Like I said, I love the strawberry-flavored karma being smothered all over their faces.

And now, I'm reading my modules happily. I also began answering the post-lecture activities afterward. The only difficult thing about modular remedials is that the post-lecture exercises are plentiful, consuming 1-2 hours of your time ASSUMING you're knowledgeable of the topic.

An average student would spend HOURS finishing a single module, enough to give a certain dumb student PTSD.

But I managed to finish it in an hour and a half, to no one's surprise.

“Done.” I happily put my pen down, handed the papers to Ms. Alba and she began checking my paper. She smiled knowing how I'm progressing so well.

“Another work well done... I have a question, Alrose. Why didn't you ask the principal to skip your remedials and go straight to 10th Grade?” Ms. Alba was curious as to why I didn't go for that opportunity. I know people think highly of me, so I probably would use this knowledge to skip ahead. Some schools do this, I know.

But the thing is, I already said to myself that I am not a genius. I'm a hard worker. Geniuses have already learned what they needed to learn and can skip certain grade levels, I am not one of those privileged people.

“Ma'am, it's simple. It wouldn't feel right. After all, I missed my 4th quarter. If I decided to skip it now, it would feel unfair for the rest who had the effort to push through...” I answered confidently.

She smiled, proud of my answer.

“I already had a feeling of relief when my eyes were set on you that day when you transferred. I suddenly remembered a student of mine…” Ms. Alba looked at a picture frame. And in that frame, was a picture of her and a short girl.

“Who is she, if I may ask?” I was curious about the short girl, and why Ms. Alba said that she was like me.

“She was one of my students, 4 years ago. She always decided to work on what's right for everyone including herself. She was absent one time, and she negotiated if she could cook solo because it wouldn't be fair if she didn't cook at all. I'm impressed at what dessert she ended up cooking. An amazing black forest cake... I'm proud.” So it appears I triggered a past memory of hers, she took a breath out in relief. I hope the student is well somewhere.