Chapter 3

>>SHADOW THAT WANTS TO REPLACE ME<<

“Aria,” she hinted meaningfully, “don’t focus so much on scholarships that you neglect getting along with other students. Dorm relationships also need to be carefully maintained.”

The counselor glared at Sage, as if too lazy to deal with her, and softened her tone to advise me, “Aria, when one person applies to change rooms, it might be that person’s issue, but when two people apply to change rooms, maybe we need to look for reasons within ourselves. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Counselor,” I asked directly, “Are they changing rooms because of me?”

“They didn’t say it explicitly,” the counselor paused briefly, “but when they mentioned you, their attitudes were consistently strange.”

“Okay, I understand, I’ll reflect on myself.”

“What’s there to reflect on?” Coming out of the counselor’s office, Sage folded her arms, looking annoyed, “The counselor just knows how to pick on the easy target.”

I didn’t respond.

I noticed the counselor’s choice of words.

She said “strange.”

The series of events that had happened recently gave me the same feeling.

I wanted to talk to Wendy and Lily, but they had blocked me, and the messages I sent showed glaring red exclamation marks.

I tried to find them during class time.

They always pretended to be chatting with others, deliberately ignoring my existence, their attitudes extremely cold.

After several attempts at friendliness were met with indifference, I had no choice but to give up.

Sage’s home was close to the school.

She went home every weekend.

Once she left, I was the only one in the room.

At 9 PM, as usual, I got ready to sleep.

I don’t know how long I slept, but the persistent ringing of my phone woke me up.

I fumbled for my phone in a daze, saw it was 11 PM, and the caller was Sage.

Calling so late, could there be some emergency?

I quickly answered the phone, “Hello? Sage, what’s up?”

“You’re something else, Aria!” Sage’s excited voice came from the other end of the line, “Girl, I didn’t expect you to be having such a good time

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behind my back!”

I was completely confused, “What?”

“Stop pretending!”

Sage sent me a SnapChat photo.

I opened it and my eyes widened, all traces of sleepiness gone.

In the photo, the campus heartthrob and I were in an intimate embrace, in a pose that couldn’t be more suggestive.

My head was spinning.

I was lying in my dorm room right now, when did I hug the campus heartthrob?

“When did you take this photo?” Coming to my senses, I immediately asked Sage.

“Just now! Aria, stop pretending! I saw you!”

“Sage, I’m in the dorm, the girl you saw isn’t me.”

“How is that possible!” Sage firmly refuted, “It’s you!...............

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So what do you think about this shadow hmmmm????

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