Rebirth: A Second chance at life-Chapter 89: The fraud queen stands tall!!!

Aurora neared the principal’s office, her footsteps light but steady. The faint buzz of voices inside grew louder as she approached, and for a fleeting moment, the noise irritated her.

She paused outside the door, drawing in a quiet breath before stepping inside.

"Mr. Harris," she said calmly, her voice cutting cleanly through the chatter. "Can I now fill up the form for the SATs?"

The room fell abruptly silent. Every head turned toward her, a wave of stunned faces locking eyes with her.

The teachers, secretaries, and administrative staff—each one carried the same expression of disbelief, as if seeing a ghost walk in.

Just moments ago, they had been buzzing like bees, their voices overlapping in a chorus of complaints and accusations. Now, they stared.

They had gathered here earlier in the morning with a single purpose: to file formal complaints against Aurora. The same Aurora Smith who had dropped out of school, the same girl they’d written off as a hopeless case

It didn’t matter how intelligent a student might be; in their eyes, Aurora had never been worth the second chance she’d been given.

To them, she had been dumb, lazy, and incapable. Every teacher who had ever taught her held a quiet disdain, some for her foolishness, others for her refusal to even try.

They had resigned themselves long ago—this girl would amount to nothing.

And yet, here they were.

The complaints began as whispers but had grown louder as the morning wore on.

Most teachers hadn’t even bothered to check her exam papers, convinced they already knew what the outcome would be.

But then the math teacher, Mr. Lewis, had glanced over her paper out of casual curiosity—and his eyes had widened in shock.

He didn’t stop there. He went to every teacher, collecting each subject’s exam sheets. As he flipped through them, the disbelief grew.

Every answer was correct. She got a perfect score! Every equation solved flawlessly. And the handwriting—each stroke elegant and confident, bold yet graceful, like it belonged to someone from another world.

Not the timid, stumbling scrawl they remembered from Aurora.

The room had erupted in disbelief.

"She cheated," someone whispered.

"It’s the only explanation," another muttered.

And so they had come, flooding into the principal’s office to make it official. To demand an investigation.

To blacklist her from ever taking another exam under their institution. And now, standing there, was the very girl they were condemning.

Their cold, disdainful gazes bore into her, silent accusations in every pair of eyes.

Evita White, the English teacher, stepped forward, her lips pursed in fury. "Aurora," she spat, "even if you wanted to waste our time, you shouldn’t have made a mockery of education.

Cheating is the most shameful thing you could ever do. You’ve insulted all of us."

From the side, Raya scoffed loudly.

"I told Principal Harris yesterday not to let this ungrateful child appear for the exam," she sneered.

"But he didn’t listen. And now look where we are. All we can do is wait for the board to decide what’s to be done."

Her lips curled into a satisfied smirk as she imagined herself sitting in the principal’s chair, the power and authority gleaming in her mind’s eye.

As they stood, accusing and condemning, the news had already begun to ripple through the school.

At the college forum, the online student board was flooded with posts. Someone had snapped a picture of Aurora entering the principal’s office and uploaded it with the caption: Look who showed up again!

"HAHAHA, does she really have the nerve to show her face?" one comment laughed.

"She’s shameless! Seriously, why did she even come back today?" another sneered.

The posts multiplied. Students piled into the thread, mocking, jeering, turning her name into a punchline. freewēbnoveℓ.com

Then, amidst the sea of ridicule, another post emerged. A screenshot of Aurora’s scores had been uploaded.

The numbers were undeniable.

Perfect.

The forum went quiet for a moment, as if the entire school had held its breath.

Then someone commented: Are you serious? Who would believe this?

No way. The one who failed every exam before suddenly scores perfectly? Obviously she cheated!

The accusations surged like wildfire. One by one, the comments multiplied, feeding off each other’s outrage.

"She must’ve gotten the answer sheets beforehand!"

"Her handwriting’s different too! It’s fake!"

"Kick her out already. This is disgusting."

Back in the principal’s office, Aurora stood silently, her expression unreadable as the accusations piled around her.

Principal Harris rubbed his temples, clearly torn between the angry staff and the shocking results in his hand.

"You’re all here to accuse her," Mr. Lewis spoke up quietly, holding Aurora’s math paper aloft.

"But I checked the answers myself. I even cross-checked every solution. There’s no evidence of tampering."

"Lewis, don’t be naïve!" Evita snapped. "You think she solved those questions? You know her grades! You know her record!"

"I know what I see," Lewis said firmly. "And what I see is a perfect paper."

The teachers erupted again, their voices overlapping in heated debate.

Aurora remained still, her eyes calm, watching them tear each other apart over her existence.

In the forum, another post appeared.

A blurry photo of Aurora’s back as she stood in the office.

The caption read: The fraud queen stands tall. Let’s see how long she lasts.

The comments laughed again.

Aurora didn’t feel the weight of their laughter pressing down on her.

She simply waited, patient, as if this chaos was nothing but a fleeting storm she’d already prepared for.

"Mr. Harris," she said again, her voice quiet but unwavering. "My result, please."

Principal Harris looked at her, the paper trembling slightly in his hand.

"Let the board investigate first," Raya cut in sharply. "Until then, she gets nothing."

But Aurora met the principal’s gaze with a calm steadiness that made him pause.

Somewhere, deep down, something in him hesitated.

Something made him wonder if, perhaps, Aurora hadn’t cheated after all.

He was too astonished by the results to ignore them—and it wasn’t just a hunch. They had even checked the CCTV footage, and no anomalies had been found. She hadn’t cheated.

It seemed, against all expectations, that Aurora was a genius. Maybe her previous failures had simply been the chaos a hidden brilliance created; after all, geniuses were often said to have unpredictable personalities.

For now, this was the only conclusion Harris could reach.

And outside the office, as the sun shone faintly through the glass, the whispers of the school continued swirling, blind to the quiet storm standing at the center of it all.