Chapter 2

As the car approached the school, I asked Uncle Carter to stop and dragged my luggage inside.

The moment I stepped in, I was greeted by a grand scene with flowers and confession balloons all set up perfectly.

"Matthew Lewis, I like you. Be my boyfriend!" Adeline Alvarez held a rose as she confessed to a male student.

It was said when a woman pursued a man, it wouldn’t take much effort.

I felt like I heard my childhood friend's name. Squeezing through the crowd, I saw it was indeed him.

I watched them with a half-smile, feeling uneasy inside. Would he accept?

Matthew glanced around and saw me. A playful glint flashed in his eyes as he rejected Adeline's confession. "Sorry, my girlfriend is here."

Matthew quickly came to me. "Sarah, you're here."

The onlookers gasped in surprise.

I was puzzled. Did this drama just involve me?

"Matthew, what are you doing?" I whispered to him but couldn't suppress my happiness.

The night before I returned, I confessed to him on WhatsApp, but he hadn't responded. Now, he was publicly acknowledging me as his girlfriend.

Was this his way of accepting?

With a mischievous grin, he loudly declared, "This is my girlfriend, Sarah Watson."

Adeline looked at me up and down with embarrassment. "Matthew, stop joking. How could this country bumpkin be your girlfriend?"

Adeline felt deeply humiliated.

To avoid standing out, I bought some common-looking clothes online. Hearing her words, she probably thought I got in through academic merit alone.

I instinctively retorted, "So what if I'm from the countryside? Unlike you,

at least I have manners." There was no need to be polite to her.

"You!"

Adeline was about to lose her temper when one of her lackeys whispered something in her ear. She gave me a meaningful look and left.

With the main character gone, the crowd slowly dispersed.

Matthew led me to my classroom. Upon entering, I realized I was in the same class as that girl from earlier.

"I won't let you have an easy time," Adeline warned as she bumped my shoulder.

I didn't understand why this girl seemed so hostile towards me when I hadn't even provoked her.

I introduced myself, "Hello, everyone, I'm Sarah Watson."

After that day, Matthew and I spent all our time together under the pretense of him taking care of me.

But this only solidified the notion that I was Matthew's "bumpkin girlfriend."