Chapter 5 Hearing this, I truly let out a long breath of relief, my whole body relaxing. "What, going abroad?" Rhett became completely agitated. "Scarlett, your biological parents came to pick you up? And they want to take you out of the country?! How can this bet This is absolutely not allowed!" ignored the panic on his face, using both hands and feet to get up from the ground, eager to walk toward the homeroom teacher. Scarlett!" Ah! hett quickly released my left arm and carefully reached for my right hand instead. fis eyes showed a pleading expression as he tried to keep me there: "Scarlett, please don't go. I promise I'll protect you properly from now on and never let shley bully you again." spoke up: "So you've always known who was bullying whom?" hett hung his head again, stammering, "Yes." laughed coldly. lames of anger burned in my eyes. › he had always known, but kept playing dumb to deceive me, always accusing me of bullying Ashley, always condemning me for provoking Ashley... Scarlett, but I..." raised my hand and slapped him hard across the face, cutting off whatever he was about to say. eeing this, Ashley went berserk instead: "How dare you hit my brother, you bus! What gives you the right to bully my brother!" kicked Ashley in the back of her knees, and she fell to her knees in pain. front of the whole class and Rhett, I grabbed her hair again and shoved her toward the mop sink. told you before, your mouth is too filthy. If you don't learn to behave, next time I won't just wash it-I'll tear your mouth off and give you a clean one." shley cried, swallowing dirty water while shouting "Rhett, save me!" ut Rhett just stood there like he was frozen, like a shadow. ntil- My child! My child!" Scarlett, Mom and Dad are here! We're here!" nstantly, all the strength drained from my body. My hand loosened, and Ashley collapsed beside the mop sink. I turned around and saw my biological parents from the black and white photograph of my past life. In my past life, they had always been searching for me, but died in a car accident a year later. When I finally spent countless resources to find them, they had already been dead for ten years. Even on their deathbeds, they still had my information and missing person flyers with them. When my biological parents and I made eye contact, we all froze. For no other reason-we looked too alike! We really looked too alike. My birth mother-Mrs. Sterling and I were practically cut from the same mold. The moment Mom saw my left arm injury, she broke down in tears. She rushed toward me but tripped over textbooks scattered on the floor. In just a few meters, she fell three times. But Mom didn't care about herself. With red eyes full of tears, she stood before me. 'My child, you are my child!" Mom sobbed uncontrollably. "Thank God-I found you! I finally found you!" Dad quickly walked over and embraced both me and Mom. (0) (0)