Chapter 21~Punishment

Miss Smith chuckled and declared to everyone.

"Since, all of you already gave your approval to his dish, then I'm happy to announce that Lian will be representing our school in the upcoming interschool cooking competition! He will be the representative."

Everyone cheered loudly and were full of approval!

Suddenly, all of the ruckus dies down and everyone becomes silent.

Mr Armstrong comes to the class to look for three students, Annette, Alise and Lian.

He looks at them, and they guiltily evade his powerful gaze.

"Miss Smith, I have heard a complaint from a student that he was being bullied and harassed by some students. So, I came to find those students and listen to their part of story."said Mr Armstrong

Mr Armstrong looked at Annette, Alise and Lian, he sighed and irritatingly asked"What are you three doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in my P.E class?"

Alise smiled awkwardly as she saw Mr Armstrong, after all he is the physical education teacher and he is also apart of the disciplinary committee. How could their luck be so horrible that their P.E teacher found them skipping class and also causing ruckus.

Annette and Lian was also thinking the same thing as Alise

Mr Armstrong looked at Annette.

"Annette, come here!"he told her

Annette walked towards Mr Armstrong.

"Annette, when I first heard the complaint from the student I thought it was fake. I would have never imagined that it was real, that is... until I saw you three missing from my class. So, what do you have to say?"asked Mr Armstrong in a stern tone

"Mr Armstrong, first of all, we would like to apologize to you for skipping your class. We are really sorry. We promise you that this thing will never happen again."said Annette in a very sincere tone

Alise also strongly agreed with Annette and said"Yes, Mr Armstrong. Please forgive us! After completing the task you had given us, I was feeling very hungry and then I smelled a very delicious fragrant, so I curiously went to the classroom to peak at the food. Lian and Annette just followed me because they were worried about me. So please don't blame them. I am at fault."

Mr Armstrong sighed

Lian looked at Mr Armstrong and said"Sir, we are all at fault. We are ready to receive any punishment...."

All three of them confessed their mistakes very sincerely and honestly. They all looked guilty and sad.

Mr Armstrong sighed again, he really didn't want to punish his good students, but he needed to know why did the male student approached him and accused Annette of bullying him.

"I accept your apologizes but you guys will still receive punishment for skipping class. I will decide your punishment later for this matter. However, I want to ask Annette, Why did that male student accuse you of bullying?"asked Mr Armstrong

Annette faced Mr Armstrong with confidence.

"Mr Armstrong, I never bullied him or harassed him. I just told his truth to everyone! I never defamed him! If you don't believe me, you can ask several other students... I never bullied him!"said Annette without a single guilty conscience.

Mr Armstrong could see that Annette was not lying and she was speaking the truth.

He was about to ask Miss Smith about the male student incident when Mina interrupted him.

"Mr Armstrong, senior Annette did nothing wrong, she was trying to help me. He was the one who wanted to ruin my reputation by saying that the reason behind why we broke up is because of my family.....when...in fact he was actually cheating on me with lots of girls.

So senior Annette wanted to defend me, she expose the truth on my behalf, but he still shamelessly tried to deny this truth. Hence, she showed evidence of his ugly affairs....then he ran off because he couldn't handle it!

If you want to punish senior Annette because of him, then I will protest against the school! Senior Annette did nothing wrong! She just wanted to defend me."said Mina with strong grievance

William also said"Yes, Mr Armstrong. Whatever Mina said is the truth. Senior Annette never bullied him. He was the one who was trying to ruin Mina's reputation. Senior Annette just exposed him, please don't punish senior Annette because of his false accusation!"

One by one, other students began to speak up for Annette. They knew that Annette never bullied him, in fact it was Haisy and Halfen who wanted to blame and defame Mina. They thought that Annette did nothing wrong, even though her methods were a bit cruel but he deserved it and they were also disgusted by his behaviour.

Mr Armstrong heard many opinions and he felt like he was going to have a headache.

"Everyone please be quiet!"said Miss Smith in a loud, clear tone

Miss Smith began to explain to Mr Armstrong about the entire event that happened in the cooking class, she told the entire story from start till now.

Mr Armstrong carefully listen to Miss Smith explanation.

All of the students were quiet.