CHAPTER 6, CAMPUS

"Yes, Uncle John, the hospital medical records have been faxed."

"Ann. Ms. Dexter-Jones introduced me to CAA's broker is very professional and I think it's worth the fare... What, Dad doesn't want to see me, let me study and play well? Well, I'll listen to you. "

"That's right, there's nothing wrong with that, I want to apply to the school for early graduation, but I'm not going to college right now. No problem, I remembered. Uh-huh, my campus life at LA is very pleasant, Santa Monica Middle School is quite interesting, rest assured. "

"I have a lot of work during the summer and should not be ready to go back to New York. The accountant and lawyer you introduced have already been contacted, I have no problem... Goodbye then, Uncle John. "

On the morning of the shooting day, Josie, who had only taken a week off, ended the call with her guardian and finally barely remembered that she seemed to be a middle school student.

She almost thought she had joined USC.

Who let the short film shot now basically be filmed in and around the USC campus, making her almost forget that she really has school to study and homework to write.

The homework in literature class seems to be the feeling after reading a novel?

As for the rest, she really didn't like group work, especially since Santa Monica Middle School had a less pleasant atmosphere.

"I hope they don't mess with me." She threw herself into the sofa and muttered, "After all, I've been quite angry lately, maybe I should drink some herbal tea or something..."

Bell——

As bells reverberated throughout campus, Santa Monica Middle School classrooms rushed out of large numbers of middle school students, most of them sprinting toward the school cafeteria, small portions taking out ready-to-eat lunches, or walking toward restaurants near the school gate for a delightful lunch and the California sun.

However, there are always some who are keen to spoil the good mood of others.

According to common sense, Josie, who is handsome and well-off, should be the most popular small group of talents in school, but in fact, for the middle school students here, this transfer student is withdrawn and arrogant, so it is only reasonable to be isolated.

The reason for the real start of bullying was the school's most popular girl, cheerleader Ashley. Mills tells her friends that Josie is nothing more than a poor homeless bug who is currently living in Mills' house because of her mother's kindness, and that even her father is in prison.

In this way, the transfer student was not satisfied, instead of crying and asking Ashley to be in a group with her, Ashley had to reluctantly accept, as for what the rest of the group did to the transfer student behind their backs, the beautiful girl said that she did not know.

Many talked behind the scenes about the transfer student's predicament, as well as Ms. Mills' kindness and generosity, as well as Ashley's latest fashion and bags.

Immediately afterwards, the whole school was asked not to allow talking to Josie, otherwise they would be as unwelcome as the transfer students and would never receive any party invitations.

Just like now, Josie was looking for a seat in the restaurant with a dinner plate, and along the way she heard many people whispering-

"Ewww, the rat corpses in her cabinet are all stinking, but she didn't even scream."

"It's terrible, she should at least be scared, not nothing."

"She's so weird after all, isn't she? I heard that she transferred to become a Hollywood actor, but I don't know what gave her courage. "

"Ha, this is Los Angeles, sisters, the homeless people on the street are all actors."

"But someone like her doesn't deserve to be famous in Hollywood." I heard that her father used to be a low-level gangster, and he had a little money by kidnapping. "

"Yep, Ashley is too pitiful to meet this kind of person. She told me herself, Josie. Horton witnessed her mother commit suicide in front of her as a child, apparently she was stimulated and had problems with her brain-"

Before the words fell, the girl who was talking in high spirits felt a huge force clamp down on her active throat, followed by screams and a whirlwind, and her head was slammed onto the table of the restaurant.

She struggled to raise her eyes and was facing the previous plate and the other side of the table belonged to Ashley. Mills' terrified face.

Then, intense pain and great humiliation swept over her.

"Fxxk! I'm going to kill you Josie. Horton! Out of the corner of her eye, the girl saw Josie directly above her, and immediately cried out angrily, "You're dead!" I swear! "

Second time, second time.

The metal tip made a tooth-biting noise on the tabletop, less than five centimeters from the girl's eyeball, which made everyone stunned at the same time, and even the air was quiet for a few seconds.

However, the initiator retracted the dinner knife casually, and rotated it around his fingertips like a showman.

Ashley, who witnessed all this up close, first came back to her senses and said with some stumbling: "Josie, calm down!" You... What do you want to do? "

This is really because Josie's expression is so terrible, everyone found out for the first time that the transfer student easily pressed people on the dining table with one hand, held the dinner knife very naturally in the other, and had a pretty face, as if the whole person was shrouded in a layer of piercing frost, which could stab people at any time.

Josie didn't give Ashley a look, but lowered her head and said to the girl who was struggling in her hands, "What's your name?" Oh, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that people with brain problems, murder can be a defense of innocence - understand? "

The girl was even more frightened and trembled involuntarily.

She glanced at Josie with difficulty, the other party was looking at her condescendingly, noticing her small movements, and returned with a cold smile, just like the perverted murderer who only appears in the movie.

It made her feel like a dead fish.

Thinking of this, the girl felt a chill down her spine: God, what kind of monster have I messed with!

Josie grinned at the corners of her mouth, looking a little happy.

Yes, violence can't solve all problems, but many times, it can solve most problems.

And very efficient.

From a very young age, Josie understood this.

"Yes, I'm sorry... Sorry very much! The girl begged for forgiveness in a trembling voice, "I don't dare anymore, Josie, it was Ashley who hinted that we said bad things about you, you shouldn't have looked for me!" "

Josie raised her head when she heard this, and turned her gaze to Ashley, who was like a great enemy, "Should I believe these words, my good friend, dear Ashley?" "

Ashley opened her mouth, and before she could explain, she was interrupted by Josie.

Josie smiled slightly, her smile sweet and fresh.

She tilted her head and said sweetly: "What to do, I don't believe it." The tone was slimy and deliberately lengthened.

The crowd was silent.

Josie loosened the force in her hand, letting the girl run away, and she straightened up and faced Ashley.

"Oh-oh, you live in the house I paid for, and you begged me to give you the inferior goods eliminated in the cloakroom, even this outfit on you was what you asked me to buy when we were shopping—how dare you not please me, right?"

The silver dinner knife flipped between Josie's fingers, as if showing off her skills, and she was shocked to watch, and she happily admired Ashley's expression getting worse at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She asked again, "How dare you, my good friend, my dear Ashley?" "

Ashley took a step back as if she had been forced by someone, looking terrified, but did not dare to look at the expressions of the others around her.

It's really that Josie's aura is too powerful, so that the girl is confused for a while, and she doesn't know how to deal with it, after all, the tearing X of the female middle school student, at most, is the degree of cat-fight by tearing her hair and slapping her face, and it is a little scary to directly press the head hammer and return the knife.

And what is even more frightening is the sudden outbreak of the bullied coward, and the whole person looks like schizophrenia ... Mental illness, as if it is really possible to make a plea of innocence?

It is no secret that Ashley was evicted from the mansion, because Mills mother and daughter were seen moving back to the previous small apartment, but she prevaricated on the grounds that the apartment was more cozy.

The onlookers had resumed whispering, and even the decibels had increased too much, which could be regarded as the level of noise and noise, and from time to time words such as "this is the truth", "she had a point", "no wonder" and the like reached Ashley's ears.

"No, it's not true!" Ashley exclaimed, "Josie. Horton is making up lies, and my mother and I just pity her, just-"

"Hah." Josie let out a chuckle, clasping her arms together, "Come on, even if my father temporarily cooperates with the investigation and his property is frozen, but my mother has already left me an endless inheritance, I will need a poor model who sells herself on a yacht?" You must not understand how happy you can be with money. "

Some people around burst into laughter, obviously because this statement made a lot of sense, anyway, Josie thought so.

Ashley's barren language could not defend herself again, so she could only stunned there, ashamed for a while.

Some people even mocked: "What long-lost rich father came to the door and became rich overnight, is Josie your father, Ashley?" "

Josie shrugged her shoulders and frowned slightly: "Don't say that, she's a little too ugly." "

Everyone burst into laughter.

Is Ashley ugly? Of course not.

But compared to Josie, there is indeed a gap in their appearance.

Especially Josie's today re-dyed her hair, cut her style, lost those mediocre pink clothes, her face is still that face, but the whole person has changed.

Some girls even wanted to ask which brands Josie's lark yellow T-shirt, light-colored jeans and white sneakers came from.

——Especially the jeans, loosely worn in a low-rise position, very street, but also very cool and cute.

Ashley faltered.

His face was as pale as if his own father had died.

Josie sighed, smiled and asked, "How does it feel to be bullied?" "

Ashley glared at her fiercely: "You did it on purpose, you have been pretending, it was you who tempted us to move, and this happened!" "

"It's not me who spreads rumors." Josie patted the non-existent dust on her hands, "Remember to remind your mom to pay the bills, little sweetheart." Otherwise, a lawyer will come to you. "

After she said that, she picked up her dinner plate and sat down in an empty seat in the eyes of everyone, hardly being affected by this farce.

Eccentric?

Haughty?

She can indeed become a world of her own, but the reason why this world is full of awe-inspiring loneliness is because no one is qualified to pick this high mountain flower, and no one dares to disturb her.

This big drama in the restaurant made campus idol Ashley instantly become campus garbage, and Josie. Horton's daimyo began to spread word of mouth among these middle school students.

What the?

Nobody reported this to the school?

Please, let's not say whether the school will care about such small disputes, the behavior of making small reports is inferior, only waste will do that.

And according to the three views of these middle two teenagers, Josie is simply cool...

Josie learned a little about early graduation, but the teacher at this school actually suggested that it was easier for her to take a break from school directly, because she thought that most Hollywood actors were from the bottom and did not pay attention to academic qualifications, so why waste time.

Is this the world's common fame early? But if she changed her old school, at least she would be advised to apply to college, because for elite schools on the Upper East Side, the promotion rate is very important.

"What does it matter? Big star Robert Jr. Downey did the same, and he took my literature class. The woman boasted, "His Oscar nomination last year may be a credit to me." "

Josie rolled her eyes in her heart.

Wait a minute.

Robert Jr. Downey?

She seemed to remember her first aid bill...