Being Pursued By Ex-husband

Chapter 643 Monster

It wasn't long after Celine had taken her seat that Irving arrived. Seeing a girl sitting next to Rowen, he assumed she was just another admirer there to confess her feelings to Rowen. He whistled and arched his eyebrows at Quentin Zadra next to him. "Which class is she from?"

Quentin nudged Irving. "Don't talk nonsense. She's our new classmate, Celine Lewis."

Irving gasped. "Didn't Rowen say he didn't want a deskmate?"

Quentin shrugged, expressing his lack of knowledge in that matter.

After putting down his bag, Irving stole another glance at Celine. The more he looked, the more familiar she seemed. Just as he recalled she was the girl with monstrous strength from yesterday, the class bell rang.

He had no choice but to catch himself. He discreetly took out his phone to send Rowen a message.

As soon as he sent the message, Rowen showed up at the classroom door.

Carrying a backpack, Rowen strode into the classroom. He frowned at the sight of a girl sitting next to him. A classmate explained, "Rowen, she's our new classmate, Celine Lewis."

Celine Lewis? Isn't she Lewinn's new sister? Rowen gave a sidelong glance at the girl next to him.

He immediately recognized her as the girl from yesterday who had lifted her bully with one hand at Trinity Heritage Academy. Didn't Lewinn say his little sister is very timid? She's far from timid, judging by her impressive feat yesterday.

Seeing that the teacher hadn't arrived, Irving wiggled his brows at Rowen. "Rowen, don't make our new classmate cry!"

Rowen shot him a look. "Mind your own business, or I'll make you cry instead."

Knowing that the boy next to her was looking at her, Celine felt a little nervous. After hesitating briefly, she looked up at him and said, "Hello. My name is Celine Lewis."

He drawled in response, "Okay."

He took out his language textbook, rested his head on it, and ignored her.

Celine was momentarily stunned. Her face turned a little red. Isn't this the boy I encountered at Trinity Heritage Academy yesterday?

Amidst her daze, the teacher on the podium had already started to talk about her. "We have a new student in our class, Celine Lewis. Celine, please stand up and introduce yourself."

Hearing her name getting called, Celine clumsily got to her feet, and as she did, her elbow accidentally knocked a book off the desk, which landed on the floor between her and Rowen with a loud thud.

Rowen, who had just closed his eyes, felt slightly irritated. Having his nap disturbed, he opened his eyes and looked at Celine with a hint of annoyance.

Feeling embarrassed, she apologized in an undertone, "I'm sorry."

Rowen didn't answer but simply turned his face to the other side and shut his eyes to sleep again.

Celine was at a loss. It wasn't until the homeroom teacher called her name again that she introduced herself, "Hello, everyone. My name is Celine Lewis."

Her voice was soft. She had always been an introvert, so she didn't speak loudly during her self-introduction. Despite her vaguely audible tone, even the normally strict homeroom teacher couldn't bring himself to reprimand the gentle girl. He merely nodded and said, "Sit down."

There was only half a month until the midterm exam. The sudden arrival of a new classmate didn't make much of a difference to the teachers.

However, it was quite a change for the students in Grade Eleven Class Seven. Their soft-spoken female classmate sat next to Rowen, yet he didn't chase her away. That wasn't all. When she interrupted his nap earlier, he also didn't lose his temper.

Following the strange occurrences, many people started discussing the new girl in class in hushed tones after the class ended.

Rowen didn't sleep in every lesson. He simply dozed off particularly frequently in language classes. Despite his aversion to language lessons, he was highly gifted and intelligent. His scores in language examinations were still among the top three in his year. Therefore, the teacher let his behavior slide. Even if the other students were displeased, they couldn't do anything about it.

As the end of class bell rang, Rowen woke up.

He groggily looked around him and saw Irving missing. He took out a bottle of beverage from his bag and guzzled half the content.

Right after he quenched his thirst, Irving and Quentin returned. Noticing Rowen was awake, Irving jogged up to him. "Rowen, don't you think your new deskmate looks familiar?" Rowen wasn't in the mood to deal with Irving, so he glared at him and said, "Scram."

Irving grinned mischievously. "The more I look at her, the more I feel our new classmate is the girl we saw at Trinity Heritage Academy yesterday. Rowen, you really didn't recognize her?" Rowen undoubtedly did, but he wasn't as gossipy as Irving, nor was he fond of meddling in others' matters. Besides, Celine was someone Lewinn had asked him to take care of. Rowen glanced at Celine, who was listening to their conversation. He picked up a book and hurled it at Irving. "Can't you keep your mouth shut?"

Sensing Rowen's anger, Irving dared not press that matter further and quickly changed the subject. "Rowen, where are we going this afternoon? The laboratory guys are offering two thousand!"

"Stick with the usual rule."

"All right. I got it!"

Rowen's usual rule was to play with whoever offered more money. After all, he was short of cash.

Besides, if he lost, he would have to pay as well.

Although Celine was holding a pen, her mind wasn't focused on her textbook. Instead, all her attention was on the boy beside her.

Her heart instinctively clenched after she heard Irving mention her name.

She knew it was bizarre and incredulous for a girl like her to be able to lift a classmate who weighed over a hundred pounds with ease.

In the past, she wasn't aware that her strength would make her a subject of scorn. She didn't mind doing the heavy lifting tasks in class all the time.

However, she didn't expect that all her efforts would result in her classmates making fun of her behind her back. She could still vividly remember all those hurtful remarks.

"Is Celine a monster? She's not tall or strong. How could she easily lift the class monitor who weighs over a hundred pounds?"

"Celine is so scary. How could she pick up all the books in our class with one hand? The stack of forty-plus books must've weighed nearly seventy pounds! We should avoid her in the future. Otherwise, if she gets mad and swings her fist at us, we may get killed by a single punch from her."

"Will any boy ever like Celine? If I were a boy, I wouldn't like her."

Those harsh words that her closest friends had uttered were like daggers stabbing into her heart, causing her great agony.

After starting high school, she very seldom displayed that ability of hers because she didn't want to be known as a girl with monstrous strength, much less a monster.

If Sasha and the others hadn't pushed her to the edge yesterday, she wouldn't have used her strength.

At the thought of yesterday's incident, Celine subconsciously gazed at Rowen.

He was flipping through an extra-curricular book. Only after looking twice did she realize it was a novel published in its original foreign language, The Moon and Sixpence. Wow. He's incredible, but will he also think I'm a monster?