The raise of Maureen Smith and her Good Luck System
Chapter 106: Betrayed by Bianca

Chapter 106: Betrayed by Bianca

Noella never thought she would be confronted by Maureen’s parents.

She immediately shrunk back, explaining,

"This isn’t how you think it is.

We were just joking as friends."Chris became angrier, "Joking between friends? So if I throw you into the stinking ditch, can it also be considered as a joke?

Do you want to try that out?" Saying this, Chris angrily tried to drag Noella.

Even though Chris was young, he was after all a boy and had some strength.

He actually managed to drag Noella towards a foul-smelling ditch next to the hotel.

Noella stumbled, her foot stepping into the ditch, an immediate icy and stinking feeling creeping up from her toes.

She was both angry and anxious, pushing Chris away, "Chris, what are you doing? We know each other at least!"

Chris yelled back, "We know each other, you say? If I knew earlier you were the one bullying Maureen, I would never have allowed you to step into our house!"

Watching the two kids about to fight, the spectacle of a boy and a girl fighting at the hotel entrance, Mr. Smith looked stern and barked, "Enough!" Noella shoved Chris away, climbed out of the ditch, and with help from two girls, she managed to stand still.

Mr. Smith stared at Noella and said, "You’re Noella, right? I will have a word with your class teacher later.

Do you really think Maureen has no family? Do you know that what you’re doing is called school violence?

You call this joking? Is this the kind of joke students your age should make?" Noella’s face turned pale instantly.

Before doing all of this with the other girl, she never thought Smith’s family would come.

Today was just an ordinary day, why was the Smith’s entire family here? It was just a trivial matter, they just threw a bag and had a minor conflict, hadn’t Maureen already retaliated? —

Could it be that Maureen had reported these minor issues to her family? She never used to do that.

If Maureen’s father really reported this to their class teacher Miss Miller, then wouldn’t her parents be called in?

Her family had always been strict. If they found out about this, she would surely face a punishment! Noella was in utter panic, hastily turning to look at Bianca.

If it weren’t for Bianca, she had no hatred for Maureen, and wouldn’t do such a thing. Bianca’s heart was throbbing wildly.

Irritation and anxiety flooded her heart at once.

While resenting Noella for acting impulsively and getting her involved, she was both angry and anxious, wondering why her family made such a big fuss about a trivial matter.

Now all her classmates were watching, knowing her family paid attention to Maureen — perhaps tomorrow it would spread throughout school that she had fallen out of favor at home.

Bianca’s first reaction was to disassociate herself from Noella, casting the blame elsewhere.

She immediately asked her father, Oliver, her mother, and Mike in panicked consternation: "What happened?!"

She then turned to Noella in shock: "I wasn’t in the classroom this afternoon, did you throw Maureen’s backpack into the trash can?

Bianca, how could you do this?" Noella and three other girls: "..." Bianca changed her countenance so swiftly that it left them buzzing in confusion, unable to react.

While they were still trying to process this, Bianca quickly stood behind her father and said to Noella with an unpleasant expression:

"You need to apologize to Maureen.

If you ever do this again, we won’t be friends anymore."

Seeing that Bianca was unaware of this incident, the faces of her family members looked a little better.

If she had known and stood by while her friends bullied Maureen — that wouldn’t be the Bianca they recognized

. Only Chris and Mike didn’t quite believe that Bianca had nothing to do with this.

Mike, with his arms crossed and stroking his chin, studied Bianca’s expressions and actions, feeling like it was all an act, and a bit clumsy at that.

If she truly didn’t know anything, why would she be so flustered? "Lying!" Chris pointed at Bianca, turned his head and said to his mother and Oliver: "Dad, Mom, last time I said she slandered Maureen in front of the art department teacher for the chance to be the host, you all didn’t believe me, but this time you should──" Bianca interrupted Chris: "Chris, now is not the time to bring up old grudges and our past disputes."

She turned and said sternly to Noella and the others: "If I had known you were doing this behind my back, I wouldn’t have left the classroom this afternoon.

No wonder Maureen was so angry when I returned, I couldn’t figure out why."

Noella and the others were dumbfounded,

Bianca secretly thought to herself, she was only doing this for self-defense, there was no other choice for her.

Bianca’s father’s face was terrifyingly cold, "Enough, let’s leave the matter at that for now! I will definitely have a talk with your Classroom teacher.

There are still a few days left for the training camp, you children should stop causing troubles!" Noella felt wronged inside her heart, nearly shedding tears from being chided by Bianca’s father.

She wiped her eyes, then spun around and ran into the hotel.

The other girls glanced at each other, then followed suit.

"You should also go back and rest. We’ll discuss this matter after the training camp ends."

Bianca’s father frowned at her. Realizing that anything more said could result in a mistake, Bianca dared not say anything else.

She nodded her head, and then turned into the hotel. Upon Bianca entering, a few members of the Smith family couldn’t help but look back at her retreating figure.

They were not sure if it was their imagination, but the recent Bianca seemed quite different from before.

If it was because Maureen had left home and their attention had shifted to Maureen, causing her to feel unhappy and wanting to vie for attention, they could understand that.

But in their view, Bianca had always been considerate.

The worst she could do was to act spoiled and complain.

Yet, why were all these matters of ostracizing Maureen related to Bianca? Or perhaps Bianca’s true character was not as innocent as they perceived. ...

The Smith family had waited for five to six hours today, yet they had not even seen a glimpse of Maureen.

Their mood was already bad, and the current incident had worsened.

They began to second-guess themselves.

Did they do something wrong in driving their own child away for a child with no blood relation to them? Were they out of their minds? Maureen and Liam had returned through the back door of the hotel.

The Smith family had been waiting for almost the entire night without seeing Maureen – their anxiety throughout the night can be imagined.

Eventually, they could not stand it anymore.

Mrs. Smith had a splitting headache and popped a painkiller in the car – Oliver would have to go to the company early the next morning.

Out of desperation, Mr. Smith left gifts at the hotel’s reception, to ask the front desk to give them to Maureen the next day.

They then drove the same route back as when they came. However, the atmosphere in the car was more stifling on their way home.

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Bianca had just returned to the hotel room, when she had an argument with Noella.

"I’m asking you, don’t you know that I wanted to throw away Maureen’s schoolbag?"

Noella asked, "You groaned and sobbed two nights ago, complaining about how everyone in your family is only caring about Maureen, ignoring you altogether.

It was out of indignation for you that I did this! I whispered to the person next to me before I threw it.

You heard it, and said it wasn’t right for you to intervene, so you left...This is what you called ’doing this behind your back’?"

"Bianca, how can you be so shameless?" Noella finally spat those words out. She finally realized why before, Ann said that Bianca always hid behind them, letting them lead.

It was because they were good friends that they always defended Bianca, thinking Maureen, an ’illegitimate daughter’, had the audaciously to snub Bianca, that they wanted to teach Maureen a lesson on behalf of Bianca.

But now, "Are we good sisters when you need us, and told to roll when you don’t? You enjoy seeing us being used, jumping around, don’t you?" "Calm down," Bianca frowned, glancing at the other rooms in the hallway, "Many people live on this floor, do you need to wake up Teacher Brown?

Noella could not calm down, her anger was at the boiling point, looking at Bianca’s indifferent face, she felt extreme regret for giving her trust.

"You can fend for yourself." With that, Noella stormed off into her own room.

She would never help Bianca again in the future.

Bianca watched her walking into the room, slamming the door shut, a wave of irritation washed over her face.

It felt like her heart was being crushed by an invisible boulder.

Friends, family, she was losing these, one by one.

But why does Maureen have everything? The root cause of all this, was Maureen running away from home.

Only then did her family start to take notice of her. Bianca bit her lip and turned to enter her room.

She opened her computer and downloaded a boarding school application form. As if anybody could just run away from home. Bianca believed that similarly, the Smith family wouldn’t allow her to live alone on the streets, even if there was no blood relation.

Yet, they had the foundation of the past fifteen years of emotional ties.

Moreover, her biological parents were nowhere to be found now, and the Smith family knew, she only had them.