Chapter 197: A Strange Relationship
At this moment, Carina Bailey and the mathematics teacher walked over.
“Lauren, who is he?”
“He is my uncle.”
Ben was a little surprised, as Lauren had acknowledged him as an uncle. After all, his real identity was just a driver from the Torres family.
However, what Ben did not know was that in Lauren’s eyes, Ben was like her family member.
“Uncle, this is my homeroom teacher, Miss Bailey, and my math teacher, Miss Annesley.”
Ben greeted the two teachers. “Hello, is there anything I can help you with?”
“There is indeed something I need to talk to you about. Why don’t we go to the office?”
With that, Ben held Lauren’s hand and followed the two teachers to the office.
As they walked, Ben bent down to whisper to Lauren.
“Miss Torres, it’s only your first day of school. What did you get yourself into this time? Why are they meeting your ‘parents’?”
Lauren felt wronged. She had not done anything, instead she had performed so well today that the teacher had even rewarded her with a small red flower sticker. Why did they have to speak ill of her now?
Lauren felt a little uneasy. She followed the teachers to the office, only to discover that she was not the only child waiting in the office. There was also the silent little girl—Ruby.
A middle-aged woman was sitting next to Ruby. She looked friendly and she should Ruby’s parent.
The homeroom teacher, Miss Bailey, beckoned for Ben and Lauren to sit down.
“Miss Bailey, has Lauren done something wrong in the kindergarten?”
Carina quickly waved her hand.
“No, you misunderstood. I asked your children and you to stay here today because I heard from our math teacher that the progress of your child in math has far surpassed that of the other students in the class.”
“Our kindergarten now has a talent program, which is to train these children who are more talented in advance. Therefore, we’ve specially invited you here to ask for their opinions.”
Lauren heaved a sigh of relief. She was asked to stay back not because she did not perform well, instead it was because she had done too well.
Hence, Carina began to introduce the talent program to them.
However, Lauren did not pay much attention to it, because she noticed that the interaction between Ruby and her mother was a little strange.
Though Ruby looked like a very obedient little girl, for some reason, her eyes and actions were full of hostility toward her mother.
She was very reluctant especially when her mother had some physical contact with her.
However, looking at Ruby’s clothes and braided hair, it was obvious she was treated with great care.
‘What’s going on?’
As Lauren thought about it, Carina had already finished talking.
“You can think about it when they go back. This talent program will be very helpful to the children’s future studies. We will also invite the best teachers in the country to teach these children.”
Ben nodded. He had listened to what the teacher had said and planned to go back, and discussed it with Master Franklin and the others.
Lauren jumped off the sofa. Ben was currently thanking the teacher.
Meanwhile, Ruby and her mother had already left a long time ago.
To be precise, Ruby was the first to leave. After her mother hurriedly thanked the teacher, she went to chase after Ruby.
After Ben and Lauren left the office, Lauren suddenly realized that the red flower sticker on her forehead was gone. She must have dropped it in the office by accident.
“Ben, please wait here for a moment. I am going back to the office to look for the red flower sticker, I want to show it to my brother tonight.”
“Very well, Miss Torres.”
Lauren quickly ran back to the office. Carina and the math teacher were still inside.
“Ruby is a little strange. She seems to be very afraid of her mother.”
“I don’t think she is afraid, it’s more like she doesn’t like her. I don’t know what happened.”
“Before Ruby transferred to our class, I even got to know her former form teacher. She said that Ruby’s personality suddenly changed during a certain period of time. She used to be very obedient and cute, but now she has become very quiet.”
“She started to dislike her parents and suddenly changed her personality. Do you think it’s possible that her parents are abusing her at home?”
After being a teacher for so many years, naturally this was not the first time they had encountered abuse cases. That was why they had made such a guess.
“I don’t know either. We should pay more attention to Ruby in class in the future.”
The math teacher nodded and the two of them started to pack their things.