Another Mystery
Author: Magecrafter
last update2024-04-19 15:28:39

She and I engaged in a very long conversation as we moved on the road.

I had to explain to her that I’d been very busy, between work, studies, basketball, gym and now this, that I’d barely had time for myself.

She explains how that still doesn’t give me the right not to respond to my emails and I apologized for it.

I asked her if she was present at the entrance ceremony for new students, because I didn’t see her there.

She said she wasn’t in attendance, that she had some errands to run for her family, and that she had to miss it because of that.

That explained why I didn’t see her during the event.

Finally, I asked her about Noelle and how they knew each other.

She told me that they met in some challenge for an internship position at one of the Slater family companies, and asked why.

‘An internship program for another company, that probably means that the Slaters are selecting candidates from all the best schools and making them occupy spots in their companies from the very beginning
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