When Penny got ho, she imdiately searched her room for the broken piece of the keychain. Her face brightened up, lifting the broken piece before her.
"Good thing I didn’t throw it away," she muttered. "Right. Let’s check who owns it."
Penny bolted to her study desk, waiting for her laptop to open up. As she waited patiently, her screen glitched for a second.
"Hey," she frowned, tapping the screen mildly. "I just bought you. Why act up now?"
Penny restarted her laptop, but for so reason, it was showing her a blue screen. For the next ten minutes, Penny rebooted her laptop and did so troubleshooting. But after exhausting all her efforts at the mont, she found herself in disbelief.
"I just bought you!" she gasped, glaring at the second-hand laptop before her. "Did I get scamd?!"
Penny clasped her chest and ntally scread. This was the pain of buying second-hand items. Sotis, they were legit steals, but most of the ti, they were faulty.
"I should’ve bought a brand new one," she muttered, looking at her laptop bitterly. "Tch. Now of all tis..."
She trailed off when Chunchun suddenly leaped onto the study desk. She watched her pretty cat saunter toward her laptop, walk over to her keyboard, and then walk back before it sat down in the middle.
"Chunchun..." Penny pursed her lips and puffed her cheeks. "Are you the culprit?"
She knew it!
She didn’t make a mistake when she bought this laptop!
Haines also t up with the seller and he told her they went to the technician to double-check the item. There was no way this laptop was faulty unless it was getting abused by sothing. Only then did Penny notice so dents on the corner of her laptop, as if sothing had been biting it.
"Oh, the struggles of being a pet owner," she mumbled helplessly, caressing Chunchun’s fur.
Even though it was obvious what happened here, Penny couldn’t find it in her heart to get angry at Chunchun. This was not the first ti Chunchun ruined sothing. There were also tis when her cat would rip her entire notebook apart. It was how Penny learned to hide so important things in her drawer.
"It’s okay." She smiled. "It’s not like we can do anything anyway, since it’s the weekend."
At the sa ti Penny said those words, a knock ca to the door.
"Miss Penny, dinner is ready." Butler Jen opened the door and offered her a smile.
Her lips stretched at the ntion of food. Perfect ti to soothe her internal pain!
"Coming~!"
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After dinner, the Bennet children gathered in the library for a short study session. Although it was the weekend the next day, they didn’t have the leisure to have breaks.
Slater was still catching up to their present lesson before they moved on to advanced lessons. Atlas, on the other hand, had bigger challenges ahead because the bet with the star section still raged on. As for Hugo, he was dragged here by Atlas to answer so questions.
Hugo cupped his face, eyes on his notebook, tapping the end of the pen against the open book next to it.
’Is this even part of our lesson?’ he wondered as he tried to analyze the third question Atlas had given him. ’Or is this his revenge for asking him to sign up for Penny’s fans’ club?’
But why would Atlas feel upset about supporting their little sister?
Atlas, on the other hand, would cast Hugo a glance every once in a while. The corner of his mouth hooked up briefly, but he didn’t say anything.
As for Slater and Penny...
Slater puckered his lips, balancing his pen between his upper lip and nose. His eyes darted between Penny’s side profile and then on his answer sheet.
’Why is she not talking about the fans club?’ he wondered because this had been on his mind the whole day.
Slater wasn’t surprised that Jas and Keith’s forr lackey signed up to curry favor. Their relationship with Keith was irreparable, and Penny was their only hope. They were so pathetic, but Slater felt even more pathetic for getting bullied by them.
His other classmates signed up just because they were friends with the girls that were recruiting, while very few found Penny adorable. They wanted to support Penny’s "little" dream. Hence, they sighed up. Slater also signed up for his sister’s little dream.
’But now, it didn’t seem like it’s her dream to have a fans club,’ he thought. ’Does she even know about the fans club? Or does she feel shy about it?’
"Did you leave it sowhere?"
Penny’s voice brought Slater back to the current lapse. "Huh?"
"Third Brother, these ten questions are just a repeat of yesterday’s questions. I’m just testing you if you rember," she explained. "Where did you leave your mind again? We’ll go pick it up."
"Oh." Used to her way of talking, Slater blinked at his answer sheet. "Right. Sorry. I’ll do it again."
His tad reaction caused her brows to elevate. "Third Brother, is there’s sothing wrong?"
"Huh?"
"You seed distracted," she pointed out. ’I didn’t see Jas’ report today. Don’t tell he was getting picked on again?’
"Ah... ha ha. It’s nothing."
"Are you sure?"
"He probably heard about the fans’ club." This ti, Atlas broke his silence.
The other three looked up at him before her brothers redirected their attention to her. Her under-eye twitched as she forced a laugh.
"How did you... how did you hear that?" she laughed awkwardly. "That’s nothing. My friends are just so fond of that they think they should start a fans club."
"You have good friends," Hugo smiled, pleased to hear that Penny was having friends. Although she already ntioned it during their dinner with their parents, it was nice to hear that her friends were doing more for her. "I signed up for it."
Penny’s face went blank. "Ah?"
"My team also signed up, so you have plenty of mbers. Brother Atlas also signed up." Hugo turned to Atlas curiously. "First brother, how many classmates did you manage to recruit?"
The vein in Atlas’s forehead protruded but still answered. "All of them."
"Oh! too! I signed up!" Slater chid in, in case they thought he was being useless. "So of my classmates also signed up!"
"Great!" Hugo clapped happily and set his eyes back to Penny. "Now, you have enough mbers for the fans club. Your friends, First Brother’s classmates, Slater’s classmates, and my team! That’s not a bad number. You won’t feel intimidated by other clubs."
"..."
Not a bad number? It was too much! Who said she ever wanted a fans club in the first place?! Penny was so rendered speechless she ended up giving Slater another answer sheet before hiding in her room.
What they didn’t know was that at this mont, Lily was busy screening the sign-up sheet and was astounded by the number of students who wanted to join Penny’s fans’ club. It was more than anyone would ever expect!
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