No Substitutes for the Bigshots' Dream Girl Anymore!-Chapter 1918: Hayes Edwards Extra (75)

With the current grades, there’s basically no chance to get into a top high school.

There’s a high school near Dawn Light Middle School.

Although it’s not considered a top school, it ranks quite high in the city, considered second-tier, but Hayes Edwards’ grades are still a bit lacking.

Mother Edwards hired a tutor for Hayes, and because she was worried Hayes might act out with the tutor, she asked Grace Winter to come over and help out whenever she was free.

On the first day of class, Hayes was greeted not only by the tutor but also by Grace Winter standing at the door holding textbooks.

This is probably how the teacher-student game from childhood turned into reality.

When Grace was around, Hayes indeed behaved a lot more. Worried about embarrassing himself by failing to answer questions, he even started listening to the lessons seriously.

This also made the tutor breathe a sigh of relief.

The tutor Mother Edwards hired was a young college student, wearing glasses, with a quiet personality. The lessons were good, but he couldn’t manage a "problem boy" like Hayes and was sometimes teased by him.

But the presence of Grace Winter solved this problem.

During lessons, Grace would quietly sit aside, holding a notebook to jot things down.

After several classes, Grace remained very quiet, the model of a perfect student in the eyes of teachers, not disruptive and quite caring.

But no matter what, Hayes still felt that Grace Winter was that same silly little follower who annoyed him back in the day.

This probably wouldn’t change for a lifetime.

Probably...

Right?

With a hundred days left until the high school entrance exam, the school held a "Hundred Days Pledge" motivational event.

All the ninth graders were called to the playground for a meeting, filled with passionate speeches, one after another.

At the back of the line, the chubby one, Harry Huston, was slacking off and still found time to chat with Joy Hoffman, "Does this really work, isn’t it just like a cult...?"

Before he could finish, there was a burst of slogan chanting in his ear.

The few classes at the front were waving their hands and fervently shouting out slogans as if they had been injected with adrenaline.

Chubby: "..."

On the first day of the hundred-day countdown, a countdown was written on the blackboard at the back of every classroom, along with a banner.

That year, Hayes had just turned fifteen not long ago.

The passionate and strenuous time of ninth grade didn’t leave a deep impression in his memory, and even when recalling it later, the memories became vague to him.

The only clear memories left were those of his childhood friends.

Chubby Harry Huston, Joy Hoffman, and—Grace Winter.

On the eve of the high school entrance exam, Mother Edwards was still saying, "When Hayes goes to high school, he’ll be a big boy. Time flies. When we moved here, Hayes was only five and just starting kindergarten."

In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

The Candy Rainbow Kindergarten they attended had moved years ago, and the land was turned into a small supermarket.

Dawn Light Middle School, however, hadn’t changed at all over the years.

From grade one to ninth grade, nine years passed.

Only now did Hayes suddenly realize that he and Grace Winter had known each other for ten years.

In ten years, it seemed like nothing had changed.

In the morning when he leaves, he’ll still run into that smiling little girl, with eyes curved like crescents, saying to him, "Good morning, Hayes Edwards!"

She always loved following behind him.