Chapter 39: Shaving Heads

As soon as Elena responded, the entire class group chat fell silent. The lively discussion from earlier seemed as if it had never happened. Elena noticed the result and couldn’t help but curl her lips into a slight smile. “What’s the matter? Did you think staying silent would make this all go away?” “Don’t forget how this all started. If I remember correctly, someone even recorded a video.” Elena had pushed the conversation to this point, so even if they wanted to continue pretending to be clueless, it was impossible. “Elena, let’s just drop this. After all, we’re all classmates, and none of us ever really took this seriously anyway!” It was Phebe, the class president, who finally broke the silence. As soon as Phebe spoke, everyone else began chiming in. “Yeah, Elena, aren’t you being a bit too petty? We’re all classmates, just joking around with each other. Why did you have to take it so seriously?” “That’s right, if you had lost, we wouldn’t have brought it up either!” “Exac