Chapter 7

The initials should have been "PR". How did it become "TR"? I checked the necklaces a few times. After taking a better look at the engraving, I quietly swore at Tanner Rosenbloom. That bastard had tampered with the engraved initials. I slumped on the chair helplessly. Tanner smirked and came up to me. He whispered in a barely audible voice, "I might have accepted your money and gifts, but that means nothing at all. Do not look at me that way; I'll never catch feelings for you." … After the next class started, my homeroom teacher, Emilia Cressen, suddenly summoned me away from the classroom. I heard my classmates gossiping behind my back. "Ms. Cressen must have found out about the theft and called Pearl to the office for a good scolding! Could you imagine how Pearl tried to deny the theft?" "Pfft! She's dreaming!" "She's lucky to have run into Tanner. He brushed it off because he was rich and generous. If I were him, I would have given her hell for stealing a 60-thousand-dollar