432: NINE YEARS OLD

NINE YEARS OLD

Serefina raised her eyebrows as she looked at Hope. The little girl was covered in blood and mud.  0

"What in the hell happened to her?" Serefina crossed her arms. She didn't appreciate the sight of Hope right now. 

"Mrs. Mason, please mind your words…" Ariel, Hope's homeroom teacher, whispered to Serefina timidly. She was still afraid of this woman after all these years. 

"Oh, this is the way you talk." Mrs. Ramirez, Drake's mother, sneered at Serefina. She raised her chin and crossed her arms haughtily. "I don't have to wonder why your daughter is very rude any longer."

Serefina shifted the focus of her lime green eyes toward the woman who was talking with hostility just a second ago.

Even that small gesture, managed to make Ariel gulp hard. She felt like she was watching a thriller movie, where the murderer was gazing down at their victim. 

Probably, Mrs. Ramirez also felt the same chill running down her spine and wanted to lower her head to avert Serefina's eyes, yet her prideful- self made her glare back at Serefina instead.

Wrong move…

"Hm… nice analogy." Serefina hummed. "I will not wonder if your son is imitating a girl, since you are a woman, of course."

If that statement meant to be a joke, then it wasn't funny at all, but if it meant to be a sarcastic remark, apparently it was too blunt.

"Do you want to say that my boy is behaving like a girl!" Mrs. Ramirez blew her top and was about to rush toward Serefina.

However, one hard look from the witch was enough to make her stop in her tracks. Those glaring lime green eyes were very terrifying, as if they were not from this world.

Which was half true…

"Please, calm down Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Ramirez." Mrs. Maya, the head principal tried to ease the tension that started to build up in the air as she cleared her throat. "We will ask the children about what actually happened first."

Then, Mrs. Maya gave a meaningful look to Ariel.

"Drake, will you tell me what happened?" Ariel asked Drake softly. She didn't know what exactly had happened because when they were fighting, it was break time and there were only a few students around.

Most of them said that Drake had been bothering Hope by tugging her hair a couple of times. Ariel knew that Hope didn't like it when someone touched her hair, she had experienced it on the first day of the school itself. 

"Hope ignored me!" Drake pointed his fingers toward Hope with accusation burning in his black eyes. "I was talking to her, but she didn't reply!"

"I don't want to talk with you!" Hope shouted at him, her soft expression turned hard as she gritted her teeth. 

Her hair was slightly disheveled, so was her shirt. 

"See?! She is very rude!" This time, it was Mrs. Ramirez who pointed her finger at the little girl accusingly. "How could such a prestigious school like yours accept a girl as rude as her?!"

Serefina didn't say anything as she rubbed her chin with a tedious look. 

Lana was running some errands for her, that was why it was her, who had come here to deal with the situation. 

Hope glanced at Serefina, looking for comfort after being shouted, yet she didn't do anything and just stood there with a boring expression on her face. 

"Mrs. Ramirez please calm down." Mrs. Maya's voice was a little bit stern now. "You can't talk to a child in that way. Let's hear what Drake had to say first."

"There is no need for that! It must be this girl, who acted outrageous! Therefore, Drake taught her some lesson!" Mrs. Ramirez talked boldly. 

"Mrs. Ramirez." Mrs. Maya sighed helplessly. "That is not the way we teach our students."

Mrs. Ramirez scoffed loudly. "Are you not ashamed to have a daughter like her?" She directed that question at Serefina, because she had not yet said anything after that bold statement. "Well, I can see that she got that from you."

Unexpectedly, Serefina started with a chuckle on that statement, but then it turned into a mocking laugh. She covered her mouth and flashed a harmless smile to the people inside the room.

Not to mention those people, even Hope was confused, as she started laughing all of a sudden. 

"You are talking about shame?" Serefina snorted at the end of her laugh.

The sound of it was quite enchanting in their ears, just like she was under a spell, Mrs. Maya didn't interrupt her like she did with Mrs. Ramirez. 

"I will be more embarrassed if I have a child like your son." Serefina's eyes flashed toward the little boy, who immediately hid behind his mother. "He was crying after fighting a girl? A girl who is much smaller than him? Is he even a boy? Maybe you have mistaken his gender." Serefina threw a disdainful look at Mrs. Ramirez. "Very embarrassing."

"Mrs. Mason, we can talk…" Ariel was trying to calm both parties, but unfortunately for her, Serefina was not done yet. 

"If he is my son, I will definitely disown him after this," she sneered. "Crying after fighting with a girl?"

"You! How dare you talk to me like that!" Though her voice was very loud, but deep in her heart, she felt embarrassed because what she said was true. "You don't know me!?"

"The same question." Serefina tilted her head and gave her a vicious smile. "You don't know me?"

And with that question from her, the entire room fell into silence. 

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"You used your magic." Hope was trying to catch up with Serefina as they walked out of the school building and toward the parking lot. 

"Hm." Serefina didn't bother to hide the fact that she indeed used her magic to make Mrs. Ramirez apologize to her and Hope. 

"But, that's not fair." Hope grumbled. 

"Why isn't it fair? I used my ability."

"But, you are a witch."

Serefina rolled her eyes. "So, is it my fault that she wasn't born as a witch?" 

That statement made the little girl giggle. 

"Listen. Next time, if you want to punch him, punch him hard until he couldn't talk. Understood?"

"Understood."

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