These days, Andres would take me to work, and Deshawn would pick me up after work. Kate would usually cook dinner at home, and we felt guilty and wanted to help her.
She waved her hand and said, “You guys just wash the dishes. Besides, I don’t need to sweep the floor or wash the clothes. I’m happy to cook for you!”
So, on my family dining table, I no longer ate takeout all by myself.
But instead, the four people chatted and laughed together.
There was indeed a commotion of moving coming from next door.
All kinds of large and small items were loaded into the van.
One day, after work, I ran into Diego in the elevator.
He didn’t dare to look at me, hiding behind the mattress.
A few days later, the next door was completely empty.
My world also became quiet.
But I didn’t expect that Diego had left, yet the disgusting things he did to me were not over!
That day, I had just finished giving a review class to the students.
I was called to her office by the vice principal. She first kindly asked me, “Ms. Woodward, have you encountered any difficulties in your personal life recently?”
I was confused and replied, “No, everything is fine.”
She took out her phone and showed me a video.
Without changing his expression, he said, “This here is something a student’s parent sent me. Why don’t you take a look first?”
I took the phone and looked at it.
What came into view were several lines of text on the video.
“Lilianna Woodward, the literature teacher at Morrow High School, cheated on me! She was fooling around everywhere! She changed men every day!”
In the video, there were scenes of secretly recorded footage taken with a mobile phone.
In the morning, Andres took me to school.
I bought breakfast and stuffed one for him.
Then we walked side by side towards the school.
In the evening, Deshawn came to pick me up at the school gate.
I carried a bag of books and test papers, and he reached out and took them.
Then he rode my electric scooter, and I sat in the back seat.
Just these few normal scenes. How did I get labeled as “messing around everywhere“?
I was furious and opened the comment section, wanting to curse a few words.
But I found that there were hundreds of comments in the comment section all criticizing me: “This woman is really good at enjoying life, changing three men, she’s got something.”
“Poor guy, he ended up with such a woman.”
“Oh, still being a teacher, won’t you mess around with male students, right?”
“What kind of teacher? Just a prostitute.”
Underneath this comment, the author of the video replied, “Brother, you’ve exposed the truth.”
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I was so angry that my hands were shaking. I put down my phone and looked at the vice principal.
“This is pure fabrication. I have always been single and have no boyfriend, so how can there be any talk of me wearing a green hat? Moreover, the two people in the picture are just my friends, we have no romantic relationship, so how can anyone say that I am engaging in promiscuous behavior?”
The vice principal poured me a glass of water and said, “Ms. Woodward, calm down first.”
I clenched the water cup and asked, “Principal, you don’t believe me either, do you?”
She smiled gently and said, “I definitely believe you. The problem now is that many parents of students have been messaging me, asking me what exactly is going on. You see, this has a big impact. Do you want to handle it?”
I nodded my head and remained silent.
The vice principal said again, “As for the open class next Monday, let’s have Ms. Greer from Class 9 take over. I have already talked to her, so you can hand over the lesson plans and important points to her later.”
I looked up and asked, “Why?”
The vice principal probably didn’t expect that I would actually ask why.
Her face looked slightly unnatural as she said, “During the open class, there were too many leaders and parents. If someone had seen your video and made comments about it during the class, it wouldn’t have been good for you.”
I suppressed my anger and said, “I stand upright and am not afraid of shadows. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
The vice principal patted my shoulder earnestly.
“Lilianna, think not only for yourself but also for the school. Listen to me, let’s hand over the work, and you should go home early this afternoon to take care of the household matters. Don’t be stubborn, ah.”
After saying that, she made an excuse to have a meeting and slipped away.
I tightly held onto the paper cup, hot water scalded the back of my hand, but I didn’t feel any pain.
