The Double or more Life of the Fake Heiress (Mirabella) novel Chapter 196

Mirabella wrapped up her chat with "No Stealing My Meds" and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was getting late, and she remembered her untouched school-assigned essays. The thought nudged her from the comfy couch. "Leo, I'm heading up to do my homework. Don’t stay up too late, okay?"

With that, she took the stairs two at a time, heading to her room.

Leo watched his sister's retreating figure, his mind foggy from the evening's distractions, snapping to attention at her mention of 'homework.' Mirabella was just a high school senior, yet when she put on her serious face, she commanded the room with more presence than he ever did, looking every bit the part of an adult.

When she had insisted he take his medication earlier. he could hardly believe his timid compliance.

He’s totally whipped.

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The day had finally arrived. The BrainSpark Nationals city finals results would be announced.

Typically, after the city finals, the next round would be at the state level. However, Ashford, being a charter city, posed a unique challenge with its higher difficulty level in competitions, allowing those who advanced to skip straight to the nationals.

Despite holding more challenging city finals, the threshold for advancing was higher than in other regions to ensure fairness. This meant that many hopefuls would be cut from the competition once the scores were released.

At ten o'clock sharp, the official website posted the names and scores of students who made the cut. There was no need to enter an exam number. One glance at the online ranking was enough to reveal who had advanced and who had been eliminated.

In the Prodigy Class...

Summer took out her phone with a shaky hand and opened the competition's official site, feeling nervous for the first time at the prospect of checking her results.

The questions in this competition were notoriously difficult, and to add to her anxiety, Aiden had swiped the study materials she had obtained from the Education Association before she had a chance to review them. This left her feeling less than confident about several major problems on the test.

"Summer, how did it go? What score did you get?" Madeline asked, still fumbling with her own phone, not ready to face the results.