Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 151

“But…” Qadir was so stunned he could barely speak, stammering, “Juniper, didn’t you skip your junior years?”

“I did,” Juniper replied with a faint, unconcerned smile. “But I still studied the material.”

“When did you study it, Juniper?” Queenie immediately scooted closer, seizing the chance to ask. The question had been bouncing around her head for ages, and her curiosity was killing her.

Qadir stared at her eagerly as well. Someone as brilliant as Juniper must have been studying for a very long time.

“I don’t remember exactly,” Juniper said, her eyes half-lidded. “Maybe when I was five or six, or maybe seven or eight. In any case, it took me two years in total.”

She had breezed through elementary, middle, high school, and college material until there was nothing left for her to learn, at which point her teachers had essentially kicked her out.

“How old?” Queenie’s voice shot up, convinced she had misheard. If she could, she would have cracked Juniper’s skull open just to see if her brain was made of the same stuff as a mere mortal’s.

“How many years?” Qadir echoed, so shocked he stumbled and nearly fell over. Two years to finish every subject? He had been kind of pleased before, thinking Juniper was a slacker like him. Now… the thought was like a slap in the face.

“Alright, that’s enough.” Reaching the office door, Juniper gently pinched Queenie’s bewildered cheek and smiled. “When the dean asks you anything, just be honest. I’ll handle the rest.”

Queenie and Qadir exchanged a worried glance. Would the old-timers in the administration really believe that Juniper had finished the entire curriculum by the age of ten? That she could actually get a perfect score?

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