Chapter 1139: Petty School Issue

But when she saw Luke surrounded by the girls, Mindy somehow felt like she was losing out.

With this sort of “cousin,” she would rather beat up those three b*tches than let Luke hawk his charms to achieve his goal.

They chatted for a few minutes, and the cheerleaders who had entered the basketball court earlier couldn’t resist following the crowd as they gathered around.

At that moment, someone greeted Luke. “Hey, Luke, you’re here so early? It seems you’re having fun.”

Luke stopped chatting and walked over with a smile. “Hey, Nikki, Monica. It’s been a while. Seeing you puts me in an even better mood.”

He gave each girl a half-hug and pressed their cheeks together.

The cheerleaders were all surprised, including Mindy.

Except for Luke, everyone else were high school students.

It was very rare to see this sort of greeting among high school students, especially between a guy and a girl.

This clearly proved that Luke and the two girls were more than just pa.s.sing acquaintances.

Then, he pulled Mindy, who had been stunned for a long time, over. “My cousin. You’ve probably known each other for a while.”

Nikki and Monica immediately pulled the short Mindy over and laughed, saying things like “You hid your elder cousin so well.”

Mindy was dumbfounded.

I only found out today that I have a “cousin.” My bad!

Luke apologized to the other girls with a smile, before he led Mindy, Nikki and Monica to a tree in the distance.

At that moment, Monica nudged Luke with her elbow. “It’s a good thing you called yesterday. But are you sure you want us to be blunt? You have to know that the truth is always a blow.”

Luke chuckled. “It’s fine. Mindy’s my cousin. She won’t be affected so easily.”

Mindy was still dumbfounded. Monica and Luke were actually so close? Wasn’t they just “burger friends”?

Nikki nodded and said, “Monica told me last night that your cousin is hanging around with those b*tches. We knew that it wasn’t a good thing. Those three people like to bully newbies the most, unless they obediently follow the trio and suck up to them.”

Saying that, she turned and looked at Mindy. “They invited you to a party in two days, didn’t they? The boy who invited you was Simon, right?”

Mindy nodded blankly.

Monica sighed and continued, “Simon is Brooke’s ‘playmate.’ He often helps her deal with newbies whom they find unpleasant to the eye. If it’s those two who persuaded you to go to this party, it’ll only be humiliation waiting for you.”

Seeing no reaction from Mindy, she turned around and looked at Luke. “Aren’t we being too blunt?”

Luke shrugged. “It’s fine. It’s better than her happily following the boy to the party and then being humiliated by a bunch of people.”

Monica gave an “oh” and said comfortingly, “Of course, that won’t happen now. We’ll look after Mindy. They’re just good-for-nothings who use numbers to bully newbies. They don’t dare provoke our group at all.”

Luke asked with great interest, “Your group?” He glanced at Nikki.

Nikki subconsciously explained, “It’s not a bad group. Monica and I set up a girls’ self-defense club.”

Luke nodded and patted Mindy’s head. “Are you interested in another club? Girls should learn to protect themselves when they’re outside.”

Hesitating for a moment, Mindy then nodded. “Okay, I’m in.”

Monica hugged her with a smile. “Don’t worry. Our club is more relaxed. It’s just for the girls to learn some basic self-defense skills. We don’t force them to partic.i.p.ate in any activities.”

At that moment, Luke raised his hand and looked at his watch. “The cheerleaders’ training is about to start. You can go first. After training, how about we have lunch together?”

The three girls had no objections and entered the indoor basketball court with smiles on their faces.

Luke didn’t leave. He sat in the car and wrote and drew on his phone.

For him, he could always work anywhere.

From gathering intelligence and designing blueprints for new armor, to coming up with various plans for the future, and even creating some small inventions for the expansion under Jenny, he could make use of all his bits and pieces of his time and not waste any.

But it was almost eleven o’clock, and many boys who were here to pick up their girlfriends had already gathered around the car.

What they were really interested in wasn’t Luke, but his car.

So, by the time the cheerleaders were done with their training and came out, they saw a scene similar to the morning, except that the bystanders were now guys.

Seven or eight guys were discussing Luke’s car. Luke wasn’t enthusiastic, but he wasn’t cold either. He answered their questions every now and then.

Fortunately, the guys could fuss over some of the car’s minor modifications themselves, so Luke didn’t have to deal with them too much.

A moment later, Luke picked up his “cousin” and disappeared from sight.

Brooke’s expression was awful.

She wasn’t an idiot. Luke had found Nikki and Monica, those two crazy girls, and was clearly threatening her.

Also, his att.i.tude toward Brooke was clearly different; he either pretended not to hear her, or just laughed and spoke to her perfunctorily.

Clearly, Mindy’s cousin knew that Brooke wanted to mess with her, and was here to back Mindy up.

She couldn’t afford to offend Nikki and Monica, but she wasn’t afraid of the guys here.

Hearing them still discussing the car, she said disdainfully, “Hmph, isn’t it just a lousy discontinued model? It’s not a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. Why’s he playing around with an old car? He has no taste.”

In the end, guys were a little more stupid than girls.

A guy who had been engrossed in the discussion just now subconsciously sneered. “A lousy car? A Ferrari or Lamborghini is nothing. That’s KITT. Haven’t you watched Knight Rider?”

Brooke had no clue what he was talking about and retorted without hesitation, “Isn’t that just some dumb thing you d*mn homebodies play with? How old is he? He might as well just buy a Transformer and play with it at home!”

The boy flushed. “You idiot! That’s the original model in the TV show, and this car has been modified to look like it. You can buy an ordinary Lamborghini if you’re just thinking about modifying the parts. Also, if you don’t have any connections, you won’t be able to find a tech whiz to modify your car for you. Don’t think that anybody would be willing to modify your car like that for you even if you gave them 200,000 dollars.”

The other guys clearly agreed with him and nodded.

If they stood on Brooke’s side, wouldn’t that prove that drooling over KITT was stupid and low-cla.s.s?