Lena’s knife froze mid-slice. Jordan? Her rule-following, anxious, sweet boy who still kissed her on the cheek goodbye? Her mind raced through excuses—a glitch, a misunderstanding, a mean teacher.
She sat down on the coffee table, facing him. “Tell me about lab 4.2.” dekalb county infinite campus parent portal
“She doesn’t hate you. She entered a zero into a computer system. That’s different.” Lena pulled out her phone and opened the portal again. She found Ms. Vonn’s direct message feature—another function she hadn’t known existed. She typed nothing. Instead, she handed the phone to Jordan. Lena’s knife froze mid-slice
Assignment: "Lab 4.2: Molarity & Titration." Score: 0 / 100. **Note from Teacher (Ms. Patricia Vonn): "Academic Integrity Violation – Plagiarized lab partner’s data. Parent contact required." She entered a zero into a computer system
The response came twenty minutes later, while Lena was finishing the curry. Ms. Vonn’s message was short but not unkind: “Jordan, thank you for the honesty. See me before school Thursday. We can talk about a redo. – Ms. Vonn”
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