11 Rumor 5 (2/2)
”Take your money and get out! We don't want criminals!”
As the insults increased, the look of anger on the deans face did as well. Before things were able to escalate any farther, he stood up and held up his hand.
When he reached the podium, he cleared his throat and then sighed. Standing there, he swept his gaze across all of the students in the hall, focusing on the ones who were yelling about money and her abusing it.
”I would like to make a statement on behalf of Miss Song. She applied to transfer here before 11th grade, as anyone of the staff members could tell you. She got 100% on the transfer test and is here on a full scholarship. Maple-leaf Academy has never received any money from or relating to Aria Song.”
With a final glare at the crowd, he walked back to his place on the stage and let the normal events proceed. As Sarah had finished speaking beforehand, she had no chance to say anything to weaken the effect of the dean's statement. The single statement was enough to set several of the students to questioning the claims because they seemed far less likely if she was there on scholarship as well.
Aika squeezed Aria's hand and smiled reassuringly at her before moving forward to do it on her behalf. When she saw Aika walk up to the podium, Emma finally figured out where she had seen her before. She was the heir of the Suzuki family. Slightly less confident, her sneer fell and was replaced with furrowed brows and full attentiveness.
Looking out at the crowd, all Aika could think about were the horrible words they directed at Aria and their mindless assumptions of guilt.
”Almost none of you know me, unless your family does business with mine. However, I transferred to this school yesterday and can, for one thing, safely say that there was no man in Aria and my dorm room last night.”
She clicked a button and the screen switched to show a CCTV video of a girl who was clearly Sarah leading a drunk man up to the door. The girl in the video posed the man for the picture and then lead him back out of the scene. Several moments later, one of Sarah's friends, Jasmine was shown walking down the hall from the direction the picture was taken. As she left, the camera switched to the one on the bottom floor several minutes later and showed the same girl from the first shot paying the drunk man.
”As shown clearly in this video alone, Sarah clearly framed Aria to get some form of misguided revenge. But, because we wish to fully clear her name, we collected evidence to disprove every accusation.”