Coolest Girl in Town (Elise and Alexander)
Chapter 39

Chapter 39

Elise was equally surprised by their sudden appearance, but she didn't explain and merely asked,"Who are you looking for?”

Upon hearing Elise’s question, the Andres immediately prevented Jasmine from showing her anattitude. Then, they responded with another question. “Is this Mr. Beter's residence? We are here tosee Mr. Beter.”

Once she heard that they were here to look for Beter, Elise uttered, “In that case, please hold on fora moment.”

However, as soon as she said that, his voice was heard from behind her. “Who's at the door?” heasked as he walked down the stairs while holding the sealed documents in his hands. When he sawthat he had guests, he kept the said documents away before he headed toward the door.

"You must be Mr. Beter. I'm Jasmine's father; I was the one who called earlier,” Jasmine’s parentsanswered in a respectful manner the moment they saw the man.

Their response seemed to remind Beter of something. “Yes, please come in then.”

Soon after that, the family of three entered the house when Jasmine couldn't help but ask, “Mr.Beter, are you going to accept Elise as your student?”

Instead of answering her, Beter turned to Elise. “Do you two know each other?”

Elise hummed in response. “We are classmates.”

Now that he understood the situation, he finally replied, “She is not qualified to be my student.” Notonly was her fluency in foreign languages better than his, she was also fluent in French, German,and Italian. In fact, she was the only language genius whom he had ever known in all his years ofteaching.

Nonetheless, Jasmine mistook Beter's words as Elise being unqualified to be his student due to herpoor fluency in languages, which made Jasmine elated. “Mr. Beter, would you accept me as yourstudent then?”

Beter raised his eyebrow. “I recall that I've already told your parents beforehand that whether Iaccept you as my student depends on whether you have the talent. I'll certainly agree if you possessa talent for languages, but if you don't, I'm afraid that I

have to reject your request.”

“Jasmine has always been fluent in Chinese since she was a kid, Mr. Beter. All the other teachershave praised her language aptitude, so please accept Jasmine as your student.”

Elise, who didn't pay much attention to their conversation, glanced at Beter and interjected, “Um...Mr. Better, have you prepared the documents that I need? Can you please give them to me now? I'dlike to head home.”

Then, he retrieved the documents with ease from behind the television. “Here you

go.”

The two of them exchanged glances wherein she immediately understood his unspoken words. Sheaccepted the documents and expressed, “I shall take my leave then.”

“Let me see you out.” With that, Beter headed out with Elise under the watchful gaze of the AndersFamily.

When the Anders Family were the only ones remaining, John whispered his question to Jasmine,"What's your classmate’s relationship with Beter?”

Jasmine bit her lips as she was puzzled by the incident as well. She had already noticed the unusualatmosphere between Beter and Elise, especially when he handed her a mysterious document. What'sthat document about?

While she was lost in her thoughts, he had already returned and cast a glance at Jasmine before hedirectly voiced his thoughts. “Personally, I stress on a student's talent a lot when it comes toselecting students. How about this? We will put your skills to the test.” As he was speaking, hecasually picked up a piece of A4 paper, which was full of Chinese words, from his desk and handedit to her. “I'll give you 15 minutes to translate this.”

Jasmine collected her thoughts and instantly replied, “Sure.”

Then, she took that piece of paper to one side and carefully translated the material. The first fewsentences that she started on were as easy as pie and she managed to complete them with littleeffort. However, when she reached the third or fourth line, she found the words a little tough totranslate. Yet, as she continued, she stumbled upon a number of professional terms, which causedher to break out in sweat as she

was unable to completely translate those terms.

Soon, the time was up and she handed her work to Beter. However, he had a general idea of hercurrent level with a mere glance. “Your foundation is fine, but your professional vocabulary is verymuch lacking. Let's test your speaking skills then.”

Then, he retrieved a book and asked Jasmine to read a passage. As a matter of fact, her Chinesepronunciation was quite alright but she had a strong accent, just like most children from theircountry. It was slightly different from what the native

speakers spoke in

After hearing that, he commented, “Your child has good basics, but she won't be able to keep upwith my teaching. I'm afraid that learning from me would only delay her progress, so I suggest thatyou replace another teacher for her.”

Jasmine felt like a bucket of cold water was poured in her direction to extinguish all her hopes.

Her parents were shocked by Beter's unhesitating rejection. “Mr. Beter, please reconsider yourdecision. My child is really an intelligent kid; you really should consider again.”

Although Beter himself was aware that being honest would hurt their feelings, he was used tospeaking his mind and disliked beating around the bush. “Talent plays an important role in learninga foreign language and apparently, your child's talent isn't particularly outstanding. On the otherhand, I'm extremely strict when it comes to accepting students. I'm sorry, but your child doesn'tmeet my requirements.”

"How well do I have to be in order to meet your requirements?” a stubborn Jasmine asked in herpersistence.

He pursed his lips and replied, “Elise is your classmate, right? If your speaking skill is at her level, Iwould probably consider accepting you.”

After hearing Beter's reply, she was stupefied. The whole purpose of her coming to him to learnChinese was to surpass Elise in the language. In fact, Jasmine had personally felt that she was on thesame level as Elise, but he made it clear that she was nowhere as good.

“Would you please give her another chance?” Jasmine's parents persisted, but as someone whostuck to his decision, he refused to give them even a glimmer of hope.

After that, she left Beter's house with her head bowed as thoughts raced in her mind. Lastly, hergaze darkened as if she had already made up her mind on something.

As she held the documents that Beter gave her, Elise headed straight for home. It was only after shelocked herself in her room that she opened the document.

It was a 30-page document fully written in French, which she started to translate without any furtherdelay.

After some time, she heard a knock at the door.

“Who's there?"

The maid answered, “Miss Sinclair, sir has asked me to bring you drinks.” Elise put down her pen andused something to hide the document before opening the door.

“Hand me the drink.” Without giving the maid any chance to enter the room, Elise took thebeverage and immediately closed the door. Her action was indicative of her being on guard.

It was after she drank her beverage that she continued with her translation.

Although she had busied herself until dusk, she had only managed to finish translating one-third ofthe said document. Then, she tucked it away before washing up and going to bed.

It was a Monday morning when the air was fresh and the day was bright. As soon as Elise arrived atthe school compound, Mikayla waved at her from not far away. “Elise!”

Elise smiled and approached her. “Good morning, Mikayla.”

Mikayla held Elise’s hand and asked in a soft voice, “Have you completed your Maths homework?”"Yes."

“I don't know how to answer the last two questions.” A pitiful look appeared on Mikayla's face asshe whimpered. “Please let me copy yours.”

Elise rubbed Mikayla's head. “I'll teach you later.”

Upon hearing that, Mikayla's eyes lit up with excitement. “That's great!”