Left the Group Chat, Became the Apex Luna Chapter 07

Left the Group Chat, Became the Apex Luna Chapter 07

Almost the entire campus was built around combat training,

In the distance, an open skifting field

Farther up the slope, several groups of new recruits in black-and-gray training gear were running long-distance drills.

Mom and Dad walked into the Admissions Office

“Laurel Calder. Silverpine Pack, eighteen. She entered the Gamma Program in the Combat Division this year Can you help us find her?”

But the receptionist, Mrs. Habel, checked the system and closed the screen

“I’m sorry, but Laurel is an adult. Without her authorization, we can’t release any information to anyone.”

Seeing the parents’ frantic refusal to give up, she sighed.

“I can try to contact her. But it’s up to her whether she wants to see you.”

“Okay.”

They sat down to wait.

Mrs. Habel hung up the phone. This time, her tone was noticeably colder.

“I’m sorry, but Laurel has declined to meet.”

Callum snapped, “Then call her back and tell her we came to give her tuition and living expenses. It she won’t see us, she gets nothing.”

Mom didn’t agree, but she didn’t stop him.

Mrs. Habel looked at them with barely concealed disdain.

“Laurel is one of the very few incoming freshmen in the Gamma Program admitted directly with an S-rating

in Senior Combat. She has a full scholarship-tuition and housing are completely covered.”

“She doesn’t need to trade a meeting for money,”

“And frankly, I don’t approve of using money to blackmail your own daughter.”

She turned and called for campus security.

“If there’s nothing else, the four of you can leave.”

They walked out with their heads down.

Almost the entire campus was built around combat training.

In the distance, an open shifting field.

Farther up the slope, several groups of new recruits in black-and-gray training gear were running long-distance drills.

Mom and Dad walked into the Admissions Office

“Laurel Calder. Silverpine Pack, eighteen. She entered the Gamma Program in the Combat Division this year. Can you help us find her?”

But the receptionist, Mrs. Habel, checked the system and closed the screen.

“I’m sorry, but Laurel is an adult. Without her authorization, we can’t release any information to anyone.”

Seeing the parents’ frantic refusal to give up, she sighed.

“I can try to contact her. But it’s up to her whether she wants to see you.

“Okay.”

They sat down to wait.

Mrs. Habel hung up the phone. This time, her tone was noticeably colder.

“I’m sorry, but Laurel has declined to meet.”

Callum snapped, “Then call her back and tell her we came to give her tuition and living expenses. If she

won’t see us, she gets nothing.”

Mom didn’t agree, but she didn’t stop him.

Mrs. Habel looked at them with barely concealed disdain.

“Laurel is one of the very few incoming freshmen in the Gamma Program admitted directly with an S-rating in Senior Combat. She has a full scholarship-tuition and housing are completely covered.”

“She doesn’t need to trade a meeting for money.”

“And frankly, I don’t approve of using money to blackmail your own daughter.”

She turned and called for campus security.

“If there’s nothing else, the four of you can leave.”

They walked out with their heads down.

Mom sat on a stone bench by the road.

Finally, she broke down, covering her face and crying.

“Is she going to hate me forever now… never want to see us again?”

Dad sighed. “Maybe she needs time. Should we come back later?”

“No.” Mom shook her head. “I feel like if we leave now… we’ll lose her for good.”

Time heals everything.

But it also makes people numb.

She got up, like she’d completely lost my scent trail, wandering aimlessly through the huge academy

grounds.

Every student in a Combat Division uniform she passed, she’d hold up my photo and ask, “Excuse me, have you seen Laurel Calder?”

Dad joined in later.

Callum and Nessa were embarrassed at first.

But by the third day, they started asking too.

A full week. They drifted through the campus like ghosts, hovering on the edge of the new life I’d already started building.

Until that afternoon.

I’d just finished Gamma field drill and was walking toward the dining hall with my roommate.

I looked up.

And finally, I saw them.