The amount of rumors circling around me started to grow.
Most of them were no good...
"Lady Arielle, I heard a few unpleasant rumors about you that Lady Kaya was spreading," a girl from my class said to me in private. "Of course everyone who knows you well does not believe in them one bit, but there are some who like to put flames where there are not any."
"...I understand," I said.
Even though I said that, I did not understand what I should have done then.
As I was walking down the stairs, I suddenly felt a push from behind my back.
As I was falling, I threw my hands out. The person who caught me into her embrace soon afterwards was Charlotte who held both me and herself with the stair railing.
"Safe...Arielle, are you alright?" Charlotte asked.
"Charlotte!" I said in surprise.
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