Chapter 167

The announcement came on a Thursday morning.

Daniel didn’t notice it at first.

It was just another message in the school’s parent app—buried between reminders about lunch payments and a notice about a lost water bottle.

But the title caught his eye.

**“Spring Assembly – Student Presentations.”**

He opened it.

Students from each class would stand in front of the whole school and present something they had learned this term.

Some would read short ...