The students immediately erupted into a playful uproar. Amid the clamor, someone shouted, "Senior, say a few words!"
Right after, a chorus of voices began to chant, "Senior! Senior! Senior!"
Teenagers have a peculiar fascination with romance, especially when it involves a couple of top students.
After Holly Winslow and Mortimer Quincy graduated, rumors about them spread like wildfire. Ahem, the story of them kissing on the athletic field, in particular, was a topic the students eagerly gossiped about in private.
Thanks to that precedent, the athletic field became a major point of surveillance for the school.
And the "cousins" became a top priority for scrutiny.
Any pair of students claiming to be cousins was automatically suspected of being in a relationship.
Holly Winslow was so mortified she wanted to leave the field immediately.
'Damn you, Mortimer Quincy! Can't you be a little more low-key?!'
'Didn't you see the looks on the principal's and the dean's faces?'
