Chapter 2

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Chapter 2

16 years later 2012

                                                             Joy

I woke up feeling a sense of panic erupt from deep within my chest. I looked around frantically sighing in relief as I recognized the messy, lavender colored room I was currently situated in. One's room is the reflection of their personality. The thought came into mind while I looked around the mess I created recently. I should clean up soon.... But not now I grabbed my towel from beside me on the bed and went to go shower in the bathroom attached to my room.

I had just finished my morning routine, when I smelled something mouthwatering coming from the kitchen downstairs, I packed my school bag with textbooks and finished homework, and checked the full length mirror one last time. Eh...  I thought shrugging my shoulders I'm not trying to impress anybody. I grabbed my bag and finally went downstairs. I found my mom and dad sitting at the island, enjoying breakfast. I greeted my parents before grabbing a seat of my own.

"You're not going to fix your hair, its looks untidy" mom complained hosting a scrunch on her face as if trying to repel a strong bad smell. I hold a fist of my locks and proceeded to trying it with the scrunchie I had on my wrist for emergencies. "Your uniform is wrinkled" I kept quiet as mom proceeded to the "a lady must always look proper" speech.

I occasionally took glances at dad to see if he would save me from speech mom was retelling. "Honey I'm sure joy remembers what you told her, she doesn't forget that easily" dad told mom in Japanese.

My mom sighed with her fingers pinching her forehead. "Ok I get it" mom turned to face me and said "have you eaten breakfast or are you going to buy food at your cafeteria"  "the café mom I'll see you all later" I headed out the door when I turned back "I'll be going now" I said in Japanese. My parents replied "take care". I hopped in my car and drove to school.

Entering the school's main entrance I noticed a slightly muscular light skinned boy coming out of the office while staring down at a white piece of paper. I figured he must be new since he wasn't wearing the school's polo shirt or black pants. Instead he dressed like he was going to the gym. Tank top and all. "Do you by any chance need help" I asked the boy as I was approaching him. He looked up in slight confusion. He's beautiful was the first thought that came to mind when I saw his face. He had long curly hair that was tied into a ponytail and hazel eyes that screamed attention grabber. I blinked away my thoughts and asked my previous question again.

He responded "sure" smiling lightly handing me the white paper I now knew was his schedule. "Wow you have all IB classes with me, am I standing beside a genius?" I asked nudging him on the shoulder slightly. The IB program at our school was hard to get into especially in the middle of a semester as one would miss a lot and won't be able to catch up with the rest of the class. " A genius, hardly I got 2nd place at the entry exam, whoever got 1st is the real genius, the questions on it weren't high school questions at all."

I tried desperately to keep my smile at a minimum

"I know right, it was the hardest exam in my life, I heard the girl who got 1st place got university tutors to help her prepare for the exam and she didn't sleep for almost a month." "Wow" he said with a proud glint "then she defiantly deserves it".

"Yep" I replied, we continued the conversation while walking to the boy whose name I later found out was Wisdom's locker. The bell had rung followed by a student music mix signaling the 5 min countdown to get to class. I took Wisdom by the hand tugging on it to give the hint that we should start walking. He understood and followed me to the first period class which was IB English.

The class was nearly full of students by the time we got there. I sat down at my regular seat and looked at wisdom standing beside the entrance door confused. The female population of the class room would glance at him and proceeded to talk about his appearances. One of the male students of our class; Mark who was seated beside called out to him.

"Hey new kid there's space here beside me, come sit"

wisdom smiled and shuffled towards the desk. I turned to Mark whispering

"that's Jeffery's seat" "I know" he replied "he doesn't come all that often anyways." I looked over Mark to see Wisdom settling his things. Mark turned over to him to strike a conversation.

"So what's your name" Wisdom didn't get a chance to reply as a loud bang echoed the room.

The room was eerie quiet, one could hear a pin drop. We all faced the front to find our English teacher with his head hung low and both his hands on his desk.

"Good morning everyone, by this sound I believe were ready to start class" the class groaned loudly as our teacher spoke in Japanese. This was a monthly occurrence. Our teacher would speck in a student's native language for an entire class, and vocabulary of the langue he spoke that month would be on a test... going towads 5% of our grade. I got to be fluent in a few languages this way. I heard Martins voice behind me "hey Joy translate!" I rolled my eyes and began.

" Now class we will have a change of routine today, as you can see we have a new student, what would you all think about breaking him in a little" the teacher smiled widely at this point " I have an interesting game of deal or no deal set up" " I saw the entrance exam results and thought to test you out for myself" "This will be an interesting game indeed between Wisdom who had the 2nd best scores with 5 points away from the 1st place exam winner Joy who scored perfect on the exam!" at this point there were many shocked eyes on wisdom and I,

I tried my best to keep my expression neutral and my eyes on the teacher. I heard wisdom whisper from my left "joy is that true?" I turned my head slightly to him with my eyes shut tightly and smile wide to the point where it hurt. "Shall we play?" I got up from my desk to the front of the class my hands in front of me playing with the hem of my skirt, I kept my eyes focused on the of the game genre board projected at the back of the class.

The teacher says in polish "Mark translate" "ok sir" He replies "Just like deal or no deal there will be different subjects of questions all worth different amount of money. lowest being 400 dollars and highest being 1000 dollars your goal is to get to 1 million dollars, by answering the questions correctly, you're not allowed to have help at any time and you have 10 seconds to answer a question" "got it? Ok Martin flip a coin. Wisdom heads or tails"

Wisdom turns his attention from Mark to stare at martin and his left hand with the coin in place with heads for a minute then replies  "heads" Mark continues " Martin flip the coin"  everyone is staring at the coin as it's shot in air and falls landing on his desk. "Wisdom you start"  "I'll take biology for 400 dollars" Wisdom said that shakenly preparing for the question that could come. "For 400 Dollars explain why we as human gets happy."


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