One Shots - Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins {Brollins}

Unlikely Partnerships

A chair screeched across the floor, as someone dragged it.

Chatter filled the room from all angles and stifled laughs were heard every now and then.

The ticking clock continued to click with every second that passed.

Pencil lead scratched the paper's surface every time it was pressed down, yet nothing truly came of it.

A blank page, a sharp-tipped pencil, and one extremely confused student.

Rebecca found herself staring at a blank study sheet for what seemed like hours. She managed to finish every other sheet, booklet, and question, except for this single one.

She knew there was nothing to really stress about, because she'd find some way to figure it out, and the chances of the exact replica question being on her exam were slim to none. However, the constant underlying pressure of being perfect was weighing down on her. Something else that definitely didn't help was the fact that every year she managed to do well on every exam, but one that never failed to give her a run for her money was mathematics.

So there she sat, in a packed library, textbooks surrounding her, most stacked, but a few laid open displaying their knowledge to her. Papers were spread out all across the table, scribbled on and filled in. Yet there was still one infuriatingly blank, clear, page, with no answer on it.

She had tried solving it over and over again on spare papers, knowing she'd make a mess of her only good copy of she hadn't, but the answer just never seemed to add up.

"Becks... Becks?" She heard her name being called off in the distance but chalked it up to hallucinations, lack of sleep, or too much stress. "Rebecca!"

Ashley yelled out her name, getting looks from every other student trying to study in peace as well as the faculty members, but it seemed to snap Rebecca out of her trance, so she didn't care.

It took Rebecca a few seconds to re-take in her surroundings as her eyes darted everywhere, but when they focused on an irritated-looking Ashley sitting right in front of her, she spoke up. "Yeah, huh?"

"Are you even listening?" Ashley rolled her eyes while smacking on her gum overly obnoxiously.

Rebecca nodded, as she readjusted herself and changed positions in her seat, "For sure"

"Oh yeah?" Ashley raised her eyebrow inquisitively, "What was I talking about then?"

"Guys." Rebecca stared confidently, and when Ashley shook her head no with a laugh, she sighed.

"Makeup or clothes-" The more items Rebecca listed the more head shakes she received, and inevitably she got fed up with Ashley's games. "Don't you have an exam to study for?"

Ashley scoffed, "Whatever. I'll just cheat off of you."

Rebecca stared at her unimpressed before rolling her eyes. She heard Ashley start to talk again, but her voice quickly faded out and bled into the others, and she found herself once again, staring a hole through her blank page as she tapped her pencil on the table. The task was beginning to become too frustrating, making Rebecca want to pack up and leave.

However, her studying didn't last long and was once again cut short by a notification on her phone. She quickly sighed, even if it was prompt, the distraction wasn't going to help her solve her equation. When she noticed it was from one of her many bosses, however, she almost jumped on the table to get her phone.

After fumbling it around and making a fool of herself, she opened the email, seeing her weekly schedule. She groaned before adding the new work dates to her already extremely packed calendar.