Rivals or Enemies ?

24. preparations for exams

I woke up because of the loud ring in my ears caused by the alarm. I twitched my face and groaned. "urgh!" I said and got up. Sitting on the bed with my eyes half open I looked around the room but once my eyes met the bright sunlight. I hid my face with my hands and looked the other way. Finally, with a lot of courage, I got down and started getting ready. 

I wore black pants, a black shirt, a green and black plaid vest that I paired with black boots. My hair was tied into a neat ponytail. With my bag on my shoulder and phone in hand. I walked downstairs. 

It was a mess. 

A bunch of staff was cleaning the house. My eyes went to Miss Cho who was carrying a big cardboard box. she was sweating badly and looked extremely tired. I walked towards her and held the box in my hand. 

"hye-in-ssi what are you doing?" she asked me and tried to take the box away but I backed off. "helping you, where should I keep it?" I asked her. "No no, I'll do it, give it to me" she said "no, let me help you, c'mon!" I whined. She sighed and nodded. "ohk, come" she said panting and leaded me to the back yard. "keep it here" she said as I kept the box down. 

I looked over at Miss cho who was looking very tired. "you should rest, come"  I leaded her to her room and sat her down. "take some rest for some time"

"no no, there's a lot of work, please" she said and went away. I deeply sighed and headed to the dinning room where everyone else was sitting eating there breakfast. "morning" I said and sat down.

Of course no one replied. 

A bad start, right? 

The maid served me food as I ate it and stood up. Taehyung and Jungkook also stood up. "we'll leave mom" taehyung wiped his face and walked outside. 

"oh my dears, have a nice day" Mom kissed Taehyung and Jungkook forehead. Again, I was standing there only. I rolled my eyes angrily and stomped out of the house. 

The hot topic today at school was The Kim's party. I didn't really bothered because I was just not there according to my family. My family almost forgot that I'm there too. 

Once I entered the classroom Hae-won motioned me to come and sat next to her. The class started and as the exams are nearing everything is getting scary. Like pressure is in the air. Kids are no more joyful now. everyone of busy preparing for their exams. 

The quite classrooms, hallways are scaring me. It's weird. I don't like it, I didn't know that this is how the school's atmosphere gets when the exams are coming soon. It's my first time actually. 

This is sending me into thinking that the competition in this school is on another level after all it's one of the most famous schools here in Seoul. Means I need to focus a lot more this time. I have to get good marks in fact the best. I can't bare getting defeated by any random kid here. 

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Days have passed as tomorrow is the exams. These days I noticed how badly everyone wants to beat each other and get better than the other and other. Hae-won told me that the students get very serious when it's about exams. 

I mean of course I can see that!

It's really stressing me out. 

I haven't gotten good sleep these last few days because of the preparations. I study day and night all the time. I barely get out of my room. At nights I drink coffee at least 10 times. I've made so many notes and notes that I can't even count. I didn't even used to study this much in my old school.