SAVE ME

Chapter 21

Morgan Smith

I and Ricardo were on our way to school and I checked the time to see that it was nine thirty-eight so I took out my book from my bag and started revising. I asked Ricardo a few questions which he answered correctly. I gave some hints though.

Ricardo needed to get gas so we head for a gas station to get his tank full before continuing to school.

While we got the tank full, Ricardo excused himself saying that he wanted to get something from the store and use the bathroom too. I stayed in the car thinking about the person Ann and Ricardo were talking about before she left for her meeting.

"Did Richard somehow tell him about the message I showed him and he told Ann? Could that be the case Ann suddenly got worried about me then Ricardo told her not to panic but she should just be careful?" I asked myself and shook my head at those thoughts.

I don't even know what I am thinking about.

Ricardo has mentioned in the past about me having a wild and most times creative imagination in my head and sometimes I get a bit paranoid about little things, he could be right. Maybe I should stop overthinking and just tell Ricardo about the message because he will know about it one way or another and I want him to find out from me, Ann too.

I was lost in my thought that I didn't realize Ricardo had come back with a few goodies and was inside the car already.

"You okay babe?" he asked as he put on his seat belt and started the car engine.

"Yeah, I am," I told him and the car moved so I continued our revising.

"It's almost ten-thirty," he said and pulled over at the school parking lot.

"Yeah, let's go settle before exams start" we got out of his car and walked towards the hall where the exams were taking place.

After we settled, we kept revising and going through our notes.

"Ricardo, I want to tell you something" I began and when he turned to me, that was when our invigilator came in and gave us some instructions that were given yesterday.

We'll talk after the papers, okay?" I nodded.

Mr. Brooks shared the question paper and told us when we would all submit our sheet and that's in an hour and a half.

I read through the questions and a smile formed on my face. I looked at Ricardo and he was smiling at his paper too before turning his head to look at me. It was simple and I liked it.

I began answering the questions one after the order with a grin on my face.

... half an hour later ...

I looked at the time on my watch and it was seven minutes till the time was up so I cross-checked all my answers to ensure that I wrote them correctly and the ones that I couldn't answer earlier, I answered them although, number thirty-five and forty-two seem a bit tricky.

I was a bit confused about the answer to the question.

"You have two minutes to round off," Mr. Brooks said and I sighed.

I looked at the question and made a guess then tick the answer I guessed to be right.

"Alright guys, time's up. Put your pen beside your paper" he said and collected the answer sheet starting from the front of the class.

A few students at the back tried to scribble something down before he got to them and he roared.

"I said to put your pen beside your paper,"