Lynette ♡

Chapter 13

After that day, Cassius returned to normal and so did our relationship. Almost.

Though he still didn't like me - I could tell - he at least didn't always ignore my existence. The day after I made him the soup, we passed each other in the hallway and he muttered a quiet 'thank you' and walked off before I had the chance to reply. If we ever saw each other, he would nod at me but otherwise keep silent. He acknowledged that I was there and the hatred in his eyes had lessened considerably.

However, that was only when there was no one else around.

In front of his brother, he acted as he did before and pretended I was invisible. Don't get me wrong though, I wasn't angry about it. It was expected since his brother, Marcus, would surely disapprove. Out of the two, Marcus seemed to despise me more so there was no way he would be happy that Cassius's attitude towards me had changed - even if the change was so small.

As for what Mr Haynes would think, I couldn't be sure. Most probably, he would have the same view as Marcus and discourage even the slightest change in Cassius's attitude towards me. But since he was overseas at the moment, there wasn't any reason to worry. Besides, like Marcus, I highly doubt Cassius would say anything to his father.

Regardless, I was relieved that nothing else out of the ordinary happened after that day. I don't think my restless heart would be able to handle any more stress from sudden personality shifts. It was scary because I didn't know what to expect.

It was honestly a relief to be able to go back to school on Monday.

I might be one of the few teenagers that would ever say that.

As promised by our homeroom teacher last week, the results for the mid-semester tests were published on the bulletin board near the office. When I arrived at school, there was already a small crowd of students cramming together in front of the board, searching for their names. Some of them, the ones at the back, had to tiptoe to get a glimpse of the board before pushing their way to the front.

I walked closer to the crowd of students and contemplated how I was going to manuveur my way through. I wasn't short but I wasn't exactly tall either so I would still need to get closer to be able to see my result.

However, what I hadn't expected was for my presence to cause some of the students to stop and stare.

As I neared the board and came to a halt at the back of the group, several of the students saw and they gaped at me in disbelief. A couple of them tapped their friends' shoulders and pointed at me whispering words I couldn't hear.

More and more attention was placed on me and I couldn't help but feel afraid. My back was slowly gathering cold sweat as I became the center of attention.

'Shit. Why is everyone staring at me? What happened? Were my results that bad?'

Swallowing nervously, I glanced up at the board and searched for my name starting at the bottom.

My gaze began to rise and it went up and up and up, and finally, it landed on the very top.

[Name | Rank | Total Marks]

[Lynette Parker| 001 | 497/500]

'...What?'

I...placed first?

My mouth dropped open in shock and my eyes widened. It made sense why everyone was staring at me and gawking. Not only did I come first, I almost scored a full mark! This was unbelievable!

I mean, I knew I wouldn't fail or anything because I studied my ass off but I honestly didn't expect to get such a high mark. The tests were anything but easy and I was pretty sure I had gotten a lot of questions wrong but...