Our last semester together

CHAPTER 6

"Hey!"

I look behind me and I saw Ohm staring at me. I raised my eyebrows and ask him what he wants. He stand in his chair and went besides me.

"Stop crying. What number are you having a hard time?" He snatch my book from me and look on what I've been doing. I snatch it back.

"Nothing! And I'm not crying!"

"Tss. You've been having a hard time in number 8 because you don't use a short cut. Ms. Sha told us that we should use short cut if necessary!"

I rolled my eyes. I know that!

"I know but this one cannot be because the previous problem is not used by short cut."

"So?" He raised his eyebrows.

"What?" I was taken by his question

"So what if the previous problem is not solved by short cut?"

"Ahm well..."

He sigh. "Natouch, its not important whether the previous problem is solved by the original solution the important is you get the result. The right result."

"Look. If you do this.." he get my pen and sit beside me. He write something on the paper but I couldn't focus since he's too close to me.

"For an old monkey, he looks good."

Well everyone in campus knows that but I always didn't acknowledge that since I hate him and all I want is to dethrone him as a top student but seeing him now this close.. he's not bad.

"You understand?"

"Huh?"

"Great, you didn't listen to me."

I still hate him though.

"Well everything you said, I know it already!" do I really?

"Whatever. Use it. You don't need to follow every rules Natouch. Do what you really want."

I ignore him and continue on what I left doing.

I look at my notes and everything that I need to know is already there and the way it was written is so simple that you can understand it easily.

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"Good Morning, mentors and students! Welcome to the annual school competition wherein we showcase how smart and talented the students from different universities and colleges around here in our region."

"You look nervous. Are you okay Flukie?" Emi asked me.

We're already at the back of the stage waiting for the host to call us. I may look nervous but I'm not. It's just I'm tired since we study until 4 AM.

"You want some water Fluke? You 're getting pale."

Ms. Sha hand me a bottle of water which I accept but I want something different. I wish I can drink some lemonade

"Here. Drink this and stop rocking your feet, you make everyone anxious."

I get the drink and stop rocking my feet. I didn't realize that I've been doing that until he said it.

"Oh my, when did you buy those lemonade Fluke? I asked someone and they said those flavored drinks are far from here." I look at my drink and to Ohm whose fixing his glasses. Don't tell me?

"Just drink that. I bought it before I go here. It's not a big deal."

I didn't say anything and just trying to calm myself. Now I don't know why my heart keeps beating fast.

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"Good Morning mentors and students. Welcome to the annual school competition wherein we showcase the talent, skills and creativity of our students. Before anything else let me introduce myself, I am Georgina and I would be your host for this event."

Everyone in the crown clap their hands.

"Today, we are here to celebrate the best of these achievements and to recognize the efforts of our students and teachers. I am proud to say that the competitions that we have planned for today are a true reflection of our school's motto "Excellence in education and service to humanity. Now! Let's start with the quiz competition. This year, our students have demonstrated their broad knowledge of various subjects, including history, science, and mathematics. They have shown us that they are not only knowledgeable but also competitive and driven to succeed.

We stand from our seat and prepare for the host to call us.

"To represent the Bluebell University here's Fluke, Emi and Ohm."

We enter the stage and I saw a lot of people. Someone assist us on our spot and told us what to do when the competition starts. I didn't understand most of it since all I can think about is the crowd. I don't know if I can do this.

"Just focus Natouch. You look like a pressured frog when you're nervous."

I gave him a death glare. "Shut up you old monkey!"

He chuckled but get serious again when our opponent arrived.

"Let's start our first round!"
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"Before we continue and go to our last question, let's recap the scores."

"With 11 points, we got the Hailsmith Academy and Crestwood University. With 15 points the Bluebell University and on the top spot with 17 points the St. Lucia University."

"Now that we recap the scores, lets continue! Let's call Fluke, Jenny, Mina, and Mark for our last question and this will be 5 points! Are you ready students? Okay, here's the question."

It's math and they showed us the problem. I get my mini white board and start to solve when I realized that it was the previous problem. My mind went blank and suddenly I didn't know what to do.

I got nervous and my hands start to shake. I look around and see my opponents writing and solving it like it was the easiest question. I look at the crowd and it didn't help.

I close my eyes. "Just focus Natouch."

I Open my eyes and saw Ohm looking at me. No, he's staring at me. I remember what he teach last night so I tried to calm myself and do what he said to me.

"Okay students, times up. Please stop writing and raise your white board."

I am nervous but I ended up raising my board. It's now or never.

After I raised my board I see is everyone is clapping and Ms. Sha is congratulating me. I found Ohm who's for the first time not giving me a smug smile but a genuine smile, showing his dimples.

After that everything was blurry until my body gave up and my vision went blank.

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SURPRISE!!!

I was also surprised that I finished a chapter easily this time. I guess listening to a certain song inspired me to write this. 🤣

Hope you all having a great weekend. Thank you for reading and I'll see you to the next chapter! 💙

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