get smart ☆ chris sturniolo

xvi.

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[𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠]

[𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡]

[𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐦𝐞]

[𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞?]

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the following day, there was a huge math exam. it was a practice for the term final in less than a month yet it still counted as a grade. depending on how you did on this exam, would determine how much studying you had to do. everyone was relatively prepared, they were learning about how to apply what they've learned in term one but those who struggled in term one would continue to struggle through term two.

lynn had the exam first period and like the good person she was, she fully intended to tell everyone what was on the exam. was this cheating? yes. but her friends having peace of mind of whether or not they were prepared was and is equally important. she sat to take her exam, taking a deep breath before she began.

her teacher started the clock and she opened her test booklet. she wrote her name at the top and began to twirl her pencil as she looked over the first few questions. she had never felt this feeling in her life, she didn't know as much as she thought.

she scrunched her eyebrows, realizing she didn't know how to solve some of these. other people around her began filling out the questions with what seemed to be ease but she didn't. it took her a moment to get going and even then she only was able to answer a few of them with absolute certainty that she was right. she walked out of the room scared. she had college around the corner and this was their hardest exam yet, and for what? none of her friends heard amazing news from schools when applying early action. of course everyone got into their safeties, those are their safeties, but they all had bigger aspirations.

she immediately went into the bathroom, ignoring ethan in the hallway. he did text her if she was okay but she ignored that as well. liv, math is so fucked ts was HARD. like i'm not even kidding

liv checked her texts before going into the exam herself, her mouth shot open. are you kidding? im abt to take it now, FUCKKKK she responded.

lynn texted her a few things that were on it so that she could look them up before studying, but it was basically too late. the bell rang which meant lynn was late to class and she simply didn't care. she was too stressed to go.

though there was a small voice telling her not to, she texted chris. meet me in the stairwell, important

she collected her things and waited in the stairwell. it was virtually empty but she sat to the side of the stairs in case anyone needed to come through. one of those people being chris.

"hey, i got your text," he began. "what's wrong?" he felt somewhat awkward as their first conversation was something so negative, and it seemed like this should be a conversation with her boyfriend.

"that's stupid math test with our stupid teacher," she grumbled. "i hate her. who makes a practice exam that hard and expect students to walk out of there more confident?" she wanted to cry but felt like it wasn't that serious to cry over. she leaned against the wall, pissed at herself for letting all the new relationships get the best of her and ultimately making her lose sight of her grades. "and i wanted to talk to you to make sure that you were prepared because even though we weren't really talking, i didn't want you to fail, so i was like hm, let me text him. and let me text him turned into no, i need to vent and talk to him right now," she exhaled.

chris didn't know what to do but he rubbed her back as she spoke, realizing that she was actually crying from how stressed out she was. "look, i'm sorry i shouldn't have texted you," the door opened from the floor above them but neither of them paid to much mind. "i also shouldn't have yelled at you. it wasn't fair and i should have told you before an important test that i couldn't make it," she apologized. "i'm sorry," she said looking at him this time.

"it's okay. i forgive you. i shouldn't have let my own emotions get in the way of our friendship, even if you're seeing someone else," he added. "it wasn't totally fair to you either, is what i'm trying to say,"

"speaking of, how did you do on that? you know, your grades are a reflection of my tutoring," she chuckled, wiping her tears with her sleeve. 

"i did alright. i still have a C- in her class and i need to not only crush this but also the final. either that or half of my colleges are going to pull out their scholarships from me and then i'm totally screwed," he realized.

"then we better get to studying. both of us,"

𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿

i swear i'm not rushing, this whole book is planned,
i'm just trying to give you chapters to make up for my
absence of idk how long LMFAOOA

anywho, this one was cute but now everyone is friends again!!

right?

xoxo see you in chapter seventeen <3