𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 ♡

| CHAPTER 1 |

My fingers were constantly tapping on the desk and the screen right in front of me, just ramping up my nerves.

I am very nervous at this point like seriously here my heart is thumping and that screen is loading ,for god sake please increase your speed.

The screen was hyping up that it's about to reveal my future and reality, and here I am, freaking out because I have no idea what's coming in a few minutes. I was getting nervous from time to time I am just praying that everything will be alright yeah I am constantly assuring myself with this line.

My parents are standing right next to me, eagerly waiting for my result.

Then suddenly, a notification pops up saying the results portal is live. Oh God, please help me out here.

I open the screen, type in my roll number, and just pray, 'Please is baar sab accha ho'

(Please, let everything be okay this time)

I know how much effort I've put into this. The screen displays my result in front of my eyes, and guess what? It shows my marks and then my percentage.

My eyes nearly pop out of my head when I see the news - I feel ecstatic because I got an unbelievable number of marks.

Yes! It's showing 93.2%! Hurrray! I scored 93.2% in my 10th board exams. Yay...!!!!!

Guess what, I aced my 10th board exams with a score of 93.2%!

I was all set to celebrate, but then I noticed my dad was on a call and my mom gave me that curious look, probably wondering about my marks.

"I got 93.2%", I told them about my achievement, their reactions were rather neutral, which got me worried if they were not happy with my score.

My mind started racing with negative thoughts, like maybe my marks weren't good enough.

And then my dad had to go and say, "That's all, just 93.2%?"

Seriously? Just,...I was so stuck on that one word 'just'... Are my grades aren't good?.

"God, Ruhanika, you know what I got a call from my friend Tarun. He said his daughter got 93.3%, do you know what it means......it means she's at least 0.1% better than you," my dad kept on.

It broke my heart to the core that my father still comparing me with a little bit difference between my marks.

"But it was just 0.1% difference",I managed to mumble out as my voice started to become heavy.

I couldn't make sense of anything, feeling useless and it looks like I didn't do well in my exams.

"Ruhi, ek baat suno meri aaj kal ki zamane me 93% laana koi badi baat nahi hai. Aaj kal ke bacche 99% scores kr rahe. Tumne Mishra ji ke bete ko dekha 97% marks score kiye hai usne! So khud hi socho kya badi baat hai sirf 93% laane me ....huhh!!!", my mumma said.