Someone Called Crush [C]

Chapter Eighteen

The study group went well. Even Aya didn't complain so much anymore. During weekday, we study at the school library and when during weekend, we will study at a cafe or having Google meet. Not only that, during the classes, we will harass our teachers to give us some tips or spoilers about what topic will come out in exam.

At first, we just asking our teachers. When they refuse to tell us, we keep asking them whenever we got the chance in class. We also waited in front of tha teachers office and asked it when the teacher came out. Lastly, we made a final attempt by taking turns to text our teachers at night. After that, they finally gave up and write down the tips on the next day in the class.

It's the first time in my life to ever harass my teacher like that. I don't know it could be so fun and the teachers didn't get mad at us either. Rather, they were impressed by our determination to pass the exam. We will definitely do that again if the teacher refused to help us.

The time continues to passed. Before we knew it, it's already the end of the exam. I don't know about other people, but I'm confident that I will pass all of the subjects. I wait for Aya to walk out of the school together. She seems down when she approaches me.

"Why do you look like that? Were you not doing well during exam?"

"No. I have been studying like I was about to die. I would rather kill myself if I'm still not doing well during the exam."

"Then why are you looking so down?"

"Mrs. Amy took my mirror! I got caught staring at Zack, who sat at the back using my mirror," she says and I'm speechless. Unlike normal people, who use the mirror to cheat on the exam, she used it to stealthily look at her boyfriend. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

"You sure feel so confident in your answer to have the time to do that during exam," I say sarcastically. She just grins and it makes me a little annoyed so I stretch her cheeks.

"Let do op me!"

"Do you know what I will do to you if you fail even one subject?" She gulps when hearing my question. I smirk.

"I will make sure these cheeks will lose it meats!" I pinch her cheeks before let go and run. I know she will aim for my hair if I didn't do so. I'm right as she is chasing me and reach out her hands to grab my hair. Our actions seem very childish, but it shouldn't be wrong to do that if we don't have any chance to do it in the future, right?

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I start to packed the things I need to bring to the school camping. As expected, I passed. I even got number five out of the two hundreds students. All thanks to Ryder for being a great teacher to me. Of course, Ryder still got number one. It's always been like that ever since we were first years in high school.

Even more crazy is that, he got hundred percent in history and ninety-eight percent in chemistry. Do you believe how much the score in chemistry has gone up when he just got B in mid term? I'm sure the teachers will alienate him—in a good way, I mean—starting now.

We're going to a camping for a week. It's usually won't be that long because the costs will be hella expensive but the teacher said the government is the one who support it. The only one who will be going are the form four who passed all of the subjects. This is not just a vacation, we will have a seminar to prepare for the final year.

"Sigh. Even during a camping we need to study." I lament at the fact that I cannot be in my honeymoon phase anymore. I need to focus now since I aim for a scholarship.

"Nina!" My mother calls me from the living room.

"Yes?" I ask back with a voice loud enough for her to hear.

"Come here!" I leave my packaging unfinished and go to my mother. She sounds so excited for some reason. I begin to feel even more curious after seeing her smiles with my father.

"What do you call me for?" I ask in a polite way you should be to your parents.

"Close your eyes," she tells me and I just did as she ordered. Then I feel something heavy in my hand. I begin to feel the texture, the shape and the weight. It's like a small box.

"You can open your eyes now."

I open my eyes and I immediately jump in excitement. It's an iPhone! I can't believe it! I look at my mother and she smiles at me.

"W-why? You're so stern about not giving me a new phone before," I ask in bewilderment. She's so stern when I ask her that I want a new phone since mine has broken. Now, I suddenly got an iPhone?! Isn't this contrast a bit too extreme?

"It's because you got in the top five during the last exam. Your maths score has also gone up a lot. From E to B. We're so proud of you. We hope this could be a motivation for you to study more on your final," my father speaks instead of my mother.

I smile and hug them. I'm really glad to have a parents who recognise my hard work. They also fully support me when I tell them that I want to study abroad before. We're having a great time together until Raft came and took my iPhone.

"Wow! Is this new?" he asks as he looking through my phone.

"No, sweety. We bought the second hand one. But it previous owner has only used the iPhone for a few months so it's still functioning and looking as new," my mother says.

"Give it back to me."

"Mommy, can I get one too?" he asks with a cute face. I feel like to vomit a green liquid when seeing that. Does he think such tricks will worked? It's more like he's trying to ask the king of hell to accept him as his underlings.

"Try to at least got C in maths. You're not even reach twenty marks in the last exam. Rather than getting you a new iPhone, mother would rather confiscated your phone!" I'm sticking out my tongue to annoy him. He tries to snatch my iPhone again but I quickly switched it to my other hand.

"Try better, Mia!" I intentionally call the nickname he hates so much. It's from his middle name which is Demian. He grabs my hair and I groan from the pain. I kick his legs with all my might and he lets go of the hair to sooth the pain on his legs.

"Enough, you two! You're not a kid anymore," my mother couldn't watch it any longer and scold us.

"I'm not a kid. He is." I point to my little brother before going to my room to test out my iPhone.

That night, I go to my brother's room and apologize. I don't want him to roll his eyes everytime he saw me. At first, he just ignored me when I apologize to him. Then I told him that he can play Genshin Impact on my phone. He loves to play Genshin Impact, but couldn't download it due to the incompatible of devices.

The tricks worked but then he asked me to download all sorts of games he couldn't download or the games he wanted to play again as a beginner since it will be a waste of efforts to uninstall it on his phone. I just let him be.

I continue to packed my things for the camping while Raft is playing with my phone. After I finished, the bag look as big as when I packed to visit my grandparents' house. How could it not when I stuffed it with six novels to read at night?

I'm a reader, after all. You can't blame me. The reason I have been completely fine without a phone was because of those novels. I'm sure those who read this is also the same. But even more than that, the school camping I have been waiting for is finally coming. I'm sure it can make an unforgettable memory for Aya.

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Our last moments will
be beautiful. Just
like how we first met.

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