Mastermind

Chapter 3

Grace

I know all the questions. Thank god. I have to remind myself that this is only the  first test. I have to make it to the next round and finally at the third that will be a a vocal contest between the two final contestants. I will nail this.
  I fill the paper and after 15 minutes I am completely done. I check it one last time and I stand up walking towards the supervisors when a guy from the first row stands up and gives his paper. I would have sworn that I finished first. There was no way he completed a test like this in 15 minutes. Technically there is, I did, but what the hell? I hand off the paper and give him a side eye  while he is still standing beside me.
Oh great.
It is the jerk that thought making eye contact with me would make him look  cool or made me fall in love with him.
I hate this kind of men.
I think I have seen him before.
His face looks quite familiar.
He looks expensive. He wears trousers with a shirt and a watch. His hair are chocolate brown styled with gel and his eyes are dark green. His jawline looks like it was made out of stone and I wanted to punch it, because who does he think he is looking at me like that?
He looks at me like he is observing me grinning slightly. “If you want to tell me something, I suggest you do because this eye contact is starting to irritate me.” i said smiling ironically at him. He did not budge.
“I think you are good-looking" He said very seriously with a pleased expression.
What does he want me to do with that information, swoon?
“You and a lot of other people in this room but they do not look at me weird all the time”
“ I am not other people. And it is practically impossible to look at you all the time since I was writing the test.” He said smirking.
What an ass.
I rolled my eyes and turned to leave when i felt a gentle hand touching my elbow.
“Good luck”
What the heck is he doing? “ I dont need it but thank you” I said annoyed. ”Good luck to you too, I am sure you will need it”
His smile deepened. “ I dont usually rely on luck” The other people in this room were giving us side eyes because we were disturbing the other contestences. I dont really care, he should have kept his mouth shut and his eyes off of me.
“ Thats a shame because you should thank yours for being in a room full of people otherwise I would have cut your arm off” I said eyeing his hand that was still gripping my elbow. I did not like people touching me. I barely have  any physical  touch with my loved ones. I definitely did not want a stranger to touch me.
“Excuse me” He said so unapologetically and dropped his hand. “We will be seeing eachother” 
He walked off.
God I hoped not, my nerves can take just as much.
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When I got home Kelly was waiting for me in the living room sitting in the couch and watching televison. “ That was quick” She said smiling. “ How did it go?”
“I knew all the answers i finished in 15 minutes, but there was this moron that ruined my mood” I said taking of my heels and sitting beside her.
“I knew you would do it”
She rose up from the couch and  kissed me on the cheek.
“Dont get so excited it is only the first test” I exhaled and tried to focuse on my goal and not on how many tests there are left.
“I am sure you will ace the other ones too” She said while laying back on the couch. “ So who is this asshole that pissed you of?”
“ A typical narcissist that think he can conquer the world just because he is a good looking men” I said while I started walking off.
“Well at least he is good looking” She mocked laughing while i turned to look at her with a glare “Please” I said and turned back to leave.
“Hey, can i talk to you about something?” My sister asked and that caught my attention.
“Of course” I said while sitting down again giving her all of my attention. My sister did not like to burden other people with her problems, and she does not really have anyone to talk to except me. Our parents are not the loving kind of parents that will listen to our problems hug us and say that it is okay. They will not listen to them in the first place actually. Our older  sister Jenny is not around much. She is 25 and lives in london and  she is admitetly even worse than our parents. So that leaves me and Kelly. I am not a really affectionate person but I would die for Kelly and she knows that.
 
“I don’t want to go to college, i never had and I never will and it is supposed to be my life but if I announce that to Mom and Dad they will disown me and never speak to me again” She said in one breath while looking at me like I am a god that will find her the perfect solution. I didn’t.
“Listen, it is your life, you will do whatever you want to as long as its financial rewards are enough for you to live and makes you happy then thats what you will do” I told her believing every single word.
“But, they will never spe-”
“Then Screw them” i cut her off and she looked at me with wide eyes in shock. “But you will go to college and  do all the stuff that they told you to” she stated. She was right. The difference was that it just happened to want the same thing as them. If I didn’t I would have left from here the moment I turned 18.
“ That is because I want to” i said to her, “You will do what makes you happy and if they stand against you which realistically, they will, I will always be here. If you need money, help or whatever, you will always come to me okay?”  I said brushing of a golden stand of hair from her face and putting it behind her ear.
“I love you” She said with shiny eyes . “I love you too” I whispered with a smile on my face.