You & Me [Completed]

Lam

I stared at the computer and perused my lips. Was it supposed to be this difficult, or am I just stupid?

I just couldn't seem to get the answers at all, and I could see the timer ticking away. I glanced over at Park and Forth, but they seemed no better than me, pouting at me pitifully for answers.

So it wasn't me. It's the test. It was way too difficult. The timer buzzed off and I just clicked submit; very much aware that I had barely completed half of the paper which meant I was either up for a re test or remedial lessons depending on my lecturer's mood.

A week later, we got the results. All of us had failed, and our lecturer was hopping mad. He sent half of us for a makeup test, 2 weeks from now and the other half for remedial lessons and a makeup test a week later.

I unfortunately didn't get the remedial lessons, though I would have been glad for it. Forth and Park got those lessons, which meant those two must have scored lower than me. I sighed. I wasn't even good at this subject, and without remedial lessons, I was doomed to fail again.

I tried to wrangle extra lessons out of my lecturer, who said I had it in me to pass but had to focus. I just glared at him and went off. I decided to tag along quietly for the remedial lessons, hoping no one took attendance. Luckily, no one did, and that's how I found myself in remedial lessons along with Park and Forth. Our class was a group of 10, and we were all given individual seniors or AT's who were going to coach us privately.

However, when we sat down with our individual coaches, that's when I ran into the first spot of trouble. My mentor was P Arthit, and he just looked at me quizzically.

"Lam, what are you doing here? Your name isn't on my list of students for remedial."

Shit. I gulped and looked at P Arthit.

"P... look my name isn't in the list but can you just tutor me? I really need the lessons but my lecturer doesn't feel so. But I am struggling. Can you please just tutor me?"

P Arthit looked at me for a long bit but shook his head.

"Sorry Lam, but I can't. The help has been designed for the students who really need it. The student who's assigned to me isn't here, but I am sure he will be back tomorrow, and I can't deny him of his help."

I sighed. "But P. If he comes back tomorrow, I will let him have it. Just for today, can't you tutor me?"

"No. I have to get the student's signature and so I can't do that. Sorry."

I sighed deeply, just grabbing my bag and going off. I was fucking angry and just disappointed. Angry that I couldn't get the help I needed and disappointed that the school can be so rigid.

I sat in the canteen, mugging whilst waiting for the two boys. However, I didn't seem to be making headway. I decided to just memorise the formulas and hoped they can help me enough. As I was mugging away, time flew by and around 6pm; both Park and Forth joined me, looking super shagged themselves. They said they had gotten devils of a tutor each and both were slave drivers. I snickered but knew privately I would be thankful for any form of help.

I sighed as I saw P Arthit with P Kong, chatting away as they came into the canteen. Some guy had gotten P Arthit as a tutor and didn't even turn up today. Ugh, the audacity of some people. I was chatting with Forth and Lam when we heard a ruckus blowing up. We looked up to see Arthit scolding someone.

We quickly stood up and ran over when the guy stood up and just punched Arthit in the face! What the heck?

"P! P, are you ok?" I grabbed onto Arthit and pulled him away as Forth confronted the other guy. I saw Arthit's mouth bleeding and he looked super angry.

Over the fanfare, I found out that this was the guy whom Arthit was supposed to tutor. He had skipped tutoring mentioning that his grandmother had passed away so Arthit was pissed to see him happily chilling away in the canteen and had confronted him.

Ah shit. I tried to pull Arthit away who was hopping mad. He finally turned to look at me.

"Come for tutoring tomorrow. Since this asshole doesn't appreciate the help, let me give it to you instead."

I could hear the other guy yelling away as Arthit took his hands out of mine and walked away.

Man, damn. This P Arthit had quite the temper too but I was just glad I was getting the help I needed but abit of buzzkill, knowing that P Arthit had gotten hurt over it.