You Belong With Me

chapter 8

***** The day after*****

Everyone settle down” Mrs. Fredrickson announced. Everyone had been given seats according to their roll. No.  Austin had to sit on the table next to me. He looked weary and sleepy. I knew something was wrong. But I looked away hoping I would be succeeding in whatever I had planned.

During the test I noticed Austin fell asleep I didn’t know what to do I panicked from inside. But I had no plans for this situation. So what I did was when Austin slept I slowly took his paper and started writing answers for him. I made sure no one noticed me.

I wrote all the answers right. I was 100% sure he would get full marks and would get the scholarship. And now it was time for my paper. I started writing my answers. I had written just a few answers when Miss Fredrickson announced,” time’s up students- pens down”.  I couldn’t right anymore. I saw Austin wake up while the teacher reached to him asking his answer paper. He saw his answer paper and stared at it. He couldn’t believe his eyes. When it came to me I was sure I would fail as I had literally answers like 5 answers out of 30 or 40 of them.

***the result day****

1 hour left for my flight to England’ I thought as I waited for my result certificate where it would be written ‘failed’. Suddenly- I heard a noise coming from the music room. It was like two people were fighting. I ran to the room just to see Austin and Heather fighting. “How could you even do that to me and just because you wanted the scholarship... heather I loved you and you broke my heart” Austin screamed. “ look Austin, I wanted to get the scholarship at any cost so it was obvious to get the 1st rank for the test either by manipulating you to fail or make you fail that’s the reason I put sleeping pills in you juice. I’m sorry I know you wanted the scholarship too but I guess Cameron’s gonna take It.” she stepped back when she saw me. Austin broke out. I wanted to console him but this wasn’t the time. Suddenly there was an announcement about the results and hearing that I ran to the office to get my certificate. Thankfully I was the first one to get it. So I took it and walked outside. I saw heather walk into the office later followed by Austin. i was there walking in the corridors back to the cab which would take me to the airport, I met Mrs. Fredrickson who looked concerned about me,” surprising to see such a bright student like you failing Cameron” saying this she walked off my certificate flew away by the wind. I turned back to pick it up when a pair of hands gave it to me” hey thanks!” I said and looked up to see who it was ‘’- Austin?” I saw him right in front of me staring at my certificate. “y-you failed? And I got the scholarship? How’s that even possible”. I could hardly manage to talk and at that time the only thing that came to my mind was ‘run’. I grabbed my certificate and ran back to the hostel picked my suitcases and ran towards the cab waiting for me outside. I saw Austin running behind me but I managed to escape him. I assumed he had understood what I had done. I was getting late the flight would board in thirty minutes and the cab was taking forever to reach the airport. Finally I reached in time for my flight. I took my seat in the airplane and relaxed myself when all of a sudden I recollected whatever happened in those 30 minutes. I shut my eyes tight not wanting so recollect any of it.