A Whole School Year to Realize

Chapter 1: I'll race you to the book

Chapter 1: I'll race you to the book

Everything's fine until I got a little problem with the new boy. You see, he has a fat brain. He's smart. Almost as smart as I am. So I was challenged. And I accepted it whole-heartedly.

I realized this as I was browsing the test papers Mrs. Andrews just checked. The class was already dismissed. She left it on the teacher's table and that's when I took the opportunity to peek at the test. He got a higher score on this one. I remembered some of his tests are good too. Some of it, higher than mine but most of it are almost higher than mine, that means either we got the same score I was ahead by 1-5 points.

" Hey Ray" I jumped up and my right hand instantly shot up to my chest when I heard the deep voice of Coby. My hands are cold and my heart is still thumping very fast. "What the.." I muttered. I was at the library reading a book. I got so engrosed to it that I forgot I was still at school. I'm sitting at the corner between two tall bookshelves where I got the book. I looked up at Coby ,who is slightly bending his upper body forward to get a better view of me. . I sighed and relax a little bit. If I wasn't so shocked, I would have laughed at his face because of what he looks like while holding his laugh.  I glared at him and hissed, " What are you doing here? What are you doing scaring the life out of some girl who's minding their own business?!"

Woot..There it is. His Irritating, boisterous laugh filled my ears. "I wasn't scaring anyone." My best eye roll was my reply

" Who told you that? I actually thought you're a serial killer holding an axe." And that caused him to laughed even harder! Did I really look that ridiculous?

"Quiet down! Remember you're in a library. Better stop that noise if you don't want Ms.Anna's nails on your throat." He calmed down a little and took a satisfied sigh before he spoke. 

 " This is a school Raymond, how could a killer with an axe go inside?"

" Well that's funny. You might be one and we don't know it. You certainly pass the looks." He stood straight. "No, I don't!"

" You sure do."

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"For the last time, NO! By the way, why are you here?" I rolled my eyes at this and wave my book in a 'duh' way. "I'm scrubbing the floor until it's slippery enough for you to slip when you walk." 

"Should I laugh?" he said, clearly not appriciating my sarcasm. " I'm asking why aren't you reading there." He pointed to the direction of the tables at the center of the library where people read books and where some computers are located. From my current location, I'm fairly far from the tables where I should read, but I prefer to read here.  " It's much peaceful here, and quiet." Yeah. Before you came and destroy it. He nodded and looked over for a book.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I'm ordering for a pizza. And oh cheese burgers too." he replied, not bothering to take his eyes off the books as he scanned them.

"I mean what book are you looking for, idiot." I rolled my eyes.

"History."

"For what?!"

"Test. Tomorrow."

"Whaat?!"

"Test.Tomorrow.Wait, I already said that. Didn't you know?" He looked at me and raised an eyebrow. Oh gosh! I forgot about it. How could I? Before he could reach for the history book, I grabbed it and sprinted to the librarian's desk. "Hey! Wait! That's mine!"  

"Sorry, there's no name 'Coby' on it!" I said, with a louder-than-the-normal voice. 

"I was going to get that!" 

"But I got it first.!" I finished it for him. 

I got out of school safely. No angry monkey following. As I was reviewing for our history test, I remembered him and felt sorry for what I did. But I can't let myself catch a low grade on the test tomorrow. Thanks to our History teacher, we need to find a certain reference because our own history book doesn't have the topics and coverage of our test tomorrow.

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  I glanced at the wall clock and was shocked. '11:45'  Okay. Chill. Focus. You can finish this. Go Ray! Go Ray! Go! Go! Go! Go!.' I cheered for myself because I'm losing my mind on this test. There's only 15 minutes left and I still. I peeked at Coby to find him confidently writing his answers on the paper. How could he?! Here I am panicking and there he was oh so chilled out.

My paper soon regained my focus after I shot daggers at Coby. I looked at my paper and answered those blanks. I didn't stop scanning and reviewing it until I'm sure I won't have more than five mistakes. I stood and proceeded to the Mr. Big Teeth to hand him my paper. Most students call him like that because of his teeth and he was fine with it, he even prefered to be addressed like that. He looked up at me and flashed his big pearly whites. He isn't bad looking nor stunning, just fine. I grabbed my bag from my seat and glanced at Coby. I could say he's in a state I was in lately. Ha!  Take that !  As I walked out of the room with a tiny smirk, I suddenly felt sorry for what I did yesterday at the library, My smirk was replaced by a frown. I headed to the cafeteria. It's so great that I finished the test earlier than the rest. That means I can have an early lunch. Yipee!! I have to hurry up though. Anytime now, the bell would ring.

"Hey!" I squeaked. I am currently holding my tray of mouth-watering meal. I really want to run to my table where my circle of friends are. It's really not that of a big circle, it's just Leila and some close friend named Sandra. I am frozen in place not because I got surprised again with his voice. I'm more of scared of his indignant tone. I'm always scared when people talk to me with such tone in their voices. Why is he even angry? I did not try to kill him or something.

I turned slowly and faced him with my head held high. "Yes?" I cleared my throat so my voice would come clearer next time. "What is it?" Prepare for the words.... Why am I even scared? Breathe. Here he goes.

"You did a good job at the library yesterday." 

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no proofread .. sorry.. I'll just edit it some other time..