Chapter 8. First Day

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- February 5, 2018 -

Monday

Beautiful.

This morning was beautiful. I don't know why I used that word to describe this day, but it just felt like it.

I woke up feeling groggy and a bit annoyed because I needed to go back to school.

I, Mark Lee, am going to attend make-up classes for the whole vacation because apparently, my grades are too low and I have too many absences.

The school called my dad and explained to him that I need to make up for my grades or else I won't be able to move up to twelfth grade in the coming school year.

So, I was given a choice to go back to school for the whole month of February to pull my grades up so that I could proceed to twelfth grade, or I won't be able to graduate in time.

Great. Just great.

But even though that was the case, this morning was still beautiful. I felt like something good was going to happen today. I didn't know what yet, maybe I'll find out later.

I wasn't excited to go back to school, but I also wasn't disappointed or anything.

I just felt good.

I just felt good

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8:16 a.m. My schedule was the same as my regular classes, but I didn't have Arts, Homeroom, Math, Music, and P.E. classes, so dismissals were earlier for me. And for that other student that I heard will be taking make-up classes together with me.

I wonder who it is.

I was put in a regular room on the first floor for all of the subjects that I have to make up for. At least, that's what the teacher told me at the faculty room when I arrived at school.

I walked in the hallways leading to Room 1-A, where I was told to go and wait. He also told me that my fellow classmate was already there.

I was just about to wonder who it was when I arrived at the door of Room 1-A, which was partially opened.

At first, I thought there was no one inside. But when I opened the door wider, a girl was sleeping on one of the desks by the front row, head resting on her arms.

Whoa. She's early... Wait.

I recognized the long black wavy hair, but it was tied neatly behind her head.

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