I Will Always Be A Little Girl

1. What did you say?

A/N: Unedited chapter. Feel free to point out the mistakes.

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Heard that? That's how my heart's beating right now and I wouldn't be surprised if my heart did burst out the very moment but I'm less worried about that. You might be assuming that my eyes caught the sight of oh so gorgeous boy so my heart's beating like a haywire but its anything but. I apologize for the disappointment. In addition to this, me running like a lunatic towards the other side of my school's building is not helping the situation. I would be less amused if somebody called fire brigade thinking my butt's on fire and that I am going to spread fire everywhere in the school. Now when I think about it, it would be pretty hilarious.

Okay you might be thinking why my heart's beating fast and why am I running like a crazy person. Well...let me enlighten you.

I, Phoebe Coral Rachael, failed Chemistry! Before you assume anything else, let me tell you, I'm a straight A student. Well..except for chemistry. I've always had nightmares when it came to studying chemistry. Only I know how hard it was for me to even get a C on that subject last year. Ha! C in chemistry, how ironic. But this time I failed. I never thought I'd fail any of my subjects but I guess I did so there's no point debating. I know I would have passed (getting a C counts) if I hadn't missed school. Let's just say I was sick with typhoid and therefore was out of the school for about two weeks. Being a good student I am, I revised everything at home even though I was sick but chemistry.... Urgh!

And here I am now racing towards principal's office to discuss about how my GPA is being affected due to my failure in this subject. Stupid, stupid subject. I was called by principal like ten minutes ago but I was caught up with the meeting of the student council. Being vice president of student council is getting me nowhere.

When I finally reached to the principal's office, the secretary immediately let me in. Its not like I was complaining or anything. It was when I realized how nervous I was. I was shivering and was sweating bullets. Okay the latter was a bit overboard but you got my point right? I could pee anytime there. Kidding. I wouldn't embarrass myself to that extent. Thank you very much.

As you can guess, I've never been in trouble before. I'm a good student and president of the student council. Even when I was struggling to pass chemistry before, I never got into trouble. The principal of our school, Mrs Hammers loved me too much to say anything. She said that I was so much like her daughter who died because of leukemia few years back. Poor her. But today, I'm probably being dethroned as a vice president. I might even get suspended....or expelled, seeing as my school's study oriented. I hope they do not expel students who fail a subject for the first time. I'm sure there are students who failed often here. Then again I ain't so sure...Finally I grew some female balls and knocked the door of the principal's office. I entered inside when I heard an affirmative answer. Mrs Hammers glanced at my direction from the record she was going through. I bet my grandma's fortune that it was my record.

My grandma has a fair amount of fortune by the way.

Mrs Hammers gave me a smile and mentioned me to sit and I obeyed, duh. She was a beautiful woman at mid forties. She had caramel colored skin and same shade of wavy hair which was tied into a neat bun. "Well hello miss Rachael. I guess you've already figured out why you are here as you are one of the smartest student of Town Hill High School." I nodded at the former. I ain't so sure about the latter now seeing as I failed a subject. Smart students do not fail, right?

Wait...was that a sarcasm? I highly doubt though. She seemed to like me. She wouldn't mean something like that...

She grinned at me. Okay, weird much? I'm freaking out here and she's grinning at me like I lost my nose and looked like certain someone from Harry Potter. But I kept my mouth shut. Rolling eyes and talking back to principal isn't the exact thing I should be doing right now. I probably should be begging to let me study here. Suspension wouldn't look too good on my character certificate. And if I get expelled.... Well, have fun flipping burgers at McDonald's in near future Phoebe.

I shook my head. That won't be happening, I assured myself. At least I tried to. Trying counts, doesn't it?

"Miss Rachael, are you listening to me?"

It was then I realized that I zoned out again.

"I'm sorry ma'am. I spaced out." I admitted.

"I figured that out too. As I was saying, I won't expel you."

"I'm sorry ma'am. Please don't expel me. I wanna go to Dartmouth. Its my dream. And if you ex.."

Wait. Did she say that she wasn't going to expel me?!

"Did you just say that you aren't going to expel me?"

"I suppose that's exactly what I said miss Rachael. Yeah, its a study oriented school but we do not expel students if they fail a subject just once. Especially students like you." She smiled at me for a second before continuing, "That exam had a great importance though. Your percentage is greatly affected by the marks of chemistry but I do not want this subject to ruin your marks sheet seeing your so passionate about going to Dartmouth."

Okay. Where is this going? I don't have a freaking clue but I guess she didn't see how confused I was. Knowing her, she would probably laugh at me if she really saw how confused I was.

But she continued, "As you are one of the most diligent students here and you were not able to attend school because of typhoid, we have decided to take re test for you. It will be at the end of this year, before the finals. You weren't too good in this subject from the starting and since you missed school for too long, its doing no good. But I'm really happy that you covered up all the other subjects but chemistry really isn't your thing ."

I couldn't agree more. But I can't help but grin at her. I pushed the urge to hug her. I'd be pretty awkward to do that. "Thank you ma'am. Thank you so much. I will study really hard. I promise."

"No biggie. I ain't finished yet."

What else now?

I didn't say that loud though. I hope she isn't gonna switch my chemistry partner. My best friend, Eva Ronald is my current partner and if she switched Eva with that geeky guy that sat at the first bench and whose face covered with acnes......

Ewwww.....

I'll stop thinking about it.

"I and Mr KB decided that we couldn't let you suffer more now, could we?"

Mr KB? Oh right! My chemistry teacher. But suffer more? What was she talking about? I furred my eyebrows.

She continued, "What I wanted to say was, we have a tutor for you."

I stared at her for a minute like she was planning to kidnap the prime minister of Zimbabwe and was sharing the plan with me, asking me to help her.

But a tutor? Seriously? Never in my seventeen years of existence I've had a tutor. Ever.

I could study by my own and manage.

Not.

So I sighed. That would be the best thing to do now, to hire a tutor. I hope they are not some weird creepy old man in his mid forties. I crinkled my nose at that thought but knowing my luck, that's exactly how my tutor's gonna be.

My luck's is in negative figures by the way.

Before I could speak, Mrs Hammers continued, "Well, don't you wanna know who is going to be your tutor?"

Yes, I do.

But I just asked, "Who?"

She smirked and said, "He's the son of Mr. KB."

Okay. I won't be getting a creepy old man as my tutor.

But what if he's some guy covered with pimples like the one in my chemistry class?

I seriously don't know what to do. I guess I'll just have to wait to find out.

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