When The Devil Noticed Her

Chapter 6

Today, Professor Martin will announce the two students that will enter the competition. I’m in our classroom sitting beside Darwin, my hands were sweaty and my heart throbs fast.

I don’t know why but I felt something will happen today. It’s been a month since he dropped that news to us. He explained to us that it made them difficult to choose, because many freshmen in our section qualified for the spot, but they only need two, so they prolong our agony, they made us submit different designs and it made my day busy and restless. I am happy though, because Mr. Devil became busy also, he stopped pestering me for the past month. Sometimes, he pissed me, but I didn’t give any reactions. I don’t want him to feel that I am affected with him, he will just do more of his stunts. When Professor Martin entered the room, everyone became quite. The tense in the classroom became more obvious. Everyone is paying attention and it made my heart uneasy. I already prepared myself to whatever will happen. I know I am not really that good to be chosen, but I am holding into that small hope in my heart that maybe, I could be chosen.

“Ahammmmm….” The professor started. All of us stared at him waiting for him to drop the big news.

“I will be announcing the two chosen student from this section, but before I announced them, let me tell you how we ended up on choosing them, it will be an hour of explanation I think”, my classmates “booooed” with his remarks.

He really made the environment calm because of that. My classmates were smiling and boooing at the same time.

“Drop the news professor!” one of my classmate said. He laughed instead.

“Youths today are very impatient…. Allright, allright, I will announce it.” He pulled a paper in his envelop and bring it to his eyes to read it. He prolonged announcing it by acting like he cannot read it. My classmates are now irritable and so do I. He is enjoying our irritation, I can sense it. I sighed and prepared myself, I think I will not be chosen. I open my notebook and start sketching something to divert my attention.

“All right, the first person is no other than……”  I started sketching a face in my notebook. I don’t know why, I feel like sketching it.

“Kai Zen Tsu, congratulations Kai!” After hearing that name, I crashed out my sketch. I really don’t understand why he is so good in this! How can he be so good, I hate him. My classmates clapped their hands, but I didn’t. He maybe donated something big in this institution that is why he was chosen. I am lurking in the side, mentally cursing the beast, he doesn’t deserved it. I sighed deep.

“The second person is a woman” our professor stated. My heart flattered upon hearing him say those word. I might be chosen, there are only few women in this class.

I sit properly ready to hear my name. I am smiling thinking I might be chosen. Here it comes, I am lip reading the mouth of our professor. I think the clock stopped ticking while professor Martin is uttering the name, it is in slow motion.

“Shi........ela Marie Gustavo, congratulations Shiela”, I dropped my self in my desk. I felt so down, I know this would come. It just that I made a little hope in myself. I sighed again. I was so drained right now, I want to go home and curl in my bed. I was so deep in my thoughts, I cannot hear anything even the clapping of my classmates.

I became deaf. I started packing my things, I’m ready to go. I saw the professor went outside, he is talking to someone, he came back, so I drop my bag, I don’t want to go out when the teacher is still inside the room. I drop myself again in my desk, my heart is aching, I thought I will be chosen but I ended up broken. My face is facing the window of the room, my face still drop in my desk. The professor is saying something, maybe a congratulatory speech to the chosen students. I cannot hear him, I really became deaf, and I’m mourning. I don’t know why I am so down, I thought I can manage if I will not be chosen, but here I am feeling so down.