First book in 'My Name' series..
She didn't inherit the 'smart genes' in the family, that was the first reason she was pushed aside. Still Reo struggled to get enough grades, but she can't be smart even after trying. Besides, it'll be wasted efforts...
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I get angry anytime I see the teachers snuggling Leo.
It happens every time. Once I used to think I would get used to it after so many years studying at Highlife, instead it got worse each time.
The teacher, in black pants and a strapped shirt, held the IP pen between his thumb and index finger. He watched us with a smile on his lips corking to the side.
Students who don't know the answer to the problem, and those who pretended they do by raising their hands were all staring right back at him. Leo didn't even bother looking up, he's more focused on his laptop.
"Yes, who is it goi-ng to be?" Even though Mr Nicholas pretends to look around the minimum number of students, I know he would eventually call me.
"Would Reo perhaps, give it a go?" He stretches the pen to me, waiting on my getting up which would lead to a mockery of myself.
"I don't know the solution."
"Can everyone hear that? R-eo doesn't know the solution." The girls around me giggle quietly. It wasn't quiet at all but their longing looks directed to my brother was enough to ignore them.
He has never noticed any girl since his whole 'smart genes' was put out in the school. The principal basically hawked around him just to shoo all the girls.
"Yeah, Reo's the dumb one." They laugh again.
"Ain't beauty and still got no brains." An idiot at the back of the class calls out. His unattractive friends reply in fistbumps and laugh again.
"Too bad, Reo." Mr Nicholas has a knowing smirk on his lips. He stalks to Leo's desk, which was alone opposite the teachers desk. "Would you mind giving the answer Leo?"
Leo looks up. He adjusts his glasses that keep slipping slightly from his nose, the corner of his lips quirk up to a small smile while looking at the question on the I.P board.
"Fifty one meters." He looks down at his screen.
"Can you hear that? If only you brainless baboons could be smart enough to get a C without your parents huge tips."
I look at Leo. The apple icon behind his laptop winks at me in amusement, or maybe I'm imagining, maybe I need more sleep.
"You Reo, you're the most dissapointing student I've ever had the displeasure to teach." Leo's brown curls bounce as he looks up for a moment. "He's older by a few months and miraculously, you couldn't gain some of the smarts?"
Leo looks at me, his eyes pop out when I stare back. I want him to say something, stand up for me, or something. He doesn't.
"Unbelievable." I leave my bag behind me and make a dash out of the class. The mocking laughter of my classmates behind me, I'm certain it's because of my short skirt bouncing.
This is all Leo's fault. .
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