Finally the day of our tech quiz arrived. I was nervous and Lacy was trying to chill me up. Ellie was consoling at my grieving situation.
When I entered the college I checked that university roll nos. were out. Everyone's roll no. up till now was jumbled. I was shocked to see that mine and Sky's roll no. was one after another. Only our one was together out of the entire class.I was elated. I took a snap of it. I entered the class and dashed into Him.
" Why are you in a hurry? ", being shocked at my hurried entry.
" University roll nos. are out .Go and have a check! I have taken a snap though. "
"Show me the snap you took."
I showed him.
He with a wicked smile spoke, " Great! At least we are together. Someone to help during the exams"
"No use. You topper people are already great at your subjects. So you don't need my help"
All of a sudden Sir entered our class with a vicious aura. I ran to my place. He was laughing at me.
Sir took attendance.
After that all of a sudden he asked the girls around me to stand up. I was excused somehow. But seeing them standing made me tremble. The same teacher who punished Lacy before.
Finally I thanked the Almighty , My saviour to spare my life.
Finally,maths Sir entered with a great limelight. And Lacy's heartbeat dropped. He brought in the papers he had corrected and where I had told that I would be getting 50.I skipped a heartbeat when Sky's marks were announced.
He scored a perfect score. Then my turn came.
I took the paper and was happy to find we both made it 50.
I was happy. Lacy was happy too. She got 47.It's really great isn't it.
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Finally the most anticipated event arrived. Lacy and Ellie were in one team. Sky, Haruto and Stephen were in another team. Many other teams were also there. I was their team leader. Lacy with her wit wrote my name as team leader and Ellie too gave her consent. Sky was his team's leader.
The competition was really tough especially when you are in first year and need to compete against not only first year students but also other year team students as well.
The quiz was held in 2 rounds. In the preliminary round the actual selection for the best 10 teams would be done. And the total number. of teams almost crossed 200.
When the 1st round arrived I was looking lost as to where I had come. My other team members were puzzled too. It was really tough. With great difficulty we could answer some. But we knew we wouldn't be moving forward to the 2nd round.
Finally we left the room full of anxiety.
The physics practical class had arrived and we were late. The same Sir who was annoying in the morning came to disturb me in the afternoon.He doesn't take our practical classes. But came to torture us practically.
Haruto tried to explain the matter. I and Sky were 2 clever people who kept quiet bowing our heads. Ellie was almost starting to revolt when I quickly grabbed her hand and signalled her to stop. Soon Sir left us. We were fakefully and tactfully sorry so he didn't write our names.
Our Practical class Sir entered. We were happily rescued. Then we moved forward with our experimental work.
Suddenly Sky commented, " I guess Sir might be getting great lashings from his wife so he is acting like that. "
" Yup, His foul mood for recent days is real proof of it. ", I giggled.
Haruto started to laugh.
I was enacting the role of our Physics Sir when the Lab trainer entered. Others became quiet. I continued. I suddenly saw him and quieted myself. They started to laugh. Recently, I have been noticing that Haruto and Sky both are becoming naughty and close day by day. I don't mean Gay type. But their teasing frequency together is at resonance.
Finally the time for the results came.
I, Sky and Haruto went. Lacy went to the station. We went to check our results. Finally again we were together. Walking through the corridors, walking upstairs may not be the same stairs or corridors which we took before but the fact was we were together.
There we had to wait. No results were out. They were deciding on the top 10 teams. We were able to see the answers. Our team could answer only 2 correct answers. Those two were mine too.
Sky's team could answer 4-5 questions. Our state was really pitiable. But I was happy to learn new things with them again. Obviously we couldn't make it. None of the 1st year could.
He was talking about his interest in cricket on our way back. I suggested that he participate in the sports event held in our college once every year during summers.
He said, " I will try"
While climbing down the stairs, the floor was a bit slippery. I commented all of a sudden that I was falling down.
He spoke softly, " Walk carefully. Watch the steps. "
At least there is someone who really thinks about me.
I went to the station and confirmed with Lacy the news that we lost.
She said, " Good. I knew it. Life is easy now. "
We boarded the train. We took our seats.
She was playing a new game.I reached the station and left.
I was on my way home when something special happened unexpectedly…