Meanwhile, before Aurora could think about a way to stop Nathan, Mr Mathew had already called up him to the board to solve that math problem. So, Aurora and the rest of her folk could do nothing but to watch the doom sight of Nathan.
"Lucas, hand the marker to Nathan and You, go and stand next to Aurora there.", said Mr Mathew excitedly as his baiting for new fish had been successfully caught.
"Sure, sir.", replied Lucas obediently while adding by handing the marker to Nathan with a fake encouraging smile which Nathan could clearly see through, "Best of luck, bro."
"Thank you for your best wishes.", said Nathan with a smile by taking the marker from him.
"How did this idiot become so courageous out of the blue??? Isn't he just a nutshell in studies who is not interested and doesn't pay much attention to any kind of lessons or tasks??? If this continues, then my whole plan will flop.", Lucas turned away from Nathan to head to where Aurora was standing by being occupied in his thoughts and hiding his bitterness at that moment under his fake calm and gentle face mask.
But before Lucas could even walk away from there Nathan said out placing the marker on its place by turning to Mr Mathew, "I have completed it, sir."
"What this much fast!!!", all of them exclaimed while taking a quick look at the board as Nathan had finished solving the sum in a blink of eyes.
"What??? how can it be??? Lucas freaked out from inside as he didn't even get the opportunity to walk away from there while turning back to Nathan who was chilling out after solving the sum by standing next to him.
"What's going on???", exclaimed Scarlet while looking at the board with wide eyes.
"I think I am drunk.", said Chole while pretending to be tipsy.
"Am I dreaming???", questioned Ophelia confusedly while pretending to be dumb.
"No, you are not.", said Madison while pinching Ophelia's cheeks.
"The solution seems to be right with no mistakes and also I must say this that he has such beautiful handwriting though a little less than Aurora's yet better than Lucas's and it's worth appreciation.", said Emily while examining what was written down by Nathan on the board carefully.
Mr Mathew who was also surprised with the timing of Nathan immediately took a look at the solve done by him and checked it carefully and said out happily, "Good job, Nathan. It's correct and a lot easier than the method Lucas used. A math problem can be solved in many methods or ways but, as far as I know, this is the easiest method or way that many of us don't come up within time. Once again, good job and now you can go to your seat."
"Thank you, sir.", said Nathan politely and then he took his leave from the board and headed to his seat.
After seeing such a hideous side of Nathan and hearing Mr Mathew giving him such a good compliment the students of the whole classroom were staring at Nathan with shocking eyes like they witnessed some kind of wandering spirit or ghost.
"Well done, bro. You just kill it. Look at everyone and their curious and shocking reactions.", said Oliver who was sitting next to Nathan happily over his friend's unthinkable sudden success.
"Thanks, bro but it was just a stroke of luck by chance. Don't be too much happy for it.", said Nathan while taking a deep breath of relief while giving a consoling pat to Oliver on his shoulder.
"Was it real??? How can he be so fast and can come up with such an amazing method of solving that too both less time consuming and easy for everyone??? Even I didn't think of solving it in this way. Is he really this much amazing???", Aurora kept herself busy with questioning about Nathan in her mind while observing Nathan secretly the whole time from the board to his seat by standing where she was.
Nathan himself was the only one who knew that he only solved the sum in such haste without giving any second thought to it because of Aurora as he didn't want Lucas to approach Aurora with any evil intention and the thought of Lucas's heading to Aurora because of Mr Mathew's instruction was giving him unknown thrills.
So, somehow the secret reason for him to solve the sum in the speed of electricity was only to take control over the situation into his hands by preventing Lucas from going to Aurora yet he couldn't find a solid reason for him to behave so protectively towards her out of the blue.
So, he took a look at Aurora secretly after finishing his words with Oliver and got to see that she was also looking at him curiously. As both of them caught one another looking at each other so they exchanged a slight smile with one another while quickly turning away to different directions embarrassingly as if they had their eyes on each other accidentally but not intentionally where both of them were lost in the same thought, "Seriously what am I doing??? She saw me staring at her secretly/ he saw me looking at him…"
"Okay, then keep moving. We got many things in hands to do in less time.", said Mr Mathew while seeking the attention of everyone to the board by clapping.
With Mr Mathew's words, Lucas and Aurora again got focussed with what they were doing while being lost in thoughts and troubled like everyone else by thinking about how Nathan ended up doing that sum so perfectly even as an average or non-average student.
Meanwhile, Lucas and Aurora were asked to be paused with their task for some while by Mr Mathew as he wanted to add some further explanation to the lesson.
With that opportunity, Lucas took a look at Travis who was annoyingly bearing Nathan's presence and then both of them shared a sly smirk by nodding and hinting something to one another where everyone was busy to hear Mr Mathew's lecture but where none notice their sneaky behaviour yet it couldn't escape Aurora's eyes.
Seeing their expression, it was clear to Aurora that they were up to no good but what were they planning to do exactly she couldn't guess it.
But the moment Mr Mathew was done with his lecture, Lucas suggested politely out of the blue, "Sir, why don't we ask our rest of the classmates to help us solving those new series of math problems like when Aurora and I will solve the problems, you just have to order us to stop in a certain point and ask them one after another to come and solve the rest of spared part of them while providing the explanation along with doing so."
"Good idea, Lucas. Then let's give it a try.", said Mr Mathew excitedly who found it beneficial for others as well as the rest of their classmates but Aurora along with her friends couldn't buy his sudden kindness that much easier as they knew that he was having some kind of alternative motive behind it.
"Hey, Aurora, is this Lucas wants us to die or something???", asked Chole in an irritable voice.
"Buddy, he is up to no good,", said Scarlet while wiping fake tears of her and Chole after hearing Lucas's suggestion as both of them had the anxiety to stand in front of the board.
"I am also thinking that something is fishy about his offer.", said Aurora while observing the sly smirk of Lucas after having the approval from Mr Mathew to his sudden offer.
"Not just something but the total is fishy.", said Madison while sobbing with Ophelia as they two had the similar issue of lack of courage to present their words in front of a crowd.
"Let's watch first.", said Emily while observing Lucas's behaviour.
"Aurora…", Lucas called out her out of the blue.
"Huh???", Aurora who was busy finding Lucas's plan and was focused on her drama queen friends reacted to Lucas's sudden call for her confusedly.
"It's your turn.", said Lucas with a gentle smile while offering the marker to Aurora.
"Cough… cough… cough…", everyone was clearing their throats at their short conversation because for them it was a cute lovey-dovey act of Lucas and Aurora as Lucas was intentionally misleading them with his antiques to make them think so.
"hmm, thank you.", said Aurora who was also shocked to see his sudden approach to her with his cute and sweet antiques while rushing to the board by taking the marker from him.
Aurora went to the board and started her solving the math problems along with her explanations. As the saying goes none can stop a star from shining, Aurora was shining like a star among her classmates while explaining the math problems to them like a professional by living up to her nickname goddess. Aurora's charms were spreading around every corner of the whole classroom while she was ruling like a queen among her classmates.
"This girl, she is full of surprises. I didn't know that she was so good. She never fails to attract my attention.", thought Nathan while chuckling by enjoying the view of Aurora who was doing her job magnificently.
"None can compare to her. The more you shine the more I want you. You are my prey and you will be mine.", thought Lucas with a sly smirk while fixing his eyes on Aurora
Mr Mathew who was enjoying Aurora's explaining process proudly asked her to stop in the middle even though he didn't want to because he wanted to begin the process suggested by Lucas and then he began to invite the other female classmates to take part with Aurora to solve and explain on the board.
After Aurora's section, Lucas's turn began and the male classmates were invited to solve and explain the math problems.
The process went without any obstacles or any cunning moves from Lucas's as Aurora and her friends thought it to be but things became interesting when according to his planning Lucas pushed the toughest question to Nathan's turn which was hard to answer even for both Aurora and Lucas. Lucas's intention to tournament Nathan under the name of a math problem couldn't avoid the gazes of Aurora and her friends.
Looking at that question none dared to come forward to solve it as none of them knew how to solve it properly as a result Nathan didn't have an option but to go for it whatever the consequences might be.
But by observing the tense look of everyone's faces, Mr Mathew decided to avoid that question by telling, "Let's drop this one for another day because it is a little bit tricky one with a different solving system that you all haven't encounter yet."
"But sir, I can give it a try.", said both Aurora and Lucas together where Aurora sounded confident with a slight touch of hidden stress as she wasn't sure about her ability to solve that sum and Lucas too was confident but he had a hidden slyness in his voice which was mainly a secret provoking to Nathan.
"Sir, if you don't mind can I give it a try??? After all, it's my turn now.", said Nathan while getting up from his seat before Mr Mathew could react or give any reconsideration to Aurora and Lucas's words as he could see the hidden sly smirk of Lucas and he knew somehow Lucas was just putting forward an open challenge for him and if he didn't take up his challenge, then he had to give in to be the shadow of Lucas from then on. After all, what Lucas was playing was the game of hyenas and the wining mattered for the throne in the jungle to rule over that was well known by Nathan.
"Of course, why not??? But are you sure???", asked Mr Mathew curiously where he seemed to be happy to have someone else too to offer the chance in the place of Aurora and Lucas to solve the math problems for him.