"H..eyy" Anna replied with her shuttering voice. She doesn't know why but all of the sudden, she felt her body being nervous.
"You must be Anna from second last grade, right?" asked Alex in a very calm tone. But unknown to him, this voice brought more and more storms in herself.
"Yeah." Anna wasn't able to gather the courage to speak more. She was getting nervous in front of him from nowhere.
"Well myself Alex and we both are going to participate in this competition together. " By saying this he sat on the chair close to her and took a mathematics book out of his bag.
"Well, I don't know much about your strength. Why don't you tell me?" Alex asked and by this time he sat on the chair with a prince aura around him.
"I'm good at calculations, statistics, trigonometry...." Answered Anna. Till that time she was a little comfortable around him because the topic shifted to studied.
"Little girl you are quite a genius I think." Alex had a smirk on his lips and he had some other thoughts which were reflected on his face.
"What are we going to do today?" Anna tried to shift the topic back to studies which she did successfully because, after this, Alex's aura suddenly became serious instead of a playboy one.
After a long time, which they felt was very short, it was already five in the evening,
"Alex, I need to go home. I told my mum that I will be back home till 6."
"Such an obedient child you are Anna." With this, Alex packed his back. Although Anna did not like his comment she simply ignored his wordings.
Suddenly Alex's face came close to her, so close that his nose was touching hers, making her heartbeat uneven. Her heart skipped a beat and breath taken away for a few seconds.
"It was nice meeting you, Anna. Hoping to win this competition together." This was all he said and walked back to the door to leave. His charisma was so strong that a girl like Anna was too taken aback by him but this wasn't her mistake.
Anna stood there, her heartbeat was so fast she suddenly felt the need to drink water.
'He was so close, his nose touching mine.... what are you even thinking Anna, he is a playboy, he is messing around no need to think more.' She calmed herself and tried her best to convince herself that it was all nothing.
Things happen which are written in your destiny and this was just the start of her messier life.
....
After coming home, her mother asked her all about why she was staying at school more than school hours, then she told her mother about the competition.
She can see her mother was just super happy when she got to know that her child is selected for such an event!
"My baby, You have to win that, then I can at least boast in front of those ladies whose children study in Ciax high school." Hearing this Anna laughed so loud that she almost fell from the couch
"Mom you are the best you know." Said Anna and she hugged her mother. Her
"I know my child, after all, whose mother I am!!" boasted her mother which made Anna hug her mother more tightly.