Justine's POV:
"Justine you should hurry up, or you will miss your exam, " Damon told me with an emotionless expression on his face.
I was worried about him so I asked him,
"What about you?"
"I will go as well after I calm down" he replies with the same emotionless face.
I felt that he was pushing me aside because he wanted to be alone for a while, so I went into the bathroom and changed into my uniform without showering then I went out of the room closing the door on him leaving him behind all alone in the room.
Damon's face which was devoid of all emotions and his lifeless eyes. This was the image that kept popping in my mind throughout the whole exam. Fortunately, I could answer all the questions with ease thanks to Damon's tireless efforts in teaching me every night.
After I was done with the exam I went back to my room with a big smile on my face proud of my achievement in today's test.
When I came back to the room, the lights were turned off, so I let out a sigh of relief thinking that Damon had gotten over it and went to the exam.
But it was far from over; when I turned on the lights, to my shock I saw Damon curled in his futon on the ground with his eyes wide open.
I asked him if he had stayed up here like that the whole time, but he wouldn't reply.
That day, I tried tirelessly many times to talk with him until my throat became sore, but it was to no avail.
My words would bounce back to me as if I am talking to a wall; he doesn't hear anything I say and he doesn't talk to me at all, his mind seemed completely blank.
The exams week has passed and Damon didn't attend a single test of them.
Damon was known to be a role student; he hadn't missed a single test since he enrolled in the school. So his classmates would come to my class and ask me about him.
Obviously, I couldn't tell them about Damon's condition, so I told them that he was sick.
After the results of the exams were out, I went to check the scoreboard, I looked up at the top of the scoreboard, my name was written beside rank 1 but Damon's name was nowhere to be found on the scoreboard.
The human's nature is rather weird; I thought that I would be happy and celebrating when I placed first in the ranking, but now that I am there I feel rather empty instead.
At the beginning When i seeked Damon's help in my studies, I had a clear goal in my mind; it was to get the top ranking.
But somewhere along the way, my goal changed into beating Damon instead of getting the first place.
I just realized now that the first place doesn't matter to me as long as I beat Damon.