Darren along with Jandrei and his boys were taken to the guidance councilor by the disciplinary committee, and had to miss the last class, which was Mr. Sheldon's. All because of Darren's arsonistic actions.
So now, it was only me and Kyle sitting on the last column.
Mr. Sheldon still hasn't entered the classroom so Kyle started talking to me while waiting.
"Hey Ocho. Are you hispanic?"
"No. Why?"
"Well, I just thought that Ocho means eight in Spanish, right?"
"Yep. I feel a certain connection with the number 8 you see."
"Would you mind telling me why? I mean, if its okay with you."
"Nothing much. Its just the day of my birthday, and the amount of dreams I'm aiming to reach."
"That's, very cool actually.... And uhh. I was thinking if you wanted to hang out, you know. Just chill out sometime. We could also bring Darren along if you want."
This is quite peculiar.
But.
"....Of course. I'd like that. That'd be real cool."
"That's great! I actually have a vacation house on the outskirts of Athena City. I was thinking of bringing along someone too."
Kyle said with a beam of what people say "his signature smile"
" It's Ichika. I believe you already met her? She said she knows you."
"Yeah sure. I won't mind."
"Then how about next Monday? I'm kinda busy this week so if it's alright with you."
This man is really considerate, you could tell that just from observing how he speaks. But something was telling me that its just the surface that I'm seeing.
"I'll go tell Darren later then."
After our little talk, Mr. Sheldon appeared and entered the classroom. He apologized for being late and started the class soon after.
After a 20 minute short lecture, Mr. Sheldon announced that we will be having a short short test.
"Alright class, I already told you all last time about this test so I'm hoping that none of you will fail this, and that all of you reviewed the materials, because this test will heavily impact your grades. So I will be giving you all 10 minutes for a last minute review, and in the meantime, I will be going back to get something from the faculty building. I should be back within 10 minutes so please behave yourselves."
Mr. Sheldon explained how the test would be. It was a 40 items test, with 2 parts and each with 20 total points.
After that, Mr. Sheldon left the classroom. I had no idea about any of these because nobody informed me. And since I just transferred yesterday, I did not know anything about the lectures of last week.
The subjects in this school are scheduled as followed.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; General Math, Biology, World History, English, and Physics.
Tuesday, and Thursday; Statistics and Probabilities, Basic Chemistry, Contemporary Social Science, Physical Education 1, and Basic Calculus.
Since today is Tuesday, and it is the last class for the day, the subject to be reviewed was Basic Calculus.
As I was thinking of the possible questions on the test. One of my classmate, Ji Lan, who was holding a water bottle and was walking towards the back of the class, as if she was going to put the bottle in the trash bin, walked in front of me and intentionally spilled the contents of the bottle.
It wasn't just water, I knew from the smell that it had a bit of fish sauce and vinegar.
"Whoops! I'm sorry. You should go change quickly, you reek of your natural stench."
Kyle seemed surprise of what was happening.
"Ji Lan! What are you doing?!"
"What? I'm just throwing trash in its proper place."
She said as she put the water bottle in the trash bin and walked back to her seat while covering her nose.
Kyle expressed his concern and started comforting me, telling me that he'll talk with her later and would even force her to apologize. But I had a different idea in my mind.
I stood up from my seat and slowly approached Nicole.
Step by step and one by one, my classmates started observing me, and anticipating my next action.
It started with Nicole's group looking at me until each and everyone of my classmates are looking at me and Nicole.
"Since you like being on top so much, then how about we make a bet? Nicole."
"What are you talking about? Why would I want to gamble with you?"
"Because if you win, I'll gladly leave the school and never come back. Everyone in here are witnesses"
"Hoh? Is that so? Then tell me, Ocho. What are we betting on? Do you want to bet on this test?"
Everyone here knew how smart Nicole was, and that only Kyle could compete with her in terms of test scores, as both of them are from the Top Ranking students.
I looked at everyone present and smiled at Nicole.
"That's right. I just need to prove to you how easy this test would be for me."
"Are you high? You don't even know about the lectures we had last week. Could you girls believe this guy?!"
She and her group of girls, started mocking me and looking at me condescendingly. Everyone else was either pitying me, laughing at me, or saying how much of a show off I am.
"So are you down or not?"
"It would be sad to lose the class monkey tomorrow after the scores are announced, but fuck it, let's do this."
"Well then, do you mind giving me a number from 1 to 20?"
"13. What for?"
I nodded at her and took the whiteboard marker, and wrote the number 26 on the top-left most part of the whiteboard. After that, as I walked back towards my seat, I talked to Nicole once again and in a louder voice.
"Oh, almost forgot. If I win, then you will do anything I want after school."
My words slowly paused all the noises inside the classroom.
But soon enough, my next words brought all of it back, albeit, even more than before the silence.
"Anything."
Everyone watching us got intrigued and the whole class started cheering and making a commotion.
"Go get that ass! Ocho!"
"Yeah! Show that bitch who's boss!"
"You horny lil shit!"
"What the hell man! That's too much!"
Everyone had different things to say, but I only focused on Nicole and asked her.
"So? You still confident you can win against a slumdog?"
"I dunno what you're aiming for but...Fucken' bring it on then"
Once again, all our classmates went into an uproar when they heard Nicole's response. But just when the crowd were starting to get wilder, Mr. Sheldon appeared outside and as soon as someone shouted about him almost at the door, everyone went back to their seats and behaved.
"All right, I hope you kids are ready. Now get one and pass it to the back. And don't start until I say so."