The results for the rankings were up after a couple of days.
Laia could barely breathe at both the anticipation and the anxiety she was feeling. She could barely focus on her studies, much less on her everyday monotonous life.
She couldn't help but overthink. She knew her grades were great-- amazing, even, but there was just this lingering feeling in her head that she didn't do enough and she would never be enough to retain her original first spot again.
What if she couldn't be her batch's valedictorian? What if the privileged asshat who could have gone to any other university except hers get what she wanted and aimed for?
"... Laia? Laia!" Brie was shaking her friend enough for Laia to get a little bit dizzy. "Earth to Laia! Did you not sleep again yesterday? Honestly, I already warned you about all this studying would definitely make you crazy one day..."
"I am not crazy," Laia narrows her eyes but sighs again. "yet."
