Nelly muttered " Oh god " under her breath as she saw how Rage Mathews looks like in real life " he was epitome of everything a girl truly desire".
Though she hated this man but this kind of beauty makes it difficult to really hate him.
She remembered in the exam out of 670 this guy scored 666 while she herself scored 660. So,just by six marks she lost the bet she made with her father " if she ranked first she could go to university of her choice or else she had to study in their University of Wyoming that was close to them. As they said they wanted their daughter a phone call away".
She felt flush as she sat next to him, previously she suspected he had done some kind of cheating and wanted to challenge him on stage for that.
But now she felt it was difficult for her to speak to him, let alone challenge him.
But probably her anger over the situation gave her the courage she spoke " so, you topped the National exam that's pretty great. But I never saw you attend any class how is that".
She waited for his reaction but to her surprise,he remained mum. As if her talking to him was like joker performing in the circus.
She clenched her hands as she felt anger boiling inside her. By that time the speech by Head master was over and it was time for presentation of award.
Nelli who initially wanted to not create any scene felt her ego bruise.
She raised her hand " Sir,I would like to challenge Rage Mathews in a challenge of mind".
Challenge of mind was an old tradition in their school that was used to check knowledge of mental capacity and knowledge of two students by asking questions from any and all subjects.
Anyone professor or students could ask questions to them and the total tally would make them prove their worth.
The dean had no problem as such events was best at inspiring student to work hard.
A platform was placed forward and soon questions was fired one after the other many joined the fun.
Initially the questions were easy but soon wide range of topics from complex maths to ancient history to biology to chemical equations.
Nelly was active and excited to answer but when she saw Rage,he had look of arrogance and boredom as if the questions that could make student cry for their life choices was too easy for him.
He would always answer first then gave the next one to her voluntarily due to which the result soon turned draw.
Last round was they each would give question to each other.
Nelly excitedly went to white board and wrote a complex differential equation on the board.
Rage looked at it as she wrote and casually wrote the number zero next to it.
The head master went forward asking rage to write the complete procedure
But Rage yawned "the complete procedure is on the five thirty six page second line under miscellaneous questions the detailed solution is given there. I don't want to waste my effort on this anymore".
Nelli have him the marker " it's your turn".
Rage rejected it " I have no interest in proving my intelligence nor do I have time.So,please you can go forward and further boost your ego standing there I have to go".
Leaving Nelli ashamed Rage left the hall.
All Nelli could do standing there was curse him in her heart.