Miss Lee, the chemistry teacher stood at the door of the staffroom having a talk with one of the junior students when she saw Jiang Meiying walking to class with a calm look on her face.
"Wait here." She told the student before walking forward, calling Jiang Meiying. "Student Jiang Meiying."
Jiang Meiying turned and the teacher let her come to her.
"Good morning Teacher Lee."
"Good morning Jiang Meiying. How are you?"
Jiang Meiying nods. "Mm. I'm fine."
She pulled out an envelope from under her arm and hands it over to Jiang Meiying who took it with an inquiring look on her face.
"Da Xia, the class president isn't in school at the moment, and I'm needed at the hospital right now. This is last year's college entrance examination sheets for Chemistry. I got one from from my son in college, and I made 30 extra copies for all of you,"
"I won't be around during the second period, so I need you to share this in class for me, and ensure that everyone writes this as their cumulative test for the term. Can I trust you to do that for me, Jiang Meiying?"
Jiang Meiying nods calmly.
"Of course, Teacher Lee."
"You can tell Da Xia to drop off the examination scripts in my office after my period is over."
"Mm. Teacher Lee?"
"Yes, Jiang Meiying."
"What about the other subjects, can I get the past questions for them too?"
"Well, I'm not sure my son has everything still intact but I'll check for you, okay?"
"Okay." With that, she turned away and left to her classroom.
When she arrived, she noticed the class had very few students which was not surprising since it was still early and several spare minutes before first period.
She went straight to her seat and put the envelope away in her bag. Li Fu and Hai Bo rounded her up immediately.
"Jiang Meiying. What's that envelope you have there?"
"Jiang Meiying, we noticed you don't arrive in a limousine like your sister. Do you really run to school from home?"
"I enjoy running." She simply replied and the boys stared at her, dumbfounded.
She explained to them what the envelope was all about, and the boys were ecstatic to hear that they could get a glimpse of it first-hand before the main examination time today.
"Let's solve some of the questions with our textbooks. No one will know, Jiang Meiying."
"Yeah. Jiang Meiying, won't you like to get a good score in chemistry?"
With one cold glance, the boys crumpled under her gaze like it was a hot sizzling iron and they were moist fabrics.
"That's cheating... and if you think you're going to succeed doing things like that, you might as well forget passing your college entrance examination."
The boys almost fell on their knees.
"We were just kidding around, Jiang Meiying!"
"Yes. We didn't mean it!"
She sighed and decided to change the topic by requesting for their homeworks. She had given them some sums to do on Mathematics yesterday.
As she went through it, she noticed there were some errors but their solving was accurate and neat. That was another thing to consider when it came to solving math's equations.
She was a bit pleased and the boys hovered around her like flies, anticipating her words of praise.
Hai Bo spoke up immediately,
"Jiang Meiying, we convinced some of our friends to join us for the lesson but on condition..."
"What condition?"
"They have doubts about your teaching method, so they want to sit through the whole first lesson today for free before making any other decisions."
"Okay. How many are they?"
"Hop, Jie, Zihan, Yuze and Kai. That's five."
"Hmmm. Okay. I think we should use an empty classroom during lunch break so we wouldn't be distracted by the others." Jiang Meiying suggested
"We can use the Chemistry lab. It's always empty from lunch break to school over." Li Fu said.
"Okay we'll use the lab."
At that moment, Jiang Ming and the Liu twins walked in, causing heads to turn as usual. They had smug looks on their faces as they ignored Jiang Meiying and the boys, just like the rest of the students and made their way to the back of the class where they sat down and almost immediately began talking like little mice, giggling too.
Jiang Meiying narrowed her eyes.
She remembered Jiang Ming leaving the house this morning to school before she did. How come she always came to school after she did despite she used a vehicle while she had to run all the way to school? How come she always arrived the same time as the twins?
She didn't realize in her deep thoughts, she was staring Jiang Ming straight in the face. When she noticed her blank gaze, she blinked before saying out loud.
"Do you want anything, Jiang Meiying?" Her voice was cold and her eyes twitched angrily. How could she just sit there and watch her now like a creepy stalker?
Jiang Meiying ignored them and turned away, making them look like the fools instead. The twins just fumed and looked away. It's not like any one of them had the guts to approach her after what happened yesterday. They were still bitter that they had to be part of her stupid lessons today.