Once the evening came, they all went to Austin's mansion except for Shiro and Lynx. As Butler Qian prepared their tea and snacks Mark showed his Nintendo and waved it to Austin and Nana.
"So game?" he delightfully said. Austin raised his eyebrows and crossed his arms while looking at Mark.
"Hey, would you mind being responsible? You take your feet here to study!" Austin said to him and they all began to be surprised by what he had said. Asher quickly went to Austin's side and whacked his back which made him shout so loud in his living room.
"What's wrong with you Ash?" He asked while touching his back.
"I must be the one who will ask that! You suddenly changed your hair and now you want to s-" Austin instantly hushes her by covering Asher's mouth.
"HEY! MY LIPSTICK!!!!" She shouted.
"Whatever to the two of you! I know Nana and Yangyang will survive this semester smoothly, make yourself busy too if you want okay?" he boastfully said that's why all of them take a deep sigh because of him and Butler Qian began to chuckle secretly.
"Can I help you to get your books in the library, Young master?" he asked politely.
"Yeah, especially Mathematics!" Austin rapidly moved his eyes again as he recklessly said it in front of his friends.
"What? Are you thinking I am serious about that dare I challenge her? I just want to study because I have to! I'm the heir of the Zhong Family so I need to study harder!" He explained while crossing his arms once again.
"No one's asking for that..." Yangyang whispered as if he had not heard from them.
"T-then let's start!" Austin said with his shaky voice and opened his bag to get his paper and ball pen.
Austin and his friends started to study for their examination, they all wondered and were confused about what was happening to Austin.
"He is serious!" Asher whispered to Yangyang.
"Hey, Yangyang this is correct? Right?" Austin asked Yangyang with a serious expression. Yangyang arched his eyebrows and tried not to be heathen about his response to him.
"Yeah, but just make it shorter like what I had reported last time..." he answered back to him. He makes an enlightened face when he hears Yangyang respond to him.
"Oh! I remember!" he delightfully said while twisting his ball pen and directly coming back on his paper. They exchange stares at each other and Mark just shrugs off his shoulders.
Preliminary Examination has come and Shiro wakes up so early in the morning.
He texted Lynx that he will go first to their University for she needs to pass the quiz records from their old professor that has not been good at new technology. Since Lynx was exhausted from his UAA preparation plus the examination he let him not accommodate her in the meantime.
Shiro goes to her University and is done giving the records to her professor. She immediately goes to the stairs while reading her review on Mathematics even though her first examination is English. When she finally steps onto the 3rd floor someone unexpectedly holds her wrist and pulls her aggressively hiding behind the first classroom.
"HEY! GET OFF ME!" Shiro exclaimed as she is trying to get off her forearm.
"Shhh!" He hushes her and gently covers her mouth with his fingertips. Shiro widens her eyes as she sees Austin with his black and white stripes long sleeve tucked in belted black jeans.
He leaned his arms on the wall and peek at Shiro's paper, "Huh," he arrogantly deep sigh and smirked at her, "You are working so damn hard for me ha?" Austin said and giggled at her while exhibiting his smile making his upper cheek dimples visible.
Shiro aggressively pushes him away from her and mends her hair because Austin strongly leaned her on the wall, "That wasn't funny Austin!" She annoyingly let out and almost belligerently punches his tummy but Austin luckily holds her hand and he starts to laugh hysterically which makes the other early students peek at them.
"Hey! Wait! Calm down! I'm sorry!" He said to her whereas he still tries to block all Shiro's punches at him.
"I told you to not touch me like that!" she demanded.
"Well as if I can call you that easy so I never did- OUCH! SHIRO!" He instantly shouted at her when Shiro just kicked his knees.
"What the hell! You are such an aggressive girl!" He added while he was bending holding his knees.
"Be thankful that I have to study right now!" Shiro said to him and immediately turned her back from him.
"Hey!" Austin loudens his voice but Shiro is still walking away from him that's why he hurriedly stands up and follows her while the other students look at them. Austin goes beside her and she is still frowning and never looks at him
"Hey, common I was just... I just..." he began to startle when Shiro gazed at him and deep sighed her frustrations while clenching her fist again.
"What? You are just joking? Go away annoying brat!" She said and walked before him. Austin chuckled a bit and stared at Shiro's back as she was walking like an angry penguin as per Austin and he instantly looked at his watch for it was still too early for the first class.
"Shiro..." he called her name.
"What?" she answered coldly.
"Do you have your breakfast already?" He asked awkwardly while looking up. Shiro just angrily shrugged her shoulders and turned herself inside the classroom but she was surprised that Austin followed him inside her class and her other classmates began to broaden their eyes as they saw Austin.
Some other girls started to whisper at each other about how Austin's handsomeness with his outfit and new hairstyle. They came to giggle when he brushed up his hair and they slowly got down on his forehead.
"Hey, get out! This is not your class!" Shiro whispered to him and held his arms.
"What? It's still early!" He said loudly.
"If you never confirmed you had your breakfast then I'm not leaving!" he added while raising his eyebrows. Shiro takes a deep sigh and pushes him away through the door.
"Go away!" She said and slammed the door without waiting for Austin to respond then grabbed her phone texting Lynx to come as early as soon as possible.
Examinations have started and the University became more serene but full of tensions and pressure from the students. Shiro is dedicated as always for she studies day and night along with Lynx and sometimes with Asher if there's a chance. Yangyang and Nana are the most confident in the group for they are also hardworking like Shiro and Mark mostly depending on them every time they review for the test.
Lastly, Austin unexpectedly studies for the examination, and even Butler Qian gets surprised by him but eventually loves to see him like that so her mother will never get worried about him. When it's all over Shiro and Lynx immediately go home because Auntie Quennie will have her overtime in the office that's why Austin never had a chance to talk to Shiro once again.
Thursday comes quickly, and that means the results in Mathematics ranking are already on the College bulletin boards. Shiro deeply sighs in front of the mirror when she suddenly thinks back to the dare they had last time. She was confused and bothered at the same time and there are some parts of her that she regrets it. Austin always has a childish idea but she didn't realize she came to be reckless about her decisions when it comes to him.
"I'm not sure... No, I'm sure!" she talked to herself and caught a glimpse of Lynx's message on her and she hurriedly went outside where Lynx was waiting for her.
Shiro hastily ran towards the gate when they finally arrived at school, "Shiro calmed down," Lynx said to her when she was running swiftly going to Zhong Main Building.
"Shiro!" She heard Austin calling her name and she gave an evil stare at him even though Yangyang and Mark were along with him.
"What? Are you ready to get defeated?" He arrogantly asked her and nudged them to tease her.
"As if!" Shiro responded that it makes Austin giggle secretly behind her. "What a competitive penguin," Austin whispered before he placed his hands in his pockets.
As they are all in front of the bulletin board Shiro widens her eyes as she sees the result. Austin moved beside her while grinning his lips before putting his hands to annoyingly pat her shoulders.
"WHOA! WHAT?" Mark was dumbfounded and then Lynx started to control himself to say his sarcastic remarks as he saw Shiro clenching her fist and Austin annoyingly looking at them.
"HAHAHAHA!" Austin hysterically laughs at Shiro for she still cannot believe that Austin will surpass even Yangyang on the examination.
"Tsk whatever... let's go, Mark, we still have to call Ash for the council," Yangyang annoyingly said to Mark and they immediately ambled their feet, and Nana tapped Austin's shoulders and soon came with them.
"I told you it's easy!" Austin said to Shiro and she was still dumbfounded about what happened and reading the ranking for the fourth time.
1. Zhong, Austin - 95.5
2. Im, Nathaniel - 95.3
Liu, Yangyang Amelle
3. Fajardo, Shiro Mae - 94.9
"Arrggh!" Shiro finally reacted while stamping her feet and Austin laughed out loud like there were no other students at the back of them. Lynx looks at the bulletin board and also sees his name on the top ten and he ranked number 8, Asher in the Top 15, and Mark at Top 20.
"Shishi that's fine at least you are in the top ten," Lynx tried to convince Shiro.
"But still!" Shiro halted and glanced at Austin that looked at her more pretentious and confident then stuck his tongue out to tease her that's why Shiro clutches his white t-shirt.
"What?" Shiro asked him and Austin makes himself nearer and grinned at her Shiro suddenly realized people are looking at them that's why she gets off aggressively but Austin just chuckled and precipitously followed Shiro and Lynx scratching his head at the back of them.
"So what now?" Austin asked him and delightfully walked like he won something big.
"Whatever... it's up to you!" Shiro responded while rolling her eyes. Austin cracked up and instantly stopped Shiro. She rapidly motions her eyes.
"W-what?" Shiro started to stutter her words. Lynx runs towards them and pats Shiro's head.
"Shishi, I'm going to the classroom first," He said then hit Austin's shoulders contentiously. When Lynx got away from them Austin and Shiro started to look at each other once again.
"Go ahead and say what you want!" She said
"Your phone..."
"Huh?" Shiro wondered why but before Austin responded he just snatched Shiro's phone from her and instantly typed something and gave it back to her afterward.
"I'll be going to chat with you about the place we are going to..." He said and tapped her shoulders several times and walked away.
"Wait! Austin!" Shiro called his name and he immediately stopped walking.
"See you on Saturday!" he said without looking while throwing his car keys and catching them before he put his hands in his pocket, and took off from Shiro who gets dumbfounded on the aisle while looking at Austin walking away from her.
"You are such a pain," Shiro whispered to herself and sighted him walking arrogantly. She thinned her lips and calmed herself not to point her finger at her Professor in Mathematics.
"See you on Saturday your face Austin pabo!" she screeched before stamping her feet which makes other students look at her, "What should I do now?" She asks in her mind and quickly goes to her classroom.