After that time Ashtria tried to focus herself to study, eventually because of Grandpa Fa's advice her emotions started to calm down. Slowly Teacher Sandy noticed something. She noticed how fast and easily she learned. The other kid is only starting to know colors and shapes, but when it comes to her she already knew them.
At first, she taught she can't keep up because she saw that sometimes Ashtria is not even listening to her and looked bored in class instead. But when one day she tried Ashtria to answer something that's when she finally realizes it. Her level of intelligence is not on par with these kids.
Teacher Sandy is all aware of how intelligent their family is, especially Grandfather Famonte. She knew how kind of popular grandfather Fa was long ago because they are somewhat acquainted with each other.
She still can't help but get surprised.
She asked her how she knew these things and who taught her.
Ashtria said that it is her mother who taught her.
Her mother had already taught her many things before she died along with her grandfather. At the age of three, they've been teaching her many things to sharpen her brain. Teacher Sandy decided to test how high her level of intelligence is. She got shocked because Ashtria already know how to read.
Not only simple reading but can also already read English with ease, unlike the kids her age. That's when Teacher Sandy decided to talk to her grandfather. Grandfather Fa isn't aware of the actual level of intelligence of Ashtria. But now when he talks to Teacher Sandy, he was surprised and at the same time proud. He knew that they have a high intelligent level that came from genes.
But from the look of how surprised Grandfather Famonte is, he also didn't expect Ashtria to have this level of intelligence. But after all, the genes mixed in Ashtria's blood are also not ordinary at all.
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Grandpa Fa laughs in delight because of how proud he felt of his one and only granddaughter. Aside from being a retired military soldier, Ashtria's grandfather was a top scholar in the past. He was also the first one who got the perfect score on the college entrance exam.
That's why many people admire his existence.
After Grandpa Fa and Teacher Sandy talked they decided to advance Ashtria to a grade level that par on her intelligence. But first, she needs to take an exam for that.
Her grandfather and Teacher Sandy processed the things needed for her to advance.
After the exam, the decision comes out, and Ashtria will going to advance to grade two. They even going to place her in the first level section. All her classmates were already eight, nine, or ten years old and she was the only one who was five years old.
She's the youngest in her class, but also becomes one of the most favored students because of her intelligence.
Because of that and some of her classmates become envious of her existence.
One morning, some nine to ten-year-old boys tried to bully Ashtria they shove their assignments at her and say that if she is that smart, why doesn't she answer all of their assignments for them?
Ashtria just calmly give back their assignments and said; "Why would I do a task that's not mine."
From elementary grade school, someone will always try to bully little Ashtria, at first she become a bit irritated and annoyed, but she slowly learns how to tolerate and just ignore them.
Ashtria's intelligence and skills even improved, while years continue to pass by, Ashtria's intelligence continues to get higher. But not only that, she slowly realizes that her skills how to read people's actions and emotions continue to get sharper.
That's because of how the people in her surroundings look at her, she learns that not all the praise she got from these people is genuine. Some of them were only a show on the outside, but deep inside they wanted to see her one day tumble and fail. She can read their true emotions through their eyes.
At the early age of ten Ashtria become a middle school student, at her first day of school all of the students look at her way weirdly. Because they thought that Ashtria looks small but the truth is she is young, years younger than them. Of course, like before throughout her middle school journey she faced the eyes of either envy or amazement.
But during middle school, Ashtria met a friendly girl named Raign, she's a bubbly sunshine girl, friendly and talkative.
For the past years that she started to study she only met people's envy towards her, or sometimes when someone approaches her, they only approached Ashtria because they wanted to take advantage of her, but now that she met Raign she started to slowly open up.
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Rings...
The bell rings indicating that the time for lunch has come, "Yey! mah favorite subject! LUNCH!!!" Raign shouts out loud, the other students only laugh at her, used on her antics.
"Hah? Favorite subject lunch, if you don't pass your assignment again by tomorrow I will finally call your parents Raign." the teacher warns her, Raign let out a sharp gasp, and only giggles.
"Ashy! Ashy! let's go! I'm starving!!!" Raign runs towards her friend's seat.
The teacher finally out, "Raign you don't need to shout." said Jane.
Jane Lamborge is timid, but she is also one of Rain's friends and eventually becomes one of the people around Ashtria, when Raign becomes her friend she also introduces the timid Jane.
"But I'm really hungry now!!!" Raign complains, "Okay we will eat, no need to hurry." Ashtria said and smiled at Raign.
"You are two years younger than us but you're so mature Ashy," said Raign.
Ashtria only smiled at her, then head along with them to fill their empty stomachs.
Raign Hilstone is two years older than her, she's already twelve years old and will be thirteen soon, while Jane Lamborge is already thirteen, and will be fourteen next year.
In this class, she is the youngest, but she is the most intelligent. Every test she takes she will get the highest score, and every time she scored higher than everyone, this class will be filled with different kinds of emotions. And these two only look at her differently, they always treat Ashtria as a friend and a classmate like a normal student, and they are a group of friends like normal middle school students.
Lunchtime eventually ends, and as the hour passed the time for their math subject arrived, their math teacher is a young twenty-five-year-old man, known as Teacher Rometrie by his students.
Many students have a crush on this teacher, even the students in higher grades have a crush on this particular good-looking teacher. His name is Ian Rometrie, he's a top student in the college entrance exam. He also graduated with outstanding grades with a high degree from the most prestigious school in the country and that is Golden Collage University, also the school where Ashtria's grandfather graduated.
And that's where Ashtria wanted to go, she want to know how Golden Collage University is because of the influence of her grandfather who always brags about his knowledge and achievements to her every single day.
"Are you all ready for a pop quiz?" teacher Ian announced,
"What!? ahhh of all subjects why math?" Raign complains, teacher, Ian only laughs, making the girls in the classroom who have a crush on him blush.
"Oh, even his laugh is so attractive!" students gossip to each other, "Students stop it already! Okay to boost all of you, I have an award for the one who will get the highest score."
"Huh? Sir, what kind of award is it? Sir don't be unfair, we all already know who will get the highest score in the end." a girl said while looking in a particular person's direction.
Ian laughs, "Oh~ y'all are curious? Okay I will say it." he sits at the front desk and looks at all of the students in front of him.
He then suddenly smiled, and when he smiled his dimple showed and it only made him more handsome.
"Okay, the award I will give is...whether it's a girl or a boy the one who will get the highest score can get a kiss on the cheek from me." he grinned cheekily, while all of the girls in the classroom blushed.
The quiz continues, and all of the students of the first class are determined, not only because of the award but all of these students in this class are the most outstanding students throughout the first years of middle school grade.
And also since Ashtria keeps outstanding everyone because of her intelligence, and the fact that she's that smart at such a young age, they want to prove themselves.
Because this section is where all of the smartest gathered.
First Year class A-1.
Teacher Ian continues to write on the board, these math problems were from the past lesson he taught these students, and all of them are arranged by him in random numbers. He keeps writing the questions on the board without an expression on his face. You can see that despite being a friendly teacher, he was still strict with his students.