"Seriously, did that person hate me to this point?" Ashtria mutters to herself.
This person doesn't want her to attend the final match, meaning this person doesn't want to see her succeed. But does that person think that this kind of trick can stop Ashtria? The more they make things difficult, the more Ashtria's determination will soar.
To reach higher than they can imagine.
This kind of petty trick won't stop her at all.
Ashtria is not a person who easily surrenders without a fight.
Ashtria looks at her surroundings, she's analyzing what possible things she can do to go out of this situation. At the side of her eye, she saw a mop. She walks toward it and grabs it. She can use this to try to break the door open, but she thinks, if she breaks it she will have to pay for compensation so it is not a good option for her to do.
Again she looked around her and built some actions that she could do to go out of her predicament. She took out her phone that she currently had in her pocket. This phone was given to her when she just graduated from middle school two years ago. It was bought by her beloved grandfather.
She looked at the time, there she saw that the competition would start in ten minutes, she needed to act now.
Ashtria looked up towards the bathroom window intensely.
This particular window is located at the top of the wall of the bathroom, so it is quite high, aside from that even though the length was long its width was quite thin.
On this particular side was the school's garden. So if she goes down from that window there is a possible chance that she might step on the blooming flowers planted down there, causing them to break.
If that happens she also has to pay compensation.
But there's still a chance for her to go out through that window without stepping on the flowers. She thinks of an action to go down without breaking any plant.
But that particular action is a bit difficult to do because she has to reach the huge tree's branches and swing her body front and back to jump away. For her to go down to a safe place where no plant will be damaged, but the probability of being injured is kinda high.
But this is the only chance to go out.
Again she looks at her surroundings in this dark bathroom trying to search for a thing that she can use so that she can reach the window up there.
Her eye caught one thing, it was the bucket, Ashtria hope it won't break because of her weight. She walked towards the bucket, she saw that there was water inside of it. She lifts it and spills all the water inside onto the floor. She flipped it over and placed the bucket in front of the window.
Ashtria lift her right foot and placed it on the bucket, she tried to feel if the bucket can withstand her weight. When she saw that it was durable enough she stepped on it and then reached the window. She used all her strength to lift her body. The window is a bit small so she has to force her body to fit.
Indeed it was a bit hard as she was already starting to sweat all over her body, but despite that, she continued her actions.
The last time she looked at the time, it was already ten minutes before the competition started.
If she's not correct it's already five minutes passed since then.
But her hand suddenly weakened, and she slipped back inside the bathroom landing right on her butt. Her skirt got wet because of the wet floor. That's because of the water she just spilled earlier.
"Uhh! Bad luck!" she said frustrated, starting to get annoyed, but she just stands up again still determined.
If she doesn't manage to get out inside the bathroom right before the competition starts, or if the host calls her name once to thrice she will be eliminated. But she won't give up.
She tried to do it again, and this time she doubled the strength in her hands. And force her body to fit, next, she reached one of the tree branches. When her left hand finally reached the branch, she carefully let go of her right hand that she used to hold on to the window and also use to reach the branch.
Then she started to force her whole body out of the window,
"...!" she gasp as the tree branch she was holding onto shook because of her weight, she look down, the tree branch is a bit high from the ground.
Her arms are starting to weaken.
She then starts to swing her body back and front, in her mind she counts, one, two, three. Then she jumped towards the area where there were no flowers, she landed and manage to safely avoid damaging any plant. Unfortunately, when she tried to stand up one of her ankles suddenly aches.
She look down and saw that she injured her left ankle.
Ashtria stumbled and land on her butt again, she frowns because she feel that it hurts, she look at her ankle again, and she saw that it is starting to turn pink.
She immediately looks at the time again, there are only two minutes before the competition starts. She quickly stands up despite the sharp pain she felt, she run as fast as she could, enduring the pain.
Ashtria is determined to fight and she won't ever give up.
When she got there she saw that all the students are looking at their surroundings, her name was already called twice.
"Last call for Ashtria Famonte of year 2 class 1." the host calls for her name for the third time.
"Here!" Ashtria shouts and walks onto the stage while stumbling, their homeroom teacher, Teacher Ann approaches her,
"Ashtria? What happened? Why do you look like that? Are you alright?" she asked worriedly.
"I'm fine Ma'am," she said, and walk up to the stage.
She then stands in her spot, now they are completed, four contestants facing the crowd. After a while the host that speaks again, "Are you alright?" asked Raile who was standing on Ashtria's left side.
"Yes, I am." she responded, "Well you don't look alright at all, Are you sure you can proceed?" he asked her again.
Ashtria look straight into his eyes, "If I want to win, no one can stop me to win." she said and smiled, he was stunned at her words, Ashtria can see it in his eyes.
After a few seconds, he recovers and smiles back at Ashtria.
Not long after that, the Quiz Bee Competition starts.