Senseless
Rotten Girl, Fresh BoyCHAPTER I
Senseless
Breathe. She told herself. It was a mistake. She again tried to convince her conscience, but it wasn’t enough. Her teeth chattered, anyway.
“Ms. Shin, you got 98 out of 100 points, in second place.” She heard the teacher calling and she almost had a heart attack. What? She tried to blink hard, hoping it was all just a dream and it will go away. But it didn’t.
Standing up, she went to the front to get her paper. “Congratulations,” the teacher said, handing her the test. In her seat, she stared intently at her test score, almost ripping it apart with her gaze. 98 points? Two mistakes? It couldn’t be.
Upon inspection of her mistakes, however, she noticed that the items she got wrong we’re just careless errors. She wanted to smack herself. She double-checked her answers! How could she have missed that?
The anger slowly gloated inside of her. It was unbelievable to get angry over a test. But she did. Staring to her side, she looked at him with a hard gaze. Him. The boy who had claimed her top spot. The boy whose name was called before hers. The boy who got all the 100 items correct.
Noticing her intense stare, he turned his head toward her. Nothing was evident in his eyes. Just... Nothing special, at all. But he still stared at her. He stared at her that she felt uncomfortable enough she had to look away.
She remembered his name. Byun Baekhyun, it was.
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As soon as she got home, she chucked her failed test under her closet – where all her other failed tests were hidden. It wasn’t the first time she got lesser than 100% – its’ happened before. But the difference was, those times she still came on top. This time, she did not.
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