Searching for Love, Found Wealth

Chloe was speechless after hearing Charles and I were besties from little. In other words, she didn’t believe we were.

I was starting to doubt we were too. Or more or less, that he saw me as one.

“He was my total crush back then. And you know him?” she screamed in my ear.

“Yeah, I do” I covered my ears. My eardrums were banging.

Now for the time when they tell me about Charles life at school and the bell rang. Time to get back to class.

“Already?” I groaned.

We stood up from our desks with sloppy shoulders. Nancy came running to us.

“Physics tests!! And it is our assignment that was the main point of the test” she squealed.

Chloe and I shouted, “What!” at the same time.

That assignment had been done by Charles for me. And I didn’t bother learn how to do it. Is this Karma?

Chloe’s reason was funnier. She had sent it on the internet for some Physics masterminds to solve. She had just copied and pasted when they’re done.

She didn’t even know if it was right. At least she had a look at it and could just copy and paste again from memory.

Charles just said he was done and I tucked mine in my bag. How lucky I was.

Sheena was better off. She said Jennifer was in a good mood that day and had explained a little to her.

During the test, I looked at Chloe as she looked at me. I solved the theory part of the questions and gazed at the calculations.

“Forty minutes more. Stop moping around” the teacher screamed. I bet she was looking at me.

“Done ma’am” Nancy raised her hands to submit. The teacher smiled at her and went to retrieve her book.

“So bright” the teacher complimented her. I squeezed my face. I’d be so dim when she’d see mine.

To cut my terrible ordeal short, I raised my hand to submit, Sheena shook her head at me. I then saw she was scribbling down something for me under her desk. A cheat?

I frowned and shook my head back. I didn’t cheat.

She hid it away before the teacher came to me. She took my script and glanced through it.

“Like a typical Martinez. They do the one they can and leave the ones they can’t” her face was straight.

I don’t know why I shrugged but I felt it was rude. She responded by rolling her eyes and left me. She didn’t seem so annoyed that I ignored forty percent of my questions.

And what was the “like a typical Martinez” talk?

Chloe passed me a book hurriedly. “We are having a Chemistry tests after this. Read up” she whispered.

What? Another one?

I went pale. I was so sure I’d get an average mark in that Physics and now Chemistry came along?

I flung the book open.

“Miss, please read outside to avoid distracting others” the Physics teacher said to me. All the other students who finished were outside.

They all had Chemistry books. The sheeit was real.

They looked surprised to see me out. I bet they thought I’d be bad at physics. I was.

Jennifer had a scowl on her face. She was sitting with Jasper and his crew.

When I came closer to them, I was sure she frowned deeper.

She also seemed to have stretched her legs to cover the little space that was besides Jasper.

Okay… so I turned around and saw Nancy reading alone.

“Can I read with you? Hopefully something would get in?” I smiled.Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

“I usually read better alone but no problem. I read for the tests yesterday. Wanna have quiz section?” she blinked.

I was glad at her comeliness. But how did she know of the tests to have read yesterday? These tests weren’t announced.

“Should we?” she brought me back to Earth. I nodded my head. She began opening her books and I remembered I didn’t even know a thing in Chemistry.

“So you can calculate purity of substances right? I feel is gonna be huge in our questions” she shuddered. My lips quaked.

“Okay, let’s start with the basics, what is the stoichiometry of a reaction?” she covered her book.

Basics? Was that a basic? Stock marquetry?

If that was basic, I’m “basicer”.

I know our topic was about products and reactants, one. And lots of things combine and dissolved, two.

“Um… so, it’s like reactants, products,… forming and dissolving and having reactions” I mouthed.

“Really?” she dragged it.

I slumped her shoulders and honestly admitted that I haven’t read a thing.

She looked defeated and gave me back my book, “Read then”.

I pouted. She just read, ignoring me.

I looked down and saw the meaning of the STOICHIOMETRY REACTION.

“The mole ratio in which reactants combine and products are formed gives the stoichiometry reaction”.

Had to do with reactants and products anyway. And they combined.

Maybe my ‘explanation’ was vogue.

I read more on it, tried to understand. If Nancy said it will come out, it could.

I saw her reading something on METALS too so I flipped over to that part as well. Metals were easier.

And the periodic table, much more fun.

More students walked out from the class and soon physics test was over. Why would they give a test during second week?

Sheena and Chloe hadn’t come out of the class yet.

I peeked in and my mouth dropped when I saw Chloe still writing but the teacher scolding Sheena for… a cheat? I sighed.

She should have disposed of that stuff earlier. Now it would be disadvantage to Chloe.

“I didn’t use it, I swear. I wanted to give Kiera but she refused it. Chloe said she didn’t want it either” I lip-read her. She shouldn’t add me to her problems.

“Kiera Martinez didn’t want it?” the teacher looked outside and I quickly turned my head away.

“Read REDOX TITRATIONS well. It’ll show” Nancy stood up and said.

My mind was blank, of course but I just nodded.

Chloe and Sheena crawled out later.