Exam Day

Renir hurried up and quickly finished the shower. With a towel on, he peeked through the shower room door and asked, "Nurse, where's the PE uniform?"

"Oh, I'll bring it to you." Nurse Mitha looked at one of the cabinets and took a set of the uniform she thought would perfectly fit Renir.

When she was about to hand it over, Renir reached out his hand.

But when she saw that arm, Nurse Mitha slightly tilted her head and paused which Renir stared back at her.

She then whispered, "Don't you have a wound on both of your arms?"

Hearing this, Renir remembered and was about to retract it but Nurse Mitha grabbed it first before he could retract and immediately, her eyes widened.

But with a little bit of effort, Renir easily retrieved his arm and stayed silent. He didn't know what to say. He couldn't just spout and come up with some bull since Nurse Mitha is, in fact, a nurse if anybody did not notice.

She also helped him bandaged both his arms so he couldn't deny that she remembered wrong.

After a moment of silence, Nurse Mitha put her arms behind her with the PE uniform on her hands and took a big step back.

"Umm... Nurse?"

"Step out. I know you're in a towel." her usual childish tone towards Renir was gone.

Renir was suddenly placed in a spot. However, he had no other choice than to step out. There were only a few minutes before the exam begin. Renir already had consecutive unexcused absences, he didn't know if the school will still tolerate his actions.

So, he stepped out, showing his body with only a towel covering the bottom part.

When Renir's body was showed to Nurse Mitha's curious eyes, it was like a brilliant light that shone upon her glittering eyes.

It was like a masterpiece of the greatest sculptor, refined in every edge, balanced in every curve, accentuated by the light as its shadow shows every line and depth, not too brawn but not too skinny either, and overall, lean and slender. In short, it was the perfect body almost everyone sought for.

"...Woah..." Nurse Mitha was speechless as she blushed and pursed her lips. Meanwhile, Renir became bashful and closed his eyes with a frown due to embarrassment. He couldn't believe that someone else appreciated his new body first before him. He didn't even notice the changes until now.

"But..." Nurse Mitha leaned her body forward, arms still on her back, while she inspects Renir's body which made him more reddish, "How?" she whispered and encircled him, examining every detail, "How..? How..? How?!"

Nurse Mitha gulped a little and was silently breathing hard. If she does not have a youthful and pretty face, she would look like a pervert. Even without seeing this, Renir already looked discomforted.

After encircling Renir for a few more times, she stopped in front of him and poked his tight eight-pack abs. With a slight touch,

"Ah~!" she reacted as if it was the other way around.

"It's hard as a rock..." she whispered again and only then did she straighten herself up.

Renir then peeked through his eyelids when he sensed this and saw Nurse Mitha just staring at his torso with a finger on her lip and a face of puzzled expression, but most of all, she was reddish from cheeks to the neck.

"... Nurse Mitha?" he tried to call her attention.

"How?" but Nurse Mitha only repeated her question which Renir was still conflicted to answer. Although he always tells her his story before, this one was different. There might be consequences which worried Renir, but in the first place, would she even believe it?

After the pause, Renir heard, "How did you get so toned? I remember that you were a little thinner but now, it's... Woah..."

Nurse Mitha's brows furrowed as she whispered, "This shouldn't be possible, only two days had passed." and lifted one eyebrow right after, "Did you get surgery?" she encircled him again one more time, "Eh... but... there are no traces of it coming from surgery."

After a short series of talking to herself, her eyes finally met with Renir's, and asked, "What did you do?"

'This is the worst-case scenario...' Renir thought. He knew too well that this nurse was always bored to death that was why she always listened to him out of entertainment and curiosity. And if she got curious, she will do everything to learn the truth behind.

"Tell me." Nurse Mitha crossed her arms under her chest and adamantly insisted.

Renir couldn't think of any possible consequences of telling the truth. Only his guts tell him not to but those guts are what saved him multiple times before. However, knowing the nature of this lady in front of him, he gave up, 'It's up to her if she will believe me or not.'

He sighed and said, "Okay, I will tell you but it's already time for the exams to star-

Kringg~~*

Just before he finished his sentence, the school bell rang that signified the time, 7:00 AM which is the start of the exams.

"Tsk!" Nurse Mitha turned her head around with frustration, "You have to come back later." her eyes rolled towards him.

'Later, I will tell Imee the truth too so the privacy here is what I needed.' Renir completely decided with a nod, "Okay, I will come back after the exam... so, can I put on some clothes now, nurse?" Renir shyly pointed at the PE uniform at Nurse Mitha's hands.

"Hmph" grumpily, the nurse handed the clothes but retracted it again which she turned her head forward and said, "I don't trust you, you said the same thing the other day."

"Eh?..." Renir put on a stiff smile, "So what do I do?"

Putting her fingers on her chin, Nurse Mitha pondered, "Hmm" and said, "If you don't come back here, I'll say that you just made up your excuse letter. I've got quite a reputation here, you know!"

"Ugh..." Renir's face turned bitter, "Fine, I'm going back as soon as I finished the exam."

"Hm~ okay. I can't wait to hear your story." Nurse Mitha handed the PE uniform with a sweet smile, "And I'll do your bandages so that no one would notice."

"But I already garnered some attention earlier."

"It's fine, if someone asked, just say that you hid the wound with some skin-tone cream." she then turned around and took the bandages from the cabinet.

Seeing her cheery mood, Renir was a bit relieved.

After just a couple of minutes, Renir was done and ready. But before leaving, he also borrowed a pencil and eraser from the nurse.

Without any time to spare, he walked straight into his room which surprised everyone in there while some were expecting him to arrive because of the whispers from earlier.

Their teacher grunted but did not say a word as he gave the test papers to Renir. After all, Renir was confirmed to have connections to the Idol and it would ruin the competitive Alpha's mood if Renir was defeated by default without a fight.

"Ohh, looks like he didn't get scared and flee from the fight." Marvic silently laughed which the other two followed, thinking how Renir's effort will just get toppled over.

In the Pentoran High, or like any other school, there are two types of students. The first one would be the students who took the exam seriously and the second:

"You buy me a drink if I finished first."

"Sure, but if I win, it's the other way around."

"Deal!"

"Hey! Focus on the test!"

.....

For the whole day, there are eight subjects to test on. After the fourth subject, it will be a lunch break. Anyone can choose to continue to the next subject or rest after finishing one test with a time to prepare. Once the first student finished their test, the teacher will immediately check the answers quickly since the test scores and ranking will be posted on the day right after the exam.

From grade 10 (First year) to 12 (Third year), it's been like that. Only in exams was the Pentoran High took their jobs seriously because there are outstanding students they want to boast to another school so they will put the ranking board in front of the school as fast as possible. That was their only pride coupled with the athletic students topping the districts with even Harvie having a chance to fight international as the school of delinquents before.

Thinking that he may disturb Imee if he visited her in the middle of her examination, Renir decided to wait until lunch so that he can keep himself focused too.

.....

Three hours had passed with an hour still left to spare. The school was quiet as some students were focusing on their exams. Marvic, Ken, and Sian were all having irritated faces as they work on the problems, but most of all, it was because Renir already finished rechecking his answers and was confident about it so for the fourth time, he surprised his teacher who was balding.

While doing so, it reminded him of Olmen...

The others who mocked and belittled him were swallowing their own words, while some was still confident that the Alpha would defeat him. Because for them, catching up to two weeks worth of lessons while still reviewing in hope to get near the perfect score was nigh impossible.

Meanwhile, his teacher was baffled that he inwardly didn't care if Renir had a long streak of absences. That was so because of the results Renir showed him.

'All perfect scores on the first four subjects!' that teacher's hands trembled as he finished checking, 'Excellent!' he then looked at Renir with amazement but kept his emotions in check and said with an indifferent tone and expression contrary to his thoughts, "Renir, you can have an early lunch."

Finally, Renir heard what he was waiting for and left the class, surprising them.

"Eh..? Hahaha... maybe that wimp gave up early." Sian scratched his head as he was stuck at the second subject with only an hour remaining.

On the corridor, Renir was all smiles as he ran through the corridor and to Imee's classroom. When he reached the classroom, he didn't see anyone outside which means no one had yet finished their exams for the first half.

Renir thought Imee would definitely finish before him but it doesn't seem so. As he peeked through the windows, he saw one seat empty and no Imee there.