Chapter 9 : Deskmate to Lovers (9)

Taylor POV:

Camilla's case was very much criticized.

I don't know if it's because of Joe, but the school rarely talks about the stolen clothes, and everyone looks at Camilla differently, and no one says that she is a hardworking student with good moral conduct anymore.

None of this has anything to do with me. Now I am always studying every day. I must make up classes after school and that is keeping me very busy. It was Camilla's occasional glare that I receive, and I have no time to quarrel with her.

Through the endless of study-questions, My final exam rankings improved, from the original top 20, I advance ten and became the top ten of the grade.

And Camilla may have been influenced by the incident, because the ranking dropped to the top nine of the grades, but I was quite happy for she got what she deserves.

In the new semester, I was still very busy, too busy that I forgot the existence of Joe and Camilla.

The people who originally mocked me stopped mocking me. They used to laughed at people's failure, but now they saw that the person they used to mock, had become friends with the person who is the first in the grade, and I climbed to the top ten of the grade. I were praised by the whole school. Both Lucia and I got personally comparable.

At the end of the second semester, I had passed the third grade and successfully won a scholarship.

I had gone back to my house and wanted to celebrate with my parent, and suddenly realized that it had been a long time since I saw my drunken father. When I asked Mom, I learned that dad went to look for some job opportunities.

Only one sentence was left to me: Taylor my darling daughter work hard, how can I give up when I see that my daughter has not given up and I hope not be a bad role model for my daughter.

That day I called Lucia in the middle of the night, crying and telling every little detail from small to big before going back to sleep. As a result, we arrived late that they to school.

Two good students came to the door of the classroom and were looked at as rare animals by everyone for a while, thinking that the teacher was about to curse us, we instead heard the teacher talk to us kindly.

"Lucia, Taylor, now that you both are in the second year of high school. You both should study hard, but you must also take care of your body and don't drag each other down."

"Students, you have to learn from these two students."

I was pulled to my seat by Lucia, and I was a little bit dumbfounded, "Good students are different. When we are late, the teachers will automatically find reasons for us."

Lucia just looked at me and rolled her eyes while smiling. She started to write the notes we missed, and I followed her lead. After class we went to the library to read and borrow some books.

While reading I continued to sight as I read my Biology note over a hundred times. Today I had problem with understanding it might be because the big exam is approaching, and I was nervous.

I suddenly cried, and Lucia quickly went to sit by my side. "Hey" Lucia whispered; she did not want to attract the attention of the librarian. "Hey." I replied while crying.

"What`s wrong, love?" I smiled when she used the pet name, she usually used those when I got upset or sad." It this stupid biology that's what wrong." I angrily stared at my notes.

Lucia softly laughed and said "you, got this don`t give up" she suddenly hugged me and I grumbled incoherently from my place in her chest." It does not feel like that."

"Well for a fact I know that you are the smartest person i know and you are also as smart as me, so don't give up. Lets look at it together".

Then she joined me to study on my biology even though she had her own subjects to study for. We sat close together, and she would sometimes give me word of encouragement, running through notes that we both had written. She was my friend and also study buddy and I was grateful for meeting her.

In the second semester of the second year of high school, I was a bit dazed when I was taking the final exam. Moreover, I was praised by the teachers from right to left until I walked out of the classroom door.

The first thing I did when came back to was to grab Lucia's arm forcibly and asked in disbelief, "Am I first?"

"Well, you are." Lucia answered with a smile, a shallow smile was blocked under the black frame glasses, but I saw it clearly, she was smiling.

I really couldn't hold it in anymore, and after a long breath, I giggled and held her arm, "Lucia, I passed and became first!"

"Ok."

"What the..." This was not the reaction I was expecting. There was no disappointment shown by me snatching her place, so my sense of accomplishment was poured a cold water, extinguishing the burning fire a bit, "Hey, I am first, and I surpassed you. Lucia, can you give an expression I can work on pleas? "I placed first and it seems that you don't care at all."

Lucia adjusted her expression and gave me an enlarged smile. "Congratulations!"

Alas... I give up, I shook my head in the arms of Lucia. "It's not a sense of accomplishment with that kind of reaction."

I lowered my head and continued to look at the transcripts of the whole class. Lucia ranked second and the second in the whole year. Originally, I wanted to see how different her scores were from Lucia.

One point! One fucking point.

I couldn't but laugh sarcastically, "I understand, it turns out that you don't even care about this gap, Lucia, you wait, next time I must overpower you a lot..." I looked at Lucia's serious expression and took a deep breath. "At least two points higher than you."

Who the hell was I kidding if I can overpower her by one point it be by a miracle but I suspect my little cute nerd let me surpass her? Ugh I really had the urge to hug and kiss her to death she spoils me too much. Now its time to get my reward.