Chapter seventeen

The next day we left the hospital, I didn't know what Sara had done to get us treated without registration and without anything, but we couldn't let Alison be discovered, so neither he nor I said anything.

We arrived at the dormitory at noon, there were some wounded classmates, we were informed that in a week they would resume classes, since all of them were married and wounded, and among the most seriously wounded was Liz.

When I entered the room the first thing I did was to lie down on the bed, and think about what had happened, I do not deny that I was happy, I was over the average and could look at others with my head up, but I was worried about the two girls, they had been injured, and I wanted to thank them for helping me, thanks to her I was able to get here.

A week went by quickly, some recovered their strength quickly thanks to the medicine that after the war registered advances in the average time of healing of the wounds that were totally healed in three weeks.

On Monday we were all called to the school square to give the information of the test, first they started with the third year students and were in the first places those that everybody expected.

In the second year the same thing happened.

I expected Alison to be the best, but the teacher at that moment made a pause and talked to another teacher, then talked and one by one called the best eight.

-Saúl Palacios, Pablo Obregón, Carlos Cruz, Mónica Suárez, Samantha Gutiérrez, Alejandra Gómez, Albert Saldarriaga, Alison Fernández.

The freshmen were silent, nobody expected that, the supposed best students of each class were already going, who else was there, everyone was rumoring. Until the teacher took a breath and said.

-A surprise for the freshmen, and for the school, the best freshman in this test, was only Luan Olivera.

Silence fell over the square.

-Stop playing, tell the truth, nobody liked your joke," said a fellow freshman.

-Well, that is the truth, Luan Olivera was the best according to these results.

Everyone was incredulous, even I didn't believe it was true.

I looked around and saw the annoyed look on the faces of all the other classrooms.

And to top it all off, the professor added.

-What a sadness, what incompetence, I had never seen anything like this in the ten years that I have been a teacher, a level three student beating level 3 and level 2 students, please have pants, what a shame this is.

The tension reached such a point that they had to call the manager of the company that made the test, who was giving some explanations.

The manager started talking.

-Well, to sum up this whole discussion we must explain that an evaluation was done by the school standards. Only 285 students out of 2000000 who took the first year's test managed to finish it, among them youngsters Lun olivera and Alison Fernandez in that assigned space, both went up to the top floor and working as a team they managed to do it, unlike the others who were 3 and 4. Individually the young Alison was the one who defeated more robots, the homunculi, were only cleaners so that the best ones arrived at the following floors, there is not an exact number of casualties made by him, because he caused an electricity problem in the third floor, besides damages to the facilities destroying dozens of cameras and melting down the lamps, He also destroyed his device, we thought that it would not continue when his information disappeared from our radars, and we almost eliminated it, but other cameras detected it and we left it there, but we deducted points, because of the destruction it caused, nobody caused as much damage to any test as he did. On the fourth floor he arrived with his partner, but the one who finished the test was not him but the young Olivera, in spite of working together the one who finished the test would receive more points, and it was taken by this organization as something important. Although he didn't do everything his partner did, he managed to overcome it and little by little he improved until he reached the end.... A score was added to each thing and that was the result.

The audience more or less managed to grasp the information.

At the request of the school, we must inform the EC of each one.

Alison 430 speed 51, resistance 49, strength 51.

Luan 103 speed 35, resistance 30, strength 25.

This made everything worse. This made everything worse. It was quite different, it wasn't possible for this to happen.

Many people didn't like it.

But Alison didn't care, it seemed normal.

And the discussion went on in spite of the explanation.

Because at first it was said that points were deducted for doing groups.

But the director spoke up and asked Alison.

-Mr. Fernandez, you think you could do this alone.

-I don't think so, there were too many robots, we had to think about what to do specifically on the third floor," said the suede, the look on everyone's face.

-I want to clarify that one of the things we have been promoting the most was group work, this was a rule to measure, how risky they are, if they prefer to lose alone, or go far in a group despite everything.

And that was the end of the information.

I wasn't bothered by the comments, but what I saw at the time, but it was uncomfortable.

Samantha walked up to Alison and faced him, without blinking she looked him in the eye and said

- You let him win, right?

-You saw what the test was like. -Do you think the differences in levels were important?

She thought about it for several seconds and with a simple resentful sentence, she ended the conversation

-You are very stupid.

She walked away from the crowd, while everyone looked at the scene.

After a while each room returned to its class.

Most of the students were injured, so classes were cut short and they left early.

And in each subject, we were very impressed with how we performed in the areas where we failed the most.

Professor Sahara had apparently exonerated Alison from her class, as the test results showed that she used energy manipulation several times and handled it completely, but she wanted to stay.

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Days passed after the discussion in the square and comments were still being heard.

She was still wearing those bandages on her arms.

We sat at a table in the school restaurant at rest.

Liz, was incapacitated for a few days, so she wasn't going to be with us for a few more days.

And Samantha started to walk away from us.

I decided to go talk to her, and I went to the girls' dorm. It was much nicer than the men's and more decorated, with soft colors and floral arrangements.

It was until the room where I once heard that she would be. In room 245.

I knocked on the door and she opened it for me.

-Luan....eh what are you doing here....Alison sent you? right?

-No... I came on my own initiative...

-You don't know what he's done...it's best not to defend him.

-I don't understand why you joined us, if you don't like it.

Maybe she wanted to talk to someone or it made me feel, because her hands were shaking, even she doubted what she was doing.

-It's okay to come in.

I felt strange in a girl's room, but Samantha, unlike the others, was more abrupt than the others, so I was a little better.

I sat on a bed and she sat on the one in front of me and started talking to me.

-The truth is that I also doubt this, but I don't understand Alison. You see he was the other year training with the sophomores and they say that he loved to flirt with the girls, even several ended up as enemies because of him. I've never seen him here, but sometimes I think it's between him and Liz.

-I think I've seen them close up too....

And according to the person who told me this, he's proud and self-centered. A sociopath who only uses us, proof of this is that he wanted to leave the school badly and laugh at the other levels, letting you win, even though he wanted to prevent you from finishing the test, that was his plan.

-I don't really think so.

-Your cousin, she's in on it too.

-She?.... -Is that a joke?...she?

-She made enemies with a friend because of Alison, and with a bunch of other girls. There are even pictures where you can see him quite a bit .....

-Photos?

-But he's asleep, so they don't have much validity.

For a moment I felt that she was interested in Alison not in a friendly way and maybe she was jealous, but it seemed impossible.

-I'll find out what happened. And if Alison is like they say. I think we'll stop being friends.

I was leaving the room at that moment and she spoke to me.

-The best thing is not to say anything to her....That's why she fought with one of her friends and sent him to the hospital, broke several bones and destroyed the place where they fought, which earned her the hatred of the sophomores.

-Don't worry, I'll ask Hana.

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When I left that room I received a message from a relative, it was Gabriela one of my two cousins.

I'm at school, I heard the news from Hana, I'll come visit you.

Immediately the look on my face changed and I knew how annoying my cousin was.

-Hey, I think I'm going to skip class for a while, I have something to do.

And I arrived at the entrance of the school, where I met Gabriela. She looked almost exactly like Hana, only her eyes were blue like mine, and her hair was darker.

She hugged me and almost took the air out of me.

-My parents, they couldn't believe it, how you outdid everyone and came in first, even though we doubted you would make it into this school.

-It was all thanks to a classmate that I managed to get there.

-I want to meet him," she said with a smile, which scared me.

-I think I'd better not.

-Are you sorry to show your cousin?

-It's not that, he's quite serious and I don't think he likes your jokes

-I understand, let's go to the city, I want to meet her, I see that you blew up your class to see me.

-Ah...yes, but...me.

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We ended up in the school cafeteria at one point or another.

-Luan, I want to know who your partner is, since you told me that, I started thinking, because someone so strong, became friends with someone like you, unless I see you as something else I don't see the reason.

Immediately I got a little upset and responded.

-He made a bet on me, just for that.

She was taking something and almost drowning, and she said.

-And what's that guy's name?

-Alison Fernandez.

She got more serious and spoke up.

-That boy....mmmm....

-What? -Do you know him..?

-He was a boy Hana liked, but he has mental problems and almost killed another one. I think he's using you to talk to her, because of what happened.

-I've never seen you two together.

-Okay, I think it's best that we go talk to him.

My cousin got out of the chair and I followed her. I even started to believe what Samantha said. Little by little we got to my room.

There he was, and he opened the door for us.

Gabriela touched his hair when she saw him.

-You're quite handsome... I understand why the girls love you.

Alison was a little taller than her.

-Who is she Luan?

-She's my older cousin, Gabriela.

-Mmmm, okay.

Without thinking twice she lay down on one of the beds and started talking.

-Hey, Fernandez, tell me, do you want to keep bothering Hana or what?

He may have felt uncomfortable and quickly responded.

-She's a great friend, I know things may not have ended well, but I'm not bothering her or anything.

-And why did you do all this for Luan?

-It was a coincidence, they didn't know they were family. They don't even look alike.

Gabriela grabbed him by the shoulders and without warning hit him pretty hard

-What are you doing, are you crazy? .... How could you even think of doing that?

Alison was only touching her head and she didn't do anything to it.

-Mmmm, apparently you don't hit women, but you do like to get them to do you favors.

He didn't raise his head, he just left the room.

I was outraged against my cousin, I didn't understand why he had done that.