It's not called cheating. This is teamwork!

Hetalia belongs to Hidekaz Himaruya

Elizaveta knew that she was not trusted to Gilbert's silly faces earlier before the exam because she can see clearly right behind him that he was peeping to a small faint yellow paper under the exam paper he was pretending to be writing on. Currently it was History test and it had been only twenty minutes when Elizaveta was super annoyed that she could see Gilbert cheating right in front of her. Though she usually don't mind whatever he was doing to be honest but due to the new sitting arrangement for the exam, her usual spot in front of the class was replaced by Mei and she had to be seated in the back, right behind Gilbert Beilschmidt. She didn't mind at first because she would be focusing on her work but she felt constantly annoyed by the constant paper flipping in front of her that disrupt her focus when she noticed Gilbert was cheating off answers from his slip paper. She tried to focus back on her own paper however from her peripheral view, she still could see Gilbert constant flipping and it was driving her to the wall.

Not only that but the next few minutes she realized that Francis, who was sitting on the right in front of her, was sending hand signals towards Gilbert's way as if they were communicating on passing the answers. She frowned deeply at the thought of their action. How in the world can they cheat answers like that in an essay History test?

"Something on your mind, Miss Hedrevary?"

Eliaveta almost slip a curse out of her lips when she brought her thoughts back to reality when she realized she had been staring on Francis for a whole minute, she looked right to the front of the classroom where her teacher was staring at her with an amused expression as if she had got caught cheating off – which was really not her case. "Um…I was just thinking, Mrs. Maria."

"Then can you think to your own test papers? I don't want you to wander your eyes around you in this test."

Elizaveta wanted to scowl at Gilbert's shaking shoulders as if he was laughing at her, which pisses her off more. She lowered her gaze, "Yes, ma'am."

Seemingly satisfied by the answer, Mrs. Maria had left her alone after that and Elizaveta wanted to slap Gilbert's head for making fun of her. She could still see his shoulders shaking, silently laughing for her slip up from their cheating action course.

She frowned deeply and went back to her own papers and continue to write her answer with a long sigh.

"What were you doing earlier?"

Gill didn't take his eyes from his phone as he kept on walking beside her. "Teamwork."

"Teamwork?"

"Yep. Teamwork." He simply stated.

She frowned, "Well your 'teamwork' had almost caught me in trouble. What were you thinking of cheating off with constant noise of flipping pages?"

The white haired boy turned his head towards Elizaveta with a grin on his face. "It was the most effective method."

"And those hand signals Francis sent you?"

"Same. We can't really pass the chea – I mean, yellow paper around you know. It would be super obvious and old school so we set up with the most effective way to get communicate from a certain distance."

Elizaveta sighed heavily before she rubbed the temples of her forehead. "Can't you both you know, study together before the test – I mean I'm sure that is the least thing you can do."

"We did study over the weekends at Antonio's house but to be honest, we didn't remember any single shit we read so yeah – we settle on those yellow paper and hand signals. Pretty cool, huh?"

Elizaveta wanted to say that it was not really the best way to pass the test because they would only face harder tests in the future and cheating doesn't always help every time they have a test. Instead she replied, "Well…at least you tried to study in the weekends. I don't like the idea of you cheating your way to success but at least…don't do it often."

Gilbert smiles softly towards the shorter female next to him. Knowing how understanding she could be at some moments so he was grateful for her reasons. "Okay…I promise I won't do it often."

She snorted to his words, knowing that it had subtle not-so-serious-and-promising tone. She would always question her best friend motives sometimes of the things he do to get things around in school. She really didn't know how he can pass those tests in the past when he really didn't study much but that's Gilbert to her – he was unpredictable and weird but he's also creative in some sort of way.

So they walk throughout the school corridor, heading home with the hopes of not doing any homework for tomorrow.

"By the way, I just remembered we have a math test tomorrow." Elizaveta piped up.

Gilbert stayed quite for a moment before he turned his widening eyes towards her.

"Shit. How am I supposed to do my 'teamwork' then?"

"You mean cheating?"

"….No…Teamwork, Eli."

"Right…of course."

Author Note:

I wanted to give a go at our beloved characters as High School students - in which to honor my memories back in school so the plots are heavily referenced to my real life scenarios in school.

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