Authors note: Yeah, I know how the first 3 chapters are kinda… mixing much? But it's all to understand the protagonist a bit more. And also to introduce Oliver as a secondary character… who will be playing a big role I think? Anyways, the story is enveloping itself so please enjoy reading and leave a comment below!


IT's the second week of school and already I'm not looking forward to it. I remembered my chemistry professor let a Teacher's Assistant talk about Strategic Learning. He said:

"Strategic Learning, aka SL is a tool to help you succeed in Organic Chemistry II class. It is really a great tool to practice problems, communicate with other students and ace your class. Normally, the class average would be really low, but by participating in SL, your grade will be high. Based on the SL sessions from previous years…" Then I see a graph on the powerpoint presentation where I see the grade versus how many times a student attends to SL. This encouraged me to go to their SL sessions. But when I saw the available dates and times. I frown.

"The times for my SL sessions are Tuesdays from 12:15 to 1:30 and Thursdays from 12:45 – 2:00" For me, those two times are in between my classes. It sucks. But then,

"If you can't make it to those SL sessions, you can always go to the other sections' SL sessions. It is with Michael on Wednesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 and Thursdays from 2:45 to 4:00" My eyes shine because those two times and dates were perfect for me. I would finish my classes are both days and go to SL.


It is a Wednesday noon and I am dragging my feet to the class where the SL is being held. Already I was late because of eating my lunch beforehand and also I am still indecisive to go to this thing. As I walk into class, I see a lot of people bunched into groups, and the front blackboard written:

"SL –session 1 – Review of Organic Chemistry I" It feels like there were more people than a normal class. I see a group with 2 people, and I go towards them:

"Hi, can I join in?

"Sure. Here are the questions we're working on." A girl said at the table. I look at the questions, they are:

"Write the definition of:

A) Resonance

B) Inductive Effect

C) Hoffman and Zaitsev's Rules …"

A few minutes of scribbling stuff on my graphing paper, I ask my groupmates.

"Do you guys get it?" The girl replies back:

"Um, well, resonance is the delocalization of electrons right? Inductive Effect…" A boy interrupts.

"is either this or that!" Both the girl and I look at him.

"What?" The boy still mutters to himself.

"Oh, I'm just saying I'm confused on what is an Inductive Effect. I remember Dr. F said that, but I also recall that it is this."

"Well, it could be this and that." A voice from behind me said. I turn around and see a tall, I'm guessing 6'1'', brown eyes, with stylish glasses and short dark brown hair guy in front of me. He leans towards the table but accidentally covering me up, to look at the questionnaire. The moment my skin touches his grey long sleeved shirt, my heart beats a bit faster than it is suppose to.

"Oh sorry." He says and moves his arm. He continues to explain Inductive Effect, while I am in "wonderland". A little voice inside my mind suddenly knocks me out of the daydream, and makes me ignore this fluttery feeling. I blink twice to refocus on Organic Chemistry and pay attention to Michael's explanation. He looks back at me after finishing up with his explanation, and exclaims:

"Oh hi, did you just come in?" I nod and smile a bit, curiously thinking: what will you do if I don't say anything?

"So you know we are doing a Review session of Organic Chem I." I nod again.

"Good." As I am about to let out a huge sigh because he leaves our table, he turns around and asks:

"Could you write on the board the first two questions later." I just stare at him shockingly. SERIOUSLY? I was even late, and he's still picking me? But he just walks away to other groups. I look at my group, and nobody feels the way I feel right at this moment. I thought: This is way worse than anything that Oliver did to me. This is pure embarrassment and such a teaser. I look at the girl and the boy, both of them just scribble away on their papers. I take in a deep breath, and walk up to the blackboard, eyeing Michael's grimace and confidently write down the definitions.


After a couple of minutes, Michael gets everyone's attention.

"Okay everyone, we only have 15minutes to work out these questions together. I would like the people who wrote down these answers to come up and explain your answers to the rest." He looks at me first. I stand up, and literally, reread what I wrote on the board.

"Ok. You're name please?" He asks.

"Anastasia Tomaya" And I sit back down, and my face flushed. What is this? I feel like I'm back in High School.