Papers were being passed back, each student taking one for themselves before they passed it on to the one behind them. In seconds, every student in the classroom had their own test.
"You have only twenty minutes to take the test," Mayu informed them. This time, everyone had stayed silent, knowing that attempting to talk back would not change their teacher's mind on having a test. "If you studied properly up until now, these questions should be no trouble for you, and you will finish the test in no time."
"Sensei," Yuu called out. "Can I go use the bathroom before we start?" Mayu simply stared at him. "Well… hearing you talk about the bleak future kind of makes me really want to go," Yuu added.
"Saying 'May I go to the bathroom' during class is the same as 'I'm not smart enough to manage my time,'" Mayu informed him, as well as she informed the class. "In my class, you will not be allowed to use the bathroom." Mayu looked directly at Yuu. "Make good use of your class time."
"Eh… Then I'll use the toilet right here." Yuu commented. A few students were ready to snicker, except Mayu was quick to respond to Yuu's comment.
"Go ahead. Do as you please. You just want to disobey me, right?"
You stayed silent, not wanting to say anymore.
"Without anymore delay," Mayu's voice brought everyone's attention back to her. "Begin!"
Everyone in the room turned their test over. Most had instantly grabbed their writing utensils and quickly began to write on their test. A few others simply stared at the test.
Leon sat there, on his desk, pencil in hand. Leon had figured that no one in his class would want to be a class representative and will try hard to get themselves at the top, wanting priviledges they most likely will never have. Leon had already decided.
He will not take the test.
Instead of reading the problems and attempting to solve them, Leon simply doodled on his test. With this, he will automatically earn a zero and will become one of the two reps. It didn't matter to him. Just as long as he does the chores, almost everyone in this room can be happy.
Meanwhile, SeeU, who had yet to start as she was simply staring at all the questions, had finally grabbed her pencil. Holding it, she began to write her name. After writing the first character, she went on to write the second character.
And the tip of her pencil had snapped.
Staring at her now broken pencil, the blonde quickly opened her pencil box and grabbed another one, only to see the tip was also broken. She instantly grabbed two more, and there was no tip. Panic was starting to grow inside her. SeeU instantly grabbed her only mechanical pencil, clicking on the end, hoping that lead will come out. There was nothing inside. Realizing this, SeeU quickly went to grab her pencil sharpeners, except they were nowhere to be found in her box.
How on earth were her pencils broken in the first place? SeeU knew she had sharpened them the night before. Perhaps they had broken when Kyo's hand had slipped on her box, resulting in it falling and everything spilled out of it. Was it really possible though? Surely, only one would have broken from the fall, not all of them.
Wondering about how they had all break was to be put aside for later. Right now, SeeU needed anything to write with on her test. Asking Mayu for a pencil was out of the question. The girl has figured that Mayu will most likely refuse to give her one. SeeU looked around the room, trying to find the pencil sharpener. There was none.
At a last resort, SeeU grabbed her first pencil and desparately tried to rip the wood off of the tip, hoping to get lead that way.
From the very back of the room, Flower took her test, bored of it. Finding it to be uninteresting, Flower chose to look up from her test for once, only to spot SeeU trying to get a tip on her pencil with her own hands.
Gumi, sitting next to SeeU, had been focused on her test. SeeU's small action had caught her attention, leading the bespetacle girl to look over. Realizing the situation very quickly, Gumi grabbed her pencil box and took out another pencil, one with a rather dull tip, but was enough to write. Seeing that Mayu was not watching, having her head turned to a different direction, Gumi started to leaned towards SeeU, her arm streched out to her, pencil in hand. Flower continued to watch the scene. To her, this was more interesting than the test on her desk.
SeeU continued to attempt to get some result from her pencil, failing to notice Gumi's actions. Knowing that trying to call out her name would get Mayu's attention, Gumi leaned in closer to SeeU, trying to get the pencil to her. When SeeU continued to fail to notice, the green haired girl leaned closer, and closer…
Then unexpectedly, Gumi had leaned off her chair. Once she was no longer seated properly, the girl fell to the ground, her head and body making contact with the floor. This accidental stunt had finally caught SeeU's attention, as well as it had grabbed everyone's attention, including Mayu herself. Flower placed a hand on her mouth, hiding the small smile that was growing on her face. Everything she had witnessed was definitely more interesting than the test. Mayu walked towards the fallen girl.
"Are you okay?" Gumi stared at her teacher, who was looking down at her. "Can you stand?" the teacher asked emotionlessly. Realizing that she was no longer seated on her chair and had caught everyone's attention, Gumi went and stood back up.
"I am fine," Gumi announced with a small smile, rubbing her head in embarrassment. All eyes were on her, yet it didn't bother her that she was now the center of attention.
"That's good," Mayu simply told her. "Now get back to your seat and take the test." Gumi simply nodded and went back to her seat. Mayu watched her and then went to turn back.
"Sensei," Gumi called for her. Mayu turned back around.
"What is it?"
"What if someone here was taking the test, then their pencil broke, and it was the only writing utensil they had?" Gumi asked cautiously. She figured that despite being best friends to a few attention seekers, SeeU did not like to be the center of attention at all.
"Then they have no choice but to sit there and watch everyone else take the test," Mayu answered Gumi's question.
'Just exactly what I thought," was the words ringing in SeeU's mind. Indeed, the girl will be a class representative.
Wil and Gakupo were volunteered – under Mayu's command – to take out two of the desks in the room and to return with a brown table, big enough for two students to use. The boys placed it in the back center of the room, as Mayu had asked them to do.
"That desk they just brought in is where the representatives will sit," the teacher informed her twenty-four students. They were all standing in the back, holding on to their belongings. Grabbing the tests, Mayu stared at her students.
"I will now return the tests, starting with the highest grades. Pick any seat that you like." The class simply stared at her, nodding, understanding their teacher's words.
"Of the twenty-four of you, only two students received the perfect score. Those two will earn the special privileges." Mayu continued. "They are Sakurada Tonio and Hanazono Flower." The two students silently walked up to their teacher, grabbing their tests back. Tonio went to sit at the very front, while Flower walked to the very back corner of the room, closest to the windows. Flower sat herself down at the desk farthest from Mayu.
"The third best is Miriam Stockley," Mayu announced. Miriam walked up to Mayu. Upon reaching the teacher, Mayu leaned down a bit. "That's too bad," she whispered to the platinum blonde girl. "Better luck next time," she slightly smiled at her.
Miriam stared at Mayu, a smile growing on her face. "Yeah," she responded. Miriam found herself liking her teacher even more.
"Next is Utatane Piko."
"Yes," the white haired boy responded.
"Shinzou Kokone."
"Yes," Gumi's close friend walked towards Mayu, before slightly turning to Gumi. 'I'll save you a seat,' she mouthed to her friend. Gumi nodded.
"Megurine Luka." The pinketted went up next.
"Luo Tianyi." Luka's Chinese friend followed.
"Kagamine Rin." The blonde girl wearing a white bow on her head came up in response.
"Oliver Stein." The boy wearing an eye patch went up. Mayu continued to hand back tests to the students.
"Bruno Amaro," and the Latino male came up. "Shion Kaito," and the blue haired boy came next."Nakajima Megumi," Gumi walked towards Mayu and received her test back. Sitting on the desk next to Kokone, the girls smiled at each other, glad they both did alright.
'But SeeU will have to be a rep though,' Gumi thought, sighing a bit and feeling slightly gloomy, knowing that there was nothing she could do to prevent that from happening.
"Manabe Kyo," Mayu announced next, and the boy came up to her, grabbing his test back. Then Mayu started to announce the next names at a quicker pace.
"Prima Warburn, Kamui Gakupo, Takanashi Yu," and rather than waiting til the students had come up, Mayu began to throw the tests as if they were useless, leading the next students to run towards her, wanting to grab their tests and get seated as soon as possible.
"Itou Chika, Al King, Nekomura Iroha, Takako Wil, Furukawa Miki," and all the students whose names were called rushed to get their tests and get seated. After Miki's name was called, only Ann, Leon, and SeeU were left.
Everyone – excluding Flower, who had no interest in seeing who the reps will be and instead chose to read her book – was facing the three who were left. Only one of them will be safe. They wanted to know who will suffer as a representative.
"In twenty-second place," Mayu began. "and barely escaping from become a rep," she added and pause, staring at the three who were standing. "Ann Jody," the teacher announced. The curly blonde hair girl immediately rushed to her teacher, grabbing her test – that she failed quite horribly – and seated herself at the only empty desk left, which happened to be right next to Miki. Ann will complain about it later. At the moment, Ann just wants to sigh in relief over not having to be a rep.
With Ann having been called up, only Leon and SeeU were left. They both knew half the result. They knew they, themselves would become representatives. Leon didn't care, but SeeU did. The girl could only look down, not wanting to get herself aware everyone's eyes were on her and Leon.
"I will have you two do chores immediately," Mayu announced to the two representatives.
A/N: Originally had wanted to finish this and upload it either yesterday or the day before along with the next chapter of my other fic In This Island With Them, but school and tiredness. m(_ _)m At least I got this done before the end of the month though, that was a goal I made this week. Also, A Crumbled Paper Plane, thank you so much for reviewing! Glad to know your dream came true :D Anyways, apologies that this chapter is not as long as the previous chapters, although I didn't intend to make them that long in the first place. Welp, now that I have the next chap of this fic and Promise up, please read and review! On a side note, I am still in love with MikitoP's newest song, Red Thread. I am still listening to Rib's cover~