OVERSEAS MIRACLES
CHAPTER 21
An Imponderable Event
GOLDEN GATES ACADEMY
"Oh! You must be the one that Mrs. Bracken has been talking about. Please, just follow me for your exam." The secretary rushed with her words as she pulled the puzzled teen into a small classroom.
"Wait… an exam?" she screamed mentally. This time, she found herself seated on one of the classroom's armchair with a test paper and pencil on it.
"Okay, there are visitors that I have to accommodate. I'll have someone to look after you. Please answer carefully and good luck!"
"…..…" she stared blankly at the test paper. But then, someone came in. She shifted her gaze at the door and found a tall, light-brown haired guy, probably a year or two older than her. The guy caught her looking at him and gave her a cold façade.
"Eeek! He seems not friendly!" she thought surprisingly.
"What are you staring at? Have you fallen for me already?" he mocked her with his cold stare.
"Ehhh!?" she blurted out instinctively.
"You heard me. Now I know that you like me but sorry I can't go out with you. So, you better answer your exam rather than looking at me. What? You want me to give you an answer? Then why did you come here in this academy when you have no talent at all and worst of all, you didn't even know how…." He added sarcastically.
"Why you! How dare you assumed things that way! I'll show you, just you wait you fool!" she screamed in range, her long time-no-feel grudges are starting to merge. Apparently, Kyoko hate to admit that this guy could be every girls dream; chiseled manly face, well-built body, beautiful arched eyebrows, deep blue-grey piercing eyes and shiny light brown hair. He seemed to possess some aura that can lure a female as his prey.
"Hmp. Look who's talking." He scoffed at her words.
Kyoko didn't want to make the situation worst. Therefore, she has to answer the questionnaire that was given to her. She scanned the papers and it is about a hundred and fifty items. It contains different subjects like algebra, verbal and non-verbal skills, arts, history and abstract. Before she could answer, she wondered how come the chairman of her school in Japan had not mentioned that she is going to take an exam when she arrives. There's no way for a chairman to not inform his student especially to those who were sent to abroad about this some kind of entrance examination. Well, what choice does she have?
"Hey, you. Aren't you going to answer your exam?" The guy asked angrily.
"Eeep!" she squeaked in astonishment. 'Oh yeah, I forgot that he's watching me. Don't mind him, Kyoko, Such an arrogant being! I'll make him eat his words' Her vein twitched in annoyance. Again, she looked at her test paper and silently breathed out a long sigh.
'How did I get myself into this? This is an impromptu exam! I didn't do any review at all! The next hour, I will be bringing shame to Japan. To my school, to LME, to Kuu-otou-san and Julie-Okaa-san and especially to… Ren!' her heart raced in fear. 'They will hate me for sure. This is too much.' She thought negatively, bringing down her self-confidence.
After an hour, she stood from her seat and handed her test paper to the almost impatient guy. He stood from the table that he is sitting on as she handed her test paper. She nodded at him and took her leave.
'Thanks to me that I had done some research about the history of America and arts. I hope my abstract reasoning was well patterned. I don't know about the other subjects. They're too tricky. It really drained out my head. I'm so doom.'
When she came out of the small testing room, she saw the secretary and a woman in her early forties talking to each other. The secretary saw her and smiled at her.
"Oh, you're done already? That's quick. Just wait for five minute to see your results. Have a seat. By the way, meet Mrs. Gloria Bracken. She's the chairman of this academy." She said. Later on, a guy followed the teen from behind. He inserted the answer sheet on the scanning machine and waited for the result.
She sluggishly slumped herself on the squashy sofa and bowed her head silently.
"Hi, there. You look like you are going to cry. Is that because of the exam?" the chairman tried to cheer her up.
"Good morning, ma'am." She raised her head to face the chairman, fighting the urge to burst into tears.
"Oh my, are you okay? Can you tell me what made you cry? Is it because of your boyfriend?" the chairman panicked.
"Ah, no! That's not it. I was being stupid, I guess." She started, she started to sniff.
Mean while, the light-brown haired guy rolled his eyes at the current state of the girl he proctored lately. 'What's that, another trick of hers to enter this academy? Such a pity' he thought sardonically. He shifted his gaze back at the monitor while waiting for it to completely shoe the results of her exam.
"Okay, tell me what made you stupid?" the woman encouraged her to talk.
"Actually, I wasn't expecting that I was going to take an exam. I can't even recall that the principal of our school had mentioned about it." She said while gripping her skirt tightly.
"That's strange but of course; any student who wants to study in this academy must take an entrance examination. Anyway, okay, go on." The chairman placed her fingers on her chin and crossed her legs.
"Oh, I'm very sorry for being rude. I forgot to introduce myself. By the way, I'm Kyoko Mogami, from Japan…" her words were finally interrupted when she heard the woman.
"Wait… you mean you're the exchange student from Japan!" she bolted out in recognition. The woman hurriedly rushed to her table and opened one of her file drawers. She brought out a yellow envelope and took out the piece of information.
Kyoko was confused at the sudden reaction of the chairwoman. The secretary and the guy shared the same reaction from her. But for the guy, he couldn't deem of what he just heard. An exchange student? From Japan? Well, he is pretty sure that she's an Asian but he could not tell what citizenship she is.
"You're name is Mogami Kyoko, 17 years old, your birth date is at the 25th day of December and you were born at Kyoto, Japan?" the school head kept on speaking of what the information sheet can give while Kyoko answered yes and yes until the last one.
"Yes, I am an actress in Japan and I was mostly cast in antagonist roles." She answered firmly.
"Okay…." The woman uttered slowly, thinking of what to say next.
"How come you did you take the exam? I had guaranteed your school chairman that you are not going to take the entrance exam since you got a hundred percent in your school. That's already a bonus for an exchange student to enter this academy." she explained and she moved her gaze to her stuttered secretary behind her.
"M…ma'am, I admit that it was my mistake. I thought she was the transfer student that you were talking about since you had mentioned this morning that this student is coming. Her family called earlier and said that she has short black hair, wearing a red blouse and dark fitted jeans. They had mentioned that she is coming at 11:00am. And I was taken by surprise that Ms. Kyoko came 2 hours earlier and I took her as the wrong person while my head was too determined to take care of the visitors. I guess it was a coincidence that she is wearing the same outfit description." She explained apologetically.
"I see, this is partly my fault. I should have left her information sheet so that you can be aware of what she looks like. " The chairwoman concluded.
"Miss Kyoko, I am very sorry for causing you a lot of troubles. I should have known from the start. Worst of all, that exam that you took was for the senior level." The secretary bowed her head for admitting her mistake.
"Me too. I apologize for it had made you cry." The other woman followed.
"No, it's fine! I understand well enough and I can't blame everything on you both. It was just a misunderstanding and it just happened. But how about the exam that I had took earlier?" Kyoko inquired.
"Let's forget about that exam. It's not meant for you anyway. Unless, if you get an ninety percent of it, then maybe you can skip being a sophomore student." The chairwoman joked.
"Well, that happens to student who desperately wants to level up with their high school studies, right?" The secretary added.
"Oh my, I can't really reach that level. Considering that I haven't done any reviews for the examination. For sure, I would get a very low score in that exam." Kyoko interjected.
"So, how do you find the exam?" the chairwoman asked.
"Well, it was really tricky. It was sometimes confusing at the same time. I have been dependent of what I had researched and studied in Japan…." And the three ladies were talking casually.
'Geez, what the fuck was that?' the guy thought as he listened to their conversation. A beep had flashed on the monitor, giving a sign that in a few seconds, the results of Kyoko's exam will appear. 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 ….. His eyes shockingly widened at the figures presented to him. He even rubbed his eyes to make sure if he wasn't blind enough to read. The paper was automatically printed out and ready for release.
"Are you fucking kidding me? Is this for real? But it's impossible if the machine is broken. I'll just have to check it manually later." He thought hesitantly.
"Excuse me, here is her result." He handed the result to the chairwoman.
"Thank you, my child. Oh Miss Kyoko, meet my son, France." The woman introduced.
"Uhm, hi?" Kyoko uttered in doubt. She just received a nod from him and he left outside the office.
"Never mind him dear. He's like that to people he just met. Well, let's see…"her eyes widened at the result.
"Ms. Alexa, will you give me my glasses please?" she asked her secretary.
"It's on your head, Ma'am" she answered.
The chairwoman hurriedly wore her eyeglasses and scrutinized the paper.
On the other hand, Kyoko was feeling dead nervous if the reactions of the woman. She doesn't know what to do.
"Well, what do you know? I guess Ms. Alexa's mistake brought you to such good opportunities. My eyes have not betrayed me. For an incoming second year like you, to as if you desperately wish to skip to the third year level is not a bad idea at all. You got 93%. Probably you only got 10 mistakes out of a hundred and fifty items. You could have perfected this exam if you did study for it. Congratulations, Miss Kyoko. You are now accelerated to the third year level." She announced as she grabbed her small hands in a hand shake.
"Eh?" she screamed.
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"Okay, how come did I ended up being a third year student in here again?" the teen asked herself, staring outside of her classroom's window. She can't believe that she got accelerated to the next year level just because of some little mistake when she entered the chairwoman's office during summer break. She sighed for the third time and looked at her new seat mate.
'France Bracken, the face of young men's famous clothes line – Adonis. Aside from that he is an actor as well. Also, he's the son of the academy's chairman. Of all people, why do I have to be paired with him!' she cursed mentally at the person beside her. Actually at this hour, it is her theatre arts class with Mr. Jacob. As for the other pairs, they were given themes like tragedy, adventure, action and etc. In their new assignment, they were tasked to do a role play in a certain genre - eroticism. Now how is Kyoko going to portray this new aspect? The criterion for this assignment is bringing out the best of everything that one can offer. This means there is a need of outfits, props and other things that are needed to create an excellent performance. And with this kind of guy beside her, she had been vocally treated badly during her mistaken exam. She never dreamed of being near him. Not ever.
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