A/N: Thanks: miano53, and khaddiction101. :)
Lea blinked, but the 8 mark, written in red ink, didn't disappear from the piece of paper he was holding in his hands. So then... Could it really be...?
He simply couldn't believe his own luck!
The red-haired teenager let out a loud laugh, earning a few weird looks from his classmates, but he didn't care. He had scored a friggin' 8 on his Philosophy paper, which was graded by the strictest teacher of Radiant High! Who would've thought that pulling an allnighter to finish some other stupid paper for school could actually open his creative, philosophical juices?
His friend Isa seemed to regard his behavior as a sign to be worried, for he whispered, "Are you all right?"
"Never been better," Lea replied, now with tears in his eyes. "Look, I have an 8 for this bullshit paper!"
Isa frowned, snatching Lea's paper out of his hands to see it himself.
"Gee, thanks a lot for believing in me!" the redhead said, quasi mad, but the studious teen ignored his remark.
"What do you know... Miracles still exist it seems."
"What did you get?" Lea asked curiously.
"A 8.5," was the casual reply.
Yeah, you just wait until next time, when I get an even higher grade than you, Mister Know-it-all, he thought, vowing to pull more allnighters to beat his best friend.
A/N: For those who have a different school system, where I live an 8 means you scored 80% on your paper (which is pretty good for high school students, but incredibly high when it comes to uni). A 10 is the highest, and a 5.4 or lower means you failed.