Demon In High school

Chapter 10

Calculus.....

This subject and the teacher both have the uncanny ability to suck the happiness out of anything.

Mr.long nose leaves no opportunity to point out how low my knowledge (which is errr....not exactly much)is on the subject and each time I guess I see the back of Mia's head slump lower in her chair.

When the class finishes Mia walks over towards me with purposeful strides and my eyes briefly flicker to the pen she is holding I don't know why, but it looks pretty lethal in her hand.

Her brown eyes are narrowed so before she can unleash her wrath on me I hold out the paper full of formulas "I'm done with them"

I see relief pass over her face but also a hint of skepticism as she takes the paper from me

"All of them?"

"Yeah"

She fixes her eyes on me, I don't blink or look away.

Those eyes are suspicious,

Those eyes are interrogative,

Those eyes are big, brown and beautiful with flecks of black and......hurriedly I put breaks on my train of thoughts, What the hell is wrong with me?

Finally, that questioning look leaves her eyes and I silently congratulate myself for having passed the eye scan/lie detecting test "Not bad "she says taking the seat beside me.

"Freakin fantastic"I correct her .I wasted a lot of time in a bid to get this thing into my head and not to mention sacrificed precious sleep too.

She rolls her eyes at me before she giving me a problem to solve.

The first problem,

I glare at it while my mind is busy screaming what is this s**t?

"Just apply the formulas you have learnt,"she says her tone rather calm and not angry ,Yet

so I do and.....I fail

She doesn't say anything just gives me another, I fail again

Twenty-five minutes and ten failed problems later....

I'm glaring at the problem in front of me as beside me I can sense Mia's calmness levels decreasing bit by bit with each failed problem, but her calmness could only extend so far , another wrong solution and she explodes

"How can you manage to be so completely dumb?"

"Have to excel at something, don't I?" I retort dryly

And if I had thought the way she was glaring at me before was hostile, it was nothing to the way glaring at me now, it is freaking murderous.

Wrong solution again and I feel her bristle beside me

But, silently (even I'm surprised by this) she gives me another problem and I solve this one. Correctly.

Smug I look down at the solution. This calls for a freaking celebration !

But Mia hmmm's quietly and gives me another problem. I fail.

Another problem. I fail.

And my confidence has crashed down with them.

I look sideways at Mia bracing myself for her wrath.

"Lets do this again tomorrow", no trace of anger or sarcasm.

I look at her surprised waiting for her angery comments about how stupid I am, "Nothing?" I ask bewildered

She shrugs and then smiles , and for some reason my brain feels the necessary to point out that her smile is bright and cute "you are dumb but ,maybe not so much"

I quirk an eyebrow at her unable to believe my ears "I just got a single problem right"I have no clue why I say it as if its a bad thing because it definitely isn't,but Mia's unexpected reaction has just shocked me too much,thrown me completely off the loop .

"It's a start isn't it" she says picking up her books and I just stare at her.

Still no anger or sarcasm....

I'm waiting....

Waiting....

Waiting

She packs her backpack and walks out of the class room. I absently notice how a strip of sunlight coming from one of the high windows illuminates her long brown hair gving them a subtle reddish shade.

I return to my dorm room.

Cam isn't in here yet, so I sit alone and silent for a while but the next thing Im doing makes me freaking question my mental stability

Calculus,I have pulled out that damned book from my backpack .Willingly!! Willingly??

And I surprise myself further when I start scribbling down, trying to solve the problems and even when most of the solutions turn out to be wrong ,I don't stop.

Why?

Even I have no answer to that

Cam comes back sometime later in the evening , he was with his girlfriend he informins grinning happily like dork.

I barely acknowledge him with my entire focus on the problems.

"Dude you doing that?"Cam asks looking both shocked and awed

"Yeah, Im a freak genius "I snap at him feeling freaking annoyed....But at whom??

I don't know.