11 "I care for her!"

I thought you were one of the smartest girls of our class. So this is how you got the title! Interesting." , said Ray while giving her a disgusted look.

Anha's head was down. Her fists were tight.

'He saw everything….he saw everything….'

"And I thought, you were a good friend of her!"

" You are nothing but a Copy cat!"

"Shut up….", yelled Anha.

Her hands started trembling. She looked up and her tears flew down from her cheeks.

"Just shut up...You know nothing...

Do you even know how it feels to be a No.2? Everytime?

Do you know how it feels to be compared to the person you hate the most?

Only I know how I bear her every day.

'Miss Good all the time'

I just hate her!"

She said with her voice getting more and more rough.

Her face was turned completely red and continuous flow of hot tears was flowing through her eyes.

"But she doesn't hate you…"

Anha's eyes widened. The tears got stuck up in her eyes.

Her face turned pale.

"I've known her for past several days. But I can tell that she thinks you are one of her best friends. If you've had asked her to copy her assignment, she would have given it happily.

And I know that you know this very well too.",said Ray looking into her eyes.

Anha turned her eyes to the other side.

"But I never treated her as a friend. I just live with her to snatch everything from her. Whatever she has got is mine. I am the No.1. She is nothing but a competition to me."

"Haha" , Ray laughed.

"You are not worthy for it!"

Anha's reddened eyes turned to him. Looking at his smirk she clenched her fists more tightly.

She hasn't been insulted this much ever in her life.

Her whole body started trembling, her lips started shaking with anger.

"So...So what?…..Huh?...Now what are you gonna do? Tell her?

Go ahead! I don't care if she doesn't want to be friends with me anymore…"

"But she cares!..."

'Huh?'

Anha looked at him shockingly, her eyes filled with tears.

"...And I care for her!

She treats you as a friend and I don't want to break her heart."

Anha looked down.

Ray came forward. Standing right next to her, he said,

"But if you do it again, just one more time….you will really regret it."

Anha looked at him. She saw the feeling of demand in his words and in his brown eyes, which weren't sparkly anymore but now were darkened.

She quickly broke the eye contact.

Then Ray turned to his seat and opened his bag.

"Here…Take this. If you want to copy, then copy mine.", he said coldly while holding his assignment in front of her.

Anha looked at him shockingly.

She took her assignment from Mia's table with trembling hands.

Ray held his hand on her face.

"Here.." , he said again.

"I don't need YOUR assignment and you won't tell me what to do.", Anha yelled pushing his hand away from her and then she ran out of the classroom.

~

"Everyone, please submit your assignments to me.", Mia said while standing in the front.

Then she moved from table to table to collect them.

When she reached at Anha's table she saw that Anha's head was down on the table covered by both her hands.

"Anha?....Anha?"

Anha looked up with an annoyed expression.

"Assignment?", Mia said with a smile holding her hand in front of her.

Anha could see Ray sitting on his seat on the backside of Mia. Ray was chatting with a classmate and laughing.

But he still realized that Anha was looking at him. He suddenly looked at her and gave her a cold stare.

Anha quickly looked to the other way and took out some papers from her bag. The papers were crumbled and the front page was torn a bit.

"Huh? What happened? Why is it torn?", asked Mia worriedly.

"You don't have to worry about it…", said Anha while clenching her fists.

But as she was saying that she noticed a glare at her. A glare that made her whole body shiver.

She quickly calmed her tone.

"..I mean….Don't worry….Nothing happened…Just…just take it."

Mia took the assignment with a puzzled look.

'What happened to her?....Her eyes look puffy….Did she cry….I hope she is okay…'

Mia collected all the assignments.

A large heap of assignments was collected on the table.

'Pheww…..Now, Let's do it!'

She lifted the whole heap carefully in one go.

'Wow….It's kind of heavy…'

As she was about to step forward, half of the heap was lifted before her eyes.

"Huh?"

"I'll help you."

A bright, smiley, familiar face came across Mia making her smile too.