Chapter 8.

"Why does this have to happen to my father?" Alex was deep in thought of him, as he reflected on what his father had said the night before: "He's a good man then ... Why does life want to screw him this way?"

"Mr. Parker!"

Alex was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't hear this voice, since all he was able to hear was a muffled sound, which is somewhat ironic since he has super hearing.

"Mr. Parker!"

The voice repeated with growing anger.

*Knock*

"Mr. Parker!"

Alex was awakened from his trance by a loud bang on his desk. When she turned her head from him she saw his physics teacher glaring at him right in front of him.

"What's going on?" Alex asked while he saw his teacher, right now he has things to think about, so what this plump, bald teacher tells him doesn't interest him in the least.

"Did you hear the last words I just said?" The professor asked as he frowned with disgust evident in his gaze.

For a moment Alex thought about answering with a question: "If I had listened to him, would I have asked what is happening? But decided not to do it since after all the teacher is just doing his job, and it is not fair for Alex to vent his frustration with the.

"Sorry teacher ... I was deep in thought" Alex apologized to the teacher, which surprised him, since Alex never apologized when he was daydreaming in class.

"What were you supposed to be thinking to not listen to my class?" Asked the teacher with a serious look, he at least wanted to know that he was going through the head of this "genius" so that his class would take a back seat.

Alex seemed to struggle for a moment with the answer to this question, but in the end he let out a resigned sigh, anyway the news was going to be known at some point in the future, so there would be no difference in saying it now or later.

"My father was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor ..." Alex said with total seriousness on his face, implying that for no reason he is joking with this answer.

The room, in which some whispers and murmurs had been heard before, was left in an awkward and sepulchral silence.

The teacher choked on the answer he was going to say, as he realized that he had crossed the line at this point by asking Alex to reveal something so personal in front of the entire class.

"I see ..." The teacher said in a low tone of voice, and for a moment he seemed not to know what to say next but in the end he managed to recover a little and continued saying: "I'm sorry I said that you said this at this moment ..."

"Don't worry, the mistake was mine for not paying a bit of attention in class, could you tell me what it was I didn't hear when you were speaking?" Alex shook his head, and tried to forcefully change the subject, since he wouldn't discuss these things in front of his entire class.

The professor thanked Alex with his gaze, and coughed a little to clear his throat.

"You have to solve a guide of 100 physics exercises related to the current topic of the class, it will be a work in pairs and I will choose them" The teacher said with a serious tone and then returned to his place in front of the whole class.

Alex let out a tired sigh, but nothing will change what happened, so he decided to pay attention while the teacher designated who would be his partner for this task. Although he could do all these exercises by himself, he didn't want to have that uncomfortable atmosphere with the teacher again.

As the teacher said the names of the respective couples, Alex completely ignored the look of pity that all the other students were giving him.

Until finally Alex's name came, although he did not know what to think by who was assigned as his partner.

"Alexander Parker and Felicia Hardy" Said the teacher making Alex look to the side of him to see Felicia, but at that moment she had also turned her head to see him, so they both ended up meeting each other's eyes.

Alex could see from Felicia's gaze that she was struggling with some words inside of her, but she decided to continue as usual and took the 20 printed sheets that her teacher gave her, all with a lot of exercises of a fairly high level. .

Felicia who saw the size of the task she had couldn't help but widen her eyes, causing a surprised expression to appear on her pretty face.

When Alex saw her, he had to hold back her laughter, while she tried to keep her face serious, but when he remembered the situation of her father again, her desire to laugh disappeared.

"Your house or mine?" Alex asked Felicia, since they both had to meet instead or they could just divide the task in half and have each do a part.

"In yours, my mother would be a nuisance at home" Felicia said simply as she shrugged.

Alex couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the answer. ta that Felicia gave, but decided to pretend.

"Can I have your cell phone? Just to communicate if necessary "Felicia asked as she looked at Alex.

Alex seemed to be looking for a reason to refuse, but he realized that he didn't have any so he just sighed in resignation.

With one hand Alex reached into his pocket and took out an Iphone 4, that's right, this is the year 2010 and this is one of the best cell phones of this moment, his parents gave it to him when he turned 16, although he told them that he didn't need it, they refused to let him have it.

Quickly searching through his address book, Alex showed Felicia a contact with the registered name "My number." Felicia just pulled out a phone just like Alex's and began to write down her number, but while she was writing it down she couldn't help looking at the other contacts on Alex's list, these were Mom and Dad.

That's right, Alex only had 3 contacts on his phone book, and one of them was the same, but it's not like Alex cares. A solemn look appeared on Felicia's face, but Alex didn't notice it.

Once Felicia wrote down Alex's number, she sent him a message containing a kissing emoji.

Alex couldn't help but think that Felicia's personality has always been flirtatious, so she passed it off as something normal. And he recorded Felicia's number as "Black Cat" and then returned her phone to her pocket.

A fleeting thought passed through Alex's head, and he realized that before he had acted very coldly with Felicia, and here she was speaking to him as if nothing had happened ... so he decided that later he would offer an apology and try to start with her with good foot.

The class time ended and Alex decided it was time to go home, he went to the classroom door to leave and looked for a moment at his seat, he saw Felicia already picking up her bag and when she noticed his gaze, she just looked he waved goodbye as he gave Alex a smile. He only thought for a moment and returned the gesture, even giving a small smile.

This was something that usually did not happen, since Alex always had a cold face, but when Felicia saw the small smile on Alex's face, her heart could not help but jump...

Alex returned to his usual face that he used in school and went out into the hall, this time he had many things to do and he did not refer to his work at the pizzeria, after all, today was his day off.

He spent the entire night thinking of a way to increase his earnings, since his family needed them and he realized that he was wasting all these years with a mind like his. But he wouldn't do it anymore.

End here.