12

I soon became tired as the online classes were beginning to bore me; they were so demanding. The fact that some of the teachers just posted notes were enough to make me lose interest. I don't know about others but I loved explanations, it made me easily connect to the topic and the better the connection the better my understanding. Note writing, on the other hand, was an exercise, not that I didn't like it, in fact, they were necessary just that it couldn't count as a lesson to me. I know I know, I've heard it a few times actually, that when I get into the university, lectures are just gonna give us pages in the textbook and might not come to class again only to show up with a test. But this was no reason to do the same, I mean if you hate such an experience so much that you decide to share with us why do the same?

The online test wasn't any different, I was really mad at the website, it made me look really dumb when the result came out. Worst of all my result was sent to my dad first. I mean, how could you? I don't even live with him.

Time flew by quickly and it was a week to resumption. The wicked teacher; Mrs Sonya, called me to the school.

She said I was to give Yash a copy of some documents since their house was robbed during the break. How heartbreaking

I quickly had my bath and threw on a long sleeve top and a pair of trousers, normally when I go to school I'd have to wear a skirt but I didn't think much of it, I would probably be back in a few minutes. My school was about five minutes walk from my house.

On getting there I greeted her and she told me Yash was upstairs. She was engulfed in some staff meeting to indulge me in one of her chit-chats. This I was grateful for.

My legs soon ran up on the all too familiar stairs to where Yash was. I smiled at myself while running, I didn't realize how much I missed this building and the people in it.

As soon as I saw Yash I greeted him cheerfully and if we were that close and I mean close, I might have pulled him in for a few hugs. But his expression was just unexpected, he just looked at me with a cold stare and went into the next room, which is the library by the way.

The hell is wrong with him, I thought he would be happy to see me after such a long time, instead, all he does is walk past me without even looking over his shoulders.

Honestly, Yash was now really tall, he has grown into a good-looking guy, you could tell that he has been working out recently by the way his chest was hugged tightly by the cloth it was wearing.

I entered the library hurriedly to keep him from waiting. It wasn't like I wanted to stay long anyway. As soon as I stepped in, Yash already put on the computer so I gave him my flash drive which contained all the Cambridge materials he might probably need. Minutes later, his mum joined and said" we should move to the other side of the room where we could charge the laptop as the battery was not reliable. After doing that she left the room leaving the door open. I was going to follow her to tell her I was leaving when Yash spoke up.

"Where are you going"

"Home" I replied, I mean did they expect me to sleep here.

"And how will that make me look?" he asked without facing me directly.

"How would that make me look, like a normal person who has a family waiting for her at home," I thought. When he saw that I didn't reply he said" what I'm just tryna say is, you came all the way here for me, it would be weird if we didn't practice some exercise together, hell she might even think you aren't serious."

I chuckled at first, why would I come for him? isn't he thinking a bit too high for someone who just acted like I wasn't existing.

I later agreed to stay and asked him for a sheet of paper, He laughed saying was just going to give him the folders and leave. And I reacted by rolling my eyes. I mean what's wrong with handing in the folders and leaving, I didn't even tell my fam that I was going to stay long.

After some hours of working together, I realised Yash has been preparing well for the upcoming exams, yup we had two of them. While I on the other hand Had long forgotten about exams and only used them as an excuse to not do what I was meant to do. Damn, I just wasted a part of my life, I hope the result won't tell. Don't get me wrong I did prepare a little, you know once in a while I'd pick up the book and read and do a few exercises but it was nothing up to what Yash had accomplished, we had this book of past questions printed out for us and Yash happened to have done them all except few question which he didn't know how to do. I promised to bring mine the next time I was coming because I still had loads of unanswered questions. I did the ones I could.

It was about time we left so we decided to arrange the place before exiting. Before we started I decided to remind Yash about my birthday gift which he promised and he said before you leave.

I was going to roll my eyes on that too, but I knew better, but seriously, what could he possibly give me, all he was with was a book, pan and of course the laptop. I only asked to see if he still remembered or not, not because I wanted anything from him.

We soon finished arranging the whole place and we were both called down by his mum to discuss something with our Maths teacher she wanted to tell us we could always meet him during the week if we had anything to ask him. We both nodded and excused ourselves.

We came back to the library and sat where our things were, then I asked him once more, " so the gift"

He smiled and then told me to close my eyes.