What Am I Supposed to do!?

"Time limit- 1 hour. Task-_____________________________________."

Huh! It's empty.

I think I heard correctly saying that there will be a task written, but why is it blank?

"H-hey, is your task not written?"

"Yes, mine also is not written." Alex was the first one to answer.

"Same."

"Yep, same."

It seems like all of our tasks are not written.

One minute, wait.

"Selene...." I called her since she is the only one who hasn't said anything.

"... I have something written in here."

"Nice. Read it aloud." I said, to which she nodded.

"Time limit- 30 minutes. Task- What can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head that never weeps, and a bed that never sleeps?"

"Time limit is different for you. I have an hour. What about everyone else?"

"45 minutes," Alex said.

"1 hour," Liz answered.

"45 minutes." followed by Peter.

"Why is only Selene the one with the task written," Alex asked.

"Who knows. What time is it?" I asked.

"10:45 am," Liz answered since she is the only one with the watch.

"Can you add a timer in that?"

"Yes."

"Add a timer for every 15 minutes."

"Why....?"

"Isn't it self explanatory that we would need to keep a check on time? Didn't you hear they will expel us? We need to keep the time limit in mind."

"Ohh...." Liz comes on, staying with people like Peter have reduced your IQ.

She put a timer on but the problem was what should we do now? We don't know what the task is and above all, they will expel us. Are they kidding us? Having written that the person was expelled might make the person's life difficult since it will degrade his value and many schools might not allow the person to enrol him in the school. It will ruin its whole life.

As we were thinking about what to do, a sudden increase in invoices could be noticed. Ahh... here they come. Of course, our other classmates will come. No one wants to get expelled, especially from this school. I might not have mentioned it but actually, our school is considered to be in the Top 5 schools in the whole nation. 'Coincidently' my ass, this might be the main reason why the government chose this school.

Everyone looked inside their respective tables and took out the envelopes. But the problem was that only 8 people have their tasks written and the others have the same problem as us.

"What the heck is this?" Peter said loudly with an annoying face. Also, he said that a little loud to which everyone turned their gaze towards him.

"Oi, we all have the same problem. Don't react like you are the only miserable one here." I mean he pointed out our main problem.

It's just psychology, like when someone says that they are hungry it makes others realize also, making everyone hungry, also if someone in a group yawns it's a possibility that ninety per cent of people present there will also yawn causing a chain reaction. And because of his comment, it made us realize that we are sitting ducks here.

"HUH!"

"Are you deaf?" I said with a little loud voice. You wanna fight to be my guest, I also want to settle my score with you.

"Cut it out both of you." Liz again interrupted in between.

"Liz doesn't interfere in between!" Despite Liz saying to stop, Peter looked extremely annoyed.

"Are you an IDIOT?" I again taunted him.

"You are just asking for it!" he stepped further and it looked like he was going to punch me. But like hell, I would get scared and back down.

"Do we have the luxury to fight? In about 50 minutes if we don't complete our task we all will be expelled and if you want that, I don't mind beating some sense in you."

"Allen you....!"

"S-stop." I heard a girl's voice not too loud but enough to be noticed. I looked around to see who it was.

"We should n-not fight among ourselves." It was Selene.

"....."

"....."

"Fine." what she said was right. I don't have to waste my time on him right now, I will deal with him later.

"Alright." It seems like Peter has a little sense in him.

"Ehh.. you have some sense. Nice for you." I couldn't suppress that statement from coming out.

"You.... you....!" I looked directly into his eyes and waited for him to say something but he didn't say anything.

"Allen stops it." this time Liz scolded me.

"Ohh.... sorry. Sorry." I apologized since I know that I went a little overboard.

Onto the problem at hand.

"Selene, do you have any idea what the answer is?" I looked back at Selene.

"I don't know...." makes sense, riddles usually take time also for Selene it is only thirty minutes. What to do? What to do?

"Read it again, the riddle."

" What can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head that never weeps, and a bed that never sleeps?"

"What can run but never walk? What is it that can run but does not walk? Hm....." what can it be? I know the answer. I mean when my elder brother was watching TV the other day, this was the same question they asked. Come on, it is on the tip of my tongue but not coming out.

"Selene, what are things related to running?"

"A-A dog runs, a man runs, tap water, marathon, sprint....."

"Wait, wait, wait what did you say before a marathon?"

"T-tap water."

"Tap water, water, running water, running water... I got it." I spoke a little loud.

"Did you get the answer Allen." since Alex was closest to us he asked first.

"River. It's the answer to the Selene riddle. It meets all the conditions."

"Wait." Alex checked the riddle again and by the reaction he was giving, I could tell that he also thought the answer was correct.

"B-but... where do we have-have to submit this?" Selene asked.

"Right.... we don't know where to submit." Liz was also listening to us and said.

"Oi, Allen isn't it a problem? We don't know where to submit it and time is running out.

Fuck it, man! Right, when we cross one hurdle there is another.

TO BE CONTINUED...