[Flash-Back] It was one afternoon whenour adviser was kind enough to give as some vacancy to take a break and be free to do anything we want with the free time she gave. She left us to do our own thing and while everyone busied themselves someone came barging in. My seatmate Kurt, hit his head on his own desk while his backpack is still on his back. I touched Kurt’s shoulder but he suddenly wriggled his body like a wriggling worm. He got me astounded. Is he having an attack? I panicked while I continued tapping his shoulders. He eventually stopped. I sigh came out of my mouth but my eyes went big when the squirming was replaced by his sudden cries. Our classmates started flocking around him to ask him questions. He was shaking his head. His head still propped down. But he kept on crying. He didn't stop even after hearing the consoling words from us. We decided it was best to leave him alone, so we just let him continue his sobbing. But I really wanted to make him stop doing it. I stared at Kurt who was still sobbing painfully. Andrew came approaching me with eyes full of concern. He eyed Kurt with a bit of concern while nudging me to exchange seats with him. Which I respond with a few shakes of my forehead. “I'm okay here, Drew.” I said to him. “Sure? You're stay here? What if he’ll act suddenly all crazy? Remember the time when we were in Rina’s house? When his eyes went white, then he suddenly came out only to come back with scissors on his hands? It was a sudden move that made everyone there hide inside the room, thinking that he might plan to stab us.” He whispered cautiously, leaning closely on me. His eyes are still looking at Kurt to check if he can hear him. I slowly nodded my head at him. He was right.It was indeed shocking. The moment it happened all I can think is that we finally got a taste of that horrifying scary movie scene occurring into our own reality. I can still remember when each of us looks for something to protect ourselves in case he will attack us. It was bad but it's also absurd too. And now, this is the result. It's not every day we can get to see this unusual act from Kurt. But there are times. Times that when he acts it's no longer normal for our eyes. I don't even know if his parents are interested in their child's condition. They should be concerned about what he is doing. He needs help, especially from his own parents. I sympathized a lot in Kurt’s stead. Because even his parents shood him away. They even dispatched the thoughts that he has some psychological issues. They said that Kurt is just acting. That he just wanted people to pay attention because he felt that he lacks from having their attention. They said that we should just let it go - just don't pay attention. Which I think is not good. And those words came from his parents themselves when they were summoned here to tell them about Kurt's troubling behavior. --- “Here.” I gave back the test paper towards Inah with some of the calculations I wrote on her pad of paper. The test questions are not difficult. In fact these were already discussed from the last few weeks of our classes. I just can't understand why they still need to ask for solutions from Andrew when they could have opened their notebooks to see equations since we are allowed to open our notes for our quiz today. “Uhm.” They didn't go back to their seats-and instead examined the paper looking for something. Lila gave me a small smile. Her and her best friend's eyes have some discontentment flashed on it. “I already gave you the answer and its solution to number 24. The rest is up to you to solve. I still haven't finished my own test papers. And I.. It will take me a lot of minutes to answer yours. Maybe this time, Miss Sylvia will see me answering your questionnaires.” I see their confusion written on their faces. I even saw Lila’s raised her brows while waiting for me to finish my statement. I hide the irritation I felt-showing them my smile. They wouldn't suspect a thing if I'll add this. “You guys don't want Miss Sylvia to get the wrong impression about you being an honor student, right? Besides, I've done the work. I made the solutions easier for you guys to solve. The formulas, I made it simpler. You can finish that in no time.” They slowly nodded their heads. You can see the agreement on their faces. I even smiled wider. “Now go. I'm going to start. I still have a few blank ones. Time is ticking, girls.” “This is what I like the most about you, Amy. You are not stingy. Unlike the other one out there.” The tone of Lila’s voice changed. Giving her side glance towards where Andrew is currently sitting. “Agree. You really deserve to be the top one, Amy.” Hearing Inah’s shabby comment made me look at Andrew, whose lips are now twitching in disagreement. They went to their seats after that. After our class ended, Andrew and I decided to buy drinks and snacks before walking home. Our houses are pretty distant towards each other. We are not neighbors which I sometimes wished we could just live next to each other in the house.
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