Aki's POV:-
The school exam have started. Today I had history exam. All of the students in our class were currently sitting on their respective seats. Miss Briar distributed question paper and answer sheets.
I held the question paper in my hands. The bell rang and the exam started.
I took my pen and began writing on the answer sheet. There were lot of questions to be answered in given time of two hours. I kept looking at my watch after every twenty minutes in between.
After a brief period of one hour fifty minutes, I finished writing most questions in the paper. The bell rang ten minutes later and Miss Briar collected all the answer sheets.
"Damn. It was tough!"
Ryan began to complain.
"I agree," Marlon agreed with Ryan's complaints.
"What do you think Aki?"
"I don't know. I just kept looking at time."
"What do you think William?"
"It was good."
"What! There were so many difficult questions!"
"I think difficulty level is subjective. Things we find hard, he might find them easy and vice versa." I replied.
"Yeah, William is a bookworm." Ryan concluded.
William didn't mind being called bookworm or so. The discussion continued as everyone left after the classes after exam.
On the way back, Marlon, Ryan and William decided to go back to their dorms. I had decided to stop at the school library as it is peaceful place to study for next exam.
At the library, we were required to keep our Pokemon in Pokeballs and if Pokemon are out they should maintain the decorum. I decided to keep them in Pokeballs since they would end up in fight and I would be kicked out of the library.
I found a nice table and chair. There was already someone sitting on the other chair beside the table.
"Hey Kathy!"
Kathy was sitting alone. There were few books on the table belonging to her. There was no Pokemon beside her so she must have kept them in Pokeballs.
"Aki?"
"Do you study here?"
"Yes I do. I always come here to study."
"Is it fine with me studying here as well?"
"I don't mind."
I sat on the chair opposite to hers. I placed my books on the same table.
There was silence in the room. Both of us were studying the same material but seperately. When I finished a set of questions from my textbook I glanced over Kathy.
Kathy was writing in her notebook. I took a glance of her handwriting. It was beautiful and neat. I could say she must have practiced calligraphy.
"What happened?"
She noticed my gaze. She stopped writing.
"Ah. Did you practice calligraphy?"
"Yes I did for an year."
"Your writing is beautiful."
"Thank you."
Her response were kind of blunt. She wasn't in mood of taking compliments.
"Your handwriting is not bad I guess."
Talking about my handwriting? Well my every letter looks different. Some 'e' are italics, while others are either straight or weird. My handwriting was atleast understandable to me I suppose.
Kathy took a glance at my writing.
"I can understand everything very well. Well this is level, right?"
"It's eevee."
I looked at the word she pointed. Though the 'e' at beginning looked pretty similar to 'l' but I was sure the last e was very clear.
"Oh sorry. The last letter is definitely 'e'."
"It's okay. I can't write as good as you."
"I mean still your writing is good. The only trouble is how you write 'e' and 'l'."
"I understand."
Kathy started peeping down back into her book. Silence continued for few hours.
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I was standing near the cafeteria. I had finished my study session. I decided to play with my Pokemons but before that I fetched some cold drink from vending machine.
The can popped and I opened it to drink.
"Hey there."
The owner of the voice was the student council member Ananya. She approached me with her Roserade.
"Hello."
"You are preparing for exams right? Are you free now?"
"Yes I had a study session until now."
"Okay then. I want to talk something with you. Remember on the challenge day, I had asked you stay. It's something related."
On the day of challenge, she had somewhat warned Han that she won't show her mercy.
"What about that?"
"What do you think about Han?"
"About Han? I have just interacted with her few times. I think she is kind."
"Hmm. Some good looking apples could be rotten at heart."
"What do you mean?"
"William is your classmate right?"
"Yeah. What about him?"
"Don't you think he is hiding something? Something which could be perhaps related to Han?"
"Why do you think so?"
"The previous president was older brother of William. There could be some connection."
"I don't understand what you are saying."
Ananya laughed. Her statements were not exactly funny but confusing.
"Don't act dumb. I know the president asked you stop me."
That was a surprise. I had not even started to stop her but she already figured out that the president has asked me to do so. She must have overheard my conversation with Lana.
"You seem to know everything about Han and William. Why are you telling me all this then?"
"That's because I am interested in you."
"..."
Was that a confession?
"Sorry what?"
Ananya laughs. She clutches her shirt as if I was too funny to ache her stomach.
"Well well. You will find the answers after the final exam."
"You are going to pull some cheap tricks?"
"My tricks aren't cheap. You will soon understand. I am doing all this for the business relation of my family with Han's."
"I see."
"There must be some parental pressure on her to become the student council president in this school. I can understand as someone in similar situation."
That explains why she is ambitious.
"But I am very different from her. She is waiting for Alisa to graduate but I am not. I can't let anyone take that position from me not even Alisa."
She is serious.
She was clearly hinting me to stay away from interrupting her and Han's bet.
"I am not interrupting you. I am just behaving as a spectator."
"So watch it yourself. You shall get the idea that how your days will go in this academy."
"I am looking forward to it."
Ananya operated the vending machine. She lifted a coffee can and opened it. She drank few sips. She hands me a slip with her contact information.
"Normally I would have never talked to a junior like you."
"I am not worth your interest."
"Ha. Ha. Ha. You are funny."
She laughed. Her Roserade chuckled as well. Ananya shifted her gaze to me. Her gaze wasn't the same, it felt warm.
"I wonder why the president is interested in you. Maybe due to her, I am being more interested in you."
"You should not have high expectations from your juniors. It could pressurize them."
Ananya smiled.
"You are awfully funny. See you then junior. Grab yourself popcorns after the end of your exams."
She left with her Roserade. She had some plan in her mind which she was going to execute after exams. I could not decide whether to stop her or try to spectate everything.
Her warnings were quite clear. She is not going to hold back to beat Han. She is aiming for the president and would not show mercy to the hurdles in her path.
I could only stay away from her.
She's crazy.
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Author's note:-
Hello everyone,
Question for you guys:-
If you wanted to learn something from Pokemon anime character, what would you learn and from which character you would like to?
If you ask me, I want to learn from Cilan how to politely insult someone. I love the way he does it in the anime. I will try this with my friends. Fufufu.....
Anyways, meet you all in next chapter.
Thankyou!