Crying During an Examination - by Astrid

Crying During an Examination

It was the entrance examination of NFLS. Mr. Huang was sent to invigilate the students. He walked into the classroom and turned on the PPT. The students came in and the exam started.

The students were busy looking at the PPT and writing things on the paper. The test went on for about 30 minutes. Mr. Huang stood up and started walking in the classroom. He went past the students but suddenly heard a sobbing voice. He turned around and saw a boy curling up at the corner with his hands on his face. He walked to the boy and told the boy not to cry. The boy wiped his eyes with his sleeves and picked up his pen with a shaking hand. Mr. Huang went back to his seat and checked on his phone. However, the boy started murmuring and crying after a few minutes. The boy’s face was as pale as paper except for his bright red cheeks. His put his hands on his head and stretched his hair tightly. He frowned and showed a miserable look. Tears swirled in his eyes and dropped to his test papers. He keeps murmuring: “This is too hard! I won’t be able to go to this school!” Mr. Huang walked to the boy and bent down to talk to him. He told the boy not to cry or he will let him out. The boy shook his head and looked up to the teacher with tearful eyes. “Teacher, I can’t answer it! I can’t get into this school!” Mr. Huang frowned and explained that he is disturbing other students. The boy turned around slowly to look around the classroom and hid his faces behind his shoulder leaving his eyes to be seen. Some students looked at him so he turned away quickly. He blew his nose with a piece of paper and kept crying in a low voice. “Come on, don’t cry. You are disturbing others. Plus, you should take your times and solve the problems that you know how to do. Now, stop crying. Right now!” Mr. Huang said in a strict voice. The boy was frightened, more tears came out from his eyes. He cried, with his mouth wide open. Tears flowed from his eyes across his cheeks and dropped on the desk. He made a loud noise and the other students sighed anxiously. Mr. Huang pulled him up from his chair and said quietly: “Get, out!” He tried to drag him out of the classroom and slammed the door. The boy tried to open the door but it was locked. He stood back to the window and howled with all his strength. He fell to his feet and sat on the ground, crying. He bent his knees and held them with his arms. He placed face into his knees and cried quietly.

The test is over, students came out with relaxing faces, leaving him on the corridor alone.

ASTRID

15 A Story of A Mysterious Game and The Murdering Story 15 - by Laura

15 A Story of A Mysterious Game and The Murdering Story 15

Athena took a big breath and spoke, “When Helena pressed the bottom, it didn’t work as we planned. Amy didn’t talk about giving me my name card. So I curious why she had prevent it. And by mistake, I said it out loud. Now she knew I am on your side and she had find out I gave your name card back to you. And, and Amy said ‘Good, very good. I will never give it back to you. Are you afraid of me killing you? No, I’m not going to kill you so early. I have enough patience and I’m going to wait. I’m going to wait till the game only remained you and me. And them, I will rip your name card in front of you. Yes in front of you. You are going to taste the flavor of betraying a friend, I hate people doing that. You’d better be prepared. Maybe in a few days we will be the only ones left.’We were all in danger. ”

I was like being bullied right in the stomach. I wanted to slap Athena; I wanted to bark at her. But I knew, that wouldn’t help anything, so I controlled myself, and said, “It’s ok. I have an idea. You have power to see what special ability your friend used in the last month right? Then check Amy’s. ”

“I’ll do it now.” Athena took out her phone from her pocket. “Oh no.” Athena turned gray after seeing for a while.

“What’s on the phone?”I asked impatiently.

“Here,” she handed me her phone. I looked at it, and also turned gray. On it wrote:

Amy had changed her special power last week with a girl named Astrid------she had killed her. Her new special power is: she had a invisible protecting cloth. When she wore it on, nobody’s special will work on her.

“What are we doing next?” Helena asked helplessly to me, she was used to I being the leader.

“Nothing,” I said and gave a “I hate you”look to Athena, “we have to make confrontation with Amy.”

“What kind of confrontation?”Athena was interested.

    I shrugged: “any kinds.”

    “Like, hit her in the face?”Helena giggled.

    “It was worth a try!”I gave them a smirk.

    The atmosphere seemed to relax a little bit by Helena’s little joke. And I was feeling much better.

    “We had to find Amy, Eddy and Helena’s name cards.”I thought for a minute, and said.

    “Sure.”Athena and Helena agreed with me, “We must win.”

    The next day, I went to the fifth floor to find name cards. In coincidence, Amy was there. It seem like we were really having a confrontation. I thought.

    “Did you find any?”I asked, afraid she was ahead of me.

    “None of your business.”She answered coldly.

    Then, it all happened in a second. I saw a name card. I rushed toward it and grabbed it to see whose it was. And, that belongs to Eddy.

Amy surely saw that sight and she shouted angrily, “Give it to me.”

“No, unless you can get it yourself.” I teased. Amy came, grabbed an angel of the name card and started pulling. I would never let Amy get this name card of course, so I pulled back. We just stood there, each of us grabbing one end of the name card. None of us would give up. Sudden, the name card was torn apart in the middle. In a moment, we looked at one another, and no words came. But when she realized what she had done, I saw tears running down from her cheeks. But I don’t pity her a bit, it serves her right.

“You ugly dirty b***h! You will never win it. Tonight, I’ll kill Athena. We both killed one person from the other side. It’s a tie.”Amy was mad, and about to explode. I had never seen her so, at least not in our 4-year friendship.

My heart sank immediately. I didn’t like that kind of tie a bit. Now I was full of regret for killing Eddy. I had to think of a way saving Athena.

“Wait a minute,” I said, “If you do so, you can get no benefits. How about making an agreement? ”

Amy snickered, “Making an agreement? How funny? Now you are afraid of me tearing up the name card? Never. I don’t believe you.”

“Well, let me tell you something. I have your name card.” I pretended to be mysterious.    

I saw a piece of fear flickering through Amy’s face, but in a second, she remained calm. “You think I’ll believe you? No way! You are probably lying to me.”

“I’m not lying to you. I mean maybe we can exchange the name card. I give you yours back to me. And you give me Helena’s. How about that?”

“You are kidding, aren’t you? I already have my own name card. ”Amy had on a proud expression.

My face went red. Oh god, my lie was so easily torn down. But then I remembered the piece of fear in her face. And the sentence, “you are probably lying to me”. If she really had the name card, she wouldn’t say that. Instead she should say, “you must be lying”. If Amy wasn’t uncertain, why she use “probably”? According to all that things above, it’s proved that Amy’s lying. She just wanted to just if I was telling the truth. I can’t be fooled by her.

I quickly cleared my throat to hide my embarrassment, “You can’t treat me. You said so because you are guilty. Right? I already got it and there is no way for you to get another one.

Amy snorted, “Humph, Laura, I had to admit, you are pretty smart. Ok, so I’m in. When would you prefer doing this?”

I thought for a minute. I did not have Amy’s name card, so it may take me some time make a fake one. “Maybe the day after tomorrow?”

Amy was a little suspicious, “Why not tomorrow?”

I felt sweat touring from my forehead, the atmosphere seemed to risen. I was very hot------is Amy finding out the truth? I hesitated for a moment and said, “Tomorrow is also ok, if you insist.”

“Then tomorrow it is.”And Amy hurried away.

So I spent the whole night making a fake name cards. I wrote Amy’s name in the front in my best cursive writings. I must succeed, I told myself. And I will.

   

Laura

The Case about Charlie’s Owl 2

              The Case about Charlie’s Owl 2

First, I talk with the fat woman. “Charlie is your neighbor, right?” I asked.

“Yes.”

“Do you know he has an owl?”

“Yes, I know that. That owl is very stupid, it always shouts very loudly at night, it almost wake me up every night! Of course I don’t like it, I don’t think you will like it too.”

“Well, thank you for your help.” I said, than I talk to the musician. “Do you like your neighbor, Charlie’s owl?”

“Of course I like it! It can sing the most beautiful song in the world, which always gives me many inspirations. Why would I hate it? I like it very much.”

Finally I asked the biologist the same question.

“I like it, I like every animal in the world.” He said, “I’m a biologist, I won’t hate or hurt any animal.”

I went back to my seat and sat down, looking at the cage. It was still there, nothing happened. I didn’t stop for even one second. It made me tired and I fell asleep.

I slept a while and then woke up. I felt very hungry, and asked the conductor for some snacks. Sleeping and eating made me focused on the case.

I started thinking, in these three guys, “only the fat woman hates Charlie’s owl, but maybe the musician or the biologist are lying, maybe they didn’t tell the truth”. No way out, I was puzzled.

I looked at the cage again. “It’s not so easy to be an owl’s bodyguard,” I said to myself. I stood up and looked for the three guys. They were still seated, and didn’t move at all.

Suddenly, I thought I should find out if the owl is still in the cage. I took away the blanket on the cage.

Nothing in it! Absolutely empty!

(To be continued) 
Part One

Part Two
Part Three

ERIC

An Unexpected Result in one Math Exam -by Tony

An Unexpected Result in one Math Exam

“Hi, Tony. How do you feel after the math test? A good mark?” My friend Jackson said.

“I think I will get a good mark because I do the best I can.” I responded. “Wow, you are really confident. I wish you can get a good mark. I just think I am going to fail in the test.” He said disappointedly.

“Why? I think you are good at math.” I asked.

“You remember there are five questions of choosing the A,B or C. I just write down the answer, not the matching choice. I wish I can get above eighty points, so I won’t get a punishment from my parents.” He said sadly. “You will definitely get a good mark, right, Tony?

Then he saw me squatting on the ground. I guess he probably knew that what happened: I did a mistake, too.“Oh no! Why I didn’t find this issue out? Oh no, I guess when my parents see this, they will be really angry. Now I just wish I answered the other questions right, so my score is still above ninety, right, because it is just losing five points, not a big deal, right? At least I won’t do wrong the next time.” I said.

“Yeah, that’s your idea.” Jackson said. It looked sad on his face. I guess there are no other emotions except sadness and disappointment. I tried to console him to be happy, but then, I understand there’s no way to make him happy. After a while, we were sitting together just like two vagrants. We didn’t have anything to say to each other. Then I was getting sad, too. Maybe he infected me.

“Hey, let’s go to the milk tea shop, I will pay for the money.”

The next day:

“You guys did bad at this exam. I want you to reflect on yourself. Come and get your test paper. Tony, congratulations, your score is ninety five, only five questions wrong, I guess if you were not careless, you can a hundred. Keep working hard. I wish you can get a good mark next time. I was amazed. I was so excited that I can feel everyone was looking at me. Then I heard another voice: “Jackson, your score is ninety five, I wish you can get a better mark next time.” Then I heard a scream, Jackson did. When I was intoxicate about my good score. I guess Jackson did, too. I heard another voice:

Except the two students, everybody all got the full score. Excellent guys! Class is over.......

                                                 Tony