The Entrapment -- Part 1
"If I win you, you owe me lunch - " Skye started.
" - and if I win, you're going on a date with me!" Wilson exclaimed gleefully while she rolled her eyes.
The two buddies were sitting amidst the bustling crowd in the lecture theatre that morning, each having a faced down paper on their own tables. They were placing a bet on the person with the higher grade for their Chemistry end of year examination and Skye thought that it was essentially crucial to win hands down this time.
"One," Wilson began.
"Two," Skye grinned.
"Three!" they practically screamed, with some of the crowd turning around to frown at their immaturity.
"Hah! Sixty-seven percent! So how about movies?" he waved his script in front of her face.
"Aww, I love that concern Will, but I got sixty-eight!" she slammed her paper on his table and stuck out her tongue at him in final victory.
"Will you guys quit the childish acts?" Geraldine, their classmate, rolled her eyes next to them. "And Dr. Rong looks like he's gonna kill us if we don't shut up this instant."
Sure enough, Dr. Rong, the cohort's Chemistry lecturer was wearing the look of a thousand daggers. Apparently he found the noise level a bit too unbearable.
"Quiet!" he nearly spat into the microphone in front of him. His well-known influence earned him the utmost respect he deserved - the entire lecture theatre fell silent.
"Now I shall announce the top student of this Chemistry exam."
Skye swore she saw a taint curl to his lips.
The second Dr. Rong said that, it send many ripples of murmurs across the crowd. He waited for a while before everyone fell silent again.
"Josh Lau."
With that, the cohort muttered an audible "aww" before giving a reluctant applause.
"Gee, what's with that loser? Topping all of the Chemistry tests and exams so far," Wilson grumbled as Josh stood up from the crowd to receive his prize.
"Yea, what a freak!" Skye nodded fervently beside him.
"You guys are just jealous. You should see the amount of work he put it to earn the top position he always did," Geraldine said as Dr. Rong pronounced them dismissed.
"Hey, Ger. What do you know? You got an E for goodness sake," Wilson taunted as he bolted out of the theatre before she could respond.
She scowled as she watched him disappear round the bend.
Skye, however, was sitting there in a daze instead of running after her friend.
'Josh won't be top for long,' she thought to herself. 'He will see sweet defeat one day.'
And boy, her plan sure was downright evil.
(to be continued)
-Tingz
Ps: this story is half-true. =P
