Chapter 116: Chapter 116

5 weeks later

Nate's POV

" Students, so this is our last History class. We have revised all the portion. Now you may sit and study hard. You should have learned everything already. There is just one week for the exam. ", Mr Jacob says staring at us intently as the bell rings. Ethan leans back on his chair beside me and lets out a sigh. Most of the people in the class has an annoyed expression on their face on the mention of exam.

Mr Jacob shakes his head in disdain and turns around, taking his book from his table. " And students your hall tickets are now available on our site. You can login through the students login and take a print. ", he says before walking out of the class.

" Let's go and take the print from captech during lunch break.", Ethan tells tilting his head to me.

" Okay.", I nod grabbing my book and stuff.

We then get up from our seats and walk out of the class together, causing a few girls to look at us with envy. Now almost everyone in the school knows we are dating and all are jealous of us, or more aptly jealous of me. There are still girls who are trying to desperately grab Ethan's attention in different ways but he won't fall for any of that. I've complete trust in him, in that matter. Gavin and Grace says he is whipped for me. I also think like that.

Ethan chuckles tilting his head to me.

" Uhm..why are you simply l..laughing at me now ?", I ask him.

" Why are you simply blushing now ? You know your face looks like a tomato now.", he says.

" I'm not b..blushing or anything.", I say playfully hitting him with my elbow. He only laughs at that. " Go to your class now. Let's meet at l..lunch break.", I say.

" Okay baby.", he says placing his forefinger on his lips and then placing it on mine, giving me an indirect kiss. Then he turns the hall way and walks away in direction of his class. I can't help but stand there for a moment and smile looking at his back. He looks like a hero from a high school drama as he walks.

I shake my head and quickly walk towards the Chemistry class. I sit in the second row and reserve a seat for Andrea beside me. We always sit together in chemistry. Actually she reserves a seat for me every day. But today she hasn't arrived yet.

She doesn't arrive even after Miss Allen steps in. So I think she is absent. But three minutes later, she appears panting at the doors with a paper in her hands and asks for permission to get in. Miss Allen waves her hands and Andrea quickly scurries to me.

" What took you so long ?", I ask her as she sits down beside me.

" I went to our Captech to take print of hall ticket.", She says placing the sheet of paper on the desk.

" Why couldn't you just go d..during lunch break ?", I ask taking her hall ticket to see how it looks like. And my eyes go wide at the sight of Date of birth below the name.

Shit ! I can't go to take the print with Ethan.

" Noah told there will be a big queue during lunch break.", Andrea says taking out her file and reaching her hands for her hall ticket. " Uhm..what's wrong Nate ?", she asks.

" Nothing.", I shake my head and gives the hall ticket back to her, averting my attention to Miss Allen.

For the last few weeks I've been very careful to not let Ethan find out my birth date. But he almost caught me when Grace was doing a zodiac compatibility test while we were at a cafe a month ago. Without thinking, the stupid me said my sign is Gemini. Then Ethan asked how come I'm Gemini when I'm born in August. I then quickly said I don't actually know my sign and I just said a sign I like. Grace then found out my sign is Leo. And Leo and Gemini has strong compatibility and that's why I and Ethan are so perfectly bonded. Stupid Zodiac theories !

I can't explain how much tensed I got at that moment when I thought I got caught. But I'm very careful after that. Thank God! I now saw Andrea's hall ticket. I need to go and take print without Ethan.

Between I have found out I'm Ethan's Mom's Son. On the Tuesday evening after I first went to Ethan's house, I took a cab to a lab nearby and gave the samples for DNA test. Thank fully Ethan had football practice that day and Gavin and Grace went out on a date. I came back in half an hour and so no body found out I went to the lab. I got the results on my email after two days and it was positive. I had no particular reaction when I saw the results.

I went along with Ethan to his house three more times. Last week, we celebrated new year there together and watched fireworks from his terrace. I'm now really close with my Mom and Sister. The second time I went, I gifted Eve with a painting of her and I can't explain how happy she was on seeing it. She was jumping squealing ' Am I actually this beautiful ?'

Seeing the drawing, our Mom told me, I should also draw her pic one day. And I gifted her with a portrait of her on the new years eve. She had a wide smile on her lips as she grazed her fingers over the drawing.

Evy now video calls me separately, twice or thrice in a week. Mom also calls or texts me once in a while to ask whether Ethan is studying well for exams. We actually went home this week and came back only yesterday morning. (Today is Tuesday) We had been studying hard the whole weekend without wasting a minute and Mom was surprised. She told me she is seeing Ethan studying like this for the first time.

Everything is going really good right now. I'm so happy. But I've also a deep fear bubbling in the pit of my stomach. I haven't showed Ethan's pics to my parents yet. I went home two weeks before to celebrate Christmas with them. And Dad, Mom and Anna had been constantly nagging me to show them Ethan's pic. I thought about showing them but I couldn't gain the courage. So I told them I will bring him home during the sem vacation and so wait until then.

I'm actually planning to take him home. Anyway one day they will have to see him. And Ethan has been telling me he wants to see my home and my parents. But I'm scared about their reaction. Maybe I should show them his pic before directly taking him home and giving them a great shock. I'm still thinking about what to do.

After the chemistry class, I rush to the captech to take the print of hall ticket. It's a small office in the second floor of IT block. It's from there students usually take prints of application forms and fee challans and all.

There were only less than ten people there to take prints. So I quickly reach in front of the queue within five minutes. " Register number ?", the secretary in front of the computer asks. I tell her my register number and then she asks for password. Password of every student is actually his/her date of birth. I tell my date of birth and afterwards leaves a sigh thinking what would have happened if I came here with Ethan.

Soon my hall ticket is being printed and the lady is hurriedly handing it to me. " Oh..I want to print my f..friends hall ticket too.", I say.

" Okay..register number ?", she asks.

I quickly tell Ethan's register number. I know it by heart. Only the last three digits of our register numbers are different. Mine is 849, his is 209. I tell the same date of birth again and a moment later a smile forms on the lady's face. Probably on seeing Ethan's photo as she logged into his profile. Cause literally everyone in school knows we are boyfriends. Soon the secretary hands me his hall ticket and I walk away after thanking her.

" Guys, let's finish lunch quickly and go to take the print of our hall ticket.", Ethan says while we sit to have lunch.

" Why hurry ? Our Exam isn't tomorrow.", Gavin says.

" Hmm..then you download and print it on the morning of exam day. Baby, let's go after having lunch. ", he says looking at me.

" I already took our prints, Ethan. Your hall ticket is w..with me.", I say munching on my sandwich.

" Oh..you already took ??", he asks in surprise.

" Yeah..", I nod gulping down the food in my mouth. " Andrea told me there will be a b..big queue during lunch break. So I went and got it after second hour. ", I say.

" Oh..", he nods smiling.

" Seems like you both just need to get the question paper. You guys learned everything already ?", Milan asks.

" You know Milan, they are studying together in the study hall every day from 5 to 9 evening and 6 to 8 morning since Ethan's match ended. Seems like they both will get ranks this time.", Grace says eying us, causing Ethan to chuckle and shake his head.

" Really ?? Every day ?", Milan asks in surprise.

" No. He has f..football practice on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We only s..study on Tuesday and Thursday m..mornings.", I say.

" Still you study 4 hours evening. ", Grace says.

" We aren't studying the whole four hours. We spent at least two hours simply talking.", Ethan says. That's not completely true. He often wants breaks in between and wants to play games or talk with me. But I don't let him waste more than an hour on that.

Yes, we have been studying hard. I promised our Mom that I would make him score above 90 %. And after his team won the football match, with him scoring the last crucial goal and becoming the best player, Ethan is learning very enthusiastically.

Yes ! He became the best player like he promised me and he gave me his beautiful golden trophy. He was smiling so happily while giving it to me. Then he literally picked me up and swirled me around in the middle of the ground in front of all those people, with me giggling in his arms, holding up his trophy. The trophy in now in my room, sitting beside our fishes.

"Woah guys, I still haven't opened my text books.", Dulce says sipping on her juice.

" C'mon...who is saying ? You are the top ranker of last year, right ?", Gavin asks.

" No..I was rank 1 in sophomore. Last year it was Jayden Isaac. I was only rank 2.", she says.

" Only rank 2, hmm..?", Gavin and Grace together asks while Milan chuckles at Dulce.

" C'mon guys, I really isn't studying anything this sem. Okay, I had dreams to become the valedictorian of high school at one time. But I'm lazy and I'm not wishing for it anymore.", She says shaking her head.

" Dulce, if you had that dream, you should w..work for it. You have still time.", I say.

She looks at me and smiles. " I think Nate, you can beat Jayden. In fact you beat him in the last physics test for two marks."

" I just want to pass.", I say. I honestly haven't yet dreamed of becoming the top scorer. I've never actually been the top student in my previous high school. But in middle school I was always top. Alex's death affected my studies badly. But now I think if I try hard I can become the top scorer again. I've covered almost all the portions already. Just need to revise everything. Maybe I can dream of becoming the top scorer.

" Ethan, let's then go and read English in the l..library until bell rings.", I say as we finish our lunch.

" Okay..", he nods.

After dumping our plates and washing our hands, we together walks towards the library. "Oh..don't you want your hall..t..ticket ?", I ask him on the way and starts to shrug my bag off of my shoulder. I've kept our hall tickets in two different files for safety.

" No..you better keep it with yourself and give me before exam. Or I'll lose it somewhere.", he says. I smile at the fact that he trust me more than himself.

The new young librarian Miss White looks up and smiles as we step into the library. We also smile back at her and goes to a table, taking out our English text books from our bags. Miss White keeps on eying us with a smile. She is nice but she has took an interest in watching us ever since the first time we started studying in library.

Anyway I'm glad most of the people look at us either in amusement or Jealousy rather than looking at us with disgust. But there are still some people like that. They pass vulgar comments, sitting behind us, tying to shame and hurt us. We usually ignore them.

But the sad fact is my English teacher Mrs Kelly is actually one of that kind. She was nice to me until she found out I'm dating Ethan. Now she looks at me with disgust and ignores me, when I answer the questions she asks during her class. I'm afraid she would give me low internal Marks. Hopefully she won't. I've turned in all assignments and was performing well in her class.

" Baby, which chapter are we reading ?", Ethan asks.

" Let's read an appreciation of wasteland. It's im...important. You first read the poem.", I say and take out my phone to look for a good piece on appreciation in Google. Ethan opens the text book to Wasteland and starts reading through it.