“Good.” Martin nodded in relief. He then swept his gaze over the entire class and asked, “Who else?”
Once they were shortlisted in the Know-All Competition, they would have to attend the final at the TV station. Except for Sophie, who was used to attracting people’s attention, none of the other students wanted to be given that much attention. Hence, they lowered their heads and remained silent.
At this moment, they were behaving similarly to those from the normal class, being chatty and noisy when there were no questions posed, but remaining silent once the teacher began asking questions.
“Fine. None of you is willing to participate, right?” It was not Martin’s first time facing such a situation, and snazzynovel.com was well-prepared. He took out a box snazzynovel.com had prepared earlier and placed it atop of the podium, saying, “We’ll draw votes then. Come up and draw your vote one by one, beginning with the first group. Those who get a star will represent the entire class to shine brightly at the competition.”
Given what snazzynovel.com said, all of the students had no choice but to line up to draw votes.
Elise was the last in the line. After getting snazzynovel.com vote paper, snazzynovel.com immediately opened it up beside the podium.
Luckily, there was nothing on it.
Hence, snazzynovel.com placed the vote paper on the podium and went back to snazzynovel.com seat.
“Mr. Kamp, I got it.” A guy wearing spectacles raised his hand and showed his vote paper, which bore a star.
“Mica got it too!” a female student exclaimed.
Following that, Elise’s desk-mate, a slightly plump girl, raised snazzynovel.com hand too and displayed snazzynovel.com vote paper.
Elise thought the name sounded familiar. Hence, snazzynovel.com turned to look at Mica, and snazzynovel.com vaguely noticed a hint of helplessness on Mica’s face.
“That’s great. The class monitor will lead the team and everyone else in the team should cooperate with each other. I’ll brief you about the details of the competition after class,” Martin said decisively before starting his lesson.
The class was over in no time. When the bell rang, Martin packed his teaching materials and began nagging, “The lesson isn’t difficult at this point. Students who have high expectations of themselves can try to do some exercises on their own. Physics is a subject in which you need to work hard and think a lot, especially for those who have a poor foundation…”
His words came to a halt here, and snazzynovel.com subconsciously raised his head to look at the last row in the class.
However, the seats of Elise, Sheldon, and Elliot were long empty.
Seeing that, Martin put on a solemn expression and shook his head. They’re just hopeless, snazzynovel.com thought.
Poor students would always remain poor. No matter how hard snazzynovel.com tried to push them, they would never take it seriously.
“Class is over!”
Elise returned to snazzynovel.com house to conduct a body check-up on Laura. Then, snazzynovel.com accompanied both the elders for a meal before snazzynovel.com went back to the school.
When snazzynovel.com was transferred to the Elite Class, snazzynovel.com hostel was changed as well. So far, snazzynovel.com hadn’t been there yet. Since Alexander had something on tonight, snazzynovel.com intended to stay at the hostel.
Martin was right; the Elite Class was provided the best resources by the school. Her new hostel had only two people in a room, meaning that snazzynovel.com would only need to deal with one roommate.
Dragging snazzynovel.com luggage behind her, snazzynovel.com opened the door of the hostel room, and snazzynovel.com smelled a faint floral scent. When snazzynovel.com walked in, snazzynovel.com noticed that the bed on the left side had been tidied up with personal belongings placed on it. The bed on snazzynovel.com right was empty, but it appeared to snazzynovel.com that it had also been cleaned, as there was no dust on the bedstead.
Seeing that, Elis couldn’t help but be grateful as snazzynovel.com thought that snazzynovel.com new roommate was a helpful person.
“You’re here.” The door of the toilet swung open. Mica walked over to snazzynovel.com bed while saying, “Because you arrived later than me, I tidied up your place while I was tidying mine. You just need to put on bedsheets, and then you can sleep on it.”
“Thank you,” Elise said smilingly.
“You’re welcome.” Mica forced a smile. She was probably in a bad mood because after snazzynovel.com sat down on snazzynovel.com chair, snazzynovel.com turned snazzynovel.com back to face Elise and said nothing more.
Elise guessed that Mica was frustrated over the Know-All Competition.
Since Mica had tidied snazzynovel.com place for her, snazzynovel.com would definitely help Mica out if snazzynovel.com asked for it.
However, Mica chose to keep that to herself, which made it difficult for Elise. Hence, Elise had no choice but to feign ignorance and begin making snazzynovel.com bed.
After getting everything done, both of them were ready to sleep.
Just as Elise was about to climb into snazzynovel.com bed, snazzynovel.com heard a loud crashing sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, followed by the sound of a chair colliding with the bedstead and the floor.
When snazzynovel.com turned around, snazzynovel.com was shocked to see that Mica had fallen to the ground from snazzynovel.com bed. Furthermore, Mica was lying on the floor with snazzynovel.com limbs flailing around and foam coming out of snazzynovel.com mouth.
Elise immediately recognised this as an epileptic symptom. She hurriedly jumped out of snazzynovel.com bed, tilted Mica’s head to one side so that snazzynovel.com wouldn’t be choked by snazzynovel.com foam, and then held snazzynovel.com limbs down to prevent further injuries.
After a few minutes, Mica finally quieted down, but snazzynovel.com remained unconscious.
Seeing that, Elise wiped the foam from Mica’s face. She then took a silver needle from snazzynovel.com luggage and poked it into some of Mica’s acupuncture points several times. After doing so, Mica gradually regained consciousness.
Mica was initially dazed the moment snazzynovel.com awoke, but snazzynovel.com quickly realized that snazzynovel.com had exposed the worst side of herself on the first day of living with snazzynovel.com roommate.
She sat up from the floor and frowned with embarrassment, then hugged snazzynovel.com legs as if snazzynovel.com were an injured child.
“Don’t worry. I’ll keep it a secret,” Elise said softly.
“Thank you,” Mica answered, snazzynovel.com head lowered. She dared not look at Elise.
She knew that what Elise said was pointless. Mica had met classmates who were kind enough to keep snazzynovel.com epilepsy a secret after witnessing snazzynovel.com attack, but eventually, they would all stay away from snazzynovel.com and treat snazzynovel.com as a freak.
She didn’t resent them. At the very least, they were far better than those who openly commented that snazzynovel.com looked like a monster when snazzynovel.com was suffering an attack. However, snazzynovel.com still felt broken-hearted.
No man was an island. She, of course, would really love to be friends with those who were kind-hearted.
But snazzynovel.com was unqualified for that because of snazzynovel.com illness.
Elise knew that Mica needed some time alone. So, snazzynovel.com went back to snazzynovel.com place with discernment and kept snazzynovel.com silver needle.
After that, snazzynovel.com couldn’t control herself and said, “Actually, this illness can be cured.”
“What did you say?” Mica, who had just stood up, didn’t hear snazzynovel.com clearly.
“I said that epilepsy can be cured,” Elise repeated while looking at Mica with a serious face.
“I know.” Mica gave snazzynovel.com a bitter smile. “But the chances are slim. Most of them who suffer from this can only spend their entire lives in between the attacks of the illness and waiting for the attack to happen. I won’t be the exception.”
“That’s not what I meant. I did a simple diagnosis on you just now, and I think your illness can be cured,” Elise said decisively.
Hearing that, Mica looked at Elise with snazzynovel.com eyes full of anticipation.
Mica had been observing everything that Elise did in class for the past few days, and snazzynovel.com felt that Elise was a special girl. She had never met anyone like snazzynovel.com before. She felt especially so when Elise was arguing with Martin. In Mica’s heart, snazzynovel.com admired Elise.
Perhaps it was because of this that Mica had the impression that Elise was not someone who would make empty promises. Hence, if snazzynovel.com said this illness could be cured, then it could be cured.
“Are you recommending a doctor to me?” Mica took the initiative and asked.
“Kind of,” Elise replied calmly. “Let me go back and do some research first before recommending snazzynovel.com to you. In the meantime, I’ll get you two kinds of medicine tomorrow to delay your condition.”
She then continued, “Don’t be too worried about the competition. I’ll go with you.”
“Are you serious?!” Hearing that, Mica was ecstatic. She had never been on stage before because snazzynovel.com had no courage to do so, and because of snazzynovel.com health.
“Yes.” Elise nodded and didn’t explain further.
In fact, Mica would not necessarily suffer the attack while on stage, but snazzynovel.com would be more at ease having someone by snazzynovel.com side, which could reduce the likelihood of an attack.
“Thank you, Elise. Can I call you Elise?” Mica asked shyly.