What else did I miss? Making sure I didn't miss anything, I walked out the room before Luke was about to open the door. "I already finished packing my things," I said to not look suspicious.

After Luke nodded his head, I headed towards the cla.s.sroom to wait for the rest of my cla.s.smates. When everyone came back, the teacher declared, "I will now announce the new pairings for the next two weeks. Helena will be with Luke, Rika with Allan, while Mich.e.l.le and Alex will remain the same until two weeks later."

After being led to the medieval-like room that I was expecting, I placed my box on the floor. My impression of Allan was that he was pretty laid back, which was in turn pretty advantageous for me. I wasn't motivated in upgrading the room, since I knew I would come back to this room again two weeks afterwards. So after we were given the rest of the day to interact with our new partners, I took out a light novel and a bag of chips and sat down on the straw bed.

Allan looked pretty astonished as he had a look of surprise on his face. "Don't mind me," I said while flipping another page.

If Luke was here, I would never behave this way, but since it was Allan, I decided to do whatever I wanted to do. I ended up not talking with Allan for the entire day and went to sleep after finis.h.i.+ng the book.

The next day, when I saw Allan heading towards Luke, I gave him a good glare to threaten him to not tell Luke what he saw yesterday. I think it worked, because Luke didn't come to me during break time. However, during the last cla.s.s before the next break, Daniel announced, "We will be giving out the initiation exam tomorrow so study hard to get some points! Starting from tomorrow, we will not be giving free meals after the exam."

At this point of time, I didn't care about upgrading the room or getting more points for meals because I already had my stash of junk food with me. So I wasn't planning to study.

Thus, while everyone was fiercely studying for the exam tomorrow during the next break, I walked back to my room to read my next light novel.

When I got back to cla.s.sroom for the next cla.s.s, Allan came up to me to ask, "Where did you go during break?"

"I just went back to our room to resume doing the same thing as yesterday."

Allan's jaw dropped in shock as he asked, "You're not going to study for tomorrow's exam?"

"No, I don't feel like studying today," I replied.

When Allan was about to say something, the next cla.s.s started, so Allan reluctantly returned to his seat.

When the last cla.s.s ended, Allan hurriedly walked to my seat while I was packing up my stuff. "Are you sure, you're going to be okay with not studying today?" Allan asked firmly.

"I'm sure I'll do okay," I replied. What I didn't tell him was that I was just planning to pa.s.s.

The next day when we wrote our exams, we got all our marks back when we finished writing all our exams. When I got all the exam booklets back, even I was shocked with my marks. It was stamped with some 30s, 40s and one 50 and 20. At least I pa.s.sed with one subject, I thought while thinking the middle school exams here resembled the masters level in university in my past life.

When Allan walked over to my desk to look over my marks, his jaw dropped again in shock, while I was looking at Allan's marks that were mostly 80s. At this rate, I knew that we were going to get minus points when it all balanced out. Oh well! I guess I'll go share my stash of junk food with Allan I thought.

Few minutes later, the teacher showed our results on the monitor:

Mich.e.l.le and Alex : 70 000 points

Helena and Luke: 95 000 points

Rika and Allan: - 100 000 points

Wow. I think this was my first time seeing a pair get - 100 000 points. When Allan saw the result, he fainted from the shock. The other five just had their jaws dropping in shock (including the teacher).

But, I wasn't too worried because I had some food with me inside my room. If Allan and I ate the food that I had very scarcely, we wouldn't have to starve anyways. I walked back to the room while dragging Allan along on the floor while the others were still frozen inside the cla.s.sroom.