Chapter 577 - New Roommate (4)

"I'm not going inside that room," I crossed my arms.

"I thought you hated me. Why would you agree to this?" I turned to Alex.

"It's only for the rest of middle school," Alex lightly pushed me inside.

"You know how I already stay in your dorm room often. It was more convenient," he explained.

My knees collapsed onto the carpeted floor, Luke having to lift me to the sofa to explain the new arrangements in more detail. This was different from Alex visiting us, most of his belongings were in the dorm room he shared with Shelly. Although there were a few months of middle school left, I didn't want to suffer under two people. I had enough of being stuck in the mansion with them for the last three months.

"The school allowed this since there are three months of middle school left. The point system changed so we would be sharing them with Alex. In turn, Michelle will be only earning points for herself. You remember from our negotiations with the dean that the four of us have early admission to the high school section," Luke summarized everything.

"I don't remember," I had tears streaming down my face.

It was no wonder Alex was pressuring me to study harder this month. The exams tomorrow would determine how miserable my life would get. Alex seemed a little surprised from my reaction to the news. It must have been from hearing the fake compliments several weeks ago. However, Luke was expecting something like this, knowing my dislike for the both of them. This was why he tried to give me some hints yesterday to break the news more gently.

The teachers watched me weep while taking my exams. Each time I handed an exam booklet in, some of the pages were wet from my tears. It was the first time I cried during a test, distracting the rest from the sounds of my sniffling. Although the rest of my classmates looked at me weirdly, I didn't care. The results were coming out by the end of the day anyways. Only Shelly knew the true reason behind my tears.

"It's only three months Rika," Alex waited for the results to come out.

"It's three entire months!" I started to cry harder.

"What happened?" Charles wondered what he was missing out on.

"Alex is moving in with them permanently," Shelly had to hide her smile.

"Oh, that," Charles seemed to already know about it.

Since the teachers were distracted from my crying, they accidentally displayed everyone's marks individually. Normally, the grades would be balanced out after taking in your partner's results. Daniel projected the results on the screen, surprising everyone in the process. I couldn't close my mouth, discovering my grades had drastically improved from all my suffering. Luke's schedule actually produced desirable results.

I was in fourth place after Charles who made tiny mistakes, not far away from the people above him. As usual, both Luke and Alex received perfect scores, achieving first place. Everything amounted to a huge amount of points being allocated under us. Instead of celebrating, Alex turned to Shelly to yell at her, "how could you get lower grades than Rika?"

"I had a light cold today," Shelly wondered why he was targeting her.

"Rika still got better grades than you and she was crying the entire time!" Alex didn't accept her excuse.

"Do you need me to supervise you like I do to Rika?" He appeared extremely disappointed.

"It was only once. Rika got better grades than me in the past," Shelly pointed out.

Everyone except for Miliana and Shelly knew it was due to the dimensional library in the past. However, they knew I didn't use it this time. When I turned to Charles, he looked at Shelly the same way as Alex. Miliana stayed silent, trying to stay invisible so they wouldn't target her next. She was in last place, which was worse than Shelly. After Daniel left the classroom, Miliana immediately escaped from the classroom.

"I was busy from the fraction work and attending the meetings in your place. Rika doesn't do any of that," Shelly added.

"Are you seriously comparing yourself with Rika? A young child who begs me to have teatime with her doll. Someone who I have to play paper dolls with every day," Alex didn't have any expectations for me.

When Shelly threw a glance at Charles, he nodded his head to confirm the truth. She was in shock, not able to give an answer to Alex. I knew she was wondering how I managed to convince Alex to play with dolls. The entire room went silent as a heavy atmosphere replaced it. To improve Alex's lowered impression of him, Charles added, "someone who begged and cried to decrease the study sessions received better grades than you."

"I stopped begging recently!" I started to get offended.

"I'm smarter than you think I am," I raised my voice.

"We should give Alex some privacy with his partner," Luke started to pull me out of the room.

"We should leave him with Shelly forever," I wanted him to move out.

Although I was friends with Shelly, there was only so much that I could tolerate. Moving in with Alex wasn't one of them.. Maybe I could sneak out of my new dorm room during the nights to sleep inside the club room instead.