Filed to story: A Girl Nobody Wanted Book by SansaR
I pouted.
Jake showed no emotions at all. He was just playing with a pen, moving it from hand to hand like it is the most interesting plaything he has ever found.
It is really surprising how he can change his mood from Mr. Cool to Mr. Don’t care in a split second. He truly has an ambiguous personality…
But My Luke!!! he is sweet as always. He was smiling and he was over the moon… his happiness was clearly visible in his shining eyes.
“We are going to win this!!!” he said highly motivated.
“Isn’t it?” he asked, and the question was directed me.
I panicked. It is not that I have talked with him much, so I found it a bit awkward. you know, directly talking to him instead of texts.
“yes… we can win” I managed to tell.
“not we can sweety, we should,” Bob said laughing.
“True. we have all three of you so if we don’t win it’s such a shame.” Glenn added.
“Really… you feel shame for that Glenn? I thought you have no shame at all” Luke said, though he said it as a mere statement, he actually sounded sarcastic.
You are right! he has no shame none of those buggers have.
“Okay everyone so, now you have your teams formed and we are going to have an ice breaker session. Some of you may be good friends. But some of you are not. This small session will help you to get to know each other better.” Ms. Smith announced. Great!!! That is a marvelous opportunity for me to get to know Luke and Jake more, I don’t care about the other three anyway.
“We are going to give you all an online questionnaire. It is mostly about your personal preferences and your view on certain aspects. Don’t worry it is a multiple-choice questions paper.” she said smiling as some of the students started complaining.
“Then we will give you time to discuss them within your teams. After that, each one of you will be given another online question paper, and one of your teammate’s name will be written on the top. you have to answer those questions with that person’s preferences. For example, if Penny got Mark’s name written on her paper she will answer the questions with his likes and dislikes. And Mark will get the paper with Penny’s name written on it and he has to answer about her likes and dislikes.”
“This is more like a pair work. you don’t know who is the person you are getting, but if you get a name that implies that a person has definitely got your name. but you can’t get help from that person to fill your questions. I think that is obvious” she laughed. “oh that’s unfair ma’am we should get help from them,” Glenn said pouting.
“You can get support Glen if you wish to get disqualified.” Dr. Fedric said.
“Okay, guys then, whoever the top 5 pairs will be selected to the final round. We will inform you about that after we select our top 5 pairs. Hope you all are clear about the rules. If not raise your hands…”
Few people needed clarifications and she answered them.
“They have even created a web app specifically for that,” Dean said.
“yeah… they have put some serious effort into this,” Luke answered.
“Okay, guys you will get the questionnaire now start to fill your preferences.” Ms. Smith announced.
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The questionnaire was a simple one, but I don’t know if it is easy to remember this type of information about someone else. Not just one, I have to remember about 5 others. Because I don’t know who I will get in the next round. I hope it will be not Bob or Glenn… After that, we all discussed our answers.
Luke read one question and we all told our answers to them, it was quite funny. Sometimes I couldn’t stop laughing, because of some stupid answers given by Bob and Glenn.
I really… really like this… Sitting just beside Luke, listening to him and getting know him better… How much I didn’t know about him?
Even Bob and Glen felt less annoying, they were fun. I have never felt this comfortable in any other group work.
However, when the time was up we were all given our separate question papers.
Praying God I opened it and looked at the name on the top…
OH!!!! It’s HIM!!!!
Please God let it be Luke or Jake or at least Dean. Please don’t let it be one of those fools.
Unfortunately, God seems to be deaf to my prayers… life is not giving me what I want always. maybe I have had enough good things for a single day… I got Bob!!!!
No need to participate for the contest now. I can predict the results.
He gave me a disgusting playful laugh.
I looked at the questionnaire. I could remember the answer for some of them. Other questions I guessed the answers. However, I got 6 correct. I think I should really proud of my memory. I knew nothing about Bob but I could get 6 correct answers out of 10. But that ****t has got just no correct answers, can you even believe that? He got even some obvious things wrong. He is surely an i***t!!!
However, the most amazing thing was what happed to Luke and Jake. They have got each other’s names and guess what they have got everything correct!! Pretty impressive ha??
Both of them indeed have a good memory, still getting 10 out of 10 is impossible if you don’t really know the other person. How are we suppose to remember about a complete stranger?
Jake and Luke got their place secured in the top 5 teams. I was so happy because as a team we are still in the game…
Ms. Smith started to give an introduction to the second round.
“So guys and girls, next round is different. You don’t get to answer questions about each other, instead, it would be about one of your teammates. Another special thing is this time the questions can be appeared from outside, that means you will get some questions about this person which were not included in the initial questionnaire”
“That’s unfair Ma’am how we suppose to know them?” someone complained.
“You are supposed to know them. You all have been together for a year now, studying in the same faculty. You should know about your batch mates more…Universities are not just for education, that is the place you build up positive relationships as well” she responded.
“Ma’am how you know the correct answers to these additional questions if that person hasn’t answered them initially” Luke questioned.
Yeah… the same question pooped up in my mind…
“Good question Luke. That person also gets to answer those, the question will be displayed on the screen, both of you have to put the answer you guess after he or she submitted his or her answer from their phones.” Great! this is going to be interesting!!!
So after that, the game began…
Our team was the last team to compete. All the other four teams performed quite well. One team actually ended up getting 9 correct answers. God! that means we have to get all the questions correct to win!!! Which is almost impossible…
Luke and Jake managed to score perfect 10 because they are friends since high school as far as I know. So they might know each other well. But there is a very less probability for them to know much about anyone else in our team.
I so badly want our team to win. This is the very first time I got to team up with them, I don’t want it to be a failure.
Finally, it was our turn.
Luke and Jake went to the front and sat on their dedicated seats. We were sitting behind them. So they couldn’t see any of us. No chance to even give them a hint after all.