Chapter 82 - Sixty-Nine
ERWIN
The classes have started and I am attending lectures not as a student but as an intern under Professor Margret. I am standing in the classroom where I used to sit. I am looking at the students who used to be my juniors and some of them used to be my batchmates. It’s a weird feeling. The way students are looking at me with astonishment in their eyes...it’s at the same time amusing and uncomfortable.
Even the teachers are giving me almost the same look. Just a bit different. They are astonished about my development but there is a hint of approval in their gaze. It makes me...proud. I have bitten my bottom lips multiple times today to hide the idiotic grin forming my lips.
Today is my first day here and I am already enjoying the day. I haven’t seen Lucy around here yet.
Did she not come? I shouldn’t have told her about it. I wish I could have some more fun bullying her.
"Erwin?" A male voice interrupts me as I stride down the long corridor.
I spin around and spot Henry standing just a few feet behind me. I roll my eyes internally at his sight. I briefly cast a glance at my schedule in my hands, "Did he not graduate? Guess, I have a class with him afterward." I murmur to myself and then look up to him and give him the most forced genuine smile I can manage for now, "Hey Henry. What are you doing here?"
"Me?" -He walks up to me- "I am repeating the semester since my scores weren’t high enough to graduate. What about you? I thought you graduated with the highest score in your department."
"Oh, that’s unfortunate. And me?" I point at myself, " I am working here as an intern. Today is my first day here as an intern under Professor Margret."
"Woah!" Henry’s mouth falls to the ground and I have the urge to tuck some insects inside it. "So, you are Professor Margret’s new research assistant? Woah..."
"Well, this is not something that hard to gain you know." I try to be modest -no, not actually modest because I always knew that I could easily become a research assistant as soon as I graduate. But I can’t tell about the others.