The Life Of Normal-Taro

Chapter 108: Exams

After the John debacle, the days went relatively smoothly, with Lonappan never learning about that stuff. Initially Thankappan was suspicious that M'Baku might leak it to him, given that he got some kinda reward. However, he was surprised to see the canino not sparking another feud. Rather, he looked towards him with respect and fear, a feeling that the MIB agent appreciated.

Since M'Baku wasn't considered a threat to their current peace anymore, Thankappan's attention reversed towards John. He was still suspicious of John. He couldn't decipher whether John was acting so to avoid suspicion or if the neuralyzer actually worked. Because the neuralyzer working would be a bigger surprise than John faking it.

Ever since flashing the neuralyzer twice on John, the scientist back in MIB confiscated the device they used on him to check whether it was the device or the man who created this miracle. Instead of that one, they handed a totally different one to Thankappan. And that was the one he flashed on John, which proved that the man was the wonder and not the apparatus.josei

Anyway, peace descended in the Holy Land household. No one had basically anything to do. They tried turning on the television, however the signal was busted because of the flood causing problems to the cable services. So, instead they placed their trust on their internet, which thankfully worked, saving them from boredom.

So, for the entire time it flooded Kerala, the lads ended up playing games on their mobiles. Maybe it was the boredom affecting Shivani as well. She didn't let M'Baku off her sight for the most part. The canino made a promise to himself that he would not spend a lot of time with her once the school opens since he might go back into obscurity.

The flood lasted for a week—the more wide scale one. Since the floods weren't completely done yet, the school gave out an extra week as a holiday. However, they warned the kids that there would be an exam once they return to school. This warning made both the students and teachers busy. The sudden announcement of an exam sent the students into a panic and they burrowed inside their textbooks. Meanwhile, this announcement was out of nowhere, so the teachers went on panicking as well to prepare the papers—well, most of them did.

For the English teachers, this part was relatively simple compared to correcting the papers, since they directly copied most of the parts from the internet or the guidebooks. Since no one bats an eye because it's English and the fact that their board exam papers were done in a similar fashion as well, it was perfectly fine for them to do this. So, rather than a panic like the room opposite to them was going through, the guys from #306 were having a good time. They were the only ones genuinely excited for the reopening of the school.

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The day of the reopening swung by and they were about to excitedly run off to school, however Thankappan stopped them. He was still in his coincidence routine. He waited for Shivani to walk out of the room and do the same schtick he did for a long time now.

"Hey, Shivani! What a-" Before he could complete his greetings, he noticed her face. It was haggard. The bags under her eyes, her looks, everything. It looked as if she went on a mad run to some place. "What happened to you?" He asked.

However, her timing of response was late since she couldn't really notice her surroundings. It was early morning, and she started it with being tired as heck. "Oh, it's you guys! How are you doing? What happened to me, you ask? A series of long sleepless nights happened." She gave out a faint smile as she walked in front, before anyone else could take that spot. She didn't even give a damn about wearing the shoes right. Everything was pretty shambolic in her case.

The lads gave her the much needed space that she yearned for and walked a few steps behind her. They were genuinely concerned about her wellbeing. M'Baku had previously told them about what was happening back in her house, about how she went on a learning spree. However, they didn't expect such a drastic change to happen.

They didn't make a single noise as they walked towards the school. Thankappan accidentally coughed once, but felt pressured by the atmosphere and never coughed again. Once they reached the school, they could hear Shivani mumbling something out of anger as she stared at someone.

The guy she was staring darts at was Juan, who was frolicking around as if that day was the best one of his life. This seriously pissed her off. While she had to mess up her entire sleep schedule, Juan was just plainly messing around since he knew he'd get the top marks by doing basically nothing. The envy and rage she felt towards Juan was immense.

She just walked towards Juan, grabbed him by his years and walked towards their class as poor Juan wailed in pain. He didn't even know why she was acting like that. The best explanation he could think of was that she was jealous of him going after another woman. Thinking that was the case, Juan gave out a slightly haughty chuckle, which wasn't that well received by Shivani as she tightened her grasp on his ears, causing him to further wail in pain.

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That day was a tiring one in both the students' and teachers' perspective. While the students have to continuously write the exams for the entire day, the teachers had to run across the classes to supervise them. It was an absolute pandemonium, which both the parties survived by sheer willpower. So, it came out as a surprise when the principal announced that the arts day was upon them in a week's time. It was truly a joyous moment for the students who went through one of the biggest trials placed before them.

However, for the teacher, it was more of a nightmare than anything. Not only do they have to correct the papers, but they have to do the preparations for the arts day as well. Almost all the teachers inwardly sighed as they listened to the principal's announcement.

The aliens and Thankappan didn't mind this situation, though. They were really bugged about the lack of work recently, so this was pretty great for them. Without their own knowledge, they had somehow turned into workaholics.

Although an entire day went through, Shivani was still pissed at Juan for some reason. However, at this point, Juan accepted the hatred with little opposition, thinking that it's the things one gotta suffer from being famous and well-liked by his peers. Shivani didn't like how smug he looked, however it wasn't like she could do something about it other than stop her fury at him. She learned that the more angry she got, the more smug Juan got. So, in the end, she decided to completely avoid him to some extent.

The lads returned home. Unlike them. John had quite a busy time in the MIB: Snehatheeram base during the floods—at least, after the events that happened that day. Snehatheeram base had secluded itself into an underground base for the time being since it was too close to a beach area. 

However, they somehow let most of their field agents in to do the cleaning and unfinished desk job. There were just a few alien events during the floods, so that was the best time to do the task such as that. Since John was MIB and free as hell, he was invited for the job as well.

Normally, Thankappan would've gone as well, however, since there were aliens to babysit, Lonappan and John were the ones that went for the monsoon cleaning.

And now, since the floods had subsided, normalcy returned to the MIB as they reverted to a proper base, rather than just the underground one.

Thankappan was initially jealous of John, however, now that he got work to do, he couldn't focus on being jealous like that. He instead worked his ass off at correcting the papers and completed that in record speed. Seeing this speed, the aliens were hyped up as well, as they checked the papers in record speed as well. However, they later realized that they were checking an English paper which doesn't have a fixed answer for any question unlike science or history, so they inspected the papers once more thoroughly.

Even with the rechecking, the time they took was still a day, which was kinda impressive compared to other teachers. It surprised the students when they got their English papers the day after giving out the test. The aliens and Thankappan were relieved as well, since only a few students argued with them about their marks, which either meant they did a good job or that the student was afraid of approaching them. Either way, they were happy with what they did and were looking forward to the Arts day.

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