Chapter 3

                                    

                                          
It was the day of our placement test. Our class teacher gave us papers. I got my paper 

but it wasn’t anything like I expected it to be.

There was only one question on the whole paper. It was quite unusual. Still I read it.

To my surprise it wasn’t any academic question. The question was about a book. But 

it is not an educational book it was about a detective story called “The Blacklist”. 

The Blacklist is one of my favorite books which is about a weird school. And the

student in there had to face some unusual circumstances and the question was how 

they were able to solve the school’s problem. As a fan of the story, it was really easy 

for me to answer it. But I still wondered why they decided to give us a question like 

this. It really didn’t make any sense.

Anyway it was lunchtime, so I decided not to ponder over this anymore. Food comes 

first, others can wait. I reached the cafeteria and saw Pete and Nom waving at me.

“Hey Kai, over here”

I went there and sat next to them. “Hey guys, that’s the weirdest test I’ve ever faced” 

I said stealing some chicken wings from Nom’s plate.

“Yeah it’s weird because it’s hard. I didn’t have time to do all the five questions. I 

did only four” Pete sighed.

This made me choke on the chicken wings, I started to cough like a mad man. “What 

five questions? There was only one” I hardly talked through coughs. 

“Kai have you gone insane? You slept well last night, didn’t you? Or are you still 

sleepy? Don’t tell me you didn’t do it properly” Nom sounded angry.

“What? No. I did the paper properly. But I clearly remember there was only one 

question.” 

‘Or was there another page I missed or something? Now that they talk like this I’m 

not even sure myself’

“What are you saying Kai? There were five long questions. You must have only 

done one and now you even complain about it”

“But I... hmm maybe you’re right!” I don’t care anyway. When was the last time I 

worried about any academic thing? Moreover I don’t even want to be a part of that 

seven secret or whatever the stupid project. 

After two other boring subjects that I had no choice but to attend I decided to go to 

my room and take a nap.
Suddenly, my phone vibrated and it was a text from the same number as yesterday’s 

night, with the school logo as its profile picture.

“Good job, well done!” 

This text gave me a weird feeling. If what Pete and Nom said few hours ago was 

true, there was no way I could get such a text because I didn’t do the test well at all. 

With the sudden thought I pressed the group call icon in order to talk with Pete and 

Nom.

“Hey sup, missing us already?” Pete cheerfully greeted.

“Hey, did you guys receive the text?” I asked. 

“What text? I don’t think I got any.”

“Me neither” Nom answered.

“The text with the school logo? Wait let me send a screenshot” I hold the call and 

sent a screenshot of the text to our group. “This is the text. Didn’t you guys get the 

same?” 

“Okay first of all, no I didn’t get any text with the school logo. And secondly, you 

didn’t send any screenshot to the group” Nom’s bored voice could be heard.

“What are you guys even talking about? I sent the screenshot. Here it says sent but 

any of you two hasn’t seen it yet.” I started getting frustrated.

“You know what Kai? I think you’ve woken up from the wrong side today. Just go 

to your room and take a nap.” 

“What? No listen, I-” both of them declined the call without letting me talk.

There was no way I could sleep that night. I opened our group chat again. There 

were three ‘good night’ texts from three of us below that screenshot I sent. When I 

clicked on my ‘good night’, text it clearly said that other two have seen it. But not 

the screenshot. Why can’t they see it? I spent the whole night awake thinking about 

this.

The next day when I went to school, the results were out. The notice board area was 

too crowded because all the students were too eager to check whether they’ve gotten 

accepted to the new project. I had no interest in any of those, so I quietly walked 

away.

“Hey Kai where are you going? Don’t you want to see whether you’re qualified to 

super 7?” I heard Nom’s voice behind me. “There’s nothing to check. I won’t get 

qualified anyway.” I responded and left.
I went to my classroom and took my books out from the locker. But suddenly 

someone hit me on my back and I got startled, causing me to drop all the books to

the floor. I turned around only to find out Pete and Nom grinning at me like maniacs. 

“What the hell Pete. What was that for?”

“KAI, YOU GOT INTO SUPER 7” Pete shouted excitedly. And I couldn’t believe 

my ears. There was no way I got into the new project. Not to mention that I even 

messed up my exam paper.

“What are you talking about Pete? I think you must have mistaken.” 

“Dude, you’re awesome. I knew you’re so talented. You’re just pretending to be 

dumb, aren’t you?” Nom said in a teasing voice.

“What? No no. This can’t be happening. This’s insane.” I muttered to myself. 

“But how did you manage to get in? The paper was so hard and the time was not 

enough.” Pete asked. 

“I told you that I didn’t do such a paper. This should be a mistake. I should talk to 

the teacher and clear the possible misunderstanding.” That was the only answer I

could come up with. There was no way I got into it.

Right?