She thought of begging Sir Birack to pair her with someone else, anyone, but she didn’t want the whole class to know what was going on between the both of them. And also, if Sir Birack was anything like the other former teachers, he would try to get the both of them to reconcile whatever beef that stood between them by pairing them together more often at later time, which she dreaded the most.

“Let’s just get this over with,” she said to herself as she headed where Tyler stood.

She saw the look on his face, he saw him smirk, he was enjoying this, she knew he was, and...