I lowered my eyes and said as if nothing had happened, "I didn't put too much effort into it. I'm going back to work."

"Okay, I'll accompany you there."

Patrick's voice trailed off as well.

However, he held my key tightly in his hand as if he dared not to give it to me.

There was only one day away from the deadline of submittig the work.

My work was almost done. And I modified a few parts of it after rendering it.

Finally, I got to the service desk before noon and copied it to the computer used for the competition.

Jeremy was in charge here.

When he saw...