The days we spent together finally went back to normal, we would do our daily routine again, but another predicament surfaced.

Exam week started.

Being me, I did not had problems studying. I was a genius after all. It was all easy to me, but to Leon it was hard as hell, considering he was so freaking lazy.

Calling him lazy would be an understatement. He was so lazy, the actual studying he ever did before was when he was still in elementary.

So being a good “friend,” I forced Leon to study.

It was Monday, and our exams would start on Wednesday, so I only had one day to teach Leon. I knew it was going to be difficult, but I did not want Leon to fail, and be held back, and after the exams, our yearly field trip was going to be held: it was a three-day event; we were going to a province, and camp there.

All of the year levels will be going, but the ones who failed will not be allowed to go.

I wanted Leon to go, cause you know, I read in a magazine that it was very romantic for a girl to confess her love in an edge of a cliff.

“Come on, let’s go!”

“But, I don’t want to study!”

“You have to!”

“I don’t want to; I can just copy from Edi or Elrick instead.”

“You can’t rely on them forever.”

“But!”

“No buts! We’re going to study that’s final”

“Fine”

I decided to stay at Leon’s house that night, I was a little shy that time, I didn’t know why, I’ve already stayed there a few time before,

We started with math; I opened up the texted book, and in an instant Leon fell asleep.

“Hey! Don’t sleep! You need to study!”

“Fuuuucccckkkkkkk”

So we started reviewing math, I could see Leon had difficulty understanding the subject, it looked like there was smoke coming out his head.

After an hour we move to the next subject,

“OK! This time we’re going to study history!”

“FUUUUCCCKK, I don’t want to study anymore.”

“Come on, just hang on a little bit”

I opened up Leon’s textbook, I never ever seen a textbook so vandalized before, it was full doodles and drawings. Even the pictures in the textbook were ruined.

“Hey you shouldn’t do these things to your textbooks!”

“I can’t help it, I get bored during classes.”

I stopped talking, and just accepted it. We proceeded to study again. Suddenly I fell asleep, I think a few minutes pass by, I was awaked, but to my surprise, Leon was still studying. However, Leon had something in his hand.

“Hey, wants in your hand?”

“Nothing”

I moved closer to him, and was shock to see that it was a bottle of whiskey.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“Put that away!”

“It’s ok, I can handle this, I was thirsty, and so I got this to help me”

“What, why? Just drink normal water”

“Nah!”

I tried to stop him, but he was too stubborn, I eventually gave up, and just let him drink it. Two hours has passed, and Leon for some reason was a wobbling. Something was off about him, and then I realized he was tipsy.

That time I really wanted to help him study, but being me, I took advantage of the moment; I moved closer to him and sat at his side. Leon then wrapped his arms around me, and began to smell me. Yes, you heard me. He smelled me. It was so freaking weird.

It was my first time seeing Leon drunk, the bottle was almost empty, but I could see Leon was just a little drink. He then stood up and went near his closet, he opened it up, at first, it looked normal, but then he moved all the clothes, and to my surprise, there was a secret stash of whiskey.

I had a choice back then: to let him drink and take advantage of him or continue our studying, of course I choice to get Leon drunk, this was once in a lifetime opportunity after all, as he went back beside me. He proceeded to open the bottle and drink, this time he chugged it up to half of its contents,

I was both amazed and worried.

Leon then opened up the textbook again, and started study. At one point I quizzed him, I was so shock to see that all his answers were right.

“OH MY GOD, Is Leon smarter when his drunk?”

I mean the questions were easy, but some of them were hard, and he even managed to answer them correctly, I was so confused, how can one person be smarter when there drunk?

My mind was being blown, because when Leon and I started studying physics, it was so freaking easy for him, and he was like a different person. I mean Leon always had this aura of idiocy around him, but this time, I could only feel intelligence around him.

It was probably his fifth bottle already when the effects of the whiskey where starting to show, he would often stand up, then sit again, so this is what Leon looks like when he is drunk. It was completely new to me.

Leon then stood up again, and faced his bed, he had a face as if it was about to vomit.

“LEON, DON’T VOMIT THERE!”

I stopped him from vomiting, he then faced me, and moved closer towards me, and then he wrapped his arms around me.

“Wait! Leon stop it, you're drunk!”

I was regretting the moment I decided to let him continue drinking. Leon leaned forward, his face was in front of my face. I did not know what to feel back then. He then moved his lips closer slowly, as if he was going to kiss me.

I did not really decline him, because it was ok for me, for Leon to kiss me, after all I loved him. His lips was about to kiss mine, but suddenly he bit my nose.

“Got your nose,” he said.

Then he fell to the bed dragging me with him, I could not escape his hold, his other hand grabbed the blanket and, covered us with it.

I could feel the heat coming from his body. It was sort of turning me on for some reasons I don’t know. Puberty maybe? Whatever we both fell asleep.

That morning I woke up still on the bed of Leon, but Leon was not with me, I got out of the bed, and my feet felt something. I accidentally stepped on Leon face; apparently, he slept on the floor.

I checked the time; it was already seven in the morning.

“SHOOT! We’re late LEON WAKE UP!”

I rush to wake up Leon, after I took a quick shower, and fixed all my stuff. Leon did the same and we ran towards school.

“Chill, Alexis, Don’t run, my head still hurts”

We were to finally able to reach the school, however the gates were already closed.

“OH NO! We didn’t make it”

“Relax, I got this”

Leon then went to the side of the school. I followed, and there I saw a hole in the gate.

“HUH? I didn’t know that was there, how did you found out about this?”

“OH, yeah, some of the seniors showed it to me”

We both entered the hole, but we still couldn’t go to our classroom, because the halls were filled with hall monitors, if you were caught by one, you would be sent to the disciplinary office, I panic, but Leon was still relax.

Leon then took something out his bag, it was a hall pass, and He had tons of them.

“I’m always prepared.”

He handed me one, and we both walked casually towards our classroom, No monitor stopped us, because Leon kept waving around his hall pass stopping any hall monitor heading towards us.

Leon first dropped me off in my classroom then proceeded to go to his.

The day went on normally as always, it was the same.

As classes ended and the second night of me staying in Leon’s place started to begin, one of Leon’s friends decided to study with us.

Edi was with us the whole time we were studying, so Leon could not drink his whiskey, because Edi was preventing him.

“So How was school?” I asked Leon.

“Same old same old, we had a quiz today”

“Oh really? I bet you got a perfect score, we did study the whole night!”

“Nah, I got two over a hundred”

“What?! I bet, the quiz was hard wasn’t it? What about Edi what did he got?”

“I got a hundred over a hundred, the quiz was really easy,” Edi said.

“Wait, then why did you have a low score?”

“Well, I was in the second question of the test, and then I fell asleep”

I face-palm myself so hard, I think my hand went through my face.

“Oh well, past is past, let’s start studying.”

I opened up a textbook, but like before Leon instantly fell asleep.

“Damn it, Leon FOCUS!”

Edi then stood up and took something out of Leon’s closet, at first, I thought it was going to be one of Leon’s whiskeys, but I was surprise it was a baseball bat.

“Hey what are you going to do with that?”

“Don’t worry, this is the reason why I’m here, Leon told me he kept on falling asleep while studying, so he asked me to come over and whenever he does fall asleep, I’ll hit him with this”

“Wait a minute…STOP!”

Even before I could stop Edi, he already bashed Leon’s head the baseball bat.

“OH SHIT” I shouted.

Leon woke up, and then started to study again.

“You see Alexis, this is how Leon passed all this years,” Edi said.

Blood was dripping out of Leon’s head, but he did not mind it, he was so focused on studying. By the time he finished Edi was sleeping on Leon’s bed, it was probably around five o clock already.

I was surprised he was still awake. Drinking coffee and smoking a cigarette while studying.

Around six o clock, I woke up Edi to prepare for school, Leon and I decided to not see each until exam week ended.

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Four days has passed already, and the day of the tests scores were to be announced came.

Obviously, I got all the tests perfect, but I was worried about Leon’s scores, it was free time during classes, so I decided to go to Leon’s class.

However Leon and the others were not there, so I went to the roof, and I saw them talking about something.

“HEY LEON!”

“YO?”

“What score did you get?”

He took out a paper from his bag, I assumed it was his grades, I check it, Leon got a 75 in all his tests.

“Well, it might be low, but still, you passed”

“YEAH! I know right, HAHAHAH, I’m so fucking smart!”

The others and I were slightly disappointed on how Leon was so prideful, well at least he gets to go with us on the field trip.

Now finally I can confess to Leon, I was so determine that time, I promised myself, and I will not back down this time.

I clenched my fist and said “Field Trip, Here I come!”