14 MAKE ME PROUD

ATHENA

After more or less ten minutes of standing, our professor finally came. He went straight to the elevated platform without noticing me.

"Good morning." He greeted his student, and his eyes quickly darted at me, and it widened.

"Miss Park, what are you doing there? Come, you sit here." He said, pointing to the seat in the front row where I sat earlier.

"They said someone was already occupying that seat, sir."

"Don't believe them. Come sit here."

"Thank you, sir." He quickly started the class by checking the attendance. The whole lesson, I could see the murderous stares of some of my female classmates, but I ignored them until the class ended.

I went to my next class, and I'm glad it was not far away from my first class, with only two rooms in between. I went inside, and I was happy no one was paying attention to me. The students are busy with what they are doing. I settled in the vacant seat in the second row, and I smiled inside when no one said something about it.

"Thank god. Th