Chapter 6
The College Entrance Exams began.
Early that morning, Pamela Garcia seemed more spirited than before. After changing clothes, she pleaded with her mother and doctors, begging to visit the testing center.
Anna Garcia finally relented, eyes red-rimmed: “But don’t push yourself. Just one distant look, then straight back to the hospital.”
“Deal!”
Pamela agreed cheerfully.
That day, Anna wheeled her chair through the crowd outside the testing center gates.
As the exam buses arrived, students poured out in waves.
Pamela spotted Scott Brown instantly.
Dressed in a white short-sleeved shirt, he strode confidently among classmates, radiating youthful vigor.
Watching his retreating figure, Pamela whispered: “Scott Brown, may your future shine diamond-bright.”
He never glanced back, marching forward without pause.
Thus he missed Pamela collapsing in her wheelchair less than a hundred meters away.
For two full days,
Pamela waged her final battle against death in the emergency room.
Yet victory slipped away. The heart monitor screamed its piercing, drawn-out wail.
Emerging from the testing center, Scott felt an inexplicable sting deep in his chest.
“Scott, you alright?”
He shook his head, scanning the crowd wordlessly.
Nobody mentioned seeing Pamela these past two days.
Had she… skipped the exams?
When results were released, Scott finally made time to visit home.
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His gaze drifted next door.
Had the Garcia family vanished? It felt like ages since he’d seen them.
After the exams, Pamela seemed to have evaporated into thin air.
Until a parcel arrived from Anna Garcia, sent from their ancestral home.
So Anna had taken Pamela back to their hometown.
Scott stared at the package for eternity, leaving it unopened.
He stored it away in a cabinet.
Ten years later.
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Scott sat at the center of the hotel booth, dressed in a suit, his boyish innocence long faded.
Each time the door opened, his gaze instinctively darted toward it, carrying a hint of unnoticed tension.
After repeated disappointments, he silently took a sip of liquor.
Classmates who hadn’t met in a decade exchanged warm greetings.
They chatted about their current lives and reminisced about their awkward high school days.
As it was College Entrance Exams month again, after several rounds of drinks, someone suddenly brought up ‘Pame-
la’.
“Remember how Pamela topped our entire school for three straight years? She looked so delicate, yet studied like a genius!”
“Such a shame… Someone that brilliant never even got to take the College Entrance Exams…”
“Looking back now, we treated her terribly.”
At this, everyone froze, cautiously eyeing Scott’s reaction.
Surprisingly, his expression remained calm, as if those memories were as fleeting as smoke.
He swirled his glass, casually asking about Pamela’s recent life.
“Speaking of which, why didn’t Pamela come? How’s she been lately?”
The room fell deathly quiet.
All eyes turned to Scott, both shocked and bewildered.
Scott frowned. “What’s wrong?”
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The class monitor gazed at him silently for a long moment before speaking slowly.
“You didn’t know? Pamela died ten years ago-on the day the College Entrance Exams ended.”
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