My Crazy Housemate: What Makes You Happy - Chapter 279

She had just returned home and it was the day of her official graduation. This was a day she had been looking forward to but she wasn’t really up for it anymore. She had wanted to miss it but unfortunately, it was compulsory for every student and Leo had asked her to go there. She was never going to be having a univeristy graduation again so why not go for it now?

The school environment did a good job in making her feel even more sad. Why? Because she had spent 4 years in this school and she was no longer going to return here. She hadn’t thought she would miss it until now, seeing the decorations everywhere, students everywhere in their graduation robes, all heading towards the sport complex where their graduation was to be held.

“Hey! Come sit here.” Jeremy waved Mia towards them. He was sitting beside Chloe and there was a free sit on his left. She joined him and forced out a smile.

“I’m glad you could come.” Chloe said.

For the past few days, Chloe had been really open towards her and even smiled a few times. Mia didn’t know whether it was because she was Leo’s girlfriend or because Jeremy was able to change her.

“Thank you. Congratulations!” Mia said to the both of them and looked up when the mic made a high pitched noice, causing almost all of them to wince and cover their ears.

“Haha! Apologies to you all. My name is Mr Steel, a senior lecturer from the department of Philosophy. I have the privilege of being in charge of this occasion…”

He began to say a lot of things that made the students sigh impatiently. Eventually, he gave the mic to the Vice chancellor who also gave a long speech. He spent his time talking about their attitude after school and blah blah blah.

Another person took the mic, it was the Dean of students.

It seemed the speech was endless which made the students begin to grumble. Some already had parties planned out, there was also a beach party which had been organised by the former student’s president, Kelvin Hank.

As the former president, he was ushered to the podium to speak next.

He didn’t waste anytime to show everyone how hypocritical he was through his speech. He talked about how much he served during his tenure and how perfect the administrative system of the school was. Almost every student rolled their eyes especially Jeremy because they all knew the system was corrupt.

Chloe placed a hand on Jeremy’s hand and squeezed it gently. He turned to smile at her before looking ahead at Kelvin who wouldn’t stop talking.

When he was done, Mr Steel took the mic.

“We will be handing some awards to some students who have not only made their families proud, but this school proud and in turn, we believe they are going to make this country proud.”

An award was first given to Kelvin Hank as the most ‘outstanding’ students’ president of his session.

They called the overall best graduating student. It was a nerdy looking boy from the department of Medicine. His c.u.mulative grade point was a perfect 5.0 which awed everyone. He happily received the award paper and waved at his parents in the hall. His parents were not dressed shabbily, but they didn’t look like they were among the elite circle. It meant their son was on a scholarship in the school. Good thing he made his people proud.

They started calling the departments in alphabetical order and the best students. They gave to the best male student, the best female, the overall best in class and the second best. So it was always four awards for each class.

It wasn’t long before they got to Mia’s department because she was studying business administration.

Naturally, everyone knew the best graduating student and best male student was going to be Kelvin so they were already cheering his name. He tried to act modest but there was a smug smile playing on his lips. Two awards was something to be proud of duh!

“Second best graduating student from the department of Business Administration with an average grade point of 4.90 is…”

Mia’s classmates waited for her name to be called but to their shock,

“CHLO KING!”

Mia froze on her seat. The others looked confused especially Chloe.

“It’s you.” Jeremy said, nudging Chloe to go while he turned to look at Mia. This wasn’t possible. At least that should be Mia right?

If Chloe was the second best, then what about Mia?

If Kelvin was the best, the second best was supposed to be Mia not Chloe since the second person was the one following the first. Did it mean Mia didn’t make it while Chloe would get both the second best and best female student? As Chloe’s boyfriend, he was happy for her. But he was Mia’s friend too.

Chloe went up, looking very surprised. She hadn’t expected this.

She accepted the award and looked into the crowd, she saw her parents who were smiling proudly at her. Even though they weren’t in good terms, she was glad they came so she smiled at them before stepping down.

Mia already gave up. She shouldn’t have come. She didn’t need more heartbreaks than she already had. She wanted to be happy for Chloe but she could not help the sadness.

“Best female student with an average grade point of 4.97….”

“MIA LUCAS!”

It was that point that everyone got confused. Did they know what they were saying?

Mia who was almost breaking down stood up with shaky legs and walked towards the podium.

How come? What was happening?

She tried to keep a smile on her face as she approached the podium.

She was sure she wouldn’t have put in enough effort in her looks had Mira not texted her, warning her to make sure she looked pretty. She wore one of the gowns Leo bought her under her robe and used a few of her cosmetics to touch up her face so she didn’t look too bad.

She smiled as she accepted it, not bothering to look into the crowd because she knew her family wasn’t here. Leo wasn’t here. Neither Mira nor James were here.

“Best graduating male student…”

Kelvin already stood up because the others kept chanting his name. He only took two strides towards the podium before he heard another name

“OLIVER DONOVAN!”

There was also a look of surprise on Mr Steel’s face.

Even the said Oliver looked beyond shocked. His average grade point was below Mia and Chloe’s but since he was surprisingly the best male student, they couldn’t just blow him off.

Many eyes went to Kelvin. What happened?

Oliver Donovan was also a smart kid in school but Jeremy knew nothing about him except the fact that he always had an annoying question to ask at the end or middle of every class. But in that moment, Jeremy felt like Oliver was his best friend. He stood up and clapped really hard while hooting. Meanwhile, Kelvin wanted the ground to open up and swallow him

His face was completely red. He couldn’t even look at his mother’s direction. What suddenly happened?

“You know what this means right?” Jeremy sat down and took Mia’s hand excitedly.

“You are the best graduating student! It’s you Mia Lucas! I told you a miracle could happen. You only had to believe me.” He said with a big smile on his face.

Mia still didn’t believe it until she was called to the podium for her second award.

She had tears in her eyes but she didn’t know whether they were tears of joy, or tears of sadness because she had no family here just like the others.