cheater

she heard him coming, so she concentrated hard on doing all the things that people do when they are NOT cheating. It bothered her that she kept hearing him coming from behind. Clockwise around and around, always clockwise. but she didn't think about this, all she knew was that it was always from behind.

now he's far in front, sitting down again, she's almost done.

"lemme see your test". the girl next to her wispers mutely without moving her lips. she makes the "t" sound by clicking her tongue on her upper teeth. without looking, the girl hands the answer sheet under his line of sight...

"hurry up," he'll be coming back soon, she thought. the girl sitting next to her wasn't exactly a friend. maybe it was because they shared some after-school behaviors that they always sat together in the back of class. she was kind of getting bored with it, though. a few minutes pass, the girl sitting next to her didn't say anything, she just put the answer sheet on the floor.
then, she put on her coat and walked up to the TA at the front of the hall, who hadn't moved at all during this whole time. she didn't look at him and handed her test out to him.

"what was that, a calculator?" he asked.

Startled out of her reinforced blank expression, the girl quickly recovered. "no, uh she lent me a pencil." "oh, ok then, see you."

As the girl walked out, towards the back of the hall, she didn't notice the girl who gave her the test, furiously erasing all the marks she had put on the exam sheet before time ran out, and methodically, carefully, put the right answers back in their place.