"...Don't say anything," I tell Eve, who just finished her test. I don't know what her test was, but mine was "easy," though an incident happened.
"...I haven't spoken yet..." She tries to speak, but I put my finger on her mouth to keep her quiet. I see her gaze going straight to the red spot on my forehead.
What happened was that during my test, an insect fell on me. I tried to get up, but I bumped my knee on the table and struck my forehead with a pencil, leaving a very red mark on my forehead due to my skin tone.
The mark was extremely conspicuous on my face. I had taken off my mask to take the test on paper, and my bad luck took advantage of that to attack me. Now I've taken off the mask to drink a glass of water, and Eve saw the mark.
"How was your test, Eve?" I ask, giving up on dealing with it and just properly putting the mask back on my face.
