Princesses Don't Become Engineers by Ling Aya

Author:Ling, Aya [Ling, Aya]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

"Cheer up," Winifred said when the day was over. "If you found it difficult, then others must have felt the same. I'd bet that half of the others have done worse than you. Don't let your feelings influence tomorrow's subjects."

It was good and sound advice, but Elaine still wasn't happy. Math was one of her favorite subjects–apart from physics–and she so wanted to do well at it.

The second and third day passed. When the bell rung at the chemistry exam and everyone put away their pens, Elaine wanted nothing more than to slink away to her chamber and sleep for three days. She did not want to think of what might happen if she didn't pass--she did not want to think at all.

As she walked down the hallway, someone called her name. In her exhaustion, she thought it was Francis Wesley and rolled her eyes. But when she turned around, it was Bran, anxiety written over his face.

"How was your exam? You DID study the notes I gave you, I hope?"

"Oh, not too badly," Elaine yawned. "I think I mixed up a few elements, but the rest seemed all right. Oh, I don't know how I am going to bear these days until the exam results are out."

"You'll pull through," Bran said. "Lady Matilda threatened Thane not to expel you."

"She didn't threaten him!" Elaine paused. "Well, she may have intimidated him, but she didn't wave her staff or anything."

"It's not just Lady Matilda. Did you know Lady Wesley also stood up for you?"

"What?" Elaine was stunned. "Why, she was so determined to make me into a lady."

Bran shrugged. "Arnold told me. I don't know if you know him, but he's Lady Wesley's grandson. He said that when Tristan wanted you out of the University, Lady Wesley went to see him. 'Stop bothering her, she has every right to study there,' she said."

Elaine's eyes widened. "She didn't!"

"Kind of weird," Bran agreed. "But Arnold has no reason to make things up. Did you do anything that might have influenced her?"

"I don't think..." Realization dawned on Elaine. "It must have been that day!"

"What day?"

Elaine told him the day she went to the market and saved Lady Wesley from being cheated out of a bargain.

Bran laughed. "I suppose that's it. Maybe she'd even take some math lessons if she realizes how the inability to calculate can cost her."

Elaine grinned, but she wasn't much comforted. While she may have changed some people's mindsets, exams were exams. The results would be posted for everyone to see. If she failed in one subject, everyone would expect her to leave. Hugo had already intervened once. Rules couldn't be bent a second time.

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