For the first 30 minutes, James finished answering the papers and passed it to the personnel and then he was given another test paper. It was for the Science test. The same thing happened and after 30 minutes, he finished answering which made the teachers monitoring him surprised. Did those two exam papers really that easy? They shook their heads and choked it up to him just playing around and not answering properly. Whatever the case, they were paid and if this student failed, they were not at fault.
And so, for every 30 minutes, James answered the papers. There were too many tests that he should be taking within the day so after the whole morning of answering test papers, lunch time came and all of them went out of the classroom for an hour of lunch.
After lunch, they all went back to the classroom and answered the remaining test papers needed. The teachers were surprised how fast things happened in the morning. They thought this farce would last until the next day but to their surprise the kid really finished each exam with answers!
'Is he a genius or a fool wasting his parent's money?' This sentence was within all of the teachers present in the classroom. They shook their heads and just did not utter any words.
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5 in the afternoon came and The teachers collected everything on the table, where James' test papers were placed. He said his goodbyes to the teachers as well as to the principal of Montesano Jr. Sr. High School and went home.
As per the principal, he will be notified through a letter i f he passed the exams or not. That will take a week to process and check if there were no errors made. And after assessing if he passed or not, if he did, his diploma will be processed within a month.
And so, he has all week to practice more and write his business proposal to his father. Yes, a business proposal to create a label. If he will be serious about skipping school, he better lay it all on the table to his parents and have them support him. With their money, he would not be shy to use them to empower his dreams.
He knew many great musicians and top artists had backing of those giant labels in his past life and even now, big recording labels had the mainstream musicians at their hands.
Since he was in Washington state, and here near Westport City, few population means less entertainment at all. But that was not for long, he better create a label soon and become a songwriter first for the next 2 years before those two kids enter senior highschool in Aberdeen.
'And since Chris Cornell is living in Seattle, I can just find him there and scout, he should be 15 years old by now. He should be relapsing and shit and next year he will find his first band in Seattle named "The Shemps", so I gotta prepare the songs of sound garden, I got to sign him for a lifetime contract or some shit, hahahaha!'
'Well for now, I have to write the whole first album of Soundgarden and then have them copyrighted so no one will ever steal it.'
'I will start small, then make Seattle my kingdom, my grunge kingdom that would kill those big labels out of envy!'
'So… if I will have to sign Chris Cornell to a lifetime contract through some evil means, lol, and take care of his album releases, and then plunder his AudioSlave albums later, he'll become the biggest artist I'll ever have! Of course, I will also have to consider Nirvana! I will become its drummer!'
'Time to create a new history for Nirvana!'
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A week passed and when Monday came, a mailman came to their gate and left a letter in their mailbox. James' nanny, who was also one of their maids, went and took the letter out of the mailbox. It was addressed to his parents and it came from the school where he took the exams for graduating highschool early.
His nanny handed over the letter to his mother. He was called by his mother and father to their living room, and was asked to sit.
He noticed the white envelope placed on the table and soon knew it was from the school.
'I know I passed those test papers completely and if I failed, then, damn, I have to go to school without choice.' He thought while feeling a bit of nervousness.
"Well…? Is it from the school Dad? Mom?" He asked.
"Baby, yes it is! Scared you will fail?" His mother teased him.
He just nodded a bit to affirm her joke.
'Well, it is my first time doing something like this. Even in my past life, I was never good at studying, it is actually a wonder why I am good at studying in this life instead.'
"Do not be nervous son, I trust in your academic ability, you are my son after all!" His father confidently said.
"What do you mean he is your son!? Ain't he my son too!? And I had a GREAT academic record too! That means he will be taking after me more!" His mother argued jokingly.
'Damn, here we go again, can not these two show off at this time? It has been awhile since they had this kind of "one-upping" each other in front of him.' He thought.
"Okay, Dad? Mom? Can we not do this right now and open the envelope already?" He interjected.
"Oh, right… sorry baby!" His mother apologized and smiled.
"Yeah, open it right now, I am excited to see how our son did!" His father backed him up.
"Alright! Alright! Calm down you two, okay?" His mother made a hand gesture.
She picked up the letter from the table and tore the envelope. She pulled the letter from within and slowly opened it.
His father closed in on her and looked at the written words in the letter. James, on the other hand, had to look at the empty expressions his parents had while reading the letter.
'God damn these two are real time jokesters! I can tell your faces are playing in my mind right now! I knew I passed it!'
"Well? What is in the letter, Dad? Mom?" He asked with his fake excited and curious facial expression.
"Son… do not be disheartened…" His father spoke up.
His mother looked at his father's face and then slowly put down the letter, still he could not see what was written at all.
'These two… what a parent I have!'
"What??" He faked his facial expression again, it turned to a worried face.
"You know… I knew this would happen, baby, it is okay, we will support you all the way even if it did turn out this way." His mother's voice sounded like she was sad and sobbing.
'I can not believe I was born in a household with jokester parents! My God!'
"W-what!? I… what… I failed?" He again faked his expression and then made it into a disappointed and disheartened look, added with the tone in his voice, someone not familiar might tell he was literally feeling what he was acting.
"You know son…" His father looked at him and then to his mother.
'Yeah… here we go… 3… 2… 1…'
"YOU PASSED IT ALL AND YOU GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL! CONGRATULATIONS SON/BABY!" Both his mother and father said it together like a duet except their naming for him.
"What! I knew I passed it! Why did you two sound like I failed!" He protested jokingly.
"We just want to surprise you son!" His father smiled big time.
'Good, sigh'
"Then… let us celebrate it with food?" He suggested.
"Not only food! We will celebrate it with my friends too! This is great! We have a genius son!" His father shouted.
'Another party? Really? Sigh.'