The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

Josephine started to panic a little. “A... A retest?”
Corinne nodded. “Yeah. We should do a retest since this one ended up in a draw. I’m sure everyone was hoping there will be a
clear winner in today’s competition. Don’t you think so?”
Josephine’s gaze started to dart around. “Umm... I...”
At that moment, Josephine’s mother ran up to the stage. “Don’t be a sore loser, Corinne!”
Corinne smiled. “But I didn’t lose. We both got perfect scores.”
“Even so, everyone seems to think my daughter is the clear winner. You say you want to do a retest again? How? It takes time
for the teacher to come up with the test paper, so it’s not like you and Josephine can take another test immediately.”
Corinne smiled. “I didn’t say we need the teacher to come up with another set of questions. We can just use the ones who did
before.”
Josephine’s mother was caught off guard by her answer. She had no idea where Corinne was going with this. “Then what’s the
point of doing the retest? The two of you will just get perfect scores again. Or do you want to compete to see who hands in the
test paper the fastest?”
The reporters and camera people were confused by Corinne’s suggestion, too.
“Yeah, what’s the point of doing a retest with the same questions?”
“I bet she’s just doing this to buy herself some time. Is she going to ask for another retest if this second test ends up in a draw
too? When will it ever end?”
“Why can’t she just be honest and admit her wrongdoing? Everyone will probably forgive her if she makes a sincere apology.”
Corinne turned to face the audience and shouted to get heard over the noise, “There’s no need to come up with new questions
since we only need to replace the numbers in the question with new numbers!”
This confused everyone even more.
“That’s even more pointless!”

“Corinne Carew, why can’t you just accept the fact that Josephine is smarter than you?”
“What’s the point of changing the numbers since you can just get to the new answer using the same formula as before?”
Corinne picked up her pen and started twirling it. “Oh, but there is a point. A person who has a solid and real understanding of
the theory behind the formula would be able to get to the new answer even when the numbers had changed. And I promise you
all, I’ll admit defeat if we both get perfect scores in the retest.”
Everyone exchanged glances.
“Miss Josephine, do the retest! You have nothing to fear since you’re smarter than her! Make her eat her words!”
“Yeah! You should do it! We’re all rooting for you!”
“You have nothing to lose since Miss Corinne said she’ll admit defeat if you both get perfect scores!”
Josephine could not get out of the retest anymore, not when everyone was cheering her on.
Corinne, still twirling her pen, looked at her quietly. “Miss Josephine, are you perhaps scared of competing against me again?”
Josephine did not say anything. ‘Oh no, what should I do?! I have no idea how to calculate the answer at all... It was only
through memorization of the answer that I managed to get a perfect score!’
Seeing this, Josephine’s mother immediately said with annoyance, “My daughter is tired. She doesn’t have the energy to do a
retest.”