On my chemistry test in class, I prepared well for it. When I see the questions written on the board by my class teacher, I was in seventh-heaven cuz I knew all the answers though they were tricky.

Without wasting an ounce of time, I began writng the answers with my beautiful handwriting.

Everything was fine and easy until I reached the last part of the paper, where we were asked to balance a redox reaction.

I thought it was simple to solve and was halfway in writing the answer, when a loud voice interrupted my calculating mind.

"What are you doing, dear?"

I saw my class teacher's shadow falling on my answer sheet. I leaned up to look at her and she was scowling at me intensely. 

Don't say I am in trouble.

"Ma'am?" my voice shakily came out.

"When did the power of Manganese become 3+ ? I have written on the board as 2+, haven't I?"

I swiftly turn to the board and saw the equation with Mn^2+ .

Holy christ!

Passing her a faint smile, I scribbled my paper and re-write the whole equation. I have no idea why was she helping me in a fricking class test!!

Seeing my sweating face, my class teacher spoke, "You coulnd't see the letters written on the board?"

The whole class was looking at me than writing their test. My class teacher continued, "You would've lost 3 marks for it. How careless are you?"

My face lost the colours and I panicked without my concern.

She was yelling at the student who would score a good marks in chemistry, i.e., me.

I could sense she was worried that I was in the edge to lose my precious marks but why does she say that loud? 

This problem seemed tinier when she noticed another mistake of mine. She pointed out my paper and hit me with her bunch of paper gently, "Correct the oxidation number!"

I swear I knew the right anwer but when she began shouting out my errors to the class, my fingers shivered and my concentration was no more.

With that, she was standing next to me till I solve the answer.

Several other steps, I did silly mistakes and it caught her too, which means it reached the whole class.

The main thought which was running in my mind was, 'Won't the other students think that she is helping only me?'

That would bring me more trouble between me and my friends, right?

I submitted the answer script and sat with my face hanging low in embarassment. I must have used my brain a bit because I couldn't do an addition operation at that time.

No one say anything to me back then, but the incident never leave me without the trail of humiliation.