Monday, February 25, 2008

math tuition

Flipping pages so hard that he might tear them.
Pausing, just long enough for about ten key words to pop out at him, then moves on. It's almost like he was the one sitting for that major paper.
He sighs, sighs again, gripping a page between thumb and forefinger. He is oblivious to his student, staring at him dreamily when he's set her work to do.
She bites her lip. The only math she's doing is calculating the distance between his hand and hers, and of course, the probability of him liking her.

His fingers brush hers as he reaches for a pencil. He barely glances up, but she,
she is electrified.

"Need help?" And she realizes that he's seen her staring.
She clears her throat, mumbles a vauge response that sounds something like "spider". Raising an eyebrow, he brings his chair closer, leans in to explain.
Words like, "Substituting this equation into this" and "thus finding the gradient" spill fluently out of his mouth. On the other hand, she's paying careful attention to his lips, so close that she might run her finger over them.
Wait, but, hasn't she done that before?

"Got it!" She smiles, "Just love Trigonometry!"

Half smile.
"It's co-ordinate geometry."

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