Post by Sara on Jan 26, 2009 19:17:43 GMT -5
Trey was perplexed when Felix started to laugh. The first time he'd been on-task since the moment he'd arrived, and now she was laughing at him, or so it seemed.
”Don't take this the wrong way, but you remind me so much of my mother's cats!”
For a moment Trey just looked at her, his face going a bit red. Ookay then. Everyone really is full of surprises, he thought, shaking his head. So Felix did have her silly side – and silly it was. Plus, a cat was the last thing he'd ever thought of being compared to. He wasn't really even a cat person – he'd always found them annoying, preferring dogs.
A moment later, he'd cracked up as well, at the sheer ridiculousness of it all. The very fact that she now had him considering his similarities to a cat just proved how everything was wrong with the world. ”Uh... yeah... okay,” he said through his mirth, ”I've never been compared to a cat before. But I suppose there's a first time for everything.”
His mind flashed to the question of why exactly he reminded her of her mom's cats, but then he realized that he really didn't want to know. He cleared his throat. ”Okay... moving on... I'm not even going to ask...” He laughed again, a bit more, then calmed himself.
”Page 365? Right.” He flipped through the book until he found the right page, then got out his math notebook. He briefly compared the book's explanations with his own notes, to make sure his ineptitude was just a result of a lack of effort rather than any fundamental mistakes. The explanations were, pretty much, the same, though Trey's were much briefer, more concise, than the book's long-winded examples. ”Should I just, um, do the exercises, then? And ask you if I have any problems?” He asked. ”Because really, I'm not so bad at math. Probably nothing compared to you, but still, if I actually try, I'm like an eighty or ninety percent kind of student.”
”Don't take this the wrong way, but you remind me so much of my mother's cats!”
For a moment Trey just looked at her, his face going a bit red. Ookay then. Everyone really is full of surprises, he thought, shaking his head. So Felix did have her silly side – and silly it was. Plus, a cat was the last thing he'd ever thought of being compared to. He wasn't really even a cat person – he'd always found them annoying, preferring dogs.
A moment later, he'd cracked up as well, at the sheer ridiculousness of it all. The very fact that she now had him considering his similarities to a cat just proved how everything was wrong with the world. ”Uh... yeah... okay,” he said through his mirth, ”I've never been compared to a cat before. But I suppose there's a first time for everything.”
His mind flashed to the question of why exactly he reminded her of her mom's cats, but then he realized that he really didn't want to know. He cleared his throat. ”Okay... moving on... I'm not even going to ask...” He laughed again, a bit more, then calmed himself.
”Page 365? Right.” He flipped through the book until he found the right page, then got out his math notebook. He briefly compared the book's explanations with his own notes, to make sure his ineptitude was just a result of a lack of effort rather than any fundamental mistakes. The explanations were, pretty much, the same, though Trey's were much briefer, more concise, than the book's long-winded examples. ”Should I just, um, do the exercises, then? And ask you if I have any problems?” He asked. ”Because really, I'm not so bad at math. Probably nothing compared to you, but still, if I actually try, I'm like an eighty or ninety percent kind of student.”