"No you can't add A and B."

"No, Reese...No 7 times 6 is 42 not 46..."

"Are you even TRYING Reese?"

The trials and tribulations of being a tutor. Camille shook her head in frustration.

"Reese...I can't help you if you don't try."

"I am trying. It's not my fault that some idiot came up with math. I mean we could go without math in this world. There's no use for it I tell you! You know what I think? I think that the school district just made it up to make us miserable. Yeah that's it…!" Reese raved.

"Okay, I'd like to see you go to the store and buy something without math." Camille pointed out.

Reese looked Camille in her hazel-green eyes, turned away and said in an audible whisper, "Dork."

"I heard that." Camille said, glaring at Reese.

"Let's get back to work..." She sighed, ready for another hour of trying to teach the impossible.

About a half hour of Camille explaining and Reese complaining went by.

"Can we take a break now?" Reese whined.

"Fine...FINE!" Camille screamed, frustrated.

Camille got up out the chair and walked to the window in the back of the empty classroom. She looked out at the guys playing on the school's basketball court. She walked over to the teacher's desk and sat atop it. She noticed Reese staring at her so she made a face at him.

"What? I wasn't staring at your boobs!" Reese said, lying.

Camille shook her head but had a smile on her face. Although Reese wasn't very smart and he could be very rude at times, she still had the slightest crush on him. Maybe it was the way he made that cute face when he was confused...which was most of the time. But other than that, Camille had a hard time picturing herself with Reese. Those rude times could turn embarrassing. Camille shook the thought out of her head. It wasn't as if Reese would be interested in her anyways. Or so she thought...Reese got up and stood next to her. Camille, a little scared, asked, "What?" For a split second she lost her head and leaned her face toward his as he did the same. Their lips were about a centimeter apart when someone burst through the classroom door.

"Malcolm...do you have...the...anama...tronica...tron...card? " Malcolm's friend Stevie asked excitedly between breaths. Malcolm spread all his playing cards on the ground.

"No but i do have Dilimatronicon." Malcolm replied.

"I'll trade you you're Dilimatronicon card for my Kakawakiwakitron card." Malcolm's other friend, Dabney offered.

"No way." Stated Malcolm. "Everybody has that card!"

Dabney looked over at Stevie.

"Don't….even…..think….about it." Stevie said, holding his card to his chest.

"What are you doing?" Susie (a girl from another class), asked when she noticed them.

Stevie looked up at the girl and exclaimed "None….of….your….business."

She looked over Stevie's shoulder, saw the cards and said, "Oh you're playing with Monsteratron cards…."

Susie took a look at all the cards, and sighed.

"Nice collection you've got there, Malcolm."

"Thanks." Malcolm said suspiciously.

"But….not as good as mine…" She teased.

"YOU play Monsteratron?" Dabney asked surprised.

"Duh, doesn't everyone? " She scoffed. "And I bet none of you guys has this card." She said, pulling a card in plastic covering out of her pocket.

"That's…a…a…Kerm…atron…card!" Stevie said pulling out his inhaler.

"Yup…the rarest card in the series…" She bragged.

"You know…its worth about twice as much as all your collections put together." She said smiling evilly.

Suddenly Malcolm turned in a different direction and stared into nothingness.

"I have to have that card!" He said to an invisible person. "If I had that card the world would suddenly make sense!" Malcolm exclaimed to no one.

"Umm….who is he talking to?" Susie whispered staring at Malcolm.

"Oh don't worry he does it all the time." Dabney explained.

Malcolm stopped talking to the invisible person and turned back around.

"Susie, how did you manage to get that card!" He asked.

"Well…my father works for the printing company that prints the cards." She smirked.

"But how could WE get one?" Dabney asked rowdily.

"Well that's for you to figure out I guess!" Susie laughed and walked away.

"I HAVE to have that card…." Malcolm said again to the invisible person.

Dabney looked at Stevie. "Do you think Malcolm's getting mental help?" He asked.

"I sure….hope so." Stevie replied.