Chapter One: Math

"Hey Benji! What's up?" Allie asked as she exited one of her portals and entered the younger boy's room. He was seated on his bed with several sheets of paper scattered on him. He clutched a pencil in one hand and he was pulling at his blonde hair with the other in frustration. "Are you okay?"

"Huh? Oh hi Allie. I'm just having some trouble with my math homework." Benji explained as he moved aside some papers for Allie to sit. She picked up the paper and looked at the messy handwriting and scribbled numbers. "Do you know how to solve this problem?"

"What's it say?" Allie asked before Benji handed her the paper. Cole earned $5 an hour for cleaning his room. It took him two hours to clean his room. If his mother paid him for cleaning his room, and gave him an additional $8, how much money does Cole have now? ($5 x 2) + $8

"That doesn't seem so hard." Allie said as she got a clean sheet of paper and took the pencil from his hand. She scribbled down the equation before she started to explain. "Okay, so since the $5 and the 2 are in parentheses, you have to solve that first. There's a multiplication symbol so you have to multiply the two. What would the answer be?"

"$10 right?" answered Benji as he pushed his glasses up onto his nose.

"Right, so then it would be $10 + $8. How much would that be?"

"$18."

"So there's your answer." Allie said as she handed the paper to him. He looked it over before smiling and jotting down the answer on his worksheet.

"Thanks Allie. You're much better at teaching than Miss Darcy. All she does is go on and on about how she can't find someone to fill the empty void in her heart."

"Wow, there's a teacher with relationship issues. I'm glad I don't have to worry about stuff like that."

"But don't you fancy Pitch?" Benji asked curiously. Allie's cheeks turned several shades of red before she gripped Benji's shoulders.

"How do you know that?!" she demanded shaking his shoulders, causing his glasses to fall off.

"I didn't until just now." Benji replied with a large grin plastered on his face. Allie blushed even harder before flicking him in the forehead. "I can't believe you fell for that too."

"You got me off guard! Uh, I'm never helping you with math again." Allie grumbled as she opened a portal for the North Pole. Before she stepped in, she shouted, "And don't even think about telling Pitch!"

After she stepped in, Benji waited five minutes before he looked under the bed and started shouting. "Excuse me! Mr. Pitch, are you there?!"

"Yes, but if you want me to come, could you be so kind as to close the shades. The sun irritates me." Pitch's voice echoed throughout the under of the bed. Benji scampered to the window and quickly closed the shutters. After he closed them, Pitch emerged from the under of the bed. "What is it?"

"I have a question for you." Benji stated as he sat down on his bed.

"Well what's the question?"

"Do you have feelings for Allie?"