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Pointless Math Lessons
"You're doing it wrong!" Zero exclaimed. "More like this!"
He then proceeded to draw a series of nonsensical, pointless scribbly markings on X's paper.
"See?" Zero said, smiling mischievously.
"No, you're doing it wrong!" Said X, leaning over to draw identical scribbles on his paper. "See? More like this!" X said, imitating Zero's voice as best as he could.
"You forgot to put the emphasis on this." Zero replied in a silly voice.
"Nah, you just said it wrong the first time!" X said.
"Whatever you say. Next, you're supposed to… uh…" Zero glanced down at his math paper, which was filled with anything but math, any directions once visible on it rendered incomprehensible by X's doodling.
"Ooh, I know! You have to divide by zero!" Said X, trying not to laugh so hard that he couldn't speak properly.
Zero smiled. "Oh? I thought we were supposed to multiply by x."
"Gee, how do you say that with a straight face?" X asked.
"SKILLS." Zero replied in a dramatic voice.
"Whatever, you're still totally wrong, I'm pretty sure you have to divide by zero."
"I'm gonna need a bigger sword, then…" Zero said with a grin. He leaned forward and drew more marks on X's paper, this time resembling planet Earth getting chopped in half by a sword. "Tadah, I just divided the world by my awesomeness."
"Sure, if that's what you call awesomeness." X said, rolling his eyes.
Zero disregarded his comment, continuing to doodle on X's paper since X had filled Zero's paper with scribbles. "Ah… I forgot what you're supposed to do next."
"Thought you said to multiply by x." Said X with a smile.
Zero smirked. "Oho, but you see, if you divide something by zero, it becomes zero. So there's nothing left to multiply by."
X made a surprised face. "Since when did this lesson become about actual math?"
"No, you didn't let me finish. Because if you multiply zero by anything, it just stays a zero. So IT WILL REMAIN A ZERO FOREVER… MUAHAHAHA!" Zero said, imitating a villain's laugh.
X facepalmed. "You're hopeless."
"Anyway, I'm multiplying by x just because." He informed X.
Then he drew a giant cross mark on X's paper.
"That's not how you multiply by x!" X said, laughing.
"Yes it is." Zero said in a mock-serious voice.
"It really isn't." X told him. "Also…" He said, tapping buttons on his calculator. "If you try to divide by zero, it just says 'error'. So you were wrong, anyway."
"Shh! We're pretending that's how it works!" Zero exclaimed.
"You're such a bad teacher." X said in a reprimanding tone.
"Whatever." Said Zero. He then began folding the math paper into a paper airplane.
"What in the world are you doing?" X asked, thoroughly confused.
Zero had already finished making the plane. "You'll see." He said.
He opened the window and sailed it out.
"I'm done with this nonsense." Zero proclaimed loudly. "Let's go do something else."
"Ooh! Can we play a game?" X asked enthusiastically.
"Yeah. Let's go." Zero said.
And so, the math lesson ended.