Peter sat back on his bed, slamming his math book with a bang. "None of this makes sense!" He closed his eyes and rested his head against the wall with a dull thud. He ignored the sound of the bathroom door closing, and didn't open his eyes until he felt someone else plot down beside him, and water drip onto his hand. He looked up to see Jason, his hair still matted to his face from the shower, with only a blue towel wrapped around his waist.
"What are you out here yelling about?" Jason had the forever playful smirk on his face as he reached across Peters lap to grab the abandoned text book.
Peter pushed further in the wall to keep Jason's arm from brushing against his knees. "Nothing… and math."
Jason continued to smile and opened the book on his lap, oblivious to how uncomfortable he seemed to be making Peter. "How are you confused four weeks into the school year?" He grabbed the paper Peter had been working on and starting reading it over. "Here, I'll help you out." He looked around the bed quickly. "Have a pencil?"
After handing Jason the pencil in his hand, Peter sat up and piled his other things into a neat stack, setting them on his desk chair. "I can figure it out, you should go…" He scanned Jason's body out the corner of his eye, sucking in a deep breath. "… dry off, and get dressed."
"S'ok, I'm not in a hurry." Jason was already sketching out planes and hyperbolas across the page.
"Fine." Peter watched him from over his shoulder and bit his lip, both from trying to understand what Jason was doing, and from keeping himself from smelling Jason's hair. "Thanks."
"No problem." Jason finished sketching and turned to face Peter, who quickly looked away. "You're doing this the hard way. It's ten times easier to make an x y table, like this." He drew out a t table, labeling the left x, and the right y. "You just take your formula, and plug them in." He demonstrated. "See? And if you do it four or five times, you'll get all the points the hyperbola hits." He drew a wide 'u' across one of the planes. "See? Way easier than using the formula each time." He tossed the pad back to Peter, but didn't move, obviously expecting him to try it out.
Reluctantly, Peter took back the pencil and copied down the next problem, finding it hard to concentrate on it with Jason's shoulder pressed against his side. But he did what Jason said, and traced out the plane, beginning to draw a line up to curve into a 'u' when Jason grabbed his hand and pulled it up, making an upside down you.
Peter pulled his hand away from Jason's, but he didn't seem to notice the haste Peter was using. "You got it all right, but when the numbers get larger in the middle, it curves down." He offered Peter another smile ad stood up, gripping his towel at the base of his stomach. "Got it?"
Peter quickly averted his eyes from Jason's toned stomach and returned his smile, nodding. "Ya, thanks." Shit, this is going to be a long year.