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"ACHOO!" I heard someone sneeze in the class.

"Bless you," A few people muttered.

Why can't that sneezing person be me?

I want to be sick!

Someone, give me germs!

So here's my plan, if I get sick, my dad will just have to cancel the tutor session today. If he cancels the tutor session, that means I don't see my loser tutor. If I don't see my loser tutor, that makes a happy me. A happy me is a better than a mad, upset me because you never want to see me mad.

So please, let me catch some sickness or something!

I'M BEGGING!

I sighed.

It's no use. I'm not going to get sick. I've tried hard all day.

I mean, begging for me to get sick counts as trying... right? I don't have to actually touch someone, right?

Oh well, it's hopeless anyway you look at it.

The bell rang, signalling it was time for lunch.

I slowly walked to my locker, and took the necessary books for the next subjects. I then walked toward the cafeteria to eat lunch with everyone else. Tenten raised her arm and started waving once she spotted me. I sat down quietly.

Sakura noticed my sullen face, "What's wrong Ino, you're not as upbeat as you usually are."

What a great friend. Really, she is, she noticed I wasn't feeling well. I am grateful for that, but like that's going to help me.

I just groaned in response.

"Wow, must be bad." Tenten said.

"Why don't you tell us what's wrong with you?" Hinata asked with a silent voice.

"Not that there isn't already, I mean look at yo--" Sakura said.

"Shut it forehead, I don't want to hear you," I told her, "your forehead does enough talking."

"Humph!" Sakura huffed, "We're just worrying about you. So much for trying to lighten up the mood."

"Fine, I'll tell you," I sighed.

They look at me with curious faces.

"I, I..." I stuttered.

"Hurry up already!" Tenten told me.

"I have a tutor," I told them with a blush.

Their faces fell, "That's all?"

I looked at them, "Well, yea."

"I don't think it's that bad, you can learn something," Hinata said quietly.

"Isn't that the point?" Tenten asked her.

"Well, yea," Sakura told the others.

"So what's the problem?" Hinata asked.

"I don't want a tutor!" I exclaimed, "I learn enough at school, and now I have to learn at home too?! That's way too much learning!"

Tenten patted my back, "Don't worry. You'll live."

I really hope she's right.

It was finally the end of the day.

It seemed as if went by way too fast today.

Why?

I was hoping to take the later bus to go home so I'd be late, and that would mean less time with my tutor. You see how my genius plan works?

But no. Someone somewhere decided to change my plans for me.

I wasn't going to be late.

Once I saw the familiar car waiting for me, I knew my plan would never work.

My dad was picking me up.

I'm already in the car, going home to wait for my tutor.

Why does my life suck so much?

"Dad," I whined, "do I really need a tutor?"

"The marks on your tests and report cards can give you the answer," He answered, not taking his eyes away from the road.

"But, but..." I wanted to say something back, but I couldn't.

"Don't worry," He reassured me, "just increase your marks, and your tutor will leave."

Just increase my marks?

I am not a miracle worker. My tutor is going to stay for awhile.

A very long while. In that long while, who knows? I may be wearing thick, round glasses and get a weird laugh. Oh my gosh, I may end up wearing geek clothes for my life!

Someone help me!

... Not my tutor of course.

I've already arrived at home, and already my dad's been bothering me.

"Did you get your books ready?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure you didn't leave them at school?"

"Yes."

"Do you have paper to write on?"

"Hm."

"Do you have a ruler?"

"Yea."

"A pencil?"

"Yup."

"Eraser?"

"No, I don't have them yet, let me get them!" I ran upstairs.

Yes, I escaped!

I sighed, " I don't know why, but I feel like I've accomplished something big."

I looked at the clock, and sighed, only half an hour left until "the creature" (my tutor) arrives. I walked over to my bed, and when I sat, I felt something under me.

"Hmm, a book?" It was the book Sakura told me to read, she said it was really good. I turned it over to read the summary:

Help me, I'm falling.

Falling horribly, and because of it, I need a tutor.

-- Wait.

Did I say falling? ... I meant failing

Ordinary Rina has a problem. She's failing english, and needs a tutor to improve her marks. She expected her grades to increase, but she didn't expect to fall in love.

I snorted, what a lame summary, Sakura always goes for this fluffy-mushy crap. Well I go for it to, so I shouldn't be saying anything now. I stopped, the summary implies she falls in love with her tutor, right? I know I should not do this, but I opened the book and looked at the last page, and read:

I guess having a tutor isn't so bad after all.

"NOO!" I screamed.

"Ino, you alright?" My dad asked.

"Yea!" I yelled back to him.

OH NO! She fell in love with her tutor... what if that happens to me? I'll be called Mrs. Loser Geek for the rest of my life!

DING DONG

It's (my tutor) here!

I went down the stairs slowly, scared of what I am about to see. My dad saw me and waved me over.

"Ino, this is Shikamaru," motioning to the guy next to him, "he's your tutor."

I gave him a once over. He wasn't what I expected, he didn't look geeky at all. He had simple dark brown eyes that almost looked black, and dark hair. He looked so ordinary, but when you looked at what he wore --

now that's another story.

What he wore was okay, but how he wore them was-- and is not okay. His shirt was wrinkled, but it wasn't dirty, and parts of his jeans had stains of dirt, probably mud. He had two different socks on, one was blue and the other was green. How can this guy be my tutor if he can't dress to impress? Okay, forget what I said before, I am not Mrs. Loser Geek.

I will now, forever and for always, be called Mrs. Ordinary! That's even worse because there's nothing special about it, when you're a geek you have your own style, but I'm ordinary, and that's just so... ordinary.

"Hi," I said.

"Hey," He said back.

I stared at him for awhile, but not because I'm interested in him! It was because he didn't even look smart.

My dad clapped his hands together, catching my attention, "Okay, Shikamaru and Ino, your first session starts now."

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