A present, by request, for crazingonbeyblade111, who asked for "a drabble centred round the BEGA bladers (mainly Brooklyn, though), in a maths lesson at school" So here goes...


Nil Desperandum

He hated maths. And algebra was worse. It just didn't make any sense.

x+2y-w=54

2x+y=73

Aargh.

Mystel leaned over. "You okay, Brooke?"

The so-called genius put his head in his hands. "But how does it work?"

Mystel looked shocked, almost affronted. "You do this all the time, Brooke, it's easy!"

"I do?"

"Yeah, it's just blading in written form... like, x is the launch speed, y is the ripcord and w is the dish size!" Mystel leaned back, looking proud of himself.

Oh.

Oh.

Well, that made more sense.

.

Only Mystel ever understood the sudden jump in Brooklyn's algebra grade.


A/N - the title is Latin for "do not despair", which I thought kind of fitted with this.