Sora waited with baited anticipation as the math tests were slowly passed out. He watched as Hayner received his and let out a muffled yell of frustration that sounded like a mix between some German word and curse. The teacher raised an eyebrow in warning before moving on to the other students. Pence just grinned in acceptance as he got his. Sora had a bit of difficulty telling how Vivi felt about his test, it was impossible to see what kind of expression the boy had on his face, mostly because it was impossible to see the forest dweller's face. Roxas simply rolled his eyes and turned the paper over, refusing to show its front to anyone who asked. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Ms. Trepe stood next to Sora's desk holding a sheet of paper with red marks easily visible through the back.
"I'm disappointed" she began with a frown on her youthful face, "I always thought you were better at this subject." Sora held his breath as the paper made its way into his grasp. Chancing a look at the large red letter printed at the top of the sheet he grinned. D plus. Perfect.
It was later in the day that Sora actually got a chance to show his grade to his friends. It was the three of them, Sora, Pence, and Vivi, huddled around one of the tables in the librarydiscussing such important matters as whether to join the math club or not.
"Oh yeah!" the brunette suddenly whispered as loudly as he could. Reaching down, he began shuffling through his backpack. His two friends almost missed the muffled, "math test!" that was thrown out to explain the random enthusiasm. Brining out the slightly crumpled paper with a flourish, Sora set it face down on the table. He looked meaningfully at the other two who nodded back at him before finally flipping it over.
"A D plus?!" Pence exclaimed, "You did worse than Hayner! I mean, he at least got a C minus!" Sora once again grinned.
"That just makes it even better."
"Better? Sora, I don't understand." Vivi said timidly. Sora took on a look of pure rapture while he replied.
"It means, that my mom's going to make the tutor stay for a whole extra hour today!"
"Ah, the tutor. It must be some senior girl, am I right?" Pence said sneakily.
"Er…not exactly?" At his rotund friend's raised eyebrow he continued. "She uh, well…how to explain this. …Shelinda?" He shrugged. He looked at his friends' horrified faces uneasily. "…what?"
Sora sat on the couch willing the doorbell to ring. It felt like hours had passed since he had gotten home from school, when in reality it had only been about 40 minutes. 5 more minutes, the young brunette thought to himself, Will this torment ever end! He sunk lower into the cushion in utter despair. Shelinda save me!
A little ditty rang its way through the house, signaling the arrival of a person. Sora gasped, nervousness suddenly making itself known by causing his stomach to clench. He flew off of the couch and all but sprinted to the door before anyone else could so much as look at it. He fumbled with the door knob for a few seconds before throwing it open, finding himself face to face with the woman he had been waiting for all day.
"Good afternoon Sora!"
"H-hey!" He stuttered, all sense of coherency gone with her arrival. They stood in the doorway in an awkward silence before the boy's mother's voice was heard telling Sora to invite Shelinda inside. "Oh! Uh, right, would you, ah, come in?" He grinned uneasily as she laughed slightly and came inside.
"Shall we get started on your math then?" She asked. Sora nodded enthusiastically, causing her to laugh again. They sat down at a table in the living room, Sora inconspicuously trying to scoot his chair closer to the young woman's. "I remember you saying that you had a test recently? How did it go?"
"Better than last time!" the high school boy beamed as he got out his latest failure.
"D plus? Good job, that is much better than the last test!" If possible, Sora's grin got wider. "Now, let's see where you went wrong, shall we?" The young boy's eyes became wide as saucers and his cheeks burned bright red as Shelinda delicately leaned over his shoulder and began pointing out his mistakes, one hand resting on Sora's shoulder.
Two boys watched with horror the scene unfolding in Sora's living room. Pence had come rushing towards Hayner and Roxas after school telling them about Sora and his 'tutor' and the two friends had decided that some friendly intervention was needed for Roxas' sorely confused cousin. That was why they were presently sitting in the bushes near the window of Sora's house. Upon seeing Shelinda enter and the brunette's reaction to it, Hayner dropped the binoculars he was holding. He looked like he was about to be violently ill.
"I can't do this…"
"Uh, Hayner?" Roxas asked, confused.
"It's too gross! I just…ugh, no!" The blond exclaimed.
"It's not like she's ugly or anything…it's not that bad."
"But do you realize that Shelinda is at least 15 years older than him?! She's got to be in her thirties by now!" Roxas' jaw dropped at that statement. His face went from surprised to horrified and in a matter of seconds had also dropped his binoculars and began retreating from the bush. "My point exactly." Hayner said while following close behind.
a few notes: Ms. Trepe, for those of you who dont know, is Quistis from ffviii. And when i say that vivi is a forest dweller? well see this is sortof AU considering the pairing obviously, so we're just going to pretend that all the non human types live in the forest, like freya, quena quen, khimari...they have a little village in the woods not connected to town and vivi lives with them. alright? so i hope you guys got a kick out of that one...please review so i can know how im doing! thanks!