Zatanna pushed through the crowds of people till she found dick and held on to his backpack, allowing him to guide her. As they walked, the crowds began to disperse.
"This is it "said dick pointing to the door "314. Are you nervous" he asked as he had noticed she grew pale
"Just a bit"
"Lets sit together" he said entering the class and pulling her in by the arm. The math room's walls were covered with posters showing examples of different math equations. In the front right hand corner was the teachers desk witch held a stack of organizes into neat pills. In the corner of the desk was her water bottle and a glass apple with the name Mrs. Azily in graved into it. In the back of the classroom was a book shelf with math books arranged in rows. Dick pulled Zatanna into the class.
"So Zee, where do you like to sit?"
"Well, I usually sit in the front"
"Perfect"
They choose 2 seats next to each other and sat down. More students started to enter the classroom and sat down. Zatanna spotted a familiar red head glaring at her and Dick. She approached them and the seat in front of dick. Zatanna turned to see all the students around her were talking so she turned to dick.
"Don't be nervous my ohh sooo magical friend, the teacher is not that bad, if you know the right things to say."
"Please don't say you flirt with the teacher too Mr. Player" she said giggling
"Hey! I do not flirt with the teacher, I can't help it if I'm so charming" dick said cockily.
Dick gently returned the punch. The 2 went back and forth until the second bell rang, silencing the students.
"Okay class, since it's Monday, I'm going to pass out your review sheets. You may choose one partner to work with, in 15 minutes we'll be grading the papers."
She went around the classroom and passed everyone a yellow piece of paper with 20 math problems.
"You may find a partner"
Almost immediately, Barbara turned around to face dick.
"So dick, the usual, I do 10 and you do 10 questions?"
Dick looked at Barbara, carefully choosing his words.
"Actually Barb. I was going to work with Zatanna."
She glared at Zatanna then turned to Dick.
"ohhh, I see how it is. You're going to just forget your best friend to work with this stranger"
Zatanna sighed in exasperation
"Barbara, just lay him off. He's free to work with whoever he chooses."
She whipped her hair and looked Zatanna in the eyes.
"Listen, I don't know who you think you ar-"
"Barbara, please face forward and complete your own work rather than talking"
Dick looked at Zatanna.
"Im sorry about her. She gets like that sometimes"
"Whatever. So how should we do this assignment?"
"You're pretty good at math right?"
"Ya"
"So why don't we make a game of it. I'll answer the first 10 questions, and you try to answer them mentally, then you'll do the next 10 questions and I'll try to do it mentally."
"Okay sounds like fun"
In about 5 minutes Dick answered one through 10 and Zatanna answered 11-20.
"Okay Zee, number one."
Zatanna glanced at the equation. It looked simple enough to her, but she felt pressure to not answer wrong, especially not in front of Dick."
"1762X" she answered
"Next"
"154^2"
"Next"
"Um 437%"
"Next"
"-37.84"
"Next"
(456)^4 *Y
"Next"
Zatanna looked at the problem and stuttered a bit.
"1637.6"
"Next"
"$35.94"
"Next"
"459%"
"Next"
"-4900.3"
"Next"
"981^3"
"Now your turn Richard Grayson"
"Ohh getting fancy with the names Mrs. Zatanna Zatara. Okay so 537.8"
"Okay"
"54^4"
"Okay"
"-479%"
"Okay"
"3784"
"Okay"
"937(45)"
"Okay"
"$434.39"
"Okay"
"8301.42"
"Okay"
"231.43"
"Okay"
"-3212"
"Okay"
"9342%"
"Okay"
"2341.43"
"Okay"
And we finished the whole paper in 8 minutes.
"How did I do?"
"You missed only one question which is very impressive to do mentally. Maybe you used some magic," he teased "And myself?"
"You missed one also"
Dick frowned. He was sure he got them all right.
"Which question?"
"Number 6"
"How did I miss that? The answer is 251.45"
"I know." Zatanna smirked "But you didn't say the unit of measurement"
"Cheater" Dick said playfully pushing her arm
"How is that cheating?" she said pushing his arm back "It's true"
"You know I got them all right"
"And you know you didn't"
"I don't care anyways, I like a challenge. Especially with you. He said poking her cheek. Unexpected warmth rushed to her cheek. Dick made note of her blush and smiled.
They copied down the correct answers down on their final paper and turned it all the students turned in their papers, they were assigned to take notes. When the bell rang to end the period Dick and Zatanna gabbed their stuff and headed to the door. Right when they were about to leave, Barbara pushed pass them.
"I don't get why she's acting like that if she is only your friend" said Zee as they walked outside.
"I told you, she is jealous. She feeling threatened by you. Girls tend to get possessive over prince charming over here." She said
"So cocky"
"And you love it"
Zatanna gave him one last smile before walking to face her next class. Alone.