The-AO-Squad: School Wars book #1/chapter25

Chapter 25

Language was a breeze. All Mrs. Staples went on about was upcoming AR reading. AR reading was a system, where after your read a book, you go into the computer lab, usually during study hall and take a quiz on it from online. (true fact)

Anyways, as the bell now rung, Kate and Humphrey struggled to their paws, already tired out practically on how slow this day was going... or... starting if I must say.

As the two made their way through the halls, and towards the math hall door, the two no doubt instantly spotted the 'Squad' from within the halls, their mouths chatting away as they laughed or chuckled about some stupid post on Instapaw or something.

Humphrey gave Kate a small disgusted look. Even though he looked up to the Cool Kids, sometimes they seemed just like total outstanding, jerkish braggarts.

He rolled his eyes now as Jayla and Alasia passed the two, obviously heading towards the other Cool Kids...

Kate thought better of this moment now, and decided to start a simple conversation of their own.

"S-So... um... B-Bible... you ready for it today?" She suddenly began, her mind too well focused upon the Cool Kids, that she just had to ask.

Humphrey paused as they finally now entered the Math room, mind searching for an answer before replying. "D-Do I have much of a choice Kate?" He joked slightly, though Kate could still tell that his feelings were still hurt from this mornings' incident in art.

She just had to cheer him up somehow...

She quickly took a seat, suddenly remembering that it was snack time now. She brightened, turning to her mate now. "Hey Humphrey, I-It's snack time" She smiled, getting a small slightly-lifted look from Humphrey. "Oh yeah!" As quick as ever he bent down and grabbed his lunchbox, unzipping it with his teeth until it revealed all of his packed tasty varieties of snacks...

He licked his jaws as he glanced back over to Kate to see her happily pulling out her usual Cheetos and nutter butters.

Humphrey then pulled out some Parmesan-flavored goldfish as well as some cheesepuffs and a usual Caprisun.

He couldn't help but let a small smile loose as he watched Kate bite into a nutter butter now, crumbs going everywhere. She only paused and gave a small innocent look around the room, eyes wide from her little spill.

Humphrey couldn't help but let out a small chuckle before he too sent small crumbs and cheese bits flying as he now bit into a cheesepuff of his.

This made Kate giggle, while she tried to swallow her food all at once. She gagged for a small second before swallowing peacefully now, the two laughing about the scene now.

"Oh wow Kate!" Humphrey chuckled, making Kate just give a shrug. "Well, it's all going to the same place" she joked dramatically.

Suddenly though the door closed now as Ms. Griffin came padding into the room, ears erect and face brimming. She then glanced around at the class, and at what they were doing. She then placed a paw on a slightly large stack of sheets that was piled upon her desk.

"Did you all not get the starter?" She questioned.

This made Alasia give a small scoff from in the back. "Man, we didn't know there was no starter!" She chuckled as others like Bailey and this other female named Hailey gave a few giggles.

Ms. Griffin only gave a small dramatic look before nodding. "yes, well, you need to come get one. We'll be starting on our first lesson today anyways" She informed, making some wolves give some groans.

Kate herself couldn't help but give Humphrey a disappointingly disgusted look, at which he only returned. "W-what?" Humphrey then sighed, shoulders slumping.

"I-Is this a joke?" Kate then couldn't help but ask. She then turned to Syrita, who sat on the opposite side of her. "No, really, is this a joke? It's only day two, and we gotta do work?" Kate objected, making Syrita just laugh. "What did you expect from in a 'school' Kate?" She giggled sarcastically.

Kate then slowly struggled from her seat to head up and pick up a starter, or warm-up whatever.

She quickly grabbed one, but then thought better of it and grabbed another, knowing Humphrey needed one of his own. She then headed back and laid the extra she had gotten on Humphrey's desk, which his mouth was full at the time so he simply gave a grateful nod.

She then simply returned to her own seat, beginning to read over the directions simply, which read, 'Solving Algebraic Equations'. She made a face at this. She then read on, to the first problem:

Jenny has $17 dollars in her piggy bank. How much does she need to buy a game that costs $68 dollars?

Let x represent the amount of money that Jenny has. 17 + x = 68

Kate sighed, facepalming herself now as she now casted her gaze over to Humphrey, to see if he had gotten the same reaction this... and sure enough, Humphrey was simply narrowing his eyes more and more to the first problem they were given.

Sure, Kate knew this was easy... but it bothered her enough to already begin work on day 2 only!

She then skipped down to problem 2.

Multiply both sides of the equation - every term - by the LCM of denominators. Each denominator will then divide into its multiple. We will then have an equation without fractions.

The LCM of 3 and 5 is 15. Therefore, multiply every term on both sides by 15:

15· x
3 + 15· x − 2
5 = 15· 6

Kate's mind boggled at this one now.

W-What!?

She sighed. This looked like Japanese or something to her!...

Guess.. this is what it's all going to be like then huh?...

The bell was about to ring now, only a few more minutes... Humphrey was still stuck on problem 6 though that had something to do with variables and dividing equations? Ugh! He had no clue!

The whole math class, Ms. Griffin was just letting them try and figure out what to do on the starter and how to do it. And if you finished, she'd check you off for a class grade...

Humphrey though gritted his teeth. He had no basic clue on how to do this! And he was sure of it that not many others knew what to do as well...

Suddenly though, as if reading his own thoughts, Ms. Griffin began speaking now, eyes firm from at the front of the room. "Listen, this shouldn't be hard for the majority of you... You all learned this from last year... I don't see what the problem is then" Ms. Griffin simply noted now.

Humphrey sighed, glancing over at Kate now, who too just sat there, staring at her menacing last problem on the page...

He then turned back to his own paper, pencil in his paw.

How are we supposed to remember what took place in LAST YEAR'S MATH CLASS!?

But suddenly, as if to answer his pleads, the bell rang, causing for every wolf to leap from their seat.

Humphrey rolled his eyes though, as he hurried to the front of the room to hand in his paper. Day 2 and he was already sick of math!

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