Time Flies

Preface

This chapter will deviate a bit from the main story. A small break if you want. Enjoy.

Chapter 19

General POV

It's been 1 week now since Mike agreed to help the Guppies. "Has Mike responded yet?" Molly texted to Gil. "No, he says he's still working on it". Gil texted back. "I hope he didn't betray us". "You must comprehend that what we asked him takes a little bit of time". "I know. I think we should have chosen the other proposition". The Guppies and Mike agreed to execute the first proposition of Molly (end of chapter 18). "Beyond that, you wanna do something this afternoon with the group?" Gil responded with. "We can't be in public with more than 3 persons Gilly because of the virus". "Sucks, I have to go now. Bye Molles".

"Heyy Deema. Wanna hang out?" Goby texted. "Ah sh*t, I'm sorry Goby. I'm just going to leave for my grandmother. Another time maybe".

At Nonnys home. Nonny was in his room revising the math of the last lessons and the online classes he had. He found that the teacher explained the subject matter less well during the online classes. "Not a single teacher has a decent camera". He said to himself. Nonny often talks to himself when he's alone. A bit later Nonny gets a picture of Oona. She too is revising the math. She put some text under it. "Pfff, this math is difficult!" Nonny was silent. He didn't answer, he was thinking, thinking about what to do. "Gil would be proud of me if I took initiative, but I'll be nervous, especially when we are alone… in my room". Nonny said to himself. He continued thinking. "If it's successful everything will be easier in the future. But… but If she asks that one question from a long time ago… I don't know. Maybe I'm ready to answer it. But I can't think straight if she's here". Nonny walked around his room, trying to answer a simple question: yes or no. After a while he decided to message Gil about it. The only thing Gil answered without asking for details was: "GO FOR IT". Nonny took a deep breath and began texting Oona. "Haha , what a coincidence, I was doing math too. Why don't you come over, I can explain it to you". Well, that's the message he first sent to Gil for approval. "Yes that's good, now Nonny just believe in yourself okay? Good luck ma boi". Nonny thought for a second. "What if I added some smileys?" the final result. "XD, what a coincidence, I was doing math too ;D. Why don't you come over, I can explain it to you :)". Nonny was happy and texted it to Oona. Just when he did that he began texting Gil. "I changed the message a bit but I already sent it". "What did you change? The first one was really good already". "I added some smileys :D". Gil read the message. "Did? You? Add… Smileys?" "Uh, yes any problems with that?" "H… how much?" "Uh, tree if I remember". "No no no Nonny. That's too much. It's not gonna look serious. You're the smartest guy on the planet but you don't know that? Okay, What's done is done. Now everything will depend on her answer". "Why are you so dramatic about some smileys Gil?" "Too long story to tell, maybe another time. Now I need to leave you, good luck Nonny and don't forget to breath when she's there!" Nonny laughed. He felt pretty confident. Oona finally responded. "Oh thanks Nonny, I'll be at your home in 2 minutes". Nonny was relieved. But the longer Nonny waited, the more nervous he became. He heard the doorbell. He jumped out of his chair. He opened the door. "Hi Nonny, thanks for wanting to help me". Nonny smiled. The two went to Nonnys bedroom. "Déjà-vu" Oona thought. "Uh, take a seat, next to me. I'll explain this". They both sat down. "Let's see uh, what do you don't understand?" Oona took the math book of Nonny. "Here, chapter 19 : Quadratic functions the standard form". "Ah yes I see. That's very easy you know". Nonny was looking at his book. "So what are those? Well those are basically graphs. Every point on the graph has a x value and a y value. you can see the x value from the horizontal line and the y value from the vertical line. You understand that?" Oona nodded with her typical innocent smile. Nonny began sweating on his forehead a bit. "Okay, so the standard form of the Quadratic functions is ax²+bx+c. 'a' 'b' and 'c' decide the form of the function. 'a' will define the parabola. The bigger the value of 'a', the smaller the graph is and vice versa. Important fact: when 'a' has a negative value, the parabola goes downwards". Oona nodded. Nonny explained 'b' and 'c' and the coefficients.

"That's all we've seen, I hope I was useful". Nonny said. "Of course, I like to listen to you, you can explain everything and I will understand it". Nonny smiled. Silence took over. The 2 were sitting next to each other, looking around the room. Nonny proceeded to look on his watch. "Woah, I've been explaining you all this for 2 hours straight, I need to drink some water. You want something to drink?" Oona looked surprised. Normally Nonny would do everything to make his guests leave as quick as possible, friends or not. "a glass of water please". Nonny knew that when his glass will be empty, Oona will go. He looked around the room. His eyes looked at his TV. He took a deep breath again. "Hey Oona, you wanna see a movie?" Oona looked very surprised. "That would be fun!" Oona sat on Nonnys bed while Nonny was searching a movie. They –as last time- couldn't decide what movie they wanted to see. Finally they were watching a documentary about wild animals in Canada. They were side by side on Nonny's bed. Now, Nonny was at ease. Not like the other time. The end credits of the documentary were shown. Nonny kept on looking the TV. Oona put her hand on his. "This was very enjoyable, we have to do this more often". Nonny looked to Oona and nodded. "But I have to leave now, it's getting late so… I'll see you next time!" Nonny stood up to hug his friend and Oona left. Nonny texted Gil about his milestone. For Nonny it was a milestone. "Nice work Nonny, and guess who texted me this evening? Mike!"

I hope you enjoyed this little cute break (sorry for the math part XD) instead of the rough story with Sandra. Please review if you liked it or didn't, constructive criticism is welcome.I'd appreciate it. Stay healthy!