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Tobey had never felt intimidated by a bunch of presentations. Even he had to admit that the dioramas that his classmates had made were nicely done, though he never would admit that out loud. Even Ms. seemed engaged on the projects that her students had done. As for Tobey, how was he going to impress his classmates by just reading off from a stack of papers? His eyes scanned around the room until they landed on Becky Botsford. Looks like she was the only one from the class whom had not done a diorama like the others. That put the boy's mind at ease for he wasn't the only one who hadn't done it.
"Excellent work Victoria," Ms. Davis smiled as her student picked the diorama and walked back to her desk. "And I must say, where did you find the time to make sixty-two moons for Saturn?"
Victoria Best flipped one of her braids over her shoulders and held a proud smile upon her lips. "Because I am the best at finding time Ms. Davis."
It took all of the teacher's will to not roll her eyes at her student. She had heard that phrase one too many times during the year that even she was getting annoyed by it. However, she was not going to lose her temper towards something, which she deemed to be so small for the time being. "Of course," she complied to Victoria with a nod of her head before her eyes landed in front of the classroom. "Who would like to go next?" she asked and Becky's arm shot up in the air. "Becky, come on up!"
Becky held onto her stacks of paper and made her way to the front of the classroom and faced her classmates. She wasn't usually nervous but if she had paid more attention to the planet that she was assigned, she wouldn't be feeling this way. Then again, she had learned so much about her home planet that she didn't know of before. At first, the only hint she had by her home planet was the term lexicon, another word for dictionary. So did that mean that people in her home planet knew complicated words like she did? Did she inherit her parents' knowledge?
"Whenever you're ready to start Becky," Ms. Davis broke her out of her thoughts.
Okay Becky thought to herself just go ahead an do it. She bought the paper in front of her eyes and began to read off the planet that she had been assigned, Mercury. As she was reading her findings on Mercury, she felt as if a part of her had left Earth and was traveling over in space. She flew past Mercury and all other planets that she came upon one planet with two rings weaved around it and a red star stamped in the middle of it. Her home. Keep it together Becky, you're almost there she told herself as she finally made it through the last sentence of her paper. "And lastly, if any of the other planets wanted race with Mercury, they would most likely lose because Mercury orbits the Sun faster than any of the other planets."
Ms. Davis continued to smile when Becky finished her paper. "Excellent," she said as she got up from her chair and walked in front of the classroom once more. "Would you happen to know the speed of Mercury when it orbits the sun?"
Such a fact did not make it's way in Becky's memory when Ms. Davis asked such a question. The whole classroom was quiet and Becky quickly searched through her paper to make sure that she had the answer hidden somewhere in her pages. There were no words that would answer the question that her teacher had just inquired, though there was only one planet that came to her mind and it wasn't Mercury. "Uh..." Becky said as her eyes searched around the classroom for an answer.
Becky could see a smirk forming on Victoria's lips while the rest of the class stared at her expectantly for the answer. If I had been paying more attention to my actual planet for my project, this wouldn't be happening right now. There were moments where Becky didn't know the answers to everything, but this was something that she should have known the answer to.
She looked up from her paper once more and her eyes fell on Tobey who held one finger, then two fingers twice, followed by three zeros. "One hundred twelve thousand miles per hour," Becky finally managed to find the answer after what Tobey had tried to say to her with his fingers.
"Excellent," Ms. Davis smiled brightly at Becky, "that would be quite the galactic race wouldn't it? Thank you Becky."
The young girl smiled as she headed back to her seat, though there was one question that arose in her mind. Why did Tobey just help her out all of a sudden? She looked over at him but he only stared straight at the classroom with a smirk upon his lips. A smirk that Becky couldn't comprehend what it meant.
"And for our last presentation, Tobey," Ms. Davis called as Tobey got up from his seat and stood in front of the class. Becky took notice that just like she, he had only written a report. Then again, she had caught his robot doing the paper for him.
"I know that we had to select one planet but I was intrigued in the whole solar system," Tobey said as his eyes went down on the paper that his robot had written. His robot had gone above and beyond as to what the solar system was composed of. The planet, moons, meteorites, and many more.
As time wore on towards Tobey's presentation, Ms. Davis could feel herself beginning to doze off, though she quickly regained her composure and looking at Tobey as he began to speak about the complexity of the planets and what they were composed of. As interesting as that sounded, time wouldn't allow for more information for it was almost time to dismiss her students from today's lessons. "I am sorry to interrupt you Tobey, but it seems that we will be running out of time."
"But I haven't gotten to the..." Tobey quickly looked over through his report, "how the stars are named and the relation between the zodiac signs and the stars and-"
"I am sorry for the disappointment Tobey, but I will be more than happy to read about them. It's almost time for dismissal," Ms. Davis interrupted him. Tobey frowned and placed his report on her desk before going over to his desk.
Just as long as I achieve the highest grade in this class he thought to himself, hating the fact that he had been interrupted.
Suddenly, the bell rang and the students happily left the classroom and gathered in the hallway for their belongings. Tobey made his way to his locker to get his belongings and the moment he closed the locker, Becky stood right next to him. "Oh!" Tobey almost jumped from the slight fright, "what is it Botsford?"
Becky frowned at his attitude but thought no more of it at the moment. "Don't think I didn't catch you giving me the answer about Mercury," she said to him.
"Well of course, I could see you looking at me," Tobey said to her.
"Why?" Becky asked him, "why did you want to help me?"
Tobey shrugged his shoulders and held onto the books against his chest. "Call it a 'thank you,'" he said to her, "you didn't tell Ms. Davis on what I did with my report and I had to...or rather felt the need to thank you in some way."
Where was all of this generosity coming from? Tobey, out of all the people, was thanking her. "Well that's nice of you Tobey."
"And don't think I would do it on a regular basis," Tobey said.
And there it goes Becky thought and rolled her eyes at his comment. She took a deep breath and lowered her eyes on the floor. "Whatever Tobey," she said as she then walked past him and proceeded to the exit of the school's building. "See you tomorrow."
Tobey stared after her as she walked down the hallway. He didn't know what it was but Becky had seemed rather unhappy as of late. There had been no smart remarks coming from her whenever they had a debacle as of late and Tobey wondered why that was. "Wait!" he exclaimed and then caught up with Becky who halted in her steps and turned around to face him.
"What?" Becky answered him, an slight irritation in her voice.
Tobey was about to comment on her voice but bit his tongue from doing so. "Would you...mind if I could accompany you home?"
Becky was caught off guard by his offer. She couldn't help but think that there was some sort of motive behind that but in any case, there was no one that Becky could walk home with. Bob had not come to school and both Violet and Scoops had extracurricular activities that they had to stay after for. "Sure Tobey," Becky said with a nod of her head, "that would be very nice." And thoughtful she thought before the two of them proceeded to walk out of the school building.