Uniform silence ran through the air of the castle's library. It was just the two of them, sitting still, making little noise, if any at all. All that was heard were the faint ruffling of textbooks, thick and heavy, and the light scribbling of pencils on paper, wispy and quick.

The redhead looked up from his paper, bored to tears and very confused. This math was making no sense at all. The more he stared and the harder he concentrated, the more the numbers seemed to swirl and blend on the paper. Curious purple eyes looked around the room. The silence was starting to bother him. He shifted his gaze on Number II, who was located across the section of the library, at a separate table. She was sitting there quietly, head propped up by a hand that was propped up by her elbow on the table. She scribbled her answers busily and quickly.

Rixon narrowed his eyes ever so slightly. He was wishing his work was that easy.

Looking back at his twisting numbers, he decided he could do with some help.

Speaking up, he asked, "Hey, Xed?"

She looked up at him. "Huh?"

"Do you get this?" He held up his paper. She squinted at it, trying to read the text, but being so far away she couldn't.

"Bring it here." She said simply. He stood up and walked over to her table, and took the seat next to her. Picking it up, she scanned the page quickly, and then smiled a little.

"This is easy." She said, placing the paper in front of him. He picked up a pencil, waiting for further instruction. She continued, "All you have to do square this number, which is just like multiplying it by itself. Like, for #18, the answer would be 8 times 8, and then you add 91 to it, and subtract 4. Thus, you'd get the answer…?"

Rixon thought about it a moment, and scratched a few figures onto the paper.

"151…" he said, thoughtfully. "Is that it?"

She smiled, and nodded. "Yup. So, since that's the answer for the letter C, the answer is—"

"C." He finished, smiling.

"Uh-huh. A little trick is: If you have a multiple choice question, and you don't know the answer, you should always pick C."

This puzzled the man. "…how come?"

She shrugged, simply. "You can't go wrong with C."

He smiled faintly. "Thanks." He looked back at his paper, and went on with the next problem. A minute or so later, though, his eyes wandered to her paper, curiously. Her work seemed more complex than his. Looking up at her, she seemed to be struggling.

"Need help?" He asked. She looked up at him.

"Yeah…"

"What's the problem?"

"Well…I'm supposed to differentiate y when it's equal to 10 times 1 plus the sum of 2 minus the sum of 6 minus 7x brought to the 4th power brought to the 9th power brought to the 3rd power brought to the 5th power." Xed said, looking back at her paper "I don't get it…what do I do?"

The man was dumbfounded, and stared at her with a blank, confused expression.

"Uh…" he said, after some time, "…the answer is C."

She looked at her paper, oddly, at choice C. "...what makes you say that?"

He shrugged. "You can't go wrong with C." He grinned.

She smiled back, and laughed a little. "True, true…"

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IT SERIOUSLY WORKS, PEOPLE!

If you don't know a multiple-choice answer, you're supposed to pick C. It usually works. :3

This drabble was requested by Cyxrus, that deals with Rixon and Xed sorta getting their education through school and stuff. I hope you like it.