I had no idea it's been so long since I updated this story. I guess it one of the side effects of having so many other stories. Sorry.

Chapter 14: A New Tutor and Friend

When Ezra woke up that morning he found that Cosette had moved from her spot next to his neck onto his chest. He smiled as he realized she was asleep.

Kanan walked in and greeted Ezra, "Morning."

"Morning Kanan." Ezra returned.

"Time to get up." Kanan replied.

"I can't," Ezra said.

"What, is something wrong?" Kanan asked, wondering if something had happened in the middle of the night.

"No, Cosette is on my chest." Ezra replied.

Kanan sighed in annoyance. "Then move her."

"I can't." Ezra responded.

"She can't be more than 4 pounds." Kanan pointed out.

"She's asleep." Ezra protested.

"So?" Kanan asked.

"It's against the rules." Ezra explained.

"Fine," Kanan said, with his hand to his forehead. "Five more minutes then you need to get up."

Ezra smiled and started to pet Cosette, hoping to wake her up gently. Cosette started purring and started to arch up into his hand. "Morning girl,"

Cosette looked at him with her bright green eyes. "I need to get up girl." Ezra continued as he stroked her.

She stood up on his chest, arched her back, stretching before walking off his chest. She hopped unto her cat tree and sat there.

"Good girl." Ezra smiled. He got up and made his bed quickly grabbing some clothes and got dressed.

When he came back Cosette had curled up on his pillow.

"Come on Cosette I need to make the bed." Cosette seemed pretty intent on staying put. Ezra let out a sigh. "Come on, Kanan will get upset if I don't make the bed." He tried to reason with her.

He got an idea. What was the one thing that cats loved more than sleeping? Food. Ezra walked into the kitchen and filled Cosette's bowl of food. The kitten in question immediately hopped off the bed and went to eat.

Ezra smirked triumphantly and went to make his bed.

"So you were able to get up and make the bed," Kanan smirked coming in.

"You just have to negotiate." Ezra returned.

"You negotiated…with your kitten?" Kanan asked.

"You just got to know how they think." Ezra explained. "Offer them something they want more. I gave her breakfast."

Kanan shook his head, "Come sit and eat your own breakfast, Ambassador of the Felines."

Ezra laughed and did so.

They were just about done with breakfast when Kanan's cell phone rang.

"Hello?" Kanan asked.

"Yes, hello Mr. Jarrus?" the voice responded.

"Can I help you?" Kanan asked.

"This is Zare Leonis, the kid you ran into at the store." the voice introduced.

"Oh yeah," Kanan remembered. "Does this mean you want to take me up on my offer?"

"Yes sir, if you want too." Zare replied.

"Yeah kid, we could still use you." Kanan smiled. "Can you stop by after you get out of school today so we can discuss?"

"Sure," Zare agreed. "Where?"

"Do you know where the police station is?" Kanan asked.

"Yes sir." Zare confirmed.

"Well that's where we'll be." Kanan said.

"Then I'll meet you there." Zare agreed.

"See you then." Kanan responded.

"Okay," Zare said.

"Bye then." Kanan replied.

"Good bye." Zare copied.

Kanan smiled as he hung up the phone. "Looks like we got you a tutor kid."

Ezra sighed, "I still can't believe you asked a random kid." He moved his food around his plate. "He's probably gonna think I'm and idiot." He muttered.

"Well he defiantly won't say it out loud." Kanan responded. "I'm paying him to teach you, not make fun of you."

Ezra laughed. "Well I guess." He pushed his plate away. "Do you think he'll be my friend?"

"He seemed like a nice kid. I'm sure you two can be great friends." Kanan reassured. "Come on, we don't want to be late."

Ezra put his dishes in the sink. He picked up Cosette, who had finished her meal, and headed towards the door.

"You can't take the cat Ezra." Kanan said.

"Aw, come on." Ezra pleaded. He pulled out the puppy dog eyes, also facing Cosette towards his foster-father.

"As much as you love her Ezra, I'm pretty sure Ahsoka wouldn't allow her in the station." Kanan replied.

"Aw," Ezra frowned, knowing he shouldn't argue it. He walked over and set her in the cat tree. "Be good girl."

Waiting in the station was rather uneventful. Ezra read his book and tried to set his phone up better. He used the photo Kanan had taken of Cosette in his hoodie pocket as his background.

About fifteen minutes after Kanan came back from his patrol a teen walked into the station. He had dark skin and dark short hair.

"Hello," he started.

"Zare?" Kanan asked for confirmation.

"Yup," Zare replied.

"Nice to meet you again." Kanan responded. He walked over to Zare and shook his hand. "Ezra," Ezra didn't respond or move. A light glare from Kanan got him moving.

"Hey," Ezra greeted walking over to the potential tutor.

"Zare," he said sticking his hand out.

"Ezra," Ezra greeted in return, taking his hand.

"Have a seat." Kanan smiled leading them both over to a spare seat.

"What would we have to focus on?" Zare asked.

"Mostly Math I'm guessing." Kanan replied. "He kept up on Reading. Maybe a little bit of history and science, just enough so he's not completely lost when he joins in January."

"Good, I'm great at Math." Zare smiled.

"Okay, so if you come by and tutor him for an hour, hour and a half after school each day, does that sound good?" Kanan asked.

"Since I'll probably be teaching him off my homework that could work." Zare replied.

"Three dollars a day, so fifteen a week?" Kanan asked.

"Can I bump you up to twenty a week?" Zare asked. "Pay me on Fridays?"

"Sure." Kanan replied.

"You got yourself a deal." Zare smiled, sticking his hand out to shake.

Kanan took it. "You might as well start now; I'll give you four dollars for today."

"Kay." Zare agreed.

Kanan went over next to Hera to give the two teens space to work.

"So he said Math mostly." Zare said.

"Yes, I'm pretty behind on it I'm guessing." Ezra replied.

"Okay, let me get my Algebra homework out." Zare started. He took it out and Ezra looked at the first problem. 5x - 4 = 21

"When did the alphabet get put into math?" Ezra asked.

"That's what Algebra basically is dude." Zare laughed. "Okay, this is an equation, and to solve it, you have to make it even on both sides. That's how you find the 'x', or any letter that may be in there."

"Okay," Ezra showed he understood that bit at least.

"So first you are going to add 4 to both sides since that's the opposite of adding." Zare explained.

"That I understand." Ezra said. "So you end up with 5x = 25."

"Yeah," Zare confirmed. "So then you divide by five since five and x are multiplied together."

"Wait pause." Ezra stopped him.

"What?" Zare asked.

"What is multiplying and dividing?" Ezra asked.

"You don't know?" Zare asked.

"I only had like a month of second grade before I had to stop going." Ezra explained.

"Wow, why?"

"My parents were killed." Ezra briefly explained. "The government thought I died too so I wasn't placed in foster care or something. So I lived on the streets."

"Wow," Zare muttered. "I'm sorry dude."

Ezra sighed, "Multiplying?"

"Right," Zare said. "I guess I'm teaching you your times tables first."

Zare spent the next hour going over how to multiply, teaching time tables 1-5, and also giving him some tips on how to remember and how to multiply.

"I guess on Monday, I'll go over 6-12 and maybe give you a quiz." Zare said.

"Okay." Ezra replied.

Zare went over to Kanan.

"How did it go?" Kanan asked.

"Good, I started him on his times tables." Zare replied.

"Great," Kanan said, he dug for his wallet and brought our four dollars. "Thanks."

"Thank you." Zare responded. "See you on Monday." He started towards the door.

"Wait Zare." Ezra called out.

"What?" Zare asked turning back round.

"Do, do you maybe want to hang out sometime, outside of tutoring?" Ezra asked.

"Sure man," Zare smiled. "You seem like a cool guy." He pulled out his phone. "You got a phone."

Ezra nodded and brought out his phone.

"What's your number?" Zare asked.

Ezra gave it as Zare typed it in his phone. A few moments later Ezra's phone buzzed. He had gotten a text from an unknown number.

'Hey, it's Zare.'

"There, now you have my number." Zare said.

"Thanks." Ezra smiled.

"See you later dude." Zare said as he turned to leave the station.

"Yeah, see ya." Ezra replied.