I sat in the cafe a little bit before noon. My class had gotten out ten minutes early because the teacher got an angry call from his wife.

That's one thing that I loved about college. Marital disputes can end a class.

I looked over the notes that I had written down early this morning. In order to pass this next test, we had to cover everything on this sheet. It was all basic math, since I was basically in remedial math, but I still had no idea what any of this meant. I remembered what trigonometry was but not how to do it.

"God dammit," I muttered, slamming the book shut and drinking my coffee. Roxas better be one hell of a teacher, because I will be one hell of a student to teach.

It wasn't long before Roxas walked into the cafe, backpack slung over his shoulder looking all sexy. I furrowed my eyebrows. I couldn't think like that. I had to pay attention during these study sessions. I could think about how attractive he was later.

"Hey there," he said, slipping into the seat across from me. I smiled at him before letting out a sigh. "What's wrong?"

"None of this makes any sense," I told him, gesturing to the book. He raised an eyebrow at me.

"I haven't taught you any of it yet,"

Good point.

"Alright, good sir, teach away."

To which Roxas began talking about the basics of algebra and what all the little letters meant and what order to solve equations in. He made me do some practice problems that he wrote up and then would check the answers before angrily looking at them and handing the sheet back to me, telling me what I did wrong and how to fix it.

Out of the thirty problems he made me do this session, I got twenty-eight wrong.

I must be a genius in stupidity.

"Roxas, this is hopeless," I whined, putting my head down on the table.

"Hey, two out of thirty is better than your test score, was it not?"

He had to bring that up, that jerk.

But he had another good point.

"Roxas, we've been at this for an hour. Can we stop for today?" I pleaded, putting my hands together.

"You haven't learned anything!" he complained.

"No! See, look-" I pointed to the correct answers on my paper, "I did learn something. I just need practice now. But my brain is fried. Let's go meet up with Kairi and Sora."

Roxas stared me down.

I stared back.

"Fine."

Namine Hara first tutoring session: success!
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Roxas Aoki depends on what you mean by 'success'.
Namine Hara 2/30 is success in my eyes.
Olette Watanabe Namine…that score is pretty low still
Namine Hara it's better than before
Hayner Mashima 28 more points away from not working at BK.
Roxas Aoki i'm glad your motivation isn't to pass, but to not work at burger king
Namine Hara everyone's motivation is different, dear.

Kairi Nakano who knew studying was this hard?
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Namine Hara welcome to the real world
Roxas Aoki you have no room to talk
Sora Aoki don't be mad because I wouldn't let you read fashion magazines while working
Kairi Nakano I don't understand why I can't. I used to do it all the time.
Sora Aoki that was your problem…

Roxas and I headed out of the cafe to the plaza that was the center of our campus. Kairi and Sora were there doing their little study session. Judging by how far it was from our current position, we would get there just as they were finishing up, which was good. Kairi needed all the studying that she could get without getting distracted by me.

"So, Roxas…" I started, holding my bag close to my side and looking over to him. He tilted his head to the side, waiting for me to continue. "How come you are so good with math?"

He let out a laugh. "It just makes sense to me, you know? My brain is good at it, but that doesn't mean I like it."

I grunted. "I wish my brain understood it."

"It will once I'm through with it."

"That scares me."

He laughed again, and I blushed. His laugh was so sexy-

NO NAMINE. HE'S YOUR TUTOR. YOU CAN'T BE DISTRACTED. YOU CAN'T TURN INTO KAIRI.

I let out a huff before shoving my hands in my pockets and looking forward. I didn't have any more classes for the day and I wanted to something fun. Maybe Kairi would like to do something fun with me if she did good on her studying. Based on the fact that she was on Facebook while studying doesn't give me any hope.

Once we made it to the plaza, Roxas and I spotted the brunette and red head hunched over at a table under a tree. I smiled to myself to actually see that girl working before I ran over and dropped my bag on the ground, hugging my best friend.

"Jesus, Namine," Kairi said breathlessly, scared from my sudden attack. I smiled brightly at her in response.

"Hey, Namine," Sora said cheerfully. "Oh, hey Roxas."

Roxas held up a hand in response, taking a seat across from the two. I quickly joined him, leaning over the table and looking at Kairi with a curious eye.

"So, how did the studying go?" I asked.

She smiled at me. "I got a five out of thirty on his practice test!"

And my smiled dropped.

It was silent.

"You did better than me!?" I screeched, letting my head hit the table. "How is this possible?" I muttered into the wood.

Kairi let out a chuckle, but quickly covered it up when I glared at her.

"How about we do something fun?" Sora said suddenly. "It will cheer you up, Namine. But then you have to dedicate tomorrow to studying."

"That sounds like a good plan." Roxas seconded the idea.

"What would we do?" I asked irritably.

Sora and Roxas looked at each other before smirking and speaking in unison-

"Frat party."