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BPOV
Dinner and the afternoon lessons went fast and I was a bit anxious to start the tutoring with Edward as I knew how bad I was and didn't want him to think I was stupid. I was really worried he would realise how pathetic I was compared to him and he and his entire family would leave me again. I knew I wouldn't be able to survive if this happened again.
After school I headed back to my house with Edward. He had offered to start tutoring me straight away, so we headed up to my room and I brought out my maths books. I obviously still had work to do from earlier on in the lesson as well as my homework to do. I had spent all lesson trying to work out where all the numbers went, so I now knew how to work out the sums and just had to figure out how to get them down on the page.
1 hour later I had done my homework and the rest of today's lesson. I hadn't checked through my work yet, and was just about to start doing so when Edward asked if he could look first. Confused I handed my book over and he started to look through the answers. At first he had a slight frown on his face and looked as if he was trying to work something out, but after a minute or so that frown turned into a smile.
'What is it' I asked curious. Why was he smiling over my work?
'Bella' he said. 'Have you ever noticed a pattern, by which I mean only certain numbers are written the wrong way most of the time but not all'. I frowned. I had not noticed this before. 'It's better than I thought' Edward replied. What was that supposed to mean? 'You only seem to put your 3's, 5's and 6's the wrong way around all the other numbers seem to be ok' he stated.
Oh I had never noticed that before 'No, vie never realised that before. Are you sure?'
'Yes' he replied 'Well these are the only numbers you have written down wrong on all of today's work and I assume that it wouldn't vary from day to day but we will have to see wont we?' He smiled at me. I just nodded.
'So what can I do help it then?' I asked
'We just need to write them over and over again.' He said. 'I know this isn't the important part because you didn't loose marks on the test for this however I think been able to write the numbers better will be able to help you recognise them better,' he replied. 'We shall start with the number three today.'
He wrote down the number 3 on a blank piece of paper and then gave me a spare copy. 'For the first page just trace my letter over and over again until you get to the bottom of the page' he stated.
I had to do it slowly at first because even though I had to Edwards to trace, my hand still wanted to go in the opposite direction. However as I got further and further down the page it started to get easier, and took me a lot less time to trace around the number.
'Now' Edward said 'on the page that has my number three, copy it onto the page.'
I set to work, trying to be very careful as I went. I noticed I put a few the wrong way around but a lot were the right way around. After I had finished Edward took the page off me, and started to inspect it.
EPOV
I was so proud of her. She had managed to write just over half the page of the 3's the right way around. I knew it would take a while but this was a good start. She would have to do this exercise everyday for a while to get use to it, but I think it will work. I will not move her onto another number until she has this one nearly perfected as I did not want her to start getting the numbers mixed up.
I was really happy when I looked at her work and realised that it was only three numbers that she had written the wrong way, this defiantly made the job easier for her.
I did go and see Carlisle when Bella was in gym this afternoon. I didn't really know much about how I should tackle this as I had never personally know anyone have dyslexia, even though this is a very common problem people struggle with every day. With Carlisle been in the medical business for as long as he had been I knew he would know or be able to find out some information on the disease and give more some answers on how to help Bella.
I arrived at the hospital, and found Carlisle had cleared an hour free of his schedule. I later found out this was because Alice had seen all that had happened and wanted to help in her own little way. Carlisle had been than willing to help and had even gone to the extremes of gathering up a lot of helpful information on dyslexia and the different treatments.
Carlisle was very interested in the subject and told me he would look more into it at home after his shift ended. HE also wanted to talk to Bella at some point about it to get her perspective. I wasn't as sure as it had been a very touchy subject with her this afternoon, and even though he wouldn't do it purposely I didn't want Bella getting upset again. I hated it when she cried or even looked un-happy and it pained me to see her that way. I always tried to make her happy in every way I possibly could loving to see her smile.
I had learnt a lot of new information that I thought could come in helpful. Bella only seemed to have a very mild form from the information that Carlisle gave and the information that I read. Most suffers had the signs of Bella plus more. For example it wasn't unusual that sufferers couldn't understand equations or how to work out simple sums, such as multiplication. Something grabbed my eye suffers of the [particular type of dyslexia Bella has states that they would be exceptionally gifted in other areas such as English, Geography, Science etc. This was particularly interesting as I knew Bella was good in all these subject areas.
Me and Carlisle discussed methods to which was the best way to tackle helping Bella, I could tell he wanted to help her as much as I, as would the rest of my family if they found out. Me and Carlisle decided that starting slow would be best so not to over whelm Bella and to see what exactly her symptoms were that caused her to struggle. I had a brief idea from what I heard Bella tell the teacher earlier on today but I didn't know the extent of the problems. For example did she struggle with every number or just one or two?
BPOV
I was really happy how much I had seem to have improved in just one night. I knew that I still had a long way to go, however it was a start. I was now laying on the bed in Edward's arms. He was singing my lullaby and I could feel my eyes start to droop, it had been a long day and my brain had been pushed today. It felt nice just to wind down in my lovers arms.
I woke up, to my favourite way, the following day. Edward was placing butterfly kisses all down my neck and collarbone, waking me up.
'Time to get up, love' he said. I groaned but got up kissing Edward good bye as he headed home to get a shower and his car, while I headed off to the bathroom myself to get a shower.
Soon enough I found my self back in maths. Today the teacher came over to help me work through the equation so I could get where to put the numbers. It was defiantly quicker and I got more than half the work done in the lesson. I was so happy. However a bit concerned because I could see a lot of the students looking at me weirdly. Especially Jessica and Lauren, I was worried they would find out that would be embarrassing, not to mention the nastiness. Since Edward and me had come back from Italy Jessica and Lauren had started been very nasty, picking up on any little thing that I do, even a stumble caused name calling. They were always a lot better when Edward was with me or one of the Cullen's were with me.
LPOV
What was happening? Why was the teacher just concentrating on Bella? Its not fair. Why does everything evolve around her? Everyone paying her attention like she is someone, first the Cullen's, then our boys, Mike and Tyler, even Eric, and now the teachers. What's so great about her? She's not even that pretty! Argh its so annoying.
As we were leaving at the end of the lesson I heard our teacher tell her to stay behind so she could speak to her. She had been with her all day so what did she need to tell her that's so secret see cant say it when there is anyone else in the room. I told Jessica I would meet her in the cafeteria. Of course she listened to me everyone does I am the most popular girl after all. I stood directly outside the door and started to listen.
'Bella, we need to do a test to prove that you have been diagnosed correctly'
'Erm ok' replied Bella, what test had the failed the one last week? Diagnosis of what? This was getting interesting, what was wrong with Bella this could be the biggest gossip all year, well apart from the Cullen's return. I carried on listening
'When are you starting with Edward' asked our teacher. Eh starting what with Edward? I could start to feel myself getting jealous again.
'We started last night,' Bella said. I was getting annoyed. Started what?
'How did it go?'
'Good' it sounded like Bella was smiling. 'We just concentrated on 3 and I got over half of them right, I had to trace his first then went on to writing them myself.' What? 3 what?
'Yes that is good; it sounds like you have had a promising start. Do you have a plan of action?'
'Edward realised that it was only the numbers 3,5 and 6 that I did wrong so we are concentrating on me writing them correctly first because if I do that we are hoping it will help me recognise the numbers better.' Bella stated. OH MY GOD she didn't know all of her numbers still. That was hilarious. What an idiot. She was having to get her super hot boyfriend to teach her how to count. I started to come up with plans to show Edward and everyone else just how stupid Bella was as I walked away towards the cafeteria. This was going to be great.
Oh dear Lauren's found out! What will she do? Will Bella's worse fears come true? And will she ever get that B?
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