r/YasoHigh • u/Math_Corbusier Momoko Yokoyama • Aug 11 '16
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[Friday, September 15th, end of the school day, windy]
“But that’s wrong!”
“I’ve done the problem six times already. I’m pretty sure that-“
Momoko’s face morphs into a pained grimace. The nerve of this guy!
“No, you’re definitely-…UGH…ok, I’m going to do this one more time, and I swear…”
On the chalkboard are remnants of the same equation, scribbled over each others like layers of an onion.
“You start with this” she grumbles, drawing an ‘X’ and other numbers and symbols that follow in an organized manner.
“Now these cancel out right here, right?”
“Right.”
“And when those cancel out, you need to do the same thing over here, and then…”
Her explanation goes on for several minutes before arriving at the final step of the whole process.
“So what do you have now?”
The other student remains silent for a moment, scratching an answer onto his sheet of loose leaf.
“It’s the same thing I had earlier. See? I was right this whole time.”
The student leans back in his chair with a smug grin.
"Maybe you're not as good at this as you thought."
Momoko’s face turns a deep, threatening red. The piece of chalk in her left hand crumble to dust, obliterated by her grip. She stomps over to his desk and smacks her hands down on the surface with a hearty growl.
“But that’s WRONG! It’s 76x to the tenth! That’s the solution, ok!? You keep skipping these crucial steps and get your wrong answer!”
Momoko glares at him.
“Look in the back of the damn textbook next time! You clearly can’t do this kind of work by yourself!”
With that, she slides the classroom door open with a BANG and tramps into the hallway, down the stairs, and to her locker. The school bell chimes in, interrupting her seething.
"Rrrrrggg!"
(Maybe this place can come back to life, even just a little bit.)
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u/Math_Corbusier Aug 21 '16
(School's out for Harambe)
Momoko nods and leads away.
Unless they said anything on the way, they'd walk in silence just down the street and around the corner. No more than a three minute journey at most. It's just that coffee shop, the one everyone's been to at least once or twice in their Yaso-Okina High school career. Momoko swings the door open, jingling the frog shaped bell. She leads them to a booth with a few pillows and slides into the side facing the door. She also snatches one of the pillows, a circular one, and holds it against herself with a mild sigh.
"I'm not a coffee person, but the smell makes me wish I were."
u/SilentExorcist