"Hey mom! I'm home." Alex the shortish brown haired,
green-eyed girl called as she dropped her school bag at
the kitchen door. "Mom?" She called again.
"She's not here." A strange voice said from behind her.
Alex jumped back from the stranger.
"Who are you?" She demanded. The woman she was confronted
with simply smiled. "Where's my mom?"
"Relax Alex." She said monotone.,>
"How do you know my name?" She said more curious then
scared. The woman didn't look as though she posed any
threat.
The woman laughed loudly and said "You have no clue who I
am do you? I'm your Aunt Monica."
"Oh! The one from England?" The woman chuckled at Alex.
"Clever. New Zeeland Actually."
"Okay I believe you. Where is my mom?" The woman had just
proven that she was speaking the truth. She didn't have
an Aunt from England. Only in New Zeeland.
"She just had to pop out to get something from the Store.
You've grown up a hell of a lot since I last saw you...
How old are you now?"
Alex smiled and they both went to sit on the couch "I'm
16 Aunty Monica." Her Aunt raised her eyebrows. "Now I
remember you!" Alex laughed, "You were the one who got me
my Berry teddy!"
"You still have that thing?" She was a tall curvy woman
with big brown eyes and big boobs. Long chocolate colored
hair that made her look like a porcelain doll. Beautiful.
Alex even had a crush on her when she was 12. All these
memories came rushing back to Alex. Feelings that she
hadn't felt for many years, now making it's presence
know... everywhere. "Jee whiz, so what have you been up
to? I bet you're a hit with all the boys!"
Alex blushed a deep red, "Not... not really Aunty.... I
um... I..."
"I'm home Monica! I wonder when Alexandria will be home?"
Sheila called as she walked in the front door.
After the three women had chatted for about two hours
Alex finally said "Listen ladies, I've got Trig
homework... Not my cup of tea but if I don't get it done
Mrs. Kent is going to kill me. So I'll be in my room if
you guys need me, kay?"
"Trig? I'm not half bad with Trig, do you need any help
Pinky?" Monica asked as she sent a dazzling smile Alex's
way. There was no way that she was going to let up on a
chance to have her Aunt near to her. So, she readily
agreed. Trig was actually one of her fave parts of math,
but she'd play dumb. The pay off was all too tempting.
***
Alex and Monica sat alone in her bedroom at the small Oak
wood desk that was used mainly for writing in her diary,
but not today. "So, what is my darling girl having
trouble with in Trig?"
"I um... I don't understand how to find um the Hyponyms
if I have the Opposite and the Adjacent...." Alex
mentally scolded herself.
"Okay. But I think that we'll have to get a bit closer
for this, so scoot your chair a bit closer to me so that
you can see what I'm up to." Alex was all too happy to
oblige. "Do you know about Sin Cos and Tan?"
"Yes."
"Do you know which is which?"
"Well, we only started this a few days ago..."
"Alright, Sin is opposite over hypotenuse, Cos is
Adjacent over hypotenuse, and tan is opposite over
adjacent. When you are given and right angle triangle and
the only side they don't give you is the Hypotenuse, and
that is the side you must solve for, you'll know that is
will be tan you'll be using."
