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·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳ PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT, chapter VIII

Alyssa felt like she was already beginning to doze off, despite there only being about five minutes of her class left. It was the last lesson before the bell rang and she was finding it difficult to hold her focus. It might have been the fact that she didn't have any friends in that class so there was nothing preventing her from falling asleep and keeping her attention sharp. However, it managed to harm how much she actually took in from the teacher's words.

Alyssa was sat by herself in the back of the classroom due to her not really speaking to anybody. The only person that she really knew in this class was Wilbur, but he was sat all the way on the other side of the room. The class she was in was an astronomy class, something that she had taken for an easy grade since it was something that she happened to know a lot about. Which was probably why she had elected not to pay her fullest attention most of the time. The one lesson that she really needed someone to talk to in, Dream hadn't taken. The cruel coincidences of life.

Her attention had been grabbed again as the tutor began hitting the whiteboard with a pointing stick, causing the rest of the students that had already started packing away to divert their attention back towards the front of the class. It was clear that everybody just wanted to leave but was being held back.

"Alright, students! Before you leave:" The teacher announced, gesturing towards the whiteboard to point at a list of things that he had written down while his pupils had been losing their focus. "I am assigning you guys to do a project."

A wave of annoyed groans were let out from practically everybody sat in the room. Some just voiced their displeasure while others had full-on slammed their heads against their books, feeling the strong urge to just give up. The tutor just rolled his eyes, annoyed by the lack of enthusiasm that his pupils had brought upon him, but continued speaking regardless.

"Don't be that way." He scoffed. "For this project, I'd like you to select a random part of what we've been learning to study and create a model and essay on. It can be anything related to astronomy. Maybe galaxies, comets, moons... Whatever you'd like."

One of the students raised their hands up high.

"Yes, Elise?" The teacher called on her.

"Are these group projects or do we have to do them all on our own?" Alyssa could see, even from the corner of the room, that she was shooting excited glances towards one of her own friends, hoping to be able to work with her.

"Unfortunately, every project must be done solo." He cleared up. At that point, another wave of irritated complaints had circled around the room, half of the teenagers started flinging their arms up into the air out of dissapointment and giving their friends irritated looks. Some had broken away from the stares. It was bad enough that they were being forced to do a group project, now they find out they also have to be completed by themselves? I guess Alyssa couldn't complain. She didn't have anyone to be her partner anyway. "This project is to help build our own knowledge on this topic and to create an understanding." The teacher added.

"Sir, please let us go into partners." One of the teenagers begged, but was met with a strong resistance.

"No! How are you going to build your own knowledge if you have to work with somebody else?" He questioned, putting the pointing stick back down onto his desk as he leaned against his table.