Leo sat on her bed with the book Romeo & Juliet in hand, her hazel-green eyes following the lines of words precisely as she tried to make out every word. She wasn't a reader, to say the least, but it didn't help that it took place in the 14th century, so the way the characters naturally spoke took her rereading a few times for her to actually comprehend it.
She did though really enjoy the plot, the true love and devotion the two shared were really admiring and she appreciated that her literature teacher decided that if she read the book, she wouldn't have to take part in the play her high school was hosting at the end of the month.
Her finger was just about to turn to Act 1 until she remembered the promise she had told David only a few hours earlier. Leo cursed at herself, grabbing her phone from her backpack and Facetiming him. It rang a few times before connecting and they both looked at each other in silence.
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"Allat posing for what?"
DD asked Leo, who rolled her eyes and smiled. She propped her phone up on a pillow beside her, reopening the book and beginning to read.
"I knocked out after school. I didn't change. Ain't my fault you look like a frog right now."
"You know damn well that vio wasn't necessary. Whatchu reading? We doing homework for real?"
Leo looked at David with a confused look and nodded, pulling her Chromebook out and opening a Google Doc to begin her note-taking.
"Yes David, I was for real. I attend school and actually do my work."
"I go to school now. I just don't see the point of homework. It lowkey makes no sense."
"Well I still do it, so my mama don't beat my ass. Cause she will."
"Shit, I really just don't be comprehending that shit. But I haven't really paid attention since the 7th grade."
"So you don't know like... pi? How to find the volume of shit? Equations?"
"What the fuck is pi? Is that a subject?"
"DD it's a number, to find the circumference of circles and all that."
"Yeah, ion know how to do allat."
"So what are you good for?"
"I hoop, rap, smoke weed, and put niggas in packs."
"You're 15, praying for your lungs."
"You could be my tutor."
"I don't have time for that."
"Late night math Facetimes."
DD raised an eyebrow which got Leo thinking, she was always unnaturally drawn to the subject. She was slyly pulling a pencil and her math notebook out, about to teach him all of her notes from the past years.
"Get that workbook out. Call me Ms. Leo while on the phone."
