Like a Star in Your Sky

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Chris was coming over today again. It was finally Monday. Aylin had been asked by a few friends in school if she'd like to go to a dog café with them. But of course she had to turn them down because cHriS wAs cOMinG oVeR. This proved to be a cherry on top to the fact that Aylin did not want Chris' presence to linger around her. She was waiting for him nevertheless to come wreck her world again 'cause that's all that she can do. 

Chris was on his way to Aylin. He on the other hand did not have anything against meeting Aylin again, even though she was a massive pain in the ass. Chris had his own set of personal questions that he wanted to be answered. Do you know what killed the cat?
Also because it was his job to teach Aylin and he is irrefutably very sincere with his duties. But if his previous analysis is right regarding Aylin and her math situation, he is willing to find the origin of this behaviour and eradicate the causing effect. By no means he is going to let one of his students not do well in a subject he taught, especially Math. Chris knew how to bend his students just right. And this is why all the students he taught improved expectation-exceedingly. He was not going to let Aylin be an exception and a spot on his prestige. No matter how brittle she was, he was going to bend her. He had a reputation and a word to keep. 

The bell rang. The door was opened by a tired looking Aylin after quite some time. 

"Hey Chris!" Aylin wished him in a merry tone as she turned around to walk back into the house. 

"It's either 'sir' or 'Mr. Christopher' for you. Hi Aylin." Chris followed behind Aylin. 

He sat down at the chair he did last time and started preparing for the class without sparing another second. 

Aylin came after a while from nobody-knows-where and sat down in front of him without saying a word. Chris moved his eyes to Aylin with a tiny bit of annoyance visible in them. 

"You already took quite some time to open the door. And then you disappear again. Did I not tell you to be prepared for the session before-hand?" 

Aylin clicked her tongue and leaned on the table and rested her arms on it. Then she looked at him.

"Take my lowest priority and put yourself beneath it." 

Chris looked away seething in air through his teeth, totally expecting an impolite reply. "And I presume you want me to care about it? Tch. Cry me a river and drown yourself in it, I still wouldn't care. Just do what is asked of you."

Aylin was just about to open her mouth to punch a reply on his face when she heard him speak again.

"Anyways moving on, we're not gonna waste time again today like we did the last time.. unless you want to see me in a different place?" Chris bore the radiation of his eyes into her flesh till it reached her bone marrow. Where did he learn to glare like that? 

"Different place, huh? You see that door? I want you on the other side of it." Aylin pointed to the exit of the house while her eyes stared back into Chris' glaring ones, but they did not hold half as much intensity. 

Chris wiped his teeth with his tongue and licked his lips slowly. "I was gonna say 'with your dad discussing about increasing the frequency of our sessions to 4 times a week', but fine. Whatever makes you able to breath in air." He was flipping through random pages. 

"What? Why?" Aylin was seriously confused to why Chris would even let that thought cross his mind since she's pretty sure she isn't a pleasant company to him. 

Chris smirked with an amused expression as if he was finding this interesting. He straightened his back with his chest widening and placed one of his palms on his thigh. "Well, how do you think we are supposed to cover up your studies if you're going to misspend and squander our limited time with each other in your shenanigans? Or do you want me to increase the duration of the session?" a single eyebrow was now raised on his forehead.

Aylin was just staring at Chris with an expression she would have on her face if she saw someone washing books with shampoo because 'they turned dusty and the pages seemed too dry'. 

A tutor with a normal functioning brain would find ways to get away from her, but Chris?
She might have stared too long and Chris thought she might've just designed a whole new planet in that parallel universe she teleported her mind to. He was irked by the time that had passed without them even starting. 

"What are you thinking about?" 

"You are a human version of period cramps." Aylin didn't care about her reply being a wisecrack. She didn't even process what she just said. It didn't cross her brain, it went from the heart to the mouth directly. 

Chris let out a light chuckle on that comment, verily finding it comical. "I can't relate, but I think I can understand. So why don't you just follow whatever I tell you to? Hmm? Or are you willing to see me more often? I don't think so." 

He took out the mini-test of last week and starting examining the pages. "Anyways, back to the assessment I gave you last class. You did a surprisingly good job." 

"Did I? Pretty sure all answers weren't correct." 

"Silly errors that you can work on easily. I will start teaching you whatever you lack on starting from today. It's our first teaching session so we will start with a relatively easy topic." He said looking down at the new papers.

He lifts his eyes without moving the rest of his face and directly looks into Aylin's. 

"Any doubts, questions, you will ask me. No matter how dumb or how many times. Listen to whatever I'm saying carefully and store it in your brain. You will complete the worksheets I give out for homework and have them completed by the next session. Once again, if you don't understand something, speak up. Are we clear?"

His voice was deep and the words were stressed as he spoke. His eyes that looked into Aylin were chanting their spells that would make her surrender. The dominant and controlling vibes were leaking out of him again. 

"Ah yes, there it is. The thing every teacher says but never means." Aylin replied uninterested. 

Chris gave out one last look to her and started with the topic of trigonometry or trigger-nometry, as Aylin likes to call it. 

She was directing her brain into processing what Chris was explaining even though her face didn't show an invested expression. After some time of Chris finally teaching her math, she couldn't deny that Chris had skills in teaching. The way he articulated words and used them to form a purposeful and easy-to-digest sentence managed to impress Aylin. She could tell how hard he must have worked on this subject. Chris' way of teaching had gripped Aylin's attention by the neck. In that moment, after a long time, Aylin might not have wanted a Math tutor to stop teaching. 

Chris could see Aylin was listening to him properly. They would exchange short eye contacts every few minutes and Aylin would silently nod to tell him she understood. She would not look at him even when he looked at her while teaching owing to her attribute of not being able to hold eye-contacts with people. The topic they studied was simple and Chris expected no doubts. Though if she did end up with one or few, he wouldn't mind clearing them.

They went on like this for a long while and Chris asked her to solve a few questions on spot towards the end. Aylin knew it all. Too easy. She could solve the answers intentionally wrong but something in her today was against it. She tried to reason with her own self and how this was a good opportunity to annoy Chris. After a few scribbles, she handed the paper back to him. 

"All correct! Good job." Chris smiled a genuine smile this time, though it was not one of sunshine smiles. I know it's all correct, they were too basic anyway. 

He gave her a worksheet for homework and got ready to leave. 

"Great effort today. Will see you later." Chris was internally really surprised at how Aylin did not misbehave or give him a hard time the rest of the class when he very much expected her to. Aylin had the same expectation out of herself too. 

"You forgot to add 'brat'." Aylin sounded like it was something important that he missed out.

Chris turned around and smiled, the sunshine was with it this time. You weren't one today, were you? I wonder why. "Will see you later, brat!" 
And with that, he left.