World of Demi-Humans: Freshmen Orientation(w/audiobook)

Class 09J27 - York, Samuel [To Seek and Brawl]

"Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so."

-Sir Isaac Newton of Woolsthorpe

To Seek and Brawl

Samantha screamed in frustration, "I'm so dead! I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead!"

She slammed her head into the library table and wept into her opened textbook. Team Three of Class J was studying for the midterms just before Thanksgiving break and tensions was high, though only due to one notable outlier.

"Sammy," Alice tried to calm her, "It's not a big deal."

"Yeah, it's just midterms." Abraham joined in with less care.

"You don't understand." Samantha lifted in a plead for sympathy, "I'm Jewish. My parents are expecting perfect grades across the board. They'll probably kill me if I get anything less than a fifty, or worse, ship me upstate to my grandparents!"

"You know Samantha." I spoke up from where I stood in my chair, "My parents have also set fairly high expectation for me. I understand how daunting such pressure can be, but I'm sure you'll find yourself in a favorable situation if you simply keep up the effort."

"Yeah. Samuel is right Sammy." Amanda said with an ensuring smile, "You just got to keep up the studying."

"But I've been studying." Samantha whined, "How much more studying could I do?"

"You could reallocate some the time you spend flirting with boys into studying more." Said Jerry with a smirk.

"I would rather move upstate." was Samantha's response. She sighed with gloom and pouted as she placed her head in her hands, "Maybe I could talk them into just disowning me."

The table seemed to have given up as a whole at encouraging her. We all just allowed her to wallow in her misery for the moment. Except for Brick who scratched his head before asking, "But how can they disown you? People can't own other people."

"Indeed." I said, "We can't allow ourselves to lose even one member of our team. Perhaps we could use a quality over quantity approach."

"How so?" Amanda asked, "Use my power to predict the questions and study for that?"

"No, I met direct one on one tutoring with me." I offered, "I am the most qualify to educate here. Come over to my home and I can even set up teaching aids."

"Really?" Samantha shot up with a smile, "You would do that?"

"Of course. I said I would, didn't I." I restated.

"Wow Samuel," Amanda purred, "Most boys actually take her on a date before trying to take her home."

"I guess they didn't have the same skill as me." I posed with my full undersized body.

"Agreed." Samantha smiled, "This with be the first time I've been in a boy's house. And a cute one too."

Amanda and Samantha giggled while the other smirked or sighed.

I interrupted them, "I would say to save the flirting for after exam week, but I believe we already reviewed that, and so I won't bother dissuading you. We'll start tomorrow at noon. Now, unless there's anything else, I believe we've maximized our utility of this study session. Jerry, would you call dismissal?"

"Yeah. We've worked hard enough Team. Time to relax before the big day." Jerry stood closing the books in front of him, "We'll do our best, and that will be that."