Living In The Past (Raura)

Chap 6-math

Laura froze. "What?" She whispered, shaking. More beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. "I'm sorry, it's not only my decision."

"But!" He added, wincing at her terrified face. "If, you prove yourself worthy, than the month can extend." Laura didn't find that such of a 'good news'. She still held her terrified face.

Dying at 16. She thought, sighing in her own mind. Suddenly, men were at her sides, pulling up to her feet. She suddenly didn't want to get away from Ross Shor Lynch. Laura racked her brain for any excuse while she gets pulled out of the house.

"Wait!" She yells, accidentally stepping on a man's foot. "I....I'm. I'm good at math!" She blurted out those words, than instantly regretted it. She lied, and now she was going to get in trouble.

She was horrible at math, still need time to figure out 6×9. All eyes were on the brunette. " math?" Then repeated. Laura's face was pale, as she eyed the king. His eyes brighten, and a big, cute smile appeared on his face. "Math?" He repeated yet again.

Laura had no choice, "Uh.., Yeah, math....." At the king's command, the men brought her back to Ross. "Math you say?" He asked when she sat across from him, lost in his hazel eyes. "Yeah...math," Laura spoke uneasily, fidgeting with her fingers.

"That's great! Do you know the 9×9 and 1×1 thingie?" Laura was suprised he said 'thingie', but ignored it and spoke, "Yeah! You just basically have to remeber it." Ross clapped his hands in delight, "Okay! Tell me then!" The eager king exclaimed.

"Right." Laura found herself smiling at the king. "So 1×1 equals 1," Ross stared at her, waiting for her to continue. "1×2 equals 2, so basically, anything times 1, is itself." Ross seemed to understand.

"How about 1×100?" Laura tested him, smirking. Ross's eyes widened, "100," the number came out fast, and Laura nodded her head in approval, "Nice."

"2×1 equals....." "2" the boy finished, Laura hid a sudden smile. "2×2 equals 4, 2×3 equals 6. So anything times 2 is the number's double." Laura admit to herself she wasn't that bad of a teacher. "Ah..." he says after a second. "So there's a pattern?"

"Yeah," she replied. "3×3?" Laura test him again, then gave him a clue, "There's 3 threes....." She thought Ross looked cute when he's thinking hard. "Nine right?" Once again, he spoke that fast, making a amused snort come out of Laura's nose.

"Right," she murmured, holding in a blush. "4×2?" "8," times 3?" Pause, a few fingers raised up in the air. "12." Laura was statisfied of her student; he was a fast learner.

"Numbers times 5 is the easiest, the answer's last digit is either 5 or 0.......so what's 5×5?" Thirty seconds later....."25!"

"Yup!"

The day was short for Laura, she enjoyed teaching 'simple' math to another person her age. It makes her not feel like a loser. But, the day had to come to an end.

After Laura taught Ross 1×1 through 9×9, she had to go back to the house full of disgusting things, and a filthy kid. A man had offer a bowl of rice for her at the noon. She gulped it down gladly without hesitating.

Now, she was hungry again. She looked out the window of her small and hideous room. Laura estimated that it was about 8 or 9 P.M, she sighed, and tucked a chunck of then hair that fell from her pony tail to her ear.

She sighed, then her eyes met her blue backpack. After a minute she was digging through it, and found her math journal. She traced after the long sentences written in small letters. She studied it really carefully, like she never did before.

For as far as she knows, she was trying to impress the king.

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