suicidal love

chapter 19

I shook my head and led him into my house, cautiously looking around for my mom. I mean she probably wouldn't mind that I was tutoring someone, even if it was a boy. I was only worried  about how she would feel about me inviting said boy into her house without asking and with being alone with him.

I opened my bedroom door and said:"Welcome to my room".

Destiny glanced around my room and set his backpack on the ground uncertainly.
I bit my lip, feeling awkward. I don't know why I was the one feeling awkward, this was my room, after all, but something about having a boy in my room made me nervous.

"Nice room",Destiny said finally.

"T-Thanks" I said quietly. "You c-can just sit in that chair".

Destiny sank into the chair i pointed at and I sat across from him on my bed.

"So w-what are you having trouble with?"

"Math" Destiny sighed. " numbers and equations and formulas... they just get jumbled up in my head and I have no idea what to do about them.

Awww poor Destiny. He must have been confused in class

"A-And what are you d-doing in math right now?" I questioned.

"Honestly?" at my nod, Destiny went on. "No idea something with a grid..."

I wrinkled my eyebrow in confusion. From the look on Destiny's textbook, he was taking Algebra, which i took in 8th grade, and i didn't even remember learning about grids. I had already known what they were.

At my confused look, Destiny went on.
"But they're different, they're like... well I'm not exactly sure what they're like, but they have a cross in the middle and we draw them on grid paper and we count up numbers and have to use rules and stuff..."

My expression cleared. "Coordinate grids?"

Destiny snapped. "That's it!"

"Oh", I said, feeling relieved I had known what he was talking about.
I had learned about coordinate grids over my years, and honestly I hated them.
You had to do them an exact way, and when they taught you to do it a certain way, they taught you to do it 5 other ways. It was bloody confusing.

"Okay l-let me see y-your textbook" I said holding my hand out.

Destiny disposed his textbook in my hand like he was dropping a huge slug. I flipped through the pages, finding his assignment and sighed in relief when I saw that they were simply finding the slope of the line.

"Okay so you just need to count squares, see?" I said. "So you count up how many squares on the paper until the next spot where the line intersects with the line on the grid paper", I said demonstrating, "got it?"

He was already looking at me and nodding quickly. "Umm, yeah, kinda. Can you go over another problem?"

"Yeah sure" I nodded and started talking again.
 
About 15 minutes later, I had helped Destiny struggle through about half of his homework before he stretched, yawned and said" you know what we need?"

"What? I asked.

"Sustenance" Destiny grinned, standing  up and holding out his hand.

"Sustenance?" I asked dubiously.

"Yup", Destiny said, pulling me off the bed.

"But" I started to protest.

"No ifs, ands, or buts about it" Destiny said firmly, already heading down the stairs, while i was standing uncertain at the top. "We're going to get food."