Grænin's Siege(Book 1)

Chapter 14

Briars pov

I watched Tara pack, feeling bad. I really wasn't eavesdropping, I was just checking on her. and found out about her grades..... so, you could call it eavesdropping. Just a wee bit. Life stinks sometimes, huh? I snuck into her bag and pulled out her homework. YEESH! Have you SEEN her grades? There was a big fat O on the paper, O for Ogre. Which, by the way, are not very smart. I cringed, and put her papers back in the bag. (If you got my joke, it was COMPLETELY unintentional.) I just sat there, gazing in my mirror. Awful Hecklebeck! How dare she!
"I could help-"
"Shut up."
"I was going to say 'with your homework'."
"Oh, that would be dandy! Lets just ride into the sunset getting straight As wherever we go. Its not like i only have a week, and its nearly impossible to read a 1000 page book in a week!" Tara said sarcastically.
" i already finished the book, so i could help. I have gotten a few As and two Bs, so far... and how to nap properly is so easy to ace its not even funny. And that new dragon hatching thing, its just all memorizing temperatures and scale colors."
"What does it matter to you? The evil, mean, jerk Tara is leaving. You should be skipping and giggling like every other idiotic girl."
"I'm not an idiotic girl! I was trying to help." But i think we both knew i hadn't really wanted to help. Being nice was just how i did things. I was born helpful, but i didnt really want to help tara. Sure, i felt bad about her leaving, but we had hated eachother since i was 4. I still hated her. I bet she hated me, too. She picked up the drawing i left on her bed, and gave me a strained smile. She turned back to her packing, folding up the drawing carelessly. I don't know if she was playacting, or it was the real thing. I grabbed her papers again, staring at the O. I smiled, slightly. I grabbed another paper that wasn't finished yet, and put in a few right answers before nestling them back in their place. And i set an essay i had written in her bag. I could help, in my own secret way...