My Charlotte Hates Me

Chapter 51: Study Group

I procured a spot for our study group in the library. Grace and Jane followed afterwards and gave me hugs when they greeted me.

"I am so glad that you two could make it," I said.

"Of course! Lady Charlotte went out of her way to invite us after all," Grace said excitedly.

"I also would not mind getting tutoring lessons from someone who is consistently scoring top ranks all of the time," Jane said.

"After our exams, would you two like to join me for crepes?" I asked.

"We would love to!" Jane said excitedly.

"That sounds lovely. Let's score well so that our rewards taste even sweeter," Grace said.

We spent about thirty minutes studying together by ourselves. I constantly checked the clock and saw that Lady Kaya was still nowhere to be seen. It was only then that I saw Lady Kaya just walk in.

"I'm sorry for being late!" Lady Kaya said as she bowed her head up and down constantly.

"...Lady Kaya, this person is Grace Elsie and Jane Norwood. I asked them if they would like to study together. Won't you greet them as well?" I asked.

"I am Kaya Ouchi," Lady Kaya said excitedly.

"Grace Elsie...It is nice to meet you, Lady Kaya," Grace said.

"Jane Norwood, pleasure..."

Jane stopped after saying one word. Grace and I looked at her awkwardly but tried to change the subject by having Lady Kaya sit with me.

"If there is anything that you do not understand, please do not be afraid to ask," I said.

"I am glad that you said that. I circled the parts where I don't quite understand in red. I hope that Lady Kaya could help explain them to me," Lady Kaya said.

She seems like a diligent student. I do not understand why Randall had such difficulty navigating through his studies while teaching her.

As I was thinking that, I opened up her notebook and saw a picture of hell. Apart from everything behind circled in red, there were doodles, random notes that had nothing to with the lessons, and tea stains all over her notebook. It was my first time encountering such a slob of a notebook.

"...Everything is circled in red," I said calmly.

Jane peeked over at the notebook and contorted her face in dread.

"...You have your work cut out for you, Lady Charlotte," Jane said.

Grace took the notebook from me and began marking up the notebook.

"I do not think that you have to remember everything for our exams. Just review the topics that will be on the exam for sure," Grace said as she calmly handed the notebook from hell back to me.

"At least your handwriting is legible, Lady Kaya," I said.

"Right? Right? I practiced very hard on my penmanship when I became a Noble," Lady Kaya said.

Lady Kaya was a commoner before she found out that she was an illegitimate child of a Baron. Having no heirs, he had to seek out his former lover who was  a maid he had gotten pregnant and kicked out after finding out she was with child. Lady Kaya was already sixteen at the time and began undergoing only a year of etiquette training before attending the Royal Academy.

It was not that she had a terrible grasp of the basics. For a person who grew up without knowing how to either read or write, her effort was quite commendable from how she forced herself to cram so much information into her head. Such a shame that she skipped over etiquette and social interaction lessons.