Can't take it any more!

"Question 1: True or False. The two functions f and g defined byf(x) = 3x + 3 for x real and g(t) = 3t + 3 for t real and positive are equal?"

Gee read the question quietly to himself no fewer than five times before he realised that he had absolutely no idea what it meant. He sighed, glancing over to where Frank was helping some blonde girl who thought she was the prettiest thing going, but in reality, her eyes were too big, her nose was too small, and the perfectly white teeth she kept flashing at Frank as she attempted to flirt with him were just too white and too fucking perfect.

Gee grimaced as the girl placed her hand on Frank's knee, and almost laughed out loud when he gave her a stern look and asked her kindly, and maybe a little louder than entirely necessary, to remove her hand before he sends her to see the principal.

The girl turned an impressive shade of red as her classmates actually did laugh, then ducked her head and got on with her work, proving that she hadn't actually needed help in the first place.

As Frank moved to help someone else, his eyes flicked to Gee's, and he winked. Gee blushed a soft pink and looked back at his worksheet.

"Question 1: True or False. The two functions f and g defined byf(x) = 3x + 3 for x real and g(t) = 3t + 3 for t real and positive are equal?"


It still made no sense, and may as well have been written an Arabic.
Gee was good at math, but this was ridiculous! Why were there so many letters in a math problem anyway?...wasn't math supposed to be numbers?...and how was, whatever the fuck that question was meant to be, going to be of any use whatsoever when he left school?

Gee sighed and seriously considered slamming his head into the desk, just so he didn't have to contemplate that dumb question again.

"Problem?"

Gee jumped as Frank spoke quietly next to his left ear. He turned wide eyes to the older man. He was shaking slightly, and his heart was hammering in his chest.

Frank smiled softly.

"Didn't mean to scare you."

Gee relaxed, offering a shaky smile.

"You j-just made me j-jump."

Frank looked at Gee's worksheet. Gee had written his name at the top, but other than that, the page was untouched.

"Stuck?"

Gee nodded.
"I d-don't unders-st-stand this qu-question."

He pointed to the first problem and winced.

"Question 1: True or False. The two functions f and g defined byf(x) = 3x + 3 for x real and g(t) = 3t + 3 for t real and positive are equal?...That's math?..."


Frank shook his head, eyebrows raised high.


"Sorry, but that looks like a two year old took a load of letter and number blocks and put them in a random order...it's completely foreign to me."


He smiled sympathetically at the shy boy.


"Were you learning this shit before the break?"


Gee shook his head.


"My math teacher always does this...throws a new section of the syllabus at us without explaining a thing...it's a wonder any of us pass his class."


"Well that's bullshit!..."


Frank exclaimed, blushing slightly when his outburst attracted more attention than he'd intended. He lowered his voice again.


"Has anyone ever called him on it?"


Gee shrugged.


"Couple of kids did...he gave them detentions for a week."


"Shiiiiit."


Frank drew out quietly. Looking round to make sure no one was watching, Frank ran his fingertips lightly over the back of Gee's hand and smiled at him.


"I'll have a word if you like?"

He suggested, gazing into Gee's pretty eyes...God, he wanted to kiss him so bad.

"Would you?"

It took Frank's brain a second to realise that Gee wasn't asking if he would kiss him...cos the kissing thing had just been a thought in his head, and not spoken out loud.

"Of course...I'll set up a meeting with your teacher and the principle, and I'll see what I can get done. Your principle was apparently kinda desperate when I accepted the job, cos no one else would take it, so I really don't think he wants to get me offside on my first day here...do you?"

He tangled his fingertips with Gee's beneath the desk.

Gee shook his head.

"N-no. I g-guess not."

He smiled, his cheeks darkening a little as Frank continued to gaze at him.

After a minute...or an hour, Gee wasn't sure...a voice broke through their little moment.

"Get a room."

Laughter sounded out and Frank's eyes widened. Gee dropped his head and pulled his fingers free, curling them in his lap. Frank stood and rounded on the class. The look on his face halted their laughter immediately.

"Who said that?"

Silence. Frank looked around all of the faces...they all looked guilty as Hell.

"Well...if no one's going to own up, I guess you will all be joining me for detention."

The class groaned as one, then a hand slowly raised at the back. Frank saw it and searched his memory for a name to go with the purple hair and septum ring.

"Yes Adam?"

The boy looked up, then silently pointed to...surprise surprise...the girl with the too white teeth who Frank had minorly humiliated before. Frank looked over and sighed.

"Alison..."

Frank said as if he was fast losing the will to live...Gee could relate.

"Yes sir?"

She asked innocently.

"Detention."

"WHAT?!...You can't do that sir!..."

She screeched, jumping to her feet in annoyance.

"It's the first day."

She whined, like that made a difference. Frank raised an eyebrow.

"And that's my problem how?"

Gee bit his lip to hold in a giggle...others in the class didn't bother to hold back.

"Now, sit down and get on with your work."

"But but..."

Alison stammered, but with a look from Frank, she complied.

"Yes sir."

She mumbled as she went back to drawing the negative space of an apple that was sat on her desk.
Frank looked at Gee and smiled softly.

"You ok?"

He mouthed from where he stood. Gee smiled shyly and nodded slightly.

Class continued for another ten minutes.

"Question 1: True or False. The two functions f and g defined byf(x) = 3x + 3 for x real and g(t) = 3t + 3 for t real and positive are equal?"


By the time the bell rang for end of first, Gee was still no closer to working out if the answer was true, or false.


The class emptied quickly when Frank dismissed everyone, then they were alone again.


"I don't have a class this period..."


Frank said as he closed the door. Gee looked up from his still empty worksheet and smiled.


"I have your work for your next class though."


Gee groaned, and this time he did bang his head on the table.

Notes

Hi there chipmunks...I'm baaaaack!!

So I know I've been gone from this, and most of my solo fics for way too long, and I know that when I wrote the last chapter I said I would be updating more often...and I didn't...but I'm finding writing on my own really hard these days, but I'm trying now, and I hope there's still someone out there reading this, and that you still like it.

Do you want me to continue, or should I stop writing solo and focus on my co-written fics?
PLEASE...I WANT TO KNOW YOUR OPINION.

Until next time...PLEASE COMMENT, and peace out babies!
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