The First Quiz! Solving the equations for life!

[Terrance Kellam]

一番目のクイズ！ 生命の方程式を解き明かす！

(Ichibanme no kuizu! Seimei no houteishiki wo tokiakasu!)

Backdated to the first day of classes, after school
Around 5:30pm

T.K. had no choice in where he was right now. Well, he had a choice, but the other options involved him failing junior year for the third time, and having his nightmares come true. This was the best of all others.

In a vacant classroom after classes had ended, the meta was busy trying to learn. It was one of VERY few instances where he had to choose to be by himself. If he had went into his room, he’d talk to his roommates or talk on the phone or leave and roam around the school, doing anything but what he was assigned to do. His precalculus teacher, Mr. Deulane, had tasked him with completing tomorrow’s quiz on Chapter 2 of the book they had barely started today. On the board were some drawings and terms from the first three pages of the book; T.K. was trying to analyze them and make them ‘click’ together.

It had been almost an hour with no luck.

He sighed, flipping to the next page in his book, trying to fully comprehend exactly what it was teaching them. The task was especially had for him. Not only had he failed junior year twice, he had also dropped out of school for almost two years after that. He hadn’t done serious math work in YEARS. It was killing him, but he was beginning to think that he would have to take a lesser math class. And the way things were going, he was never going to graduate.

“いったい何これ！？” he shouted in the first language that came to his mind, looking at some “examples” -- Examples are supposed to make shit CLEARER not more complicated! -- in his book. It felt good, screaming in another language. It honestly did, like he had just scratched an itch he was trying to avoid scratching for so long. He huffed and plopped the book down on the teacher’s desk, moving to the board to attempt to mimic the circumstances of the example.