"Ibaraki a minute dear." Ms Blavatsky called one of her students over, after looking over the work they had done in class. "...you seem to be falling behind, do you need a tutor?" The small teacher stilted her head as she looked up at her with a concerned look on her face. (High School au~)
Ibaraki looked up from her “work”, a messy page of failed workings outs, inane ramblings about what she thought the answer to be and various other scribblings, a nervous look on her face. What had been said was true- she was indeed falling behind...despite her best efforts.
“Ghh...Well, yes, it does appear that way, doesn’t it? Despite everything, it appears my work is..uh..not very good.” She was reluctant to admit it, but she really wasn’t doing very well at all, was she? “B..but, but! I’ve been working extremely hard, you see, so my grades should go up, right, right?!” And yet- time and time again she found herself falling behind.
“But, y’know...m..maybe a tutor wouldn’t be so bad, Ms.Blavatsky...”