❛ yeah! no, yeah, yeah, yeah--- no, i’m with you! ❜ no he isn’t. ❛ i heard you. yeah, totally. loud and clear, you were talkin’ about the, uh . . . number, in between the little line thingies. ❜ he explains, pointing to the number in between the absolute value symbols. he reverts his crescent-lidded gaze to her profile, admiring it conspicuously. then, gesturing toward the textbook, ❛ who gives a shit about remedial math, anyway? all the numbers ‘n . . . letters, hieroglyphics---- shit’s pointless . . . y’know, unlike me, for the record. ❜ he admits suggestively, unabashedly, dragging his finger across a particularly intriguing area of her neck. he nips at it with his lips experimentally. ❛ i’m just puttin’ it out there that there are other, . . . more interesting ways of tutoring this load ‘a bull. y’know, for example, for simple subtraction, we coullllllld . . . maybe ditch some cloth---- subtract some cloth, i should say. ❜ he tugs at the end of hem of her shirt mischievously with a boyish smirk.