How coincidental.

Catherine sighed when he glared at her. "Come on. I'll help you. It's really easy once you get the hang on it," she told him. She didn't want him to fail; this was way too easy to be failing. He needed help and she was willing, and wanted, to give it. She didn't understand why he wouldn't just let her.

"Pick your head up and let me help you," she said when he put his head down on the desk. "This is too easy for you to just not care."

Catherine bit her lip. He still didn't care... she was about to say more when the teacher interrupted. "Alright, class. We'll take a break and then start reading."

The girl's eyes widened in horror. Reading... oh, no, no!! She gulped, then went back to her seat, trying to remain calm. There was no way she was going to be able to do this. She sat down and put her math book away, beginning to bite her nails in worry.

In a few minutes, the break had ended. "Alright. Let's all take out our literature textbooks and turn to make 108. We'll all take turns reading out loud."

Catherine nearly died with that said. She hoped that she wouldn't get called on... she would only end up embarrassing herself. She wished Alexiel was there to help her. She then took out the book and turned to the page, trying to hide her distress.

"Catherine, do you want to start?"

Catherine's face paled and she swallowed. She nodded, looking at the words on the page for a few moments before she started reading. She was stuttering and pronouncing a lot of the words wrong, and sometimes there was a rather long pause between one word and the next.

She definitely needed to work on it.

It took a while, but Catherine finally finished the paragraph. By the time she had finished her face was bright red from embarrassment and she looked down, biting the inside of her lip.

The girl next to her offered a smile. "It's ok. I could help you with it later if you want," she said quietly.

Catherine's face brightened and she nodded her head. The girl was one of the ones that had been making fun of Soahc, but she needed friends and she seemed nice, so why not?

"Soahc, could you read the next paragraph?" the teacher asked, looking at him. He was rather anti-social, so she wanted to have him participate.