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Who: Åsa and Abby
When: Sometime at the end of May/start of June
Where: A coffeeshop
What: Last minute revision!

Åsa was pretty sure that she'd learnt as much as Abby over these coffee shop revision sessions, but that was why she'd suggested that she help Abby go over what she'd been taught rather than teach her in the first place. It was much easier to hide behind Abby's books and test her on what she should know then try and teach her stuff that Åsa had such a vague grasp on herself. Besides, even when she remembered to bring her English dictionary, Åsa had struggled just a little. She'd not had much of a chance to practice this sort of English before!

But it was still fun to sit together over cups of coffee and Åsa enjoyed doing what she could to help Abby. It was nice to see the younger girl as well, to chat when they inevitably got distracted from the revision and to relax with someone who didn't look like she wanted to murder Åsa in her sleep (as much as Åsa adores Siiri, she really does glare like no one else).

With Abby's exams fast approaching, though, Åsa was determined to stay focused this time, so they could make the most of the time that they had. She'd already claimed a sofa with a table big enough for them to spread out all of Abby's notes on, and her own coffee was resting in front of her as she finished sending a text to Siiri. She looked up just in time to see Abby entering the shop and waved at her enthusiastically, so she could see the spot that she'd claimed for them. "Abby! Over here!"

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As Abby was looking for a certain blond woman, the young girl was starting to feel the pressure of finals coming around. With so many things happening all at once, it was a miracle that she wasn't failing any classes yet! Between trying to figure out what's going on with the network and getting her echoes, she had to wonder how many sleepless nights she had in order to study her school work. So far, she wasn't failing any classes but at the same time? She was exactly excelling in anything either. While she did fine in English, math was something different.

Math had a different language system all together. If she didn't know it, then she was screwed. However, if she did know it, then she would do just fine. Although, the problem was knowing if she was right or not. So far, she had been getting so much help from so many people. Between her classmates and random people on the network, the young girl had no idea how to feel. All she knew was that she had to get an A in that class or else! She didn't want to disappoint people here!

So that was why for the past couple of weeks, the girl had been going to a certain coffee shop to look over some math problems for help. Luckily, it had been working! Once she heard a familiar voice, she walked over to the older woman and sat right next to her! "And hello right back! I hope that I didn't keep you waiting for long!"

[[ooc: And no worries on being late! I'm late myself!]]

"No, it's not been that long at all!" Åsa beams, shifting up on the sofa to make more space. "Do you want to leave your bag with me and go and get a drink?" It's probably heavy with all of Abby's books in, after all. They can catch up properly once Abby has a drink and is settled.

And then, maybe, as cheeky as it is, she can get one more reply done for Siiri before she puts her phone away so she can focus on Abby.

With a small shake of her head, Abby just smiled brightly at her. "No, that's okay! I want to finish this as quickly as we can! And besides, I want to know if I got all the questions correct and if they are, I can reward myself with a drink!"

Looks like she's really hyper today and why shouldn't she? She was hyped and ready for this final to be over with! She was so ready for it and tackle it! Nothing can stop her now!

((Giving you a heads up since you're not on my plurk, I'm on slowatus until wednesday next, and then hiatus for a week after that because I'm going to Finland, and I'm planning on dropping any threads older than a month when I come back. I'm going to try and wind things up on the old thread we have this month if that's okay!))

That seems like a good plan and Åsa smiles brightly, nodding. "If you do well I'll buy us some cake as well, then!" She offers. Well, she likes buying things for people anyway, and she does normally get a second coffee at some point anyway, so why not provide some extra encouragement? Especially with the exams coming up so soon.

"What do we need to go through today, then?" She asks, reaching out for Abby's books so she can start looking for things to go through with her. "Are you starting to feel more confident with it all?"

[[No worries! Just have fun in Finland and I'll be right here to finish whatever tags we have left!]]

That was enough to make the younger girl bounce up with glee. "And it will be awesome!" She shouted to the point where there were other people looking at the both of them. Once she noticed, she gave a nervous giggle before sitting back down. "Whoops, sorry about that..."

She mumbled before getting one of her books out. "Well, I think I'll do fine in English and writing. I guess it's the others that I'm not too sure about like math and social studies and all?"

((Thank you! Sorry to make you wait again! Hopefully I should be able to keep more on top of things from now.))

"I'm sure you'll do well in all of them too." Åsa is quick to reassure Abby, petting her arm gently. "You just have to do your best and keep your focus! And try and remember what everyone's been teaching you. I'm sure you'll be fine." She really does believe it, too. After all, she's seen how much effort Abby's been putting in. Shame she didn't at the start of the year, but Åsa would never point that out. The more optimistic she's feeling the better she'll do.

"How long do we have until the actual exams? If there's still time you should try and do some practice papers. Can you get hold of practice papers?" She asks, thinking out loud as normal. "That should help your confidence!"

[[No worries! As long as your RL stuff got sorted out, that's all that matters!]]

"About a month or so but hopefully that's enough time for me to cram as much information as I can before the finals." The keyword here was hopefully. While she should have started at the beginning of the year, she was never really the type of person who started early. That and between all the things going in Locke City, when did she have time to study anyway?

With a smile on her face, she started digging through whatever was left in her backpack. "Ta-dah! Of course I did, it was a good thing that Eugene told me to get them to practice or else I would have forgotten about them!" Not to mention some heavy sighing from him. Heavy heavy sighing from him.

"That's great! Did you do these ones already?" Åsa asks, taking the papers from her so she can flip through them quickly. Wow. She's glad she finished schooling already! She remembers the panics she'd had coming up to all of her final exams. "You're working so hard, I know you'll do your best!

Lets start off with something easy today, though." Once Abby's feeling more confident Åsa will try her on something harder. She swaps the papers for Abby's notes so she can flick through them to see what she covered this week.

"How about we start with this one?" She said as she pointed to one of the problems. "This looks easy enough! I think I'll be able to tackle it in no time!" Of course saying and actually doing it were two completely different things.

With a small smile, she quickly started on the problem! As start as she tried to finish it, there was one part of the formula she was stuck on. Let's see...if the 2 goes over here, then where would the x be...?

"Let's start there, then!" Åsa agrees easily, glancing at the problem, but then settling down to continue looking over Abby's work and sip from her coffee. She keeps an eye on her out of the corner of her eye, though, and when she spots her falter she puts the coffee back down so she can lean in again, trying to follow Abby's working.

"You're almost there. You can do it!" She encourages, as she follows the problem herself.

As Abby follows through with the formula, she just stared at it. ...And she stared at it some more. ...And she stared at it again before she gave a sigh. Was this what happens when you don’t pay attention? A problem she thought that was so easy turned out to be a bit complicated? Then she stared at Åsa.

“Um...I think I’m stuck…”

"You can do it!" Åsa says, cheerfully, leaning over with her own pen so she can follow what Abby's done so far as she speaks. "Let's go through it again from the beginning again. It's the X, right? Well, if it starts off here, and then we move it here and then... hmm... and then..." She taps the pen on the paper for a moment before she starts. "Aha! Here we go, we need to carry the Y over too, and then you've almost got it!" Whew, that one was harder than it looked!

All Abby did was just stare at the older woman. Whatever she was saying completely flew over her head as she started to pat on the paper. “Uh...okay then?” She said nodding to whatever Åsa said. While it sound like she knew what she was doing, she didn’t at all. Instead, she just chuckled a bit and just looked at the paper.

“So we’ll just need to move and this and then this and then cross over the y?” Was she paying attention after all? Who knows. Algebra sucked really badly.

"Um..." Wait, is that right? Now Åsa's not sure, and she looks at the paper again, tilting her head, before, "oh, I think so!" Let's hope so, anyway. She sits back again and looks at Abby with a soft laugh. "This one is much harder than it looked, isn't it? Maybe we should have picked one of the harder looking ones! Maybe they look hard but are actually easy!"

Or something like that, anyway. Who unleashed them on the poor innocent maths books again? "Try it out and see if it works!" If nothing else they can always work with trial and improvement until they get it.

The people who made those evil textbooks, that’s what Åsa. Although once Abby gave her a questioning look, the auburn haired girl gave a sigh. “Well, I don’t have a choice anyway. Just time to wing it!” Does this mean she knew how to do this problem after all? Who knows but that won’t stop her from trying! The moment that the pencil hit the paper, she went all out! Following through with her mentor’s instructions (or at least from what she can remember), she zoomed through the problem!

“And there! I think I got it right! If I didn’t, then we’ll try the harder ones! The evil teachers who thought this was a funny idea are horrible people!” But did she get it right though?

Åsa could look to the answers at the back of the book, but best to keep Abby on a high. She'll check them at the end, she decides, but now it's best to try and get some others done while she's feeling good in the hope that she'll be able to bash through a few more. "It looks good to me!" She says, encouraging her further. "Let's try a few more, and then we'll move onto something else.

Leaning over the book again, she hums, before picking out one that has more numbers in, and a shorter one that looks more complicated. "Here, I know that second one looks tough, but I bet you can do it! If you can get them done, then that'll be great!"

With the second problem, Abby just stared at it. Well, if the first problem was tricky then the second one should be easy right? If she managed to get it right, this one shouldn’t be any different! Without another thought, she quickly did the equation and hoped for the best!

“Okay, so you do this x and then add in the 5 and then and in the other 6…” She mumbled to herself. Although unlike the last time, it seemed like she knew what she was doing. So far, she will be able to finish this in no time!

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