Chop, Chop (Chop, Chop Series - Book 1) by L.N. Cronk

Author:L.N. Cronk [Cronk, L.N.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Rivulet Publishing
Published: 2008-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

Soon we were sitting in the White’s office looking at her Algebra One textbook online. I printed out a page of problems and set them in front of her.

“Here,” I said, tapping at the paper. “Try number thirteen.”

“I don’t even have a clue where to start,” she said.

“Get y by itself.”

“Why do you do that?”

“So that you can get it in slope-intercept form,” I said.

“How do you know what slope-intercept form is?” she asked.

“You just have to memorize that,” I said. “But for right now, just get y by itself. Do you know how to do that?”

“I think so,” she said. She leaned over her paper and worked for a little while, but I couldn’t see what she was doing because her hair was really long (stage three) and it was covering up all of her work.

“Nobody’s going to cheat off you in class, are they?” I asked.

“Am I doing that bad?”

“I have no idea,” I said. “I can’t see anything you’re doing.”

“Oh!” she said, sitting up. She pulled a rubber band out of a cup on Mr. White’s desk and pulled her hair back into it.

“Isn’t it getting about time for another donation?” I asked her.

“Pretty quick,” she said, nodding. “But I like it to be long enough so that I don’t have to get it cut too short. I wouldn’t want to look like a boy, you know.”

She looked me square in the eye and raised her eyebrow when she said the word ‘boy’.

“Laci, that was like, FOUR years ago!! I told you I was sorry for being mean to you when we were little.”

“No, you didn’t,” she argued.

“Yes I did,” I said.

“When?”

“When we were dancing . . .”

“No, you didn’t,” she said again.

I tried to think back to our conversation. I was pretty sure that I’d told her I was sorry . . .

“Are you sure?”

“Yes,” she nodded. “I’m sure.”

I finally decided that if she wanted an apology that badly she probably would have noticed if she’d gotten one.

“Well then,” I said. “I’m very sorry, and I wish you could just forget about it.”

“If you help me get an A in algebra I’ll never think about it again,” she promised.

Mr. White walked into the office and took a book off the shelf.

“What are you two working on?” he asked, looking at Laci’s paper. “Oooh! Slope-intercept! That’s always fun!”

“Oh, yeah,” Laci rolled her eyes. “So much fun.”

“Oh, stop it,” I said, picking up her paper. I looked it over, relieved that she at least knew how to solve for y. Mr. White patted her on the back.

“Okay,” I said. “Good. Now all you’ve got to do is graph it.”

“Fun, fun, fun,” she sighed.

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