Adventures in Academia (Silva)

[HAYLEE EUNMI ROSE]

Haylee was sitting in bed, doodling on the margins of newspaper sudoku puzzle when the alarm on her cell phone went off, telling her it was time to stop putting off the inevitable. She pouted at the phone, as if it had the ability to take sympathy for her, and blew her bangs out of her eyes. Time to get to work, then. She tucked the newspaper into a book and set it aside. Her chemistry book was hidden under her bed out of sight, along with the notebook she had allotted to chemistry notes and homework. As long as it was there, she could pretend she hadn't finally signed up for the chemistry class she had been putting off for ages.

In hindsight, she probably should have at least taken the class last year. Then she would have been able to make up for it this year if she needed to. Instead, she had put it off as long as she could, dreading the thought of trying the understand scientific gobbledygook. She knew chemistry was supposed to be the fun science class, what with all the experiments and everything, but in reality it was just a complex combination of Haylee's worst two subjects: science and math. So she'd made the only smart move she could make and begged her parents for the funds she'd need to pay a private tutor in the subject. Thankfully, they wanted her to succeed as much as she did, and had offered them up right away. Once a month they'd put the funds into her account so that she could take them out and pay the tutor.

Haylee reached under the bed and collected all of her chemistry book and notebook. She'd thrown them under there the other night in a fit of frustration. Science made her feel stupid, even though she knew she wasn't. It had taken a while for her ad for a chem tutor to be answered, but she was glad it was answered when it was. If it had taken much longer, she might have spent the first session crying in a puddle of frustration, and scaring the tutor off. Though she supposed she couldn't promise herself that that wouldn't happen this time. Haylee honestly didn't know much about her tutor. She knew his name, and that he was a senior at the academy college, so he was an elemental too. She hadn't actually asked him for much information about himself, which probably wasn't very professional but she was desperate. She'd specified in the ad that it was chemistry tutoring though, so logic assumed he knew enough about chemistry to help her get her through the course. And if he didn't... Well, she supposed she would just have to let him know she was sorry, but it wasn't going to work, and then keep looking.

Haylee reached the library early, which had been her goal. She wanted to be there first, so that she didn't make him wait. She headed to the second floor of the library. They'd agreed to meet at the group study tables by the science section of the library, which made sense. Haylee looked around when she reached the area, and was happy to see that she had achieved at least one goal today. No one else was waiting in the area, which meant she had arrived first unless he had wandered off somewhere while waiting for her. Though she was pretty early, so she didn't think that was it. Haylee snagged the table with the best view and spread her stuff out, and then began to absentmindedly draw designs on a blank page in her notebook. Might as well occupy herself while she waited.

((ooc: I figure we can use this book as a sort of reference, just so that we're on the same page with everything. I managed to get through chemistry in high school only because in the summer school class I took to fix my grade we did more cooking than learning for some reason. Also, it's been a while since I took a high school chemistry course, so I at least need the book. Linking it so you know where I'm getting my information and so you can use if it you need to.))

[enzair]

Silva sleeps in the academy Quarters so he does not have to waist fuel driving to school, he wasn't all that rich, middle class, he puts the majority of his money into savings anyway. he lived with his older sister anyway she was rich and liked the best stuff doctors do pay well, very well. if Silva ever left a single item on the ground she would throw a hissy fit.

However, Silva sat in the common room in-front of a fire place and read one of his favorite fiction books, Brisinger, by Christopher Paolini. he had to special order the book just so it can survive the fire elemental quarters without getting ruined by the humidity or heat, he probably read the entire series but it had been months since he read them so reading them again is almost like reading it for the first time. his backpack right next to the couch he was sitting on had his teachers guide chemistry book much easier to use in tutoring than a normal student hand book.

when the alarm of his watch went off, he put his book into his back ass he picked it up. and began to make his way to the library. heading to the second floor in the science section, he seen that she was already here, prompt, good if she ever gets a job or in business in general.

"You're hear early, prompt" commented Silva with a soft smile.

He walked up to the table pulled out a chair on the opposite side of Haylee and set down his beck next to himself as he sat down. where a moment late he pulled out the teachers guide chemistry book and his old high-school chemistry notes, not the greatest of organization of notes but he knew them well enough on his own, many of the pages looked like chicken-scratch with notes strewn all about at all angles and whatnot.

"well I'm Silva as you already know, friends call me Hawk," he said, he was more known by Hawk in the academy if she knew that name she would know his elemental type then and there, if not oh well, its not important to know the elemental type of your tutor anyway unless however it is related to such subject. if that was the case she would have been looking for a earth elemental.

"Just so we are on the same page which chapter are you on?" he asked.

[HAYLEE EUNMI ROSE]

Haylee's absent minded doodle had become a more focused doodle while she waited, and because of this, she hadn't heard Silva come into the room. So when he spoke to her, she couldn't help the startled little yip that left her lips, or the way she jumped. She looked up at him as he walked up the the table he had claimed with apologetic eyes at first, before it turned into an embarrassed smile. "Ah, yeah. I didn't want to make you sit here and wait for me. Especially since I'm the one who needs your help, and not the other way around. You don't have to be here, but I do, so you shouldn't have to wait for me."

Haylee watched Silva as he sat down across from her and pulled out all of his stuff. She noticed that his book was on of the teacher's copies and wondered for a moment where he had gotten it, before she decided that it didn't really matter. When he pulled out his notes she couldn't help but look them over a bit. They seemed like utter nonsense to her. Definitely chemistry notes, but there was little rhyme or reason to the way he had organized it. Still, she knew it wasn't her place to judge. The fact that she wouldn't be able to figure them out without help didn't mean it was the same for him. After all, they were his notes. He knew his system and could probably decode them better than anyone else. If he had brought them to this first meeting, he probably still understood and could get use out of them.

Hawk. That was an interesting nickname, and it didn't seem to come from his name as far as she could see. Not that it really mattered much where it came from, at least at this point or in this situation. Maybe another time she'd ask him, but for not she let it go. "I'm Haylee, and my friends call me... Haylee? My mom calls me Hayles and sometimes Hayles-bales when she thinks she's funny. Um... Would you rather I called you Hawk or Silva?" She thought she might have heard of him before, but honestly there was a huge age gap between them. He was already out of the high school classes by the time she was going in. Sure, she might have run into him before, and there were plenty of places she could have, but she didn't think she remembered him. She didn't know his element, but that didn't matter. She valued the alliances enough to realize they were a ruling factor in social situations at least on the high school level, though she wasn't sure about the college level, and that it would be better to stay on her side for the most part. But she also knew that situations like this especially, the alliances didn't matter. He was here to help her, and that was all that mattered. Besides, even if he was an element weak against earth, he also had four years on her. Unless he was a pitiful student, he was undoubtedly much better with his element than she was, and much more practiced in defending against his weakness.

Haylee opened her textbook when he asked what chapter she was on, flipping to the right page. "We started chapter eight this week. 'Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table.' Our teacher also wants us to figure out the electron configuration of all of the noble gases in their neutral forms. I don't understand any of it though." Haylee was pouting. She could feel herself pouting. She tried to pull herself together, but it was hard. Trying to figure out the electron configurations was exactly what she had been doing when she had thrown her book under her bed. Chemistry made her anxious and frustrated, and she just couldn't do it.