"Miss Brown?"
"Hmmmm?" Natalie looks up at her teacher absent mindedly.
"You seem to be out of sorts today, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm good." She replies, while she tries to bring herself to focus on the lesson.
"That's good to hear." The teacher chirps.
"So what will the answer be then?"
"Oh shoot." She looks up at the board and realizes she's been asked a question. Thanks to the couple seated behind her, she wasn't concentrating and totally missed it.
"Damn you Brendan!" She scans the question in a second and let's out the breath she was holding. She takes a moment and smiles, glad it's something she was studying last night.
"It's a perfect 10." She looks at her teacher who is beaming as always.
"Correct."
"Phew!" She sighs. "That was close."
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