Sweet Study

After finishing the meal, Imee cleaned up the table and Renir gave a hand.

The mood was rather lax, a relaxing silence instead of an awkward one. They went back to the living room for them to start.

They only have ten minutes before walking to have spare time and not be late. Renir thought that they will get ready but Imee sat down in the living room and looked at the notes she had. She was thinking what is the most efficient sequence of subjects to review and how to teach.

Renir then sat down, not on the sofa, but the floor beside Imee.

"Did you finished skimming through the History?" Renir was asked.

"Yeah" he answered as he looked at the troubled face of Imee.

'She must be thinking hard to squeeze all those subjects in a day and a half.' Renir slightly clutched his fist, 'I should work hard too!' he determined. He then took another notebook to skim through.

Time flew by again and Renir finished skimming through all the notes.

Imee noticed that Renir stopped reading anymore and asked, "Are you tired?"

Renir shook his head and replied, "No, I already finished skimming through the nine subjects."

"Eh?" Imee looked at him, baffled, "All nine?" she asked. At first, she thought it was a joke but seeing Renir's expression, she realized, he was not joking.

Imee turned her head around to see the clock and only twenty minutes had passed. Renir turned around too and was surprised, "We only have five minutes before class starts!?"

"Huh?" Imee tilted her head at his reaction, "Why are you panicking?"

"Eh? What do you mean?" he stopped.

"I thought you're going to study for a day and a half?"

"Ah..." Renir just realized. How is he going to focus if he's at school?

"Then what about you?" he asked to Imee.

"Of course. I'm your teacher so I'm with you!" she smiled.

Renir stared, obviously happy, and then asked again, "I thought you don't like getting late so I thought you wouldn't like to be absent."

"Eh? When did I say that?" Imee turned her head around but then she pointed her finger up and said, "And did you properly skimmed through the notes? I know it's just skimming but at least you should read through the important ones."

"But I did read through it."

"Hm?" Imee raised an eyebrow as she doubted, "Then try reviewing the previous lessons first. I'm about to finish planning your lesson,"

'She's not believing me... do I look that untrustworthy?' Renir nodded and went to it.

After five minutes or so, Imee finally finished planning the lesson and Renir was already a fourth at what he was reading.

'Is he not taking this seriously or is he a genius?' she thought but shrugged it since she had a plan at her mind and she was confident to drill all the lessons into Renir's head no matter what.

"Okay, let's start the class!"

Renir flinched as he was caught unguarded and was shocked by that shout, "Oh, sure." he leaned forward, "So where will we start?"

"A-ah" when Renir closed the space, Imee was caught unguarded too. "We'll start with the math subjects."

.....

The situation in the living room was comical. As Imee and Renir got immersed into the subject, with one the teacher and the other the student respectively, their distance decreases as time passes until their shoulders touched each other which they will regain their senses to their surroundings. Both of them get shy then increase the distance once again which decreases as they focus back to the lesson. This happened many times and the cycle was only interrupted when they heard a gurgling sound. It came from Renir's stomach.

Both of them looked at Renir's stomach then to each other. Not noticing their distances again, their faces were just a few inches apart before they leaned away from each other in a jolt after realizing it again/

'Haahh~ How many times does this have to happen? Are we actually this stupid? If this goes on, my heart can't take it.' Imee thought.

On the other side, 'Is this what heaven feels like?' Renir thought as he virtually cried out of joy.

"Oh!" Imee exclaimed as she suggested, "Why don't we eat snacks first and take a break first? I mean, look at the t- Ah!" she then shouted in shock when she saw that three hours had already passed.

"I guess we were too focused," Renir said.

Imee then stood up, "Rest is important in learning so I'm going to prepare us some snacks." she stretched as she went into the kitchen. "If you want, you can open the TV."

"TV?...." Renir looked at the wide flat screen in front of him and asked, "How do I turn it on?"

"Huh? If you mean where's the remote then it's in the cabinet below the TV." Imee answered from the kitchen.

"Oh... a remote."

Imee's ear twitched as she heard that. She then turned to Renir, "Renir..." she called.

"Yes?" Renir answered while focused on the remote and figuring out how it works. Imee slowly walked towards him and when she stood by him, Renir looked up to her;

"Umm, Imee?"

Imee gave a caring smile and pointed, "This red button here is how you power on and off the TV."

"Ohhh..." Renir pushed it and the TV flashed open. He suddenly felt stupid for forgetting, When he was at the hospital, he just pushed random buttons until he opened the TV. He actually forgot what button he pushed back then and now that it was the obvious red button, he felt ashamed to himself.

"And this is how you turn up the volume...

Here is how you change the channel...

And if you want to search the internet, then just do this and this."

"Search the internet?" Renir's eyes glittered, "A TV can do that?"

Imee chuckled, "Yes" but in reality, she was about to cry, 'Poor Renir, I will let you use the TV any time you want.'

She wasn't born rich, only after her dad took the job in the gang he was currently in, that was the time she began to experience the comfort of life. Although she was a hard-worker and has self-discipline, she often rewards herself as she immersed herself in entertainment. She knew how hard it was to be bullied while keeping your grades high at a young age. Although she wasn't proud of it, she was relieved from bullying when she turned against Renir. Remembering that causes to hurt her head so she refrained from doing so. In turn, she kept her mind refreshed from stress due to these entertainments.

Now that she learned that until now, Renir still hadn't experienced this kind of life, she felt devastated and the guilt came back to attack her.

Renir works hard, gets bullied, and gets abused at his own home. That is without rest for his whole life. Just thinking about it made Imee want to cry and hug Renir.

'Renir, you're really strong.' she thought, 'But from now on I will take care of you!'

After teaching Renir, Imee immediately headed back to the kitchen to continue preparing the snacks.

'I almost hug him there. This is just the first day he's here but I'm already keeping myself this hard! Ah!'

Unknowing to Renir, Imee was having an internal struggle while he was encaptured on the TV, He wanted to search the internet after going through all the channels when he spotted something on one of the shows.

"...." Renir froze on he stared on the screen. His heart drastically beat as his eyes shuddered.

Imee then walked into the living room and saw Renir stupefied on what was on the TV. She then looked at it and pouted.

"What? Got lovestruck?" she roughly placed the sandwiches, chips, and juice on the glass table.

Renir slowly lifted his finger and pointed at the TV, "That's Veronia..."

"You know her?" Imee furrowed her eyebrows, perplexed, 'I didn't think he'd know celebrities' names.'

Renir silently nodded.

Veronia was seated on a chair and adjacent to her was an interviewer, asking her a lot of questions.

- How do you feel like after being in a coma for almost half a year? -

- Strangely, I feel fine and excited to go back to business as usual! -

She replied, filled with enthusiasm as she stared at the camera.

"She was in a coma?" Renir trembled again.

"Yeah, she just woke up in a coma this month. This was a strange coincidence that scientists questions. There were suddenly numerous people waking up out of a coma this month. You are a part of them but unfortunately, they haven't heard from you. You could've been on the news," Imee replied but then her sulking went back, "Why are you so interested in her?"

"You said that there were other people too right?" Renir asked as if she didn't hear her question,

Imee frowned, she felt ignored but when she looked at Renir's face, her curiosity heightened, 'What's with him?' she thought to herself but she answered;

"The reason this attracted the attention of the media so much is that after Veronia woke up, the next was the president and her granddaughter of a large corporate on the neighboring country, 'ZeYe Corporate' if I remember correctly. He visited here with his granddaughter in search of professional doctors that could cure her daughter, but while here, they mysteriously got into a coma, both of them." Imee massaged her forehead as she tried hard to remember the time she saw that in the news once.

Renir's eyes widened in shock.

"Old Ze and Little Ye?" he gulped as he whispered. He can't believe what he just learned.

"Wh-what is it?" Imee got concerned when she saw Renir's face paled.