Emily crams all night
Emily wasn't stupid, she could do well enough in school, scoring quite well on tests and quizzes, but unfortunately, she was pretty air headed, meaning that she often forgot to do her homework, her projects were often rushed, and her attendance was barely acceptable.
Add to that her tendency to get into wardrobe related hijinks, and that means she barely manages to eke by at the end of the year, but this last senior year, Emily found herself on the edge of failing, as a suggestion from Cindy, Emily had taken on a few tutors to keep things in order.
Now, with the end of the semester looming on the horizon, Emily had to cram like she hadn't crammed before, to buy herself some leeway, she intended to ace every one of her weaker subjects, and so she invited her four tutors over that night; three boys of what was not-so-affectionately referred to as the "geek squad", Marcus, Bill and Wade, in charge of maths, history and physics.
The final subject of biology was taken care of by her friend Mindy, who aced her biology quizzes and midterms, getting the highest grades in that subject.
Despite her attempts to study, Emily was suffering from a mental block that kept her from remembering much, though she seemed to muddle through the first three subjects, the final topic of biology was proving quite elusive.
"Alright Emily, here's another question:" Mindy sighed, she doubted that her friend would show any sudden improvement, but she promised that she'd help Emily out until she got it "the shape of an enzyme and therefore its function can be changed by..."
Mindy looked expectantly at Emily, but it was apparently hopeless; Emily barely managed to even get half the answer correctly:
"Its temperature?" Emily, her back against the sofa, almost asked her answer, nowhere near sure if she was correct or not, the look on Mindy's face however indicated that she was right, but there was more "And it's... Concentration?"
Mindy looked downright crestfallen; it was the wrong answer: "It's temperature and PH..."
This was the pattern throughout the entire night; Emily gets drilled by the tutor, gets asked some question, she inevitably gets most of them wrong, and they repeat the whole cycle again until Emily finally manages to get a passable amount of questions correctly.
Physics seemed to be the quickest of the bunch, Emily had started off on a good note, she was already answering questions at a better rate than the maths and history rounds, and it didn't take her as long to achieve a passing level of knowledge.
Biology, which came after it, shattered any hope of an early end to the evening, and now it was dragging out, all four of the tutors were losing steam pretty quickly, and it began looking quite hopeless.
Perhaps the state of abject boredom stimulated her mind in that direction, but Mindy was beginning to concoct some mischievous ideas on how to spice this night up a little bit.
"Emily, I hate to do this, but you do realize we also have our own studies?" Mindy lightly admonished the girl, who seemed quite downtrodden herself.
"I'm so sorry Mindy, I know you're only doing this to help me." Emily's could not look her friend in the eyes, she seemed quite focused on a patch of the carpeted floor right in front of her.
"Tell you what, every time you get a question wrong, we take a break, and we get to have our own little study session," Mindy grinned, the three boys had no idea what she was planning, and of course, neither did Emily, but Mindy was quite certain that everyone would enjoy her idea.
"I suppose that sounds fair, this way I'm more motivated to get questions right!" Emily helped support her friend's idea, unaware of the hidden agenda held within it.
"Okay then, first question,: Mindy grinned with excitement, the idea of quizzing Emily seemed fun once again in anticipation of her trap getting sprung "What are proteins made of?"
"Ooh, I know this one," unfortunately for Mindy, her trap remained unsprung for the time being "They're made out of Amino Acids, right?"
Mindy did her best not to look taken aback at her friend's sudden burst of genius as she affirmed Emily's answer, she figured that her friend would not be able to keep it up.
"That's right, the incentive must really be working." Mindy faked a smile, to which Emily genuinely smiled happily "So here's the next question:"
The percentage of a solute in a cell is 35% outside and 65% inside, so the water in the cell will..."
This time around, Emily froze for a second, she seemed to think on it quite intently, she even stopped herself from answering once to think again, before she finally gave an answer:
"It'll move into the cell?" Emily took a guess, she figured it could only be one of two answers, but unfortunately for her, Mindy shook her head, showing that she was wrong.
"Sorry Emily, I suppose we'll take a break from Biology," And so Mindy closed the book she was using to quiz Emily, she leaned back and stretched out a little, it was time to have some fun.
"So what should I help you guys with?" Emily asked, looking back at the three boys who were watching this scene play out in amusement "Do you have any weak spots?"
"Not really, we're all doing pretty good in all our subjects." Marcus shifted uncomfortably, he wasn't sure where this was going, but he'd heard about Emily and what often happened to her around her friends.
"Well then, why don't we have some fun with it?" Mindy interjected, she had that wicked grin on her face that let the three boys know that she was going to try something with Emily, of course, they were right "let's do some sex ed."
"Oh, I know quite a bit about that one!" Mindy struggled to hold back the laughter at Emily's rather telling yet incredibly naive comment,