THE THING INSIDE YOUR HEAD

"I must be even in my responsibility as School

, Anderson? You're the one who's bei

spoke more calmly. "Harrison, I under

" Harry c

rong one, f

y nodded, "you'

-" Andy c

re we go

nd that school laws shall

eyebrow as if to

deserved what he'd received and, in fact, I'm not sure I'd

head in vehement

if you were School Prefect, how wo

sighed

from what you d

a brow in b

ool's therapist to understand some of the di

understand how it felt like. Anderson was known for making sensible decisions - he always

behalf to be reinstated back to Mcb

stions, they were as good as rhetorics; he'd ob

we yo

nonsense face. Harry chuckled, brightly. "Now all I've got

aid the most ceremonially unclean word, wide-ey

t what you're thinking. I meant mailing him,

ee-y

aughed, warm

y, then. T

ff, saying, "Wha

or the door (they were, at the moment, at And

expecting

. His father, of course, could not ar

n. Voilà ! stood Joce in a pretty, pink sweatshirt, her hair packed in

yes locked - that Harry had to break the silence. He faked a cou

nod, "Hope I didn't int

It's al

Joce," Andy

do, to

ot creepy? Har

a wicked smile on, as he

felt emb

with its delicate dimples beside those perfectly curved lips that glowed so unusually. I

as waving her hand

ked back out

ry. . . I'm j

rstand,"

t expecting that. He'd

come over some other time." She was hol

- wait, no way, I'm not goi

rayer. "Thanks for the considera

into a countenanc

and my b

get you a cup of coffee and some cookies. I know you love cookies, y

thing. You came for Maths?" He want

, and I thought, 'Hey there, Jocelyn, your nextdoor neighbour is pr

can help y

though

g her a reassuring smile. "

d never turned anyone down - not any she knew though - onl

g. "Wait here with this book," she pushed it in his arms, "whi

er, "Jack Robinson!"

of my lif

3 =

ly, however, I'll teach you the easiest in all algorithm - fu

nod

I'm al

is to picture the

worse than I imagi

re are two groups here - t

reactions - satisfact

x' are the married, while t

s." She

[Left Hand Side (of the '=')] and the single numbers

ey're 5x

sign. So, in the process of transferring -80x over, it becomes +80

x+8

affirmed, jot

entify the si

they're

xac

led again,

mpressive,

," she repl

o the R.H.S. So wha

15–3, because the positive symbol with

th the voice of an archange

th arms, feeling like Hercu

leaves us

80x =

side, individually. 5 add

85

side it. . . yes, exactly.

second calculatio

! So we h

5x

with the coefficient of x (th

already getting enthusiastic ab

hat leaves

/85 =

ed by 85 g

On

have just x on the L.H.S. On the R.H.S, however, 12 cannot be divisible by 85

=12

ve finally f

flung on Anderson. Her c

the life of m

n the bearhug