Tutoring W/Meghan Roberts

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A soft hum filled the space of the empty library, the only other noises being some shuffling of papers and movement of a chair. Sitting on one of the long tables of the library is Meghan Roberts. On the desk are some books, ranging from history to math; stacks of scrap paper; and pencils and pens. Meggy wore a white T-shirt underneath a red cardigan jacket, brown shorts, red running shoes, and white knee-high socks. And of course, her father’s police badge, right on her cardigan sweater. 

“Alrighty. Meghan’s Tutoring Session is open for business.” Meggy cooed to herself, leaning back as she opened up a history book to study. 

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Lopaka hated to admit it, but he had only been inside of the library a tiny, tiny, tiny amount. Education never was something he was thoroughly interested in, and considering all of the excitement with wrestling and his friends and end of the year plans….it was the last thing that was on his mind.

That was until he totally flunked his history paper.

He didn’t understand that, at all. Why was anyone supposed to write a paper for history? He thought that was supposed to be reserved for English, they had all of the weird books that he would struggle to motivate himself to get through. It wasn’t a complete waste of his time, and he knew how important his education was, but…..it was senior year! He thought that this was the year that everyone takes it slow! What happened to that?

“Hiya!”

Meghan Roberts was a name he didn’t find familiar. All that he knew was that she was offering tutoring, and his professor had allowed him to do a rewrite for extra credit. He was willing to jump at any possible opportunity, because there was zero chance he was getting it done on his own. He is humble enough to realize when the towel needs to be thrown in.

“Uh- Meghan, right? I saw your flyer for tutoring, and I, uh, wanted to know if you could help!” The eager man said as he shook both of her hands, wanting to start with at least a good first impression. “….Oh- and my name’s Lopaka! Or Lo. I don’t care.” Maybe he should stop shaking her hands.

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Meghan immediately perked up to attention with someone now joining in.

YAY! A new student!

She stood up to greet him and seemed caught of guard by Lo‘s size.

Oh wow, big guy. Really big guy.

Meghan gave a grin and she shook his hand “Nice to meet ya’ Lo! I’m always glad to help with anything! I’m no Einstein but I’m sure nothing can’t be done with a few hours and some patience!’

He’s crushing my hands.

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Oh, he is ABSOLUTELY crushing her hands. Lopaka let out a small squeak as he broke that contact, not wanting their first interaction to end with a broken hand. He’s very naturally strong, and sometimes he doesn’t know how to control that.

“God- I’ve been lookin’ for someone like you all around! Some of the guys say that having a tutor is like….for the dumb kids-“ don’t let him bring in that group. “But, bro…..I need like- major, major, help.”

Lopaka takes a seat, instantly pulling out the paper that he had so miserably tanked. A bright red “47” was written on the top right corner as he passed it over to Meghan.

“Uhhh…..we had a paper on ancient traditions, and I did something about families……I dunno, man, I thought it was like…..a C paper! I didn’t think I did that bad!” He slightly pouts.

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Meghan took the paper and gave it a once over, an amused smile on her face “Oh, History eh? You came to the right place!” She sat down next to him and pushed aside some books to take some history related textbooks. Clearly. This was someone who needed extra help.

“Well, don’t worry Lo. We’ll take this “47” and double it!” She cheerfully bumped his shoulder with her fist “First and foremost, snacks? I got some gummies, chocolate, anything?” She offered “And then tell me a little more about your paper, Lolo!”

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Lopaka gasped as he saw the wide display of treats sitting out. If there’s one way to get to a man’s heart, it’s with a chocolate bar. Of course, he was going to take it (no way ONE chocolate bar destroys all of his muscles).

“Oh, you’re already the best.” Lopaka chuckled with a mouthful of Ghirardelli chocolate in his mouth. He quickly swallowed it all down before paying attention to the paper again.

“Right, like….we had to research on primary sources n’ stuff and I was narrowing it down to Ancient Egypt n’ Greece.”

One look at the paper shows that Lopaka’s handiwork is…….well……it’s definitely a 47% paper. His research actually seems to be okay, for the most part. Never let him touch an annotated bibliography ever again, though.

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Meghan’s eyes darted around the paper, noting down the good part and bad parts of it “I see I see.”

She glances back at Lo, an amused smile still there and gave a chuckle as she placed it down “Okay, well, there certainly are good things here. And yeah, you did properly cite stuff, which is always good..”

She then leaned back as she glanced through the paper “Buut, reading through this I can’t help but notice some….half-assed-ness to this.” She chuckled and leaned over towards him “Be honest with me, did you half assed this a bit? No Judgement here, bud.”

She always knew these types of students, and these weren’t the bad ones. All they needed was some…readjusting is all. They can be motivated and turn out good papers in no time!

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“Uhhh….”

He absolutely did use Citation Machine but she didn’t have to know that…..he had to re-format everything and put it in the correct font, so he considers that to be on the exact same level! It should be…in his opinion….of which is he is having to contact this tutor as a last ditch result…

“…..Okay, listen, I did half ass it!” Lopaka admitted, dramatically slumping back in his chair. “It really wasn’t fair though- I mean, who assigns a paper over Christmas Break and has it due the day before we get back?! Not even the day of?! I just wanted to have a good time, maaaaaan! Ain’t fair!”

There’s no point in Christmas Break if you miss valuable sledding time.

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Meghan gave a laugh and placed a hand on her head “Yeah, it is not fair, isn’t it?”

She shook her head and leaned back “But, you had so much time. You only needed a day, dude. Just one day out of your break to do this!”

Meggy shrugged her shoulders before taking a separate sheet of paper and pencil, promptly slapping it in front of Lo “Well, since you don’t wanna fail this, now you have the motivation, don’t you?” A cheeky grin plastered her face as she patted his back “So, let me help guide you through the wonderful ancient world!”

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“Dude, no! You need every day to enjoy it! It only comes once a year, man! Spring Break ain’t the same!” Well, Lopaka did know that he was in the wrong and that he should’ve paid more attention. He got an earful from his mom and pop about that. It just nice that Meghan was a LITTLE understanding.

Anyway, he got himself into this predicament. It seemed to only way he would be able to get out of it was…..having to start back from scratch!



It’s so over.

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Meghan nodded a bit and leaned back, amused but with a serious look as she adjusted her seat. She placed a textbook in front of him and raised an eyebrow towards him “Now, are ya’ gonna complain? Or are gonna work hard and make sure you never have your butt back here in tutoring?” She asked playfully. She genuinely wanted to help this kid. He seemed look like a good egg, just lazy. And who isn’t at one point or another?

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“Yes maaaaaaa’am.” Lopaka playfully whined as he took the textbook, chuckling as he went to sit up. Of course, he just wanted to have fun with his new friend! But….Meghan was definitely right in assuming that he had a lazy streak. Sometimes there’s just better things to do…but also- he would rather do anything but end up back here.

“Uhhhhhh…..where do we start? I know there’s a lot.”

Beat.

“There was a lot of red marker on the paper. Like, a lot. Like, you could write an entire paper and turn it in for an A+ a lot.”

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“Well.” Meghan leaned in again, thinking before she smiled “The most important thing is motivation. You can’t write a good paper if you don’t like what you’re right.”

She then adjusted her seat as she pointed at the book “Ancient Traditions is the topic. So, most important this is: what interests you the most. Really think deeply and hard about this. What is something you’ll…tolerate learning about. Maybe even something you think is neat?”

Meghan folded her her hands together and placed them over her face, looking at the large boy with narrowed eyes.

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Lopaka tapped on the wooden table for a few moments, looking down at his taped fingers. This was a little new for him. There was never really a paper he had been tons of effort into. Instead, he just did what seemed the most general. What seemed like he wouldn’t mess up. History was cool, sure, but aren’t we in the present?

“Uhhhh…….hmmm….” Lopaka rested his chin in his palms, huffing as he ran through his possible options.

“…..I mean, I’m a sportsy typa guy, if it ain’t obvious.” Over 6 feet of pure muscle. “I ‘unno if you’ll see much of that, though! Teachers never talk about it.”

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“Oh trust me, I know.” Meghan stated, looking him over up and down as she curled her hair with her finger. She wasn’t exactly objecting of the nice view “Buut it’s not like sports are unknown. I mean, Ancient Romans, Greeks and Byzantine had Chariot Racing. Babylonians and Greeks had wrestling. And of course the Mesoamerican ballgame.”

Meghan flips over various sections of the history book “Teachers don’t tell much, but historians do.”