"I heard the teacher wants you to make friends," Luke mentioned, sitting next to Kant during lunch. "Wanna team up for the physics project?"
Kant narrowed his eyes, ignoring the part about making friends, but considering the part about teaming up.
The last time, his project partners "forgot" to show up to the meetings and turned in half-baked work that Kant had to fix last minute. After Kant called them out on this during presentation, no one wanted to team up with him anymore. He had no choice.
"Sure, whatever."
Luke's eyes widened. "Really?"
"I said yes," Kant muttered.
"Then can you tutor me too?"
"No," came an immediate answer.
Luke passed his apple to Kant as a bribe. "But I'm really bad at physics..."
"So you're saying you want me to do the work for you?" Kant raised a suspicious brow, pushing the apple back.
"No, no," Luke pushed the apple to Kant again, "I just need your help with understanding stuff, and then I'll do my part."