"What are you making?" you ask her, just to be amicable, and to pass the time. Fortunately Ms Wally doesn't mind if her students talk during their work.
"Oh, uhm... I'm trying to make a sculpture of my sister. But it doesn't really look like her."
"It looks great." It truly does.
"Thank you. You're very kind."
"Takes one to know one, right?"
"Thanks. I just can't really make her face. It's very hard for me."
"Hey, you're still a lot better at it than I am. Mine barely looks like a person. Besides, what if you're not a great sculptor? You're good at literally everything else."
"I'm not," she says, smiling at you. She has a very pretty smile. "Everyone here is so much smarter than me."
"What are you talking about? You're the best painter in the class. We have history together, and you ace every test. My friends say you beat everyone at all the games in PE as well."
"I used to be on... I guess you would say swim team, at home. That's why I'm good at PE. And I had to study your history to get accepted. But I'm not good at everything. Not at maths for example."
"Oh. You're not?" You also have maths together, but you guess you never noticed. It's one of the easiest subjects for you, so sometimes you just assume everyone else gets it as well as you do. But of course that's not the case.
"No. I think people think I'm good at maths because I'm Japanese, but I'm really not. At my school, I almost failed it."
"Oh. I'm sorry."
"It's fine. I like art a lot more anyway. I don't think I will need maths for anything."
"Hey..." you hesitate for a moment, but she's so nice to everyone, you can't just not offer to help her. "Maybe I could help? Like, I could tutor you?"
She smiles at you, but shakes her head.
"No, thank you. I mean... I think I could understand it, if I wanted to. It's just so... boring. If you try to explain it to me, I will just get bored, and that would be rude to you. But thank you for the offer. I think I will just search a private tutor."
"Okay, I just thought I'd offer. Though it seems like you don't need to be tutored, you just need someone to motivate you."
"Yes. But I went to a lot of tutors back home, and teachers also, and nobody could motivate me."
You still want to help her, of course. But an ulterior motive also occurs to you.
"Say... are you ticklish?"
"Yes! I'm very ticklish."
"How about we play a game: when you go home, you study all the latest geometry material. Then later you come over to my place, and I'll give you a test. For every question you get wrong, I get to tickle you."
It seems like she needs a moment to make sure she understood you correctly.
"You want to... tickle me?"
"Only if you don't study. You said you wanted motivation, right? That's what you get. So what do you say?"
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