Chapter 99 - Leaders' Meeting

The E.C. Class was rightfully excited after they had the principal's approval to have a joined learning session with the Special Class. Likewise, the Special Class couldn't contain their excitement. Danny supervised his students in the E.C. Class while they socialised. The four leaders decided to hold a meeting and stepped out of the room for a bit.

"Thank you for accepting my invitation," Jasper smiled. The girls didn't seem to mind. However, they were curious.

"Why so sneaky? We could have talked about it back there," Jean pointed out.

Scarlet smiled. If she guessed it correctly, Jasper wanted this to be a secret from the rest of the boys.

"I know that we've been divided into teams but for the sake of class bonding, I want to bring up some suggestions that we can do together as a class and not just a team," the boy admitted.

Rebecca who had been silent from the start smiled. "Actually, I was thinking about the same thing. I wanted to host a class party to celebrate everyone's efforts before the exam."

When Jean heard that, she became excited. "I volunteer to do the collage scrapbook for the class! Alex is good with art and Farid is good at making things. We'll make the best commemorative present!"

Jasper hummed. The girls had good ideas but he doesn't know what his team would be doing. Likewise, Scarlet had no idea what her team could contribute to. Of all the teams, she had the most intelligent people on it. There wasn't much she could do.

"I would need to discuss this with my team. I don't know what they'd want to do," Scarlet admitted. "I'll let everyone know once we have it. Shall we set up a leader's group chat?"

Jasper volunteered to be the host of the group chat and added Danny just so the counsellor could step in if things get too overboard.

"I'll have to check with my team as well," Jasper said. "Let's postpone the discussion for now. The next agenda of the meeting is to discuss study venues."

Rebecca grinned. She had already thought about it from the very beginning when she formed her team. Who said that studying had to be conventional? With the number of muscle heads in her group, it wouldn't be surprising for them to want to mix studying with moving around. Why not work out a sweat while studying? Besides, Scarlet said that it worked perfectly well for Dragon and that boy was the one Rebecca had most concerns with.

"I've included the venue in my proposal to Danny. We will be taking a portion of the indoor sports hall. I will also be borrowing the strategy meeting whiteboard there and some markers. It will not clash with the venues the rest of you want."

Jasper tried his best not to judge and Scarlet smiled. She thought that Rebecca's idea was brilliant. "That's probably a good idea," she told the athlete honestly.

Jean decided that she wanted to go to the library for her team's study session. "I think it's better for my team to go to the library. We have a few inquisitive minds who might need the books and research."

Jasper picked the computer lab after the girls. "Elfie said he was going to create a quiz drill so we will be needing those computers. If you girls are interested, drop by anytime."

Scarlet had never heard of a quiz drill but that could be exactly what the weaker students in her team needed. She thought about it. Jinru and Samuel needed detailed lessons and slow explanations to understand concepts before attempting questions. Elfie's special mental gymnastics had to be done daily and Scarlet frowned.

"I think my team and I will stay in the classroom for our studying sessions. Would it be too much trouble if we dropped by the venues you are using? I think a balanced approach would be better for us. The quiz drill sounds interesting and we might need a change of scene from time to time."

Jasper and Jean welcomed Scarlet enthusiastically but Rebecca welcomed Scarlet more enthusiastically. "If you can get some smart brain cells to rub off the members of my team I would be eternally grateful!"

They laughed at Rebecca and tried very hard not to mention names. However, everyone knew that teaching Dragon was going to be tricky. Other than martial arts, that boy had difficulty in everything else. His attention span was as good as Reggie's and his ability to understand was almost on par with Jinru's. That said, Scarlet offered her assistance to Rebecca who looked like she wanted to cry.

"I'll see how I can help, don't stress too much, alright? Nathan might be able to come up with something that can help."

Jean raised a brow. "Nathan? I suggest you don't count on him too much. He might be smart but he makes a terrible teacher. Trust me, the special class suffered in his hands trying to study together. He's almost as bad as Danny. Once he touches on a subject with a side story, he never comes back."

Scarlet blinked. "Oh. Thanks for the heads up... That's rather unexpected because he looks so serious."

Jean groaned and Rebecca patted Scarlet. "You're adorable. No wonder Lin Lin is so taken with you. Nathan just has this poker face, he isn't actually serious most times and has terrible social skills. His jokes are crass and the first time we met each other, I wanted to slap him. His sense of humour is not something ordinary people can get. Only the geeks will laugh but in Joyville, nobody is on his level to even understand them."

By now, the meeting had long adjourned but the leaders were having a good time getting to know one another while discussing study strategies that they were going to use. Without much teaching experience, Rebecca took notes from Jasper and Scarlet while Jean listened attentively. The linguist wasn't feeling too confident in teaching the other subjects like Math and Science so Jasper offered to help.

"We can make joined study sessions if you are keen," he told her. "We just have to inform Danny."

Scarlet nodded. "If anyone needs a more personal tutoring session, I think I can handle it. Just let me know beforehand so that I can arrange."

Jean nodded. "I'll probably be counting on you for that with one or two of my group members. If anyone has essays for marking please pass them to me. I think I'm faster than anyone else here. Don't be shy, okay?"

Scarlet blushed when Rebecca cooed and hugged the linguist. The equestrian extended her hug to Scarlet as well who beckoned for Jasper to join the group hug. Once they parted, Scarlet smiled.

"All the best to us."

Jasper grinned. "Thanks for helping out. I don't think I'd be able to make it if I were alone."

Jean smiled kindly. "Don't mention it. Besides, this is more fun than listening to Danny's lessons."

Rebecca snorted. "I hardly get to make friends so this is cool. Alright, we should head back now. I think the class is getting rowdier. Let's hope there isn't a fight..."

Nobody disagreed and Scarlet hobbled on her crutches with some help from Jasper. None of the leaders was prepared for what they saw in the class.