[i]"Well, yes, that is what we're looking at today, Yamauchi. Gold friggin' star. It's quite literally listed on the printout which page it is."[/i]

Pausing for a moment, Junpei coughing before tapping a section of the page again, “…this here, these are parts we could work on individually. We could have this all done faster this way, and swap quick notes afterwards.” Pausing for a moment, “Alternatively, we could work on everything together, but the pace would be slower if we take our own notes at the same time. What do you want to do?” Waiting a little while for any one of the two to answer, he started making a chart for one of the questions, and jotted down helpful side notes into the margins his notebook. The questions...weren't actually too much. So, without waiting for a response, Junpei just went on to work on and answer what he could, on his own.

For high school, like he observed last year, it seemed pretty standard to just work on your own and [I]sometimes[/I] compare notes later. If there was anything he learned from switching from tutoring to actual high school, there was so much more to be learned from the perspective of others than working just on your own. Than again, the most harm came from lack of understanding of perspective, lack of empathy...the easiest way to avoid that sort of hurt would be to lock ones self away from the world. Without realising it, Junpei went on autopilot, the surface self deeply engrossed in his science assignment, while his inner self...even more so engrossed in thought and feeling. Pausing both trains of thought when a particularly hard question reared it's ugly head, he drew a small smiling daisy in the margin beside a notebook rewrite of the question, before answering it to the best of his knowledge. He'd get back to that one...later...