Ocean&Samantha
Math Exam
Why does time seem so fast? The feeling yesterday Samantha just graduated Junior High School and became a new student of High School. The present day wants the final exam. There seems to be something wrong with this world. Most of which is just a stage play, but now the play is different. If it used to perform on stages with many spectators. But now the charade is mostly with content and gimick is not clear.
Samantha sighed, the sound of her breathing feeling heavy, as if she was having a serious problem. But that was the reality, Samantha just faced a serious problem. Super duper triper serious.
Tomorrow is the math exam schedule, and he's stressed out. So stressed.
Who said math is fun? If there's a nice answer, come forward here by one against Samantha.
In the first grade, Samantha was stressed, let alone this. He even wants to graduate High School, and indeed from the first lesson this one is a frightening specter for Samantha.
Samantha leaned her shoulders on the sofa of her room.Had from day to night she sat down in the room, struggling with module books and notes on Mathematics subjects. He had read and learned the basic formula and the examples, but when he tried to solve the training problem, he always found it difficult.
Of the ten problems in the module he only solved three problems, not even half of them. That's all Samantha doesn't know, she answers correctly or not.
Samantha thought, after she took a break and refilled her energy and mind with dinner, she could work on it easily. At least, he can get a sudden inspiration on how to do it. It turns out it was all wrong. Samantha is still confused and stuck in one place.
"It looks like I'm not Moms-Dad's son! shi*t!" Samantha muttered in annoyance.
He was indeed the opposite of the Continent. If the brains of the Continent were so diluted in the counting lesson. Another case with Samantha, in the study of Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics the girl was so slow. Many teachers gave up on teaching him. Even so, both Samuel and Maya never forced Samantha to get perfect grades in these three lessons. Maya and Sam never forced their will on their children.
"I swear I'll never go to college that there's a gini-count!" grunts Samantha upset.
"Where the hell?!!" Samantha hit her own head softly because she was upset. He thought that by hitting his head, Samantha hoped that she would have a miracle of understanding these matters.
Once again, Samantha tries to work on those problems and hopes she will get guidance or even misfortune? I don't know. Samantha's still stuck. The girl bowed her head on both knees which she bent parallel. A knock from outside the bedroom door was heard.
"Sammy?" call the owner of the voice that Samantha has memorized.
"Yes for a minute!" answer Samantha. He got up and opened the door. So stressed that he was working on a Math module problem, Samantha even forgot to justify her disheveled hair.
"Sister Am?"
"Oh God, where have you been?!"
...
"Oh God, where have you been?!"
Samudra heaved a sigh of relief when he found the presence of the girl before his eyes.
His chat this afternoon did not also get a reply until now. At first Samudra thought that the girl was taking a nap. He was trying to be patient to wait. Three hours later, the message received no reply.
Samudra decides to ask Maya before she enters the practice room at Jakarta's largest private hospital. In his heart he also hoped to get a reply from the girl soon. Otherwise, Samudra will have to see Samantha after she finishes handling some of the patients who are already waiting in line.
But how upset he was when he did not find what he wanted. For three hours he left his cell phone in his practice desk drawer. Samudra still never get a chat reply from Samantha. Instead the incoming chat messages from Gaby had filled her mobile chat room and made Samudra swearing and immediately rushed out of the hospital after all her patients were finished.
"Why not chat brother from this afternoon? Hape you're not off, tick two. Phone not answered. Where the hell is it?"
"Son't try to chat Moms-Dad but they're out and said Moms you're home alone. The continent is also like that, he is having the same business and does not know about you. Why do you always worry, hm?!"
Samantha gulps. His head lowered, his hands twisting in front of the body. Samantha bit her inner lip when she heard a series of words thrown from the Ocean. Again Samantha cursed her stupidity for forgetting to check the phone.
"Sorry..." Samantha's great-grandson with her head down. Not daring to look into the eyes of the Ocean's eagle.
"I forgot my silent mode. I'm from noon studying to prepare for tomorrow's exam." Samantha.
Samudra sighed, his gaze turning to Samantha's sofa and bed full of scattered paper and several module books with a thickness of twice the encyclopedia book. Even the module was impressed will be painful if hit.
The ocean regulates his emotions. He closed his eyes for a moment.
"Next time don't repeat, okay?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"Hape can't be silent anymore." Samudra added.
"Yes, sorry." Samantha nodded.
"Have you eaten?"
"Udah."
"Can you come in?"
"Hm, but it's a mess."
"It's okay, no problem."
The ocean entered Samantha's room and sure enough, the girl's room was currently more like a broken ship. Even this was worse than his apartment room, Samudra thought.
"What did you learn, hm?"
"Mathematics."
Samantha grunted softly. "It's hard, I don't understand it at all" the girl complained.
The ocean then drew closer, sitting on a long sofa close to Samantha's soft mattress.
The ocean was watching the matter in the module closely. Sometimes he also flips through the pages while taking notes on a blank paper.
Samantha with reddened eyes was silently observing. Honestly, he no longer had the energy. He was tired both his body and his brain.
"Dear girl, until you're here step-by-step" the ocean paused and turned its gaze toward Samantha. The man continued his explanation when he found Samantha listening to his explanation.
"'a' it's base or principal number, with terms a > of 0 and ≠ 1. Medium x it's numerus, on condition x > 0. If n is a logarithmic value." Samudra continued his explanation.
"Keep with the logarithmic equation, what about sis?"
The ocean smiled for a while and re-wrote something on a white piece of paper.
"It is the same as the logarithm. But in this logarithmic equation the logarithm form is two in the left-right field and is connected with the equals sign..."
"³log(3x+6)\=³log9. Since the logarithmic base is the same, the numerical value is the same. So that we can write like the following...."
"³log(3x+6)\=³log9-->3x+6\=9.
-->3x\=9-6
-->3x\=3. Then x\=1."
The ocean explained so patiently. While Samantha with the rest of her sanity is trying to digest. The ocean has explained slowly, even so in detail. But Samantha was already so tired to digest and understand. Like a machine, his head was smoky. Both eyes that have been reddened now more red because they are ready to cry.
"No understanding.." great-grandson Samantha cut off the explanation from the Ocean.
Stopping his words, Ocean was stunned to see the girl who was about to cry.
Samantha was silent as the Ocean held her in her arms. The huge hand of the Ocean stroking Samantha's back gave her tranquility.
"Capek huh?"
Samantha nodded smallly in response to the Ocean's remark. The man's hand then stroked Samantha's head. "You're tired of taking a break. It's not good to learn."
"But brother..."
"So, I go down first yes, ask Pur to make a snack for you."
"Hm" nodded Samantha.
....
This morning Samantha woke up with her eyes closed. His body squirmed specially when he woke up. Started to stretch his muscles while yawning widely, even his mouth without him closing.
The girl's eyes widened to find that a bar of brown plus red roses had been lying on her bed.
"Surely from brother Am" he murmured. He had not yet contacted Samudra. Suddenly, his phone rang.
"Call...." Samantha greeted in her distinctive voice upon waking up, through the hape.
^^^"Wake up?"^^^
"He-it."
^^^"Would you take a shower?"^^^
"No, yet" Samantha's bell. The girl kept moving her head even though the Ocean could not see her.
"Eh this brown and rose from brother?"
^^^"Of course, from whom else?"^^^
^^^"Thank you," Samantha replied with a smile of her own.^^^
^^^"Hm, your welcome... Uh, did the exam start today?"^^^
"It's the last day." Answer Samantha.
^^^"What time is it?"^^^
"Twelve less."
The ocean nodded its head from across there.
^^^"Jam twelve big brother pick me up."^^^
"Where? Brother doesn't practice, does he?"
^^^"Jam so fit brother rest. There you will, later you will know where."^^^
"Eum, yeah."
^^^"OK, you have breakfast first and keep taking a shower and getting ready for school. Good luck, my little pie..."^^^
The ocean sends a virtual kiss through their cell phones.
"Hm, thank you brother."
And the Ocean decided on his call.
Samantha's face sparkled, it seemed like the phone from the Ocean just gave her a morning spirit before doing the activity today.
The girl's gaze was finally fixed on the pile of Math modules and some scribbles that had been neatly stacked on the table. Math Exam. Make his mood plunge again!
to be continue...
