" 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡? "

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒

W-what, did I hear that correctly? I gave him wide eyes. Did he hear what I said before?
He just walked away to the kitchen to make dinner. I just sat there thinking.

"(y/n) are you alright."

I flinched from my daze.

"Huh yeah I'm fine, why do you ask?"

"I have been calling your name three times and you continued to stare at the floor."

"Oh dang sorry Mike."

"It's ok, I wanted to ask you if you could help me with my homework."

"Dad sucks at explaining it and gets mad when I don't do it his way."

I smirked.

"Don't worry my dad was the same way."

Mike grabbed my hand and pulled me into the kitchen where I found William cooking.

"Ok what do you need help with?"

"Math."

I glanced at his paper and saw that he needed questions 3, 6, and 10 answered.

"I don't understand 3."

I looked at it and it was about the distribution property.

"Oh ok so you see how the 3 is next to the parentheses, that means you have to multiply it."

"Ok."

"So how I remember it is to think of it as fireworks."

"Fireworks, why fireworks?" Mike questioned.

"You take the 3 and multiply it by the next number, which is 6."

"So what is 3 times 6."

"18." Mike answered.

"OK write that down."

Mike wrote the 18 down below the problem.

"Now add that plus sign next to the 18."

And Mike proceeded to write it down.

"Now for the next firework we multiply the 3 by the 5."

"So I write down 15."

"Yup."

He wrote the 15 down."

"Ok so what is 18 plus 15?"

Mike wrote down the answer.

"Oh I get why it's like fireworks, now I can do the other problems."

"Yeah."

I smiled and put my hands on my hips. I was proud that I helped Mike.

"So he would listen to the time traveler but not his own father."

I jumped. I hadn't realized that he stood behind me.

"I guess so."

I looked at William and then noticed something in his right hand.
It was a knife.

"Just don't get close to me when I have a knife."

I swallowed hard.

"D-Do you guys have a bathroom?"

I meantly cursed at myself for strutting.
Michael peeked up from his homework.

"Yeah I can show you where it is."

I was about to respond when William interrupted me.

"Actually Michael watch the food and I'll show (y/n) where it is."