Suncursed

2: Light Reading

When Max and Koana returned home that evening, they went back to reading up homework a bit in the library. Max refusing to keep reading about history books while Koana basically rolled around on the floor bored as usual. 

"Listen, how on earth are you supposed to pass this class if you never actually do any studying?" Max pointed out for her clueless friend, casually flipping a page in her book while side glancing at her. Koana looked up and over her from the floor,

"I don't know how on earth you can still think the world isn't going to end in the next few months. I mean what if everybody just explodes the day before the exam. All that brain power for nothing!"

Max's expression didn't look amused, "Stop joking about that, you know people have actually died."

Koana looked away from her, clearly a little ashamed of her dark humor. "Okay, sorry." She gets up from where she lay and huffs it over to the kitchen. Max clicks her tongue once before going back to reading, brushing her curls away from her face and tucking it behind her ear.

"Since I'm going to actually do some heavy reading, I"m getting the only important thing that helps me think." Koana said loudly from where she was at in front of the fridge. Max tilted her eyes up a bit to see what her friend had gotten. Immediately brightening at the sight of the tall glass in her hand. "Infamous choco-milk! One for you, one for me eh?"

Max eagerly grabbed the glass like a little kid and started drinking, before long taking a small gasp of satisfied air. "Ah yeah. Thank you."

"Mhm." Koana replied with her own mouth chugging the drink in her hand.

About an hour later, Max rubbed her eyes and closed her chemistry book. She felt like getting up and stretching a bit after, taking a break. Koana was looking deep into her book and taking small notes on the side, and highlighting.  

Walking around the many shelves full of books in the massive library her parents built inside the home when they bought the property many years ago before she was born; She took a glance at the books she had read. The ones she read twice, or three times, or even the ones she had no interest in and basically scanned the pictures for important information. Back when she was desperate to prove her knowledge to her parents. Luckily she grew from that, now she knows she has no point in trying to be smarter than her parents or anybody else for that matter. One common sense point for Max.

Sighing, she blew a piece of free hair from her eyes and grabbed one of the books she had only looked at pictures from. 

Maybe if I read the words, something will come out of it.

Hard thinking there Max, you're passing school for this reason alone.

Rolling her eyes at herself, she grabbed the book hastily and ended up flinging it across her shoulder and onto the floor behind her. 

With wide eyes, Max followed where it landed, before looking over to Koana who jumped.

"Jeez, what did that book ever do to you?" She accused, furrowing her brows.

"Sorry, I was in aggressive thinking mode."  Max bent down to pick up the book and dusted it off, hopefully it wasn't a very important one to where he father will notice damage to it. She checked it's bindings and cover thoroughly.

"I noticed." Koana replied, "While I have your attention though help me with question seventeen?"

Max kept dusting off the book and checking it before standing up again. "Yeah sure."

"It asks to differentiate between mixtures and pure substances from matter. But I always get the two mixed up. Substances are the particles right?" Koana scratches behind her ear with her pen.