â yeah! no, yeah, yeah, yeah--- no, iâm with you! â no he isnât.  â i heard you. yeah, totally. loud and clear, you were talkinâ about the, uh . . . number, in between the little line thingies. â  he explains, pointing to the number in between the absolute value symbols. he reverts his crescent-lidded gaze to her profile, admiring it conspicuously. then, gesturing toward the textbook,  â who gives a shit about remedial math, anyway? all the numbers ân . . . letters, hieroglyphics---- shitâs pointless . . . yâknow, unlike me, for the record. â  he admits suggestively, unabashedly, dragging his finger across a particularly intriguing area of her neck. he nips at it with his lips experimentally.  â iâm just puttinâ it out there that there are other, . . . more interesting ways of tutoring this load âa bull. yâknow, for example, for simple subtraction, we coullllllld . . . maybe ditch some cloth---- subtract some cloth, i should say. â  he tugs at the end of hem of her shirt mischievously with a boyish smirk.