He gave Maya a small, reassuring smile, like everything would be just fine. She looked almost like she was studying him for a second, but the moment quickly passed. He replied to her question easily, doing his best to keep her in a good mood.<br/><br/>"Oh don't worry, I'm sure he'll grade us just fine. He does have to have some qualification to be a substitute, right? Besides, I'm sure the teacher would look at everybody's grades, and if everybody got a low grade, it would probably raise some questions on her part, and we could just explain that he graded us too hard. Oh, and I'm sure we'll be just fine in presenting it, I mean, all we really have to do is just kind of read it off of the projector screen, that shouldn't be too hard."<br/><br/>He bit into his second piece of toast, using it to sop up the left over yolk from the eggs.<br/><br/>"Hopefully we don't have that one suckish sub we had that one day. Y'know, that one that gave Jacob a detention for 'back-sassing' him when he asked why factoring that way works after the teacher explained it? I still don't understand how he even could have seen that as him being rude in any way. That guy was just a little bit... I dunno, I think crotchety would be a good word to describe him."