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“Tenya,” Ochako whines from her privileged spot on the beanbag, “you’ve been making us do the same set of problems for the past three hours. Don’t you think we deserve a real break?”
Tenya does not bother looking up from his textbook. His glasses keep sliding down his nose but he has long given up pushing them back up every ten seconds. It makes him look a strange mixture of a wise professor and an awkward nerd. “I would’ve given us a real break 75 minutes ago, if you and Izuku knew how to not fool around for more than five minutes.”
Izuku freezes from his spot at her knees, where he’s amassed a worthy collection of pillows. His hand hovers over the page he was writing on, a previously blank piece of printer paper he and Ochako were using to doodle and pass notes on.
“T-Tenya,” he begins, scratching the back of his head sheepishly, “we have been working hard, too! We haven’t been that distracted.”
Tenya glances down at the paper in Izuku’s hands and back up at the small braids Ochako has been working into his hair intermittently for the past hour. “Is that so? Then, please explain to me the process of glycolysis in detailed steps, with the correct name of all enzymes and molecules involved.”
Izuku pales. “Um,” he says.
“This question is open to the both of you, Ochako.”
“Um,” she repeats.
Tenya sighs forcefully through his nose. “We learned the basics in high school. What we’re learning at UA right now is simply more detailed! Please tell me you guys can, at the very least, name all nitrogenous base pairs.”
“Oh!” Izuku’s face brightens as he recalls. “Of course! There’s guanine, cytosine, thymine, and ade-”
“Adenine!” Ochako interrupts gleefully, determined to get some brownie points from Tenya.
Tenya sighs again, but it’s softer this time and there is an unmistakable fondness in his eyes. “Congratulations, Ochako Uraraka and Izuku Midoriya. You’ve mastered 7th grade Life Science.”
(“Oh hell yeah!”)