McKayla and Chase are in math class.

The teacher is explaining the subject, Chase pays attention attentively and McKayla plays with her pen.

"So, could anyone tell me how to calculate the probability?" The teacher asks, Chase raises his hand with a smile from ear to ear "I know!" Chase says.

McKayla chuckles and leans on the table to look at him, the teacher rolls his eyes "Uhg! Yes, Davenport, say it" the teacher says impatiently.

"To calculate probability, You must divide the number of favorable events by the total number of possible events. This generates a sample, and the calculation can be performed from the data obtained. Probability determines the likelihood of an event occurring. P(A) = f / N. Odds and probability are related but odds depend on the probability!" Chase says quickly and smiles proudly at himself as he finishes.

McKayla raises her eyebrows impressed and looks at the teacher who looks at Chase impatiently "I don't think there's anything to discuss anymore" the teacher says.

"I appreciate your participation Chase but why don't you let the other students answer..." The teacher says looking at the room, Chase agrees.

McKayla watches Chase from her desk, he reads his workbook and she can't contain a smile as she watches him, the teacher notices her distraction.

"McKayla!" The teacher says, McKayla jumps and drops the pen "Sorry" McKayla says, she goes to pick up the pen from the floor and when she returns she hits her head on the table "Owch! Sorry" McKayla says.

Everyone in the class looks at her, including Chase "Is everything okay?" The teacher says "yeah, yeah" McKayla says, adjusting herself in her chair.

"McKayla, tell me what is the formula for P probability?" The teacher asks, Chase looks at her, McKayla taps her fingers on the table "Uh....." McKayla swallows hard.

Chase starts to feel distressed, he knows the answer but he can't say it, McKayla scratches the back of her head while the whole class looks at her.

"P means probability right?" McKayla asks nervously, the teacher sighs "P (A/B) is known as conditional probability and it means the probability of event A that depends on another event B and is read as "probability of A given B" The teacher says, Chase agrees.

"P(A/B) = P(A∩B) / P(B). It is also known as "the probability of A given B". P(A/B) Formula is used to find this conditional probability quickly!" Chase completes the teacher looks at him irritated, Chase clears his throat "I'm sorry sir" Chase turns around.

"Yup, that's exactly what I was going to say but you interrupted me sir" McKayla smirk, Chase tilts his head in doubt.

The bell rings, everyone starts to grab their materials and leave.

McKayla passes by the teacher's table "McKayla wait, I want to talk to you" the teacher sits at the table, Chase quickly looks at McKayla going to the teacher's table.

"Something wrong?" McKayla says "Miss McKayla, I'm worried about your grades" the teacher says, McKayla sighs.

"I mean, you have good grades in other subjects but not mine, you're hanging on by a thread" the teacher says "Am I going to fail?" McKayla asks, Chase picks up his things as slowly as possible to continue listening to the conversation.

"If you get a good grade on Friday's test you won't fail" the teacher says "and what do you suggest I do?" McKayla says "study girl, or you'll end up repeating like your brother" the teacher says.

McKayla sighs and leaves, Chase leaves a little before her, pretending he didn't hear the conversation.

McKayla sees Chase in the hallway and went to him "Chase!" McKayla says, Chase stops and turns to her "I think you heard my conversation with our math teacher, right?" McKayla says.

"No, of course not... yeah, I heard" Chase says "So you know I'm really bad at the subject" McKayla says uncomfortably.

"Yeah, but you can still get your grade back on Friday's test" Chase tries to console her "Yes but...can you help me study?" McKayla says, afraid of his answer.

"Do you really want my help?" Chase says "Yeah, like, you're the smartest person I know!" McKayla smiles, Chase looks at her and smiles blushing slightly.

"Say that again?" Chase says, McKayla frowns "you are the smartest person I know?" McKayla says, Chase giggles "Oh you" Chase says convinced and proud.

McKayla tilts her head in confusion, "all righty then, are you in?" McKayla says "Of course, I don't see why not" Chase smiles gently.

"Great! Uh...my house this afternoon?" McKayla asks with a nervous smile "Sure I'll see you there" Chase smiles.

"Thank you so much Chase" McKayla sighs, Chase smiles and leaves.

McKayla, seeing him leaving, realizes that she just invited him to her house, a feeling of excitement passes through her, she opens her eyes wide and looks for Caitlin to tell her what happened.

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McKayla is at her house pacing back and forth in thought, she was anxious because at any moment Chase would be there and she hadn't said anything to Trent.

She couldn't tell Trent, he doesn't like McKayla bringing boys home because of his protective brother instinct, plus the fact that Trent doesn't like and makes fun of Chase.

Having them both under the same small roof wasn't a good idea, that's what she thought.

Trent approaches McKayla holding a bowl of popcorn "Wohoo! Game day HEEEYYOOO!" Trent screams, McKayla covers her ears "Do you mind watching the game in silence? Thank you!" McKayla says irritated.

"Who are you waiting for?" Trent eats the popcorn "uh..." McKayla thinks "let me guess one of your lil girl friends" Trent rolls his eyes.

"Yeah, just one of my boring lil girl friends" McKayla smiles nervously "Will this bother me?" Trent asks "If you don't bother me!" McKayla says "or but that's what brings me happiness!" Trent dramatizes.

"Trent, I ask you with all the affection in the world...get out of my sight!" McKayla says putting her hand on his shoulder, Trent walks away "Okay Fine!" Trent rolls his eyes.

"popcorn?" Trent asks "bring it in!" McKayla says, Trent throws a popcorn in the air and McKayla catches it with her mouth "Ah I taught you well young apprentice" Trent and McKayla bow to each other.

McKayla chuckles "okay, now get lost!" McKayla points to the living room and Trent leaves.

The doorbell rings, McKayla checks if Trent really went to the living room and she goes to open the door.

Chase is standing in the doorway "Hey..." "Chase!" McKayla interrupts him by pulling him by his shirt, she pulls him to the stairs, going up the stairs to her bedroom.

She pushes him into the bedroom, Chase looks at her confused and scared as she closes the bedroom door quickly after checking again Trent remained in the living room.

Chase frowns, breathing quickly due to everything that happened in a short time "Do you welcome everyone to your house like that or...?" Chase asks confused.

McKayla locks the door and sighs "No, Trent is home and I didn't tell him you were coming here" McKayla says "you could have told me sooner" Chase says adjusting the shirt she threatened.

"Why didn't you tell him, what's the problem with that?" Chase asks "It's Trent, it was either stay a secret, or you got an extra wedgie this week. Do you think I made the right choice?" McKayla smirks sarcastically.

"Well you actually have a point" Chase says frustrated, McKayla crosses her arms and agrees.

Chase takes a deep breath and looks around, McKayla looks at the ground and an awkward silence takes over.

After looking around the room, Chase's eyes meet McKayla's, they look at each other for a few seconds in silence "Can we start?" Chase asks nervously "Oh! Of course!" McKayla blinks, resuming her line of reasoning.

Chase goes to her desk chair putting his backpack on the table, McKayla sits on the bed next to the desk.

"So, I did this to try and help you" Chase takes a summary sheet from his bag "What is this?" McKayla ask "These are all the formulas that will be in the test" Chase says.

"And what are those post-its?" McKayla asks looking at the sheet "these are my explanations of the formulas, go whit It, trust me" Chase says "Shouldn't I go by the teacher's explanation?" McKayla questions, Chase scoffs.

"You won't get anywhere with his mediocre explanations, plus the teachers love it when I criticize their method" Chase chuckles, McKayla frowns "of course they do" McKayla says sarcastically.

"So what do you think?" Chase asks "That's just a bunch of cute scribbles on colored paper" McKayla says frustrated, Chase tilts his head "Okay, that's what I'm here for, isn't it" Chase sighs and gets up from the chair and sits next to her on the bed.

"Do you know Bhaskara's formula?" Chase asks, McKayla presses her lips together with no response, Chase takes a deep breath impatiently "Bhaskara's formula helps us solve any quadratic equation. Here" Chase walks over and opens the summary to the formula page.

"Is that the formula?" McKayla looks at the sheet scared "Uh yeah, the teacher wrote it on the board today" Chase says "Oh yeah" McKayla pretends to remember, Chase chuckles "where was your head during class?" Chase asks.

McKayla looks at him "not as far as you think" McKayla says, Chase frowns "look, (-b±√(b²-4ac))/(2a) this is the formula but before applying it you need to remember how to calculate the delta, which would be Δ = b2 - 4ac, where a, b and c are coefficients of the equation" Chase says looking at her and not at the paper.

McKayla looks at him in disbelief, listening to his explanation and remembering all the times he practically taught the class about formulas and equations, all the times he did complex calculations in seconds, she never saw him touch a calculator so he always calculated everything in his head.

"Woah, seriously how can you remember all that?" McKayla says impressed, Chase shrugs "it's easy" Chase says "No it's not, dude you can't be human" McKayla chuckles.

Chase widens his eyes nervously, he chuckles "Don't be silly, of course I'm human, 100%, or what else would I be?" Chase laughs nervously, McKayla continues the joke "A robot maybe" McKayla says pretending suspicion.

Chase chuckles nervously "I'm kidding you, it's just very impressive" McKayla puts her hair behind her ear looking at the summary, Chase looks at her and gives a slight smile.

Receiving praise from her just feels different, although Chase is not used to receiving a lot of praise, his sibilings never praise him, Mr Davenport would be the person who praises him the most.

But the most heartfelt and genuine sense of praise he has ever received has come from McKayla, "Thanks, you're really..." Chase was about to say "kind" but he felt shy to say.

McKayla looks at him getting a slight sense of the end of the sentence, she just smiles "So...I calculate the delta and then...?" McKayla ask "Yeah, well..." Chase clears his throat and goes back to explaining.

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Chase and McKayla spent the whole afternoon studying but they didn't get anywhere.

"Uuhhg!" McKayla lays her head on the pillow and whimpers "It's impossible!" McKayla says with her voice muffled by the pillow "it's not impossible" Chase says calmly.

"Yes It is. I'm stupid, just like my brother" McKayla says into the pillow, Chase shakes his head "You're not stupid...your brother on the other hand..." Chase says "Hey!" McKayla stands up and pulls Chase by the collar.

"I'm the only one who can call him stupid!" McKayla says irritated, Chase looks at her scared "yes ma'am" Chase says with a shaky voice, McKayla lets go of him.

"McKayla sighs "thanks really Chase, but I'm a goner" McKayla says, Chase thinks "We still have one day until the test" Chase says "How am I supposed to learn everything I didn't learn in one semester in one day?" McKayla says.

Chase shrugs "McKayla!" Trent shouts running up the stairs "It's Trent!...get out!" McKayla says "Where?" Chase asks, McKayla looks at the window and then at Chase.

"No way!" Chase says "Chase, please, if my brother finds out that I invited you here he will never leave me alone again, you have no idea how annoying Trent is" McKayla says.

"I have a vague idea" Chase says "So!" McKayla says, Trent knocks on the door "Mack, is your friend gone yet? Someone needs to cook dinner at this house, I want pasta and meatballs!" Trent says.

McKayla closes her eyes in embarrassment as Chase raises his eyebrow at her "in a minute!" McKayla says "Doesn't he know how to cook?" Chase says, McKayla scoffs "Does he look like he can cook?" McKayla smirk.

Chase laughs, gets up and takes his bag, McKayla watches him go towards the window "Okay then..." Chase opens the window "Uh...I'll see you at school tomorrow" Chase smiles gently.

McKayla waves at him with a smile, Chase climbs out the window and uses a gutter to lower himself to the ground.

McKayla sighs and goes to open the door for Trent "what took you so long?" Trent asks suspiciously "I was focused on minding my own business, you should try it" McKayla says.

"shame on I already mind your own business" Trent says, McKayla rolls her eyes.

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The next day at school.

Chase and Adam are walking towards the cafeteria, when Adam suddenly grabs Chase's backpack.

"Hey what are you doing?" Chase asks as Adam digs through his backpack "I put my snacks in here by mistake" Adam says "How?" Chase says "sometimes this happens, Chase!" Adam says, Chase rolls his eyes.

"Woah! what is that?" Adam chuckles taking a pink notebook out of Chase's backpack, he frowns "what's that Chase, do you have a secret diary that you didn't told me about?" Adam laughs opening the notebook.

"Give me that!" Chase says taking the notebook from Adam's hands "It's McKayla's, I must have picked it up yesterday by mistake" Chase says "you see how it happens!?" Adam says.

Chase opens the notebook and sees complex notes of dance steps and techniques, as well as curiosities that she wrote down about the history of dance, Chase reads it thoughtfully.

"What is all this?" Adam ask,he takes the snacks out of Chase's backpack "It must be the notebook she takes to dance classes" Chase says.

"What is there so much to write down in a dance class? Isn't it just about turning on the music and dancing?" Adam says "It's a lot more complex than that" Chase says.

"Come on, since when has this been complex!?" Adam says and starts dancing completely uncoordinated, Chase frowns and looks around embarrassed.

"Indeed, this isn't complex, because after all, this wasn't even a dance!" Chase says, Adam rolls his eyes.

Chase looks at McKayla's notes and realizes that she understands dance masterfully "wait a minute, that's it!" Chase has an idea "that's it, what!?" Adam says.

"I already know how to make McKayla pass the test!" Chase says excitedly "Uhg, why all this drama? Just tell her to cheat on the test and problem solved!" Adam says.

Chase shakes his head and sees McKayla and Caitlin coming down the stairs, Chase runs over to her.

"McKayla! I know how to solve everything" Chase says, McKayla quickly frowns "Well, I think this is my time to leave you two alone" Caitlin giggles as she pushes McKayla closer to Chase.

McKayla looks at Caitlin irritated, Caitlin makes a little heart with her hands as she walks away from them, McKayla looks at Chase embarrassedly trying to ignore.

"What's up Chase?" McKayla asks "I have an idea, I know how to make you pass the test" Chase says "Great but wait is that my dance notebook?" McKayla points out "yeah I caught it by mistake but that's what I want to talk about" Chase says.

"Okay, what's your idea?" McKayla asks "Come to my house after school and I'll tell you" Chase says excitedly, McKayla chuckles "okay" McKayla smiles and the bell rings, Chase gives her the notebook back and leaves.

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Later McKayla goes to Davenport's house.

She is sitting on the couch while Chase looks at the formula notebook while standing in front of the couch.

"What's your idea?" McKayla ask "Well I thought, you suck at math..." Chase says "wow Chase, you don't need to be so kind" McKayla says sarcastically.

Chase tilts his head "however you master the dance" Chase closes the notebook "yeah?" McKayla frowns.

"All you have to do is see equations and mathematical formulas as dance steps" Chase smiles "what?" McKayla straightens up on the couch.

"Okay, you'll understand, why don't we go back to delta formula?" Chase says leaving the notebook on the coffee table.

"do you remember the formula?" Chase says, McKayla sighs "Nope" McKayla says "So try to think like this...uh..." Chase thinks.

"Δ =" Chase says as he does a finger-snapping step "b2" Chase puts one foot forward, McKayla frowns "4ac" Chase spins, McKayla chuckles.

"Δ = b2 - 4ac" Chase repeats each step, McKayla nods with a smile "got it?" Chase asks "Uh...I guess so!?" McKayla laughs "then try it!" Chase says.

"You're lucky I don't turn down a dance" McKayla stands up "okay, uh...Δ = b2.."McKayla does the steps "great" Chase says "...-4ac?" McKayla ends with the spin, "that's it!" Chase smiles.

"Mack, what's the formula for delta?" Chase asks, McKayla smiles "Δ = b2 - 4ac!" McKayla does the dance "Yess!!" Chase says excitedly.

"once again!" Chase says "Δ = b2 - 4ac" the two dance together step by step, they both giggle at each other.

"Wow math can be fun!" McKayla says "told you so!" Chase says "Go ahead, send more steps...more formulas!" McKayla says excitedly.

"okay the next one is more complicated" Chase says "I love a challenge!" McKayla says excitedly.

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The next day everyone is in class taking tests.

Chase sighs when he finishes his test, he is the first to finish the test, he arranges the materials on the table.

He looks back and watches McKayla do her test, he gives a small smile when he sees McKayla closing her eyes and doing small dance steps sitting on the table remembering the formulas.

She shakes her head muttering the formulas silently, Chase chuckles delicately watching her, she opens her eyes and quickly looks back at him.

She smiles at him, and Chase smiles, feeling proud of them both, McKayla tucks her hair behind her ear and returns to taking the test.

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The next day.

Chase is on his way to the cafeteria when McKayla comes down the stairs excitedly holding a sheet of paper in her hand "Chase!!" McKayla screams.

Chase turns around and she throws herself into his arms for a sudden hug.

Chase still has a look of astonishment without touching her "I did it! I did it! I did it!!" McKayla says as she hugs Chase tightly

Chase sighs and hugs her back when she squeezes him tighter, McKayla lets go of the hug and shows him the sheet in her hand "An A+!" Chase says impressed.

"Yes!!" McKayla says extremely excitedly with a smile from ear to ear "McKayla, that's amazing!" Chase says.

"I know, and I could never do it without you!" McKayla says excitedly, Chase smiles slightly "Seriously, I don't even know how to thank you, you're..." McKayla takes a deep breath she feels a sense of anxiety.

Like her stomach is going to explode "thank you" McKayla says excitedly "It was the least I could do, I mean you're my... best friend" Chase smirk.

McKayla looks down "I am?" McKayla says "yeah, although outside of my sibilings I don't have many friends but..." Chase says shyly.

McKayla chuckles "I think we have to celebrate!" McKayla shows the test "Of course!" Chase raises his arms "Let's call, Bree, Adam and Leo and go to a pizza place after school!?" McKayla says "I'm in!" Chase says.

"great let's go!" McKayla calls Chase to the cafeteria and the two leave.

A/N - Hey guys!! First original chapter of this story, comment what was your favorite part?

Also comment what the name of McKayla and Chase's ship could be?

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