Lambo crept slowly in the dark, careful not to wake up the others.

He glanced around from time to time, straining his eyes and ears for any sort of movement.

"What are you doing?"

Lambo nearly jumped when a voice suddenly asked. Without missing a beat, he swiftly turned around and came face to face with a girl he knew very well.

"I-pin. You scared the hell out of me," he sighed, trying to calm his beating heart.

I-pin just raise an eyebrow at her childhood friend. "And what, may I ask, are you doing out of your bed, walking around like a sneaky thief?" she asked, crossing her arms.

"Shh! Not too loud! You'll wake up everyone!" Lambo whisper-shouted at her.

She wanted to say something when her eyes saw it. Forcing Lambo to unfold his arms from his chest, I-pin quietly watched as candies of all sorts fell to the floor.

Lambo on the otherhand, watched in horror as his fruit of labour fell ungracefully to the floor, mouth opened and eyes wide.

"What was that for!?" hissed Lambo towards I-pin as he bend down to pick up the dropped goodies.

"Why do you have so many candies?" I-pin asked as she too bent down and helped Lambo collect the candies.

"I'm stressed, ok? I'm doing my maths homework and I'm not doing well. I thought of eating these while trying to tackle the maths problems." Lambo explained frustratingly.

I-pin said nothing as she handed the last candy to Lambo.

"Thank you. Now excuse me while I go suffer," he excused himself but was stopped by I-pin.

"Let me help. I've done my homework and I'm quite good in maths," she offered.

Lambo contemplated for a little before nodding in agreement. "Deal."

They shook hands and proceed to go back to Lambo's room.

As they walked, I-pin kept glancing at Lambo, fidgetting a little until she finally opened her mouth. "Do you even need that much candies?"

Lambo said nothing as he pushed opened the door to his room with his body, dumping the candies on the floor near two opened books. He shuts one of the books close and the title say, "Algebras and Calculus".

"Do you even need to ask?" Lambo raised an eyebrow at his childhood friend.

I-pin just smiled. "Fair enough. Now let's crack our brains."

Lambo could only smile weakly as he flipped open the book. "Let's do this," he said as his face slowly contorted to dismay.