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roadandruingame · 10 months ago

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RaR Musings #5: Skill Checks, and Building a Goblin

This is more something I've been putting off for a long time; the tech is all there, I just hadn't done it.

It almost seems farcical to make a 'goblin' in Road and Ruin. To begin with, outside of humans, we don't use the standard medieval fantasy races. Anyone who's a fan of goblins can make one, using the available lore etc, but... well, we'll see.

To begin with, to define a goblin, we must define how stats work, using a human.

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Road and Ruin has 9 attributes; a power, precision, and resistance option for each of physical, mental, and spiritual categories. These attributes are measured on a scale of 0-5, with 2.5~ being the average for an adult human. Values above and below this exist in the form of Monstrous and Mini stats, as a multiplier or divisor of the basic stat output, and skill checks are made by rolling Xd10, where X is the attribute, adding the resulting die, and finding a "number of successes" based on the tens' place of the outcome. Proficiency are two relevant values, each 0-5, added together, multiplied by your specialization in the task, and added to the random values, before finding successes.

Essentially: to find stealth successes, you roll your Dexterity (2), as 2d10; we find a 7 and a 4, for 11. Our Sneak proficiency of 2 and Presence proficiency of 3, multiplied by our specialization in blending into crowds (x2), gives us a +10. Our final value of 21 gives us two successes. This system is a lot: but, it does what I want it to do.

A 'success' are levels of abstraction based on what a human might find challenging in life (as, you know, the only metric that everyone at the table can realistically agree on). Failing a check by 1 success has pitiable consequences; lobbing a paper at the trash and missing. Two successes are tasks that require practice, training, or a solid deal of luck, and failing by two successes has damaging consequences, such as the destruction of equipment, or loss of time. Three successes are tasks that require a degree of specialization to readily achieve, dedication to a particular brand of activity, and failing by three successes has extreme, permanent consequences.

Next, Size. Size is measured in roughly 0.5m spans; any human, sized 4.9-6.4ft, are considered Size 3, due to being less than 2m tall. Likewise, a child can be considered Size 2 (3.2-4.9ft), and an infant Size 1 (1.6-3.2ft). Weapons deal damage equal to their Size, and using weapons larger than your Size has appropriate disadvantages, while using equipment small enough hits a minimum damage based on your Strength instead, as you essentially are just punching things.

Physical ability can use this Size value: intelligent creatures are expected to have a Strength, Dexterity, and Endurance based on their Size, for the most part. (I have yet to come up with a metric to explain mental and social, but those aren't really rooted in physical parameters as it is.)

Humans' primary survival tactic is community. By sharing resources, distributing responsibilities, diversifying their specializations, caring for the wise elderly so knowledge transcends generations, distrusting outsiders, and spreading their reach absolutely everywhere, humans cemented themselves as a powerhouse race. Mechanically, humans as a statblock are free to choose... probably 4, proficiencies and either 1 specialization or another 2 proficiencies, with the expectation that they begin play with any equipment necessary for them to perform their job.

With their 2.5 averages, health value of 5 (a little on the squishy side, if gauging 2hp/Size), and six starting proficiencies, that gives humans a general value of 33.5. On a scale of 1-10 (anything above 5 is supernatural), I'd rate their "starts with any necessary equipment" to be a 2, so far as power goes, so that gives us a final 35.5.

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With all that out of the way: Barbozeen!

In the World of Ruin, there are various different intelligent species. Barbozeen are a race of humanoids, with skin muddy hues that range from vibrant greens and yellows actually more akin to snakeskin, and hair ranging from tawny browns to russet reds grown long and into tufts. Their age and maturity resemble humans, and they often have protruded snouts and large teeth.

They also have incredible genetic diversity, each tribe defined by myriad traits, such as size between 3ft-8ft, being covered with hair rather than just on their head, tails, hooves, horns, and incorporating elements of bison, hyenas, dogs and wolves, lions, and other terrestrial mammals.

It's using this race we can build a 'goblin'.

At Size 2, Gob'ozeens are on the smallest end of the 'zeen spectrum. This gives them an average an average Strength of 1, perhaps 1.5 on average. We want them to be nimble, perhaps more so than a human, so we can give them Dexterity of 3. It might be fun to make them scrappy, and give them an Endurance of 2; they are 'zeens, after all. Intelligence-wise, they have an average capacity of 2.5, with higher Wits than normal at 3, but a below-average Focus of 1.5. For Will, or the ability to assert themselves and the extent of their ambition, I'd mark that as slightly high at 2.5, and their Connection, or empathetic understanding of others, at 2.5 as well. Their Poise, however, should be a vulnerability at 1, for while they dream big, they do cower. Their health, at Size 2, is probably a 3, on the squishier side of 2hp/Size. They may be known for stealth, but for now, let's say that they don't have any proficiency or specialization advantages.

With a value of 22.5 to humans' 35.5, that makes goblins substantially weaker than humans, by almost 40%. As an random enemy encounter, this is fairly good math; a single human adventurer can expect to cleave down a goblin, but two goblins at the same time almost definitely defeat a single adventurer, and goblins would expect to attack in groups.

But what if we aren't reducing goblins to a mild enemy encounter? What if we want some greater measure of equality? What if we want to have goblins as a playable race, or otherwise be able to hold their own in human society?

Essentially, they need abilities that amount to 13 points of difference. Some features, such as excellent low-light vision, can be a biological advantage worth... 2 points. If goblins are known to have large families and many children, but not diversify their skill sets, goblins can expect to travel in groups of 2 or more, and apply strength of numbers (hence the combat example earlier); depending on their strength of numbers, this might mean anywhere from a +2 to +5 point advantage. The remaining 9 to 6 points should be spent on proficiencies, but potentially, specializations: it'd help the goblins enormously if they collectively excelled at something that humans could begrudgingly turn to them for expertise or guidance. Scouting, for example, or traps. Stealth, certainly, but potentially crafting, as a fun outlier. Their larger ears could also be represented as heightened senses.

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This is more rambling than I originally wanted, but this at least gives me a baseline I can pull for encounters. Like I said in Musings #1, I don't actually see much need to try to equate goblins with humans, balance-wise; what they bring to the story should be on the merits of the individual goblin or human, not by birthright. But, rules for balancing the two SHOULD exist, for tables where that kind of balance is important to the players.

#road and ruin #ttrpg #indie ttrpg #ttrpg design #goblins

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datamanagement3 · 8 months ago

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my week 3 assignment

In this assignment you will find three data managed variables, provided from NESARC codebook, as frequency distributions. For the variable ‘AGE’.

I split the ages of the observations into four categories (18-21, 21-24, 24-27, 27-30) in order to examine the age frequency distribution of the sample into quartiles. I included missing data in the cannabis use variable distribution for ages 18 to 30, with the row ‘Unknown’ set to ‘nan’. In addition, after recoding variable ‘S3BD5Q2E’, which represents average rate of cannabis use, I created a new variable called ‘CUFREQMO’ that indicates how many days an individual used cannabis per month, and when using the most. I ran frequency distribution for the variable ‘CUFREQMO’ and calculated the counts and the percentages of this use per month. I then created a secondary variable with the name ‘NUMJOPMOTH_EST’. This variable estimates the quantity of cannabis joints smoked per month for the first 30 participants (18-30) when using the most by multiplying the amount of joints smoked per day (variable ‘S3BQ4’) with the variable ‘CUFREQMO’, which indicates the number of days an individual smoked per month. I finished with the creation of one more variable called ‘NUMMDGENANX’ that stands for the total number of participants who were diagnosed with either major depression, general anxiety or both. After examining the frequency distribution of the variable, I used the define function to create the last variable with the name ‘DEPRESSIONANXIETY’, which characterizes the mental state of the first 30 random cannabis users aged 18 to 30, as far as these two disorders are concerned. For the code and the output I used Spyder (IDE).

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First, a new variable called ‘AGE4GROUPS’ was necessary to be created in order to divide the participants ages between 18 and 30 years old, into four age groups: 18-21, 21-24, 24-27 and 27-30. From the frequency distribution it is noticed that about 30.73% were between 18 and 21 years old, 23.78% were between 21 and 24, 20.65% fell into 24-27 group and 24.82% fell into 27-30 group.

For the frequency distribution of variable ‘S3BQ1A5′, the missing data is included and option 9 is set to ‘NaN’ which represents the choice ‘Unknown’. As we can see the number of the missing data is 81 individuals and the proportion is 0.84% which is significantly small. Regarding the new variable with the name ’CUFREQMO’ which I created, the distribution results shows that about 15.96% smoked cannabis less than once per year, whereas approximately 22.13% used to smoke cannabis on an everyday basis. The rest of the cannabis use rates vary from about 2.65% for less than once per month to 11.6% for an average use of 6 times per month.

The new variable ‘NUMJOPMOTH_EST’ I created shows that the output illustrates the estimation of the quantity of joints smoked by those age 18 to 30 per month, by multiplying the quantity of joints smoked per day with the total number of days that they used cannabis per month. By examining the first 30 observations of the sample, it is noticeable the majority of these individuals smoked approximately less than 10 joints per month. With that said, there were also some participants who were smoking more than 100 joints monthly. Since the individuals with ID numbers 511 and 506 for example, peaked at 180 and 150 joints per month.

As for the new secondary variable ‘NUMMDGENANX’ is concerned, it is obvious that around 77% of cannabis users age between 18 and 30 were mentally healthy in the last 12 months after using marijuana for more than 1 year, while a percentage of 21.07% were diagnosed with either major depression or general anxiety. Only 1.91% of them were diagnosed with both depression and anxiety. Lastly, regarding the first 30 observations table presented in the end, the define function used, returns 0 if an individual had no problem with either depression or anxiety in the last 12 months, 1 if an individual met the criteria for both disorders, 2 if an individual was diagnosed only with major depression and 3 if an individual was diagnosed only with general anxiety. For the results, a new variable named ‘DEPRESSIONANXIETY’ was created.

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amirrrrr1374 · 1 year ago

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Assignment(Week 3): Making Data Management Decisions

In this assignment you will find three data managed variables, provided from NESARC codebook, as frequency distributions. For the variable ‘AGE’, I decided to split the ages of the observations in four categories (18-21, 21-24, 24-27, 27-30), in order to examine the age frequency distribution of the sample into quartiles. Furthermore, I included missing data in the cannabis use variable distribution for ages 18 to 30, with the row ‘Unknown’ set to ‘nan’. In addition, after recoding variable ‘S3BD5Q2E’, which represents average rate of cannabis use, I created a new variable called ‘CUFREQMO’ that indicates how many days an individual used cannabis per month, when using the most. Moreover, once I ran frequency distribution for the variable ‘CUFREQMO’ and calculated the counts and the percentages of this use per month, I created a secondary variable with the name ‘NUMJOPMOTH_EST’. This variable estimates the quantity of cannabis joints smoked per month for the first 30 participants (18-30) when using the most, by multiplying the amount of joints smoked per day (variable ‘S3BQ4’) with the variable ‘CUFREQMO’, which indicates the number of days an individual smoked per month. I finished with the creation of one more variable called ‘NUMMDGENANX’ that stands for the total number of participants who were diagnosed with either major depression, general anxiety or both illnesses. After examining the frequency distribution of this variable, I used the define function to create one last variable with the name ‘DEPRESSIONANXIETY’, which characterizes the mental state of the first 30 random cannabis users aged 18 to 30, as far as these two disorders are concerned. For the code and the output I used Spyder (IDE).

Code:

Output:

Firstly, a new variable called ‘AGE4GROUPS’ was necessary to be created in order to divide participants, aged between 18 and 30 years old, into four age groups: 18-21, 21-24, 24-27 and 27-30. From the frequency distribution it can be noticed that about 30.73% were between 18 and 21 years old, 23.78% were between 21 and 24, 20.65% fell into 24-27 group and 24.82% fell into 27-30 group.

For the frequency distribution of variable ‘S3BQ1A5′ the missing data is included and option 9 is set to ‘NaN’, which represents the choice ‘Unknown’. As we can see the number of the missing data is 81 individuals and the proportion is 0.84% which is significantly small. Regarding the new variable with the name ’CUFREQMO’ which I created, the distribution results show that about 15.96% smoked cannabis less than once per year, whereas approximately 22.13% used to smoke cannabis in an everyday basis. The rest of the cannabis use rates vary from about 2.65% for less than once per month, to 11.6% for an average use of 6 times per month.

Taking into account the new variable ‘NUMJOPMOTH_EST’ which I created, the output illustrates the estimation of the quantity of joints smoked by young adults aged 18 to 30 per month, by multiplying the quantity of joints smoked per day with the total number of days that they used cannabis per month. By examining the first 30 observations of the sample, it is noticeable that the majority of individuals smoked approximately less than 10 joints per month. On the other hand there were also some participants who were smoking more than 100 joints monthly, since individuals with ID numbers 511 and 506 for example, peaked at 180 and 150 joints per month respectively.

Concerning the recently introduced secondary variable 'NUMMDGENANX,' it is evident that approximately 77% of young adults aged 18 to 30, who have used cannabis for over a year, maintained mental health in the last 12 months. Conversely, about 21.07% received diagnoses of either major depression or general anxiety, with only 1.91% being diagnosed with both mental disorders.

The final table, encompassing the initial 30 observations, employs the 'define' function. This function assigns a value of 0 if an individual had no issues with depression or anxiety in the last 12 months, 1 if an individual met the criteria for both disorders, 2 if diagnosed only with major depression, and 3 if diagnosed only with general anxiety. The outcomes are captured in a newly generated variable termed 'DEPRESSIONANXIETY.'

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rishiaca · 1 year ago

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Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median & Mode

What is Central Tendency and why do we use it? Let’s say you made 1400 sales of ice creams in one year, however, you being smart, you sold the ice cream at different prices depending on the season. Now at the end of the year, you want to calculate how much you earned on an average so you can make various other calculations such as how much money you make per month or year and how much would you like to increase this number by in order to hit your goal. This is where you come up with your central values if you have plotted all the sales figures and the money earned.

Technically, central tendency is the conclusion for a data set describing its central value or key focus area which we can use to find out more advanced information. Central tendency tells us where most values fall in the distribution of data points, specifically over the plot of sales figures from the example earlier. To find out this central tendency, statistics uses three measures namely Mean, Median and Mode - each with a different formula and purpose behind identifying where these central tendencies lie and how they could be used going forward.

Different measures of Central Tendency Mean: Mean is nothing but the simple average that we calculate in basic mathematics or statistics. It is the sum of all data points divided by the total number of data points. This gives us the quantifiable measure of central tendency, or in other words, an arithmetic average of all the values across the data set.

While this value becomes the highlight of this measure, more often than not, it exposes the definition of central tendency when it doesn’t always locate the central value in a data set. For example: (10 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1) / 5 = 2.8 which is nowhere close to the center of the axis (5) where the highest value is 10.

Note: There is another sub-classification of mean such as geometric mean as well. Geometric mean is used in functions where variables are multiplied instead of addition. For example rate of interest, or data that follows lognormal distribution. This multiplication is followed by the root of the number of variables used to multiply.

Median: Median is that measure of central tendency which ensures that the data points are arranged in an absolutely balanced way. Put simply, think of it as a weight balance when both sides are equally distributed. And that is exactly what a median does, it arranges the data in ascending or descending order and takes the value of the one that lies in the middle.

Difference between mean and median This gives us the central tendency that is not sensitive to changes in value like we saw in the mean. For example, let’s take the median of five numbers (10, 20, 30, 40, 50) which comes out to be the third number, that is 30. Now if we change any of the two numbers of either side to large values like (10, 20, 30, 100, 1000) or (-1000, 1, 30, 40, 50), the median still remains the same. Hence, median is a better measure than mean when it comes to extreme values in outliers or skewed distributions.

Mode: Mode is another commonly used measure of central tendency which tells us about the highest occurring data point. Mode can be calculated by identifying the frequency of data points, sort of by categorizing the data set based upon its repetitions. Hence, mode is the most popular measure for finding the central tendency of categorical data, and in fact, the only type.

The value of mode is easily noticeable on a bar chart since it is the highest value. If a data set has multiple values with highest frequency, then both data points get the joint credits for mode in what is called a multi-modal distribution. Conversely, if no value returns the highest frequency, the data set does not have a mode.

Conclusion: For various kinds of distributions, we have different measures of central tendency. For a symmetrical distribution, you will notice that the mean, mode and median are at the heart or at the center of the distribution. However, for a data set skewed to the right or left, the mean shifts to the either side as well, leading to difficulty in finding the central tendency of the distribution effectively. This is where median comes handy.

As mentioned earlier, mode proves its uniqueness when calculating the central tendency for categorical data such as different flavors of ice cream. Another special case occurs when calculating the central tendency for a continuous data set when there is no mode for it. We can still deduce the frequency by locating the maximum value on a probability distribution plot.

There is a different measure of central tendency for every different data set or distribution. We’ll sum these up quickly below. Mean: Symmetrical distribution, continuous data sets. Median: Skewed distribution, Continuous data set, Ordinal data set Mode: Categorical data, Ordinal data set, Probability distribution

Measures of central tendency are key to finding out measures of variability, and diving deeper into statistical analysis which forms a core of Data Analysis. If you’re interested in picking up these subjects or developing an aptitude for the same, you can enroll for the Data Science and AI course at Skillslash which also offers a unique opportunity of real work experience at top MNCs. Get in touch with one of our counselors today by visiting www.skillslash.com

#central tendance #data science #data analysis #machine learning #python #artificial intelligence

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chit-hindocha · 2 years ago

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Making Data Management Decisions

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In this assignment, you will find three data managed variables as frequency distributions from the NESARC codebook. For the variable 'AGE,' I decided to divide the ages of the observations into four groups (18-21, 21-24, 24-27, and 27-30) in order to examine the sample's age frequency distribution into quartiles. In addition, I included missing data in the cannabis use variable distribution for ages 18 to 30, setting the row 'Unknown' to 'nan'. Furthermore, after recoding variable 'S3BD5Q2E,' which represents the average rate of cannabis use, I created a new variable called 'CUFREQMO,' which indicates how many days an individual used cannabis per month when using the most. Furthermore, after running a frequency distribution on the variable 'CUFREQMO' and calculating the counts and percentages of this use per month, I created a secondary variable called 'NUMJOPMOTH EST'. This variable estimates the number of cannabis joints smoked per month for the first 30 participants (18-30) when using the most, by multiplying the number of joints smoked per day (variable 'S3BQ4') by the number of days an individual smoked per month (variable 'CUFREQMO'). I finished by adding one more variable called 'NUMMDGENANX,' which represents the total number of participants who were diagnosed with either major depression, general anxiety, or both illnesses. After examining the frequency distribution of this variable, I used the define function to create a final variable called 'DEPRESSIONANXIETY,' which characterizes the mental state of the first 30 random cannabis users aged 18 to 30, in terms of these two disorders. Spyder was used for the code and the output (IDE).

Output

To begin, a new variable called 'AGE4GROUPS' had to be created in order to divide participants between the ages of 18 and 30 into four age groups: 18-21, 21-24, 24-27, and 27-30. According to the frequency distribution, approximately 30.73% were between the ages of 18 and 21, 23.78% were between the ages of 21 and 24, 20.65% were between the ages of 24-27, and 24.82% were between the ages of 27 and 30.

The missing data is included in the frequency distribution of variable 'S3BQ1A5′, and option 9 is set to 'NaN', which represents the option 'Unknown'. As we can see, there are 81 individuals with missing data, and the proportion is 0.84%, which is very low. Regarding the new variable 'CUFREQMO,' the distribution results show that approximately 15.96% smoked cannabis less than once per year, whereas approximately 22.13% smoked cannabis on a daily basis. The remaining cannabis use rates range from approximately 2.65% for less than once per month to 11.6% for an average of 6 times per month.

Using the newly created variable 'NUMJOPMOTH EST,' the output illustrates the estimation of the number of joints smoked by young adults aged 18 to 30 per month by multiplying the number of joints smoked per day by the total number of days they used cannabis per month. By looking at the first 30 observations in the sample, it is clear that the majority of people smoked less than 10 joints per month. On the other hand, some participants smoked more than 100 joints per month, as individuals with ID numbers 511 and 506 peaked at 180 and 150 joints per month, respectively.

According to the new secondary variable 'NUMMDGENANX,' approximately 77% of cannabis users aged 18 to 30 were mentally healthy in the previous 12 months after using marijuana for more than a year, while 21.07% were diagnosed with either major depression or general anxiety. Only 1.91% of them were diagnosed with both of the aforementioned mental disorders. Finally, the define function returns 0 if an individual had no problem with either depression or anxiety in the previous 12 months, 1 if an individual met the criteria for both disorders, 2 if an individual was diagnosed only with major depression, and 3 if an individual was diagnosed only with general anxiety. A new variable called 'DEPRESSIONANXIETY' was created to store the results.

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sublimedreamprince · 2 years ago

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Assignment(Week 3): Making Data Management Decisions

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As far as the new secondary variable ‘NUMMDGENANX’ is concerned, it is obvious that around 77% of cannabis users aged between 18 and 30 were mentally healthy in the last 12 months, after using marijuana for more than 1 year, while a percentage of 21.07% were diagnosed with either major depression or general anxiety. Only 1.91% of them were diagnosed with both mental disorders mentioned above. Finally, regarding the first 30 observations table, presented in the end, the define function used, returns 0 if an individual had no problem with either depression or anxiety in the last 12 months, 1 if an individual met the criteria for both disorders, 2 if an individual was diagnosed only with major depression and 3 if an individual was diagnosed only with general anxiety. For the results, a new variable named ‘DEPRESSIONANXIETY’ was created.

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breakyeol · 4 years ago

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— SQUIRM, BABY.

You don’t like Doh Kyungsoo. Especially not when he’s got his fingers buried knuckle deep inside of you and your seeing stars —goddamn stars!— but can’t make a sound unless you want the entire library to know exactly what he’s doing to you under the table.

┗ Pairing: Tutor!Kyungsoo x Reader

Genre: college au, tutor au, enemies w benefits au, smut

Words: 4.7k

Rating: 18+

Warnings: strong language, sexual acts in a public setting, fingering

A/N; tomorrow is going to be my 1 year anniversary as an EXO-L!! oh my goodness that feels so crazy, time really flies. so here is a little present from me to you, enjoy lovelies!!

“These are all wrong,” Kyungsoo mutters blankly, “start over.”

A loud groan is ripped from your throat, the sound earning you more than a few sideways glares from the surrounding tables but you can’t really bring yourself to care. You’ve been here for two hours, studying one of the most intolerable subjects in the world: Calculus. The mere mention of its name made you shiver in disgust.

To be blunt, you’d always been shit at math. Numbers and equations were never your strong suit, not in high school and definitely not now with the added complexities of derivatives and differential equations (neither of which made even the slightest bit of sense to you). You much preferred the gentleness of literature and history to the strict logic and rules of mathematics and science. Unfortunately for you, the latter subjects were just as vital a part of your education, and opting out of them was not an option.

“Can’t we take a break?” You almost whine the question, pressing your fingers into your throbbing temples. “My brain feels like it’s going to explode.”

“No.”

You scowl at the bluntness of his rejection. “I’m paying you.” You point out, stabbing a finger into his bicep for emphasis. “Shouldn’t I have a say in when we take a break?”

He rolls his eyes, swatting your hand away and shoving the paper back in your direction. “I’m giving you your money’s worth. Do it again.”

You let out a noisy huff of air, slouching over dramatically in the stiff plastic chair until your chin is pressed against the cold table. “I hope you know I am deeply regretting some of my life decisions right about now.” You grumble, shooting him an icy glare that you hope conveys the absolute loathing you feel for both him and the set of problems laid before you.

“I thought that was a daily thing for you.”

Scoffing, you bury your mouth in the thick sleeve of your hoodie. “Your face is a daily thing for me.”

He doesn’t even bother to look at you, though you could almost feel the intensity of his deadpan. “I think that was the shittiest comeback I’ve ever heard.”

“Your face is the shittiest comeback I’ve ever heard.”

“You do realize that that makes absolutely no sense.”

“Your fa—”

“Shut up and do your work.”

He either doesn’t hear or consciously chooses to ignore the colorful array of curses you grumble spitefully in his direction, though simultaneously resigning yourself to the fact that you won’t be able to put off your work inevitably. Kyungsoo was a stickler for proper time management. If he had an agenda set in place for your tutoring session (which he always did), then you better believe he’d be checking off each item within its designated time frame. And if you don’t cooperate— well then, your best bet is to pray that there isn’t a mechanical pencil within his reach.

He might not always be able to reach the top shelf, but Kyungsoo had ways of getting what he wanted. Usually, that chilling glare was enough to get those around him to bend to his will. He could be a scary little shit when he wanted to be. You’ll admit, even you had been the tiniest bit intimidated when you first met him. He was quiet, reserved, strict in manner, but also the dangerous unpredictable type, you gathered that much quickly enough. Maybe that’s why the two of you didn’t get on too well.

Where he was cool and standoffish, “a man of few words” some might say, you were more vocal about your opinions, social by nature, always eager to meet new people and make new connections. You had a tendency to speak loudly when excited and talk with your hands when passionate about a subject. That was something most people learned about you very quickly. Unfortunately, upon your first official meeting at a party in your freshman year with your mutual friends, Kyungsoo had no idea just how emphatic you could be until you’d knocked his drink clean out of his hand and spilled it down the front of his brand new shirt.

It was an accident, of course. You’d apologized profusely and he’d accepted it (albeit somewhat begrudgingly), but that was probably the first of many missteps in your... unique relationship.

With such conflicting personalities, it was understandable that you got into frequent arguments about one thing or another. Petty disagreements would often grow into something larger than they really needed to be. Mostly because despite having such contrasting personalities, you shared the trait of innate stubbornness, neither of you willing to admit when you were wrong. It was easy to argue with him, and you liked when you proved him wrong. You liked the way his brows furrowed and his cheeks flushed. You liked the way he glared, the way his lips pouted. You like the challenge he presented you with every time he opened his mouth. Above, you loved to win. Especially when it was against him.

So you pushed, and he pushed right back. And before you knew it, you found yourself a proper ‘frenemy’, though you aren’t sure that that’s quite the right word to describe whatever it was you two were.

But that’s just how the two of you are, how you’d always been. If you were being honest, riling him, seeing that usually so stoic, so controlled expression crack when you pushed just the right buttons— it was fun. You thoroughly enjoyed fucking with him, discovering new and creative ways to get under his skin. And you knew he got just as much satisfaction from doing the same to you, rendering you speechless with witty comebacks, flustering you with his sharp tongue and impressive rebukes.

So really, was it such a terrible thing?

Not to mention, a number of not-so-terrible things occurred as a result of one of your many arguments, such as hiring him as your calculus tutor. One that started out with you claiming he would probably be the shittiest teacher to ever exist (which seemed a valid argument at the time considering how short tempered and impatient he could be *cough* with you *cough*) to which he rebutted with the claim that he could “teach a goldfish advanced calculus” if he set his mind to it, and considering that you “had an IQ equivalent to one”, he could without a doubt teach you. His words, obviously.

It just so happened that you had a calculus exam coming up that next week, so to prove his point, he tutored you for the three days preceding said test. Even though you loathe being proven wrong, you ended up getting one of the highest scores you’d ever gotten on a math test in your entire academic career.

Putting your pride aside, you made the suggestion that he continue to tutor you. He only agreed when you offered him green in exchange for his troubles and admitted that he was right (it took a few extra hours to convince yourself that your grades should be held above your ego before you could bring yourself to verbally admit defeat).

And now here you are, not flunking out of calculus. You’d consider that worthy of the bruise to your pride, even if only by a small margin.

“Kyungsoo, why’d you mark this one wrong?” You frown at the large red X marking problem two as incorrect. You’d been glaring at your scribbled work for almost two minutes, running over the problem in your head, but you couldn’t seem to figure out where he thought you’d gone wrong. It looks right enough to you.

Kyungsoo shifts over to get a better look, his arms pressing against yours in the process and you are briefly stunned by the sudden, unexpected closeness, wholly unable to stop yourself from noticing the faint, woody scent of his aftershave that caresses your senses. Fuck. You can’t tell if you hate or love the fact that he smelled so good. Partly love it because good hygiene is always something to admire in a man (even if that man was Doh Kyungsoo), partly hate it because dammit it’s Doh Kyungsoo and you loathe finding anything that has to do with him attractive. Plus, it’s distracting. You’re here trying to learn and he has the audacity to go around smelling like pine trees and fresh moss after a rainfall. Unfair.

“Right here.”

The scowl you don’t realize you’re wearing immediately drops away as the low baritone of his voice thrums through the cavity of your ribcage and you lean forward to see exactly what he’s pointing at.

“You multiplied straight through instead of distributing.” He explains further upon seeing the uncertainty on your face. A few seconds of further inspection and you finally see what he’s talking about.

“Fuck,” you hiss, “I’m so stupid.”

“It’s an easy mistake to make.” He reassures.

“Yeah, but I should know that by now, I should’ve—” you turn your head, only to nearly choke on air as you discover that any space that once existed between the two of you has virtually disappeared, “... seen it.”

He’s close, so close that you can feel the cool rush of his breath against your skin as he exhales, goosebumps bristling across your arms in response. He’s close. Too close. You can’t think straight, can’t even breathe. The moment that surrounds you feels fragile, like even the slightest disruption would rupture it completely.

Frozen, you can only swallow around the sudden dryness of your mouth as your treacherous eyes drop to trace the plush line of his lips. Who even has lips like that? They’re just so big and so pink, that dark, kissable kind of pink that every girl just wishes her lips could be. You, included. They look soft, and you can’t help but to wonder if they’d still taste like the strawberry bubblegum he’d been chewing on at the beginning of your tutoring session.

“Careful, ___.” The sound of Kyungsoo’s voice, raspier than you recall it being before and laced in a faintly taunting pitch, is enough to break you from your trance and, once freed, you whip your head around fast enough to give yourself whiplash.

“Fuck off.” You cough, jaw clenching as you attempt to drag your mind out from the gutter and back onto the calculus problems you have yet to correct. But for whatever reason your brain refuses to cooperate, instead filling your head with images of his pretty mouth and everything it could be doing instead of rambling on about something as uninteresting as calculus. Damnit.

No doubt seeing the distress written clearly across your face, Kyungsoo chuckles, the sound low and smooth where it drips from his lips, and a familiar heat blossoms in the pit of your stomach.

You can feel his eyes on you now, every cell of your being suddenly hyperaware of his presence beside you. The pressure of his knee where it nudges against yours, the teasing curl of his lips as he watches you struggle to focus, the warmth of his palm caressing up your thigh, the— wait what?

Your gaze whips down, breath hitching at the sight of Kyungsoo’s hand gently gripping the lagging clad flesh just above your knee. It’s another few seconds before you’re able to find your voice again.

“W– What’re you—?”

“Focus.” He cuts you off smoothly, fingers soothing over the inside of your leg, squeezing gently. When you don’t look away from him, he smirks, jerking his chin forward in a manner you can only interpret as challenging. There’s a familiar glint in his eye, a dangerous glint that doesn’t fail to provoke your competitive side. You know that look well. He’s challenging you.

And you don’t back down from a challenge.

Especially not from Doh Kyungsoo.

Determination flairs up inside of you, your jaw clenching as you strike him with a single, heated glare that read plain and simple ‘you. are. on.’ before honing all your attention onto the worksheet in front of you. It’s not too difficult to focus at first, to disregard the tingles that erupt across your skin where his hot touch sears into it. You manage to find and correct your error in one of the problems (impressive for you even if Kyungsoo wasn’t feeling your leg up under the table).

But whatever pride you find in doing so is quickly quelled when his hand suddenly shifts higher, and you feel the faintest pressure against your heat. It’s a sensation that robs you of your ability to breathe entirely for a handful of seconds, and you can’t stop the shiver that ripples down your spine.

This, you see, is one of the more recent developments in your oh-so complicated relationship with Doh Kyungsoo. Yet another that began with a disagreement at a party, over something you can’t even remember anymore thanks to the haze of alcohol that clouded both your minds at the time, that spiraled way out of proportion. You remember yelling at him, insulting him, stabbing your finger into his chest, feeling the sting of his lethal glare. God, he’d looked so pissed off, and you just fed off of it, fed off the rage and the frustration that festered like lava in those dark brown eyes. The angrier he got, the harder you pushed, until he finally snapped.

You’re still not sure what you expected to happen. What you expected him to do. But you sure as hell hadn’t anticipated him grabbing you by the throat and pulling you into one of the hottest, most mind numbing kisses you’d ever experienced.

Next thing you remember is being in a bed. Whose bed it was, isn’t important. What is important, however, is the fact that that night you had the best sex of your entire life with the man you thought you couldn’t stand.

Hate sex with Doh Kyungsoo opened your eyes to a whole new world of mind boggling pleasure that you’d never experienced before. Pleasure that no other person had ever been able to give you. God, the things he did to you. No one had ever touched you like that before. It was like he knew all the places on your body that made you unravel. He honestly ruined all other men for you that night because none have even come close to comparing. Which was beyond frustrating especially considering that, at the time, you thought it was a one time thing.

The morning after you both pretended that nothing happened. In the two weeks following as well, neither one of you mentioned it. You tried to erase the memory from your brain, tried to go back to normal, but it was hard considering every time you needed some sexual release (which was more often than you care to admit), it was his hands, his mouth, his cock that you imagined while you touched yourself. You replayed his moans in your head, his deep, rasping voice growling your name, and fuck, you never came harder.

But it was still nothing compared to the real thing.

As time passed you only grew more and more frustrated. Worst of all, you could tell he was feeling it too. It was obvious in the way he looked at you, with fire burning in eyes, in the way he spoke to you, with a pitch of something hot and wanting in his voice, in the way he lost his cool far quicker and far more often than he had in the past, your arguments fiercer and more frequent than they’d ever been. The tension between the two of you was palpable, thick enough to be cut with a knife. It got to the point where even your most oblivious of friends started noticing it as well, though they knew better than to voice their curiosity.

The second time it happened, you were both sober and, somehow, it was even better than you remembered. The pleasure was more intense, more overwhelming, a feeling you can’t even put into words. Then it kept happening. Late at night when he’d show up unannounced at your door. Early in the morning when you had an important exam later in the day and you needed some pre-test de-stressing. Between classes in the back seat of his car just because you could. At parties when your friends were too shit faced to notice the two of you slipping into an unoccupied bedroom.

Just sex. That’s what you both agreed to when it became blatantly obvious that your little ‘arrangement’ wouldn’t be coming to an end any time soon. No strings. Just sex. Just really, really good sex.

And that was perfectly fine by you.

Exhaling shakily through your nose, you try to block out the feeling of his thumb as it begins to caress gently up and down your clothed core, suddenly very grateful for the layers of fabric that separate you from his intoxicating touch. But it’s a gratitude that’s short lived. Just as you manage to adjust and scribble down a correction, he cups his hand over your mound and squeezes. A gasp escapes you, and you try to cover up the sound with a series of short coughs, the sting embarrassment intertwining with the warmth of pleasure as a few eyes briefly glance in your direction.

“You’re such an asshole.” You hiss under your breath, thighs tightening around his hand, locking it in place.

He throws you a lopsided grin, brows lifting and you don’t miss the glimmer of amusement in his eyes. “I’ve been called worse.” What he means is you’ve called him worse.

Your lips part, but any intelligible words die on the tip of your tongue as he grinds the heel of his palm down, directly against your clit. Your head drops, eyes squeezing shut, teeth locking down firmly on your lower lip in order to silence the soft moan that threatens to break free.

“F- fuck.”

You hear him coo tauntingly beside you at your slip, the tips of his skilled fingers easily locating your entrance and prodding experimentally. At this point, you don’t doubt he can feel the fabric of your leggings growing hot and wet with your arousal.

Despite being used to the quick effect he had on your body, you can help but to feel the slightest twinge of shame at how he was able to rile you up this much with little more than a few well-placed strokes of his fingers. But fuck, it felt so good. You’d already been feeling somewhat deprived since you’d both been so busy this past week with exams and projects and what not. This is the first time you’re spending time with him since almost a week ago.

And you are in need of a fix.

“You look like you’re having a bit of trouble on that problem. Do you need my help?” Kyungsoo leans into you, his face right up next to yours, and you have to resist the sudden urge to kiss him right then in there in front of everyone in the stupid library.

Instead, you grit out an unconvincing, “I’m fine,” and force yourself to stay focused on the dizzying mess of numbers and letters on the worksheet in front of you and not on the delicious warmth of his hand where it is applying just the right amount of pressure to keep you teetering between pleasure and the insatiable need for more.

“You sure?” There’s a certain lightness to his voice that tells you he is thoroughly enjoying watching you struggle. Sadistic bastard.

“Positive.”

And just like that, he’s gone. You almost gasp as a rush of cold air fills the places he had been, and you can’t help the frown that tugs at the corners of your lips, disappointment and irritation coloring your features before you can reel them in. From the corner of your eye, you chance a glance in his direction. The smug, knowing little smirk staining his lips sends a wave of heat pulsing into your cheeks, and you grit your teeth in frustration.

“So what, you’re just going to stop?” You whisper sharply, not making any attempt whatsoever to hide your annoyance.

A look of feigned innocence overcomes his features. “You said you didn’t need my help.”

You grit your teeth, glaring at him as hard as you can manage with how incredibly turned on you are. But he remains unfazed.

“If you want my help,” he continues, voice dropping an entire octave, “you’re going to have to ask for it... nicely.”

Nice wasn’t a word in your vocabulary when Kyungsoo was involved.

Seeing the resistance you are still putting up, he feathers his fingers over your thigh, tracing slow designs across the thin, black fabric. You swallow, unable to look away as they trail dangerously higher, teasing closer to where you both knew you wanted them most.

“You do want it, don’t you?”

Fuck, you want it so bad.

You know that he knows you want it. It’s just the getting yourself to actually say it out loud part that proves to be a challenge. But that’s exactly what he wants you to do, he wants to hear you say it, wants to see you cast aside your stubborn pride and beg for it. Beg for him.

Lifting your eyes, you glance unsurely around the library. It isn’t overly crowded anymore since most of the other students have begun to trickle out as late afternoon approaches. Plus, the table you were seated at was tucked into the far back corner of the room, secluded and out of the way. But still, your nerves buzzed at the thought of someone seeing. Though maybe — just maybe — there was a buzz of something else as well. Excitement, perhaps?

Grip tightening around your pencil, you chewed on the corner of your lip, refusing to meet Kyungsoo’s penetrating gaze as you let out a soft murmur. “...ease.”

He leans closer, mirth shimmering in his eyes. “What was that? I couldn’t quite hear you.”

Groaning, you shoot him a scowl, shoulders slumping in defeat. “Please help me, asshole.”

Laughter bubbles at his lips, the genuine kind that makes his cheeks lift and his nose wrinkle. You like it when he laughs like that. Makes him look a lot less like a serial killer.

Sinking his teeth into the pillowy flesh of his lower lip to stifle his laughter, he shoots you a lazy grin, “that’s all you had to say.”

Next thing you know, his hand is slipping beneath the elastic of your leggings and into the soft cotton confines of your underwear. Your mouth fell open, a sharp inhale filling your lungs with cold air as his fingers slid through your slick folds.

“I knew you were wet but shit.” He hisses, thick brows furrowing at the feeling of your heavy arousal coating the length of his digits. “I must say, I’m flattered.”

“Don’t be,” you breathe, eyes fluttering, “even Chanyeol can get me this— ngh!”

Without warning, he plunges his middle finger inside of you, and the remainder of your sentence pitches into a strangled moan. One look at his face, jaw clenched, nostrils flared, lips down turned, tells you he isn’t all too pleased at the mention of another man’s name, especially when he’s the one buried knuckle deep in your greedy cunt.

A hazy smirk curls onto your lips and you let out a low hum of pleasure, walls squeezing around him. “You’re sexy when you’re mad.”

“Is that why you enjoy pissing me off so much?” He questions, tone biting and low, and you shutter involuntarily as he rolls the pad of his thumb harshly over your aching clit.

“Partly.” You admit, somewhat breathless. “But you’re also just a really fun person to piss off.”

He chuckles dryly in response, though the sound lacks any genuine amusement. “You are such a brat, you know that?” He emphasizes the word by stretching you around a second finger, and you have to drop your pencil in favor of clasping your hand over your mouth, unable to swallow down the soft whimpers that tremble up your throat.

“You love it.” You manage to get out before you’re forced to bite into the tender flesh of your palm to muffle a desperate cry when the slow thrusts of his digits suddenly picks up speed. Your thighs squeeze around his hand, hips jerking up to grind your throbbing clit against the heel of his palm. Electricity ricochets through your veins, and you feel that distinctive tightening in the pit of your stomach. Kyungsoo also feels the way you throb and clench around him, and makes sure to grind down hard against your swollen clit.

Heat immediately spreads through your core, the intensity of the pleasure becoming more than you can handle. “Oh god, Kyungsoo.” Your voice comes out louder than you intended, and you quickly duck your head, doing your best to make it seem like you’re focusing on your work and not the fingers drilling relentlessly into your g-spot, praying to god that no one had seen the blissed out expression on your face. Still, you can’t help the quiet whine that escapes you when his ministrations slow.

“Are you trying to get us caught?” He asks in less than a whisper, breath hot against the shell of your ear. “Ever hear of subtlety?”

“Ever hear of suck my dick?” You snap back without missing a beat, only to jolt as his fingers curl inside of you, pressing directly against that sensitive bundle of nerves. Every muscle in your body tenses, and fuck you’re so close you can almost taste it. Frantically, you thrust your hips, desperately trying to fuck yourself down on his digits.

“Sit still.” He growls, and you quiver when he sinks his teeth into the lobe of your ear, obeying only because you really don’t want to get banned from the campus library if someone happened to catch on.

“Soo— fuck,” the force with which you bite into your lip is nearly about to break the skin, but you can’t be bothered by the pain, not with how quickly your orgasm was approaching. Sensing as much, Kyungsoo goes the extra mile of drawing hard, fast figure eights over your clit with his thumb while simultaneously thrusting his fingers into you so fast that you swear you can almost hear it.

All at once fire roars through your veins, euphoria consuming you as your high crashes over you. Your walls spasm around his digits, painting them with your release.

He doesn’t withdraw from you until you go slack, thighs spreading, body slumping back in your chair, eyes fluttering as a hazy, blissed out smile touches your lips. You can only watch through hooded lids as he brings his glistening fingers to his mouth, sighing in amazement as he sucks them clean. There’s a twinge of arousal in your core as he moans softly at the taste of you on his tongue, a downright lethal sound that somehow manages to rouse your positively spent pussy.

This man is going to be the absolute death of you one of these days.

“Fuck.” You chuckle airily, heady gaze flickered over him lazily, only to do a double take when you notice something standing upright beneath the zipper of his jeans. The corners of your lips twirled into a mirthful grin, eyebrows raising slowly.

“Need some help with that?”

“Yes.” He answers shamelessly and without hesitation, grunting softly as he adjusts himself in the tight confines of his jeans to make the raging hard-on he’s sporting somewhat less obvious. “But not here.”

“I figured. So... your car or mine?”

“Didn’t you just get a new one with reclining seats?” He questions, running the tip of his tongue over the seam of his lip at the mere implication.

You strike him with a wicked grin, already beginning to shove your things into your bag. “I did indeed.”

“Then what are we— wait.”

“What?”

“You didn’t finish correcting the worksheet yet.” He points out, drumming his fingers across the paper that had completely slipped your mind.

You pull a face, pausing in the act of gathering your belongings long enough to cross your arms pointedly over your chest. “No offense, Kyungsoo, sweetheart, but I’d much rather suck your dick than do one more of those stupid fucking calc problems.”

His brows leap to his hairline, and he offers a single nod of acceptance, in no position to argue with such a valid point.

“Noted.”

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annabethy · 4 years ago

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you’re embarrassing me in the teacher au!!! 💞💞💞

#5 “You’re embarrassing me.” Teacher AU!

Today was just not Annabeth’s day.

It was as though her students were trying to make her off herself. Each class period was agonizingly slow, and watching her kids stumble around in front of the white board unsure of how to answer a math question was just flat out agonizing.

“Piper,” Annabeth seethes as the girl makes a dumb mistake. Annabeth only feels bad for calling it dumb for two seconds before she doesn’t care. “Is that how you distribute the parenthesis?”

Piper blinks. “Is that not how you do it?”

“When you’re distributing an exponent, you write it out, not multiply everything by two.”

Honestly. She’s about to throw something.

Piper tries again, and Annabeth can feel a headache coming in as she stood there hopelessly, watching her calculus kids crash and burn. She no longer has it in her to even try and put out the fire because these were seniors who she has taught for years and they should very well know how to distribute.

“Ms. Chase,” Piper asks cluelessly, turning towards her teacher. Annabeth was perched against the wall, one hand on her forehead because dear lord. “How do you use pascal’s triangle again?”

Annabeth swallows hard, counting to three. “You don’t need to use pascal’s triangle.”

“Oh, right.” Piper turns back to the board.

It really is painful watching her students not know how to do simple math when she has taught it a million times over. Normally she would assume she was the problem, but this — there was no way she was the issue here. This was just pure stupidity.

“This is pure stupidity,” Annabeth repeats after her thoughts, pushing herself off the wall and snatching a dry-erase marker from Leo’s desk. She tries to show them how to do it, knowing full and well that she will not be teaching them integration today. Because high schoolers are high schoolers, they don’t pick up on it and Annabeth has to physically retrain herself from walking out the door with her middle finger held up high.

She gets through one problem, and she has a tiny bit of hope, but it immediately dissipates when she takes in their faces. Annabeth likes to think that they were not looking at her, but rather through her. There was no light behind their eyes, and she kind of wanted to knock the light out of her own eyes if it meant she didn’t have to bear witness to this.

“Are you okay, Ms. Chase?” Piper asks, oblivious as always.

Annabeth turns towards her, a little lightheaded and baffled (what did they put in these kids’ cheerios this morning?). “I’m just not really understanding what’s going on,” she says.

Leo tilts his head, leaning forwards on his desk with two arms. “Neither are we.”

“That’s what I’m not understanding,” Annabeth says, a snappy edge to her voice. She knows she shouldn’t yell at them because they were still kids, and things like this were inevitable, but come on. “You understood this last week.”

“We forgot,” he excuses.

“Forgot?” Annabeth says meekly.

“We had a test in marine today, so our brains are fried,” Reyna throws in. Annabeth snaps her head to Reyna, who is leaning back carelessly in her seat, picking at her nails.

Jackson.

“We still have twenty minutes left of class,” Annabeth says. “But you all smell like fried fish and are useless to me.”

Piper grins. “Ask us something easy and we can call it a day.”

“What do you need to make sure you never forget to write when you’re integrating an equation?”

“The answer!” Leo shouts confidently.

How is this level of stupidity possible?

“You’re all going to fail the AP test,” Annabeth says.

“What was the answer?” Piper asks, frowning.

“The plus c, as in crappy children are clueless.”

The pounding in Annabeth’s head is increasing with every second she looks at these kids’ faces. Right now, they were all ugly blobs she wouldn’t mind hitting over the head with a hammer, but as a teacher, she has to pretend this is motivation for her to teach them. Not that they deserved to be taught, because no, they deserve to be hit over the head with a hammer. Also maybe a tennis racket.

Annabeth just stares at her students’ ugly faces for what feels like eternity. She’s pretty sure she can see their brain cells dying with every passing second. She hears the door open behind her back and she assumes it’s one of her students leaving, and she is so jealous that it was not her leaving. She doesn’t even bother looking because if she looks, she swears she is actually going to—

“Chase!”

Annabeth scowls, turning towards the voice.

“What’s with the face?” Percy asks cheerfully, just working his way into the classroom.

“Jackson,” she says, snarling. “This is your fault.”

“What is?”

“You gave them a test and now they’re dumber than you.”

“Babe,” Percy teases. “That’s mean.”

Annabeth’s face flushes red immediately as she hears the snickers start to roll in from the twelve kids in the classroom. They’d managed to keep their relationship under wraps to avoid exactly this, but for some reason, Percy just loves to go around flaunting pet names. She isn’t sure if it’s some reverse psychology thing to make them think it’s all fun and games when it’s really not, but she does know that this is mortifying.

“You’re disgusting,” is the only response Annabeth can think of.

Percy slides up to Annabeth’s desk beside the front whiteboard, settling into her chair, prompting Annabeth to raise an eyebrow.

“Don’t you have a class?” she asks.

“It’s my planning period,” Percy says.

“Go bother literally anyone else,” Piper says. Annabeth has to admit Piper has balls.

“Thank you, Piper,” Annabeth says, impressed.

Piper preens. “You’re welcome, Ms. C.”

Percy just scoffs and rolls his eyes, rocking her chair with his foot on the ground. “I wanted to see how your class was going. It seems like it’s not going at all.”

“Thanks to you,” Annabeth says. “You’re not helping, interrupting right now.”

Percy simply takes one look around before his eyes settle back on hers. “You weren’t going to get anything done today anyways.”

“I’m in the middle of class though.”

“Is it still class if you’re not teaching?”

The look Percy gives her is one she would like very much to smack off his face. He looks so smug, and a part of her thinks that maybe he planned his test for today just so her students would forget how to do anything math related, and he could sit and watch it all fall apart.

“All I’m saying,” Percy says, turning to fiddle with a pen on her desk, “is that you could use some cheering up right now, so don’t kick your best friend out of your room.”

Annabeth glares at him.

“Piper texted me,” he explains. “Said you were being mean and to come save them from an early death.”

“Mr. Jackson!” Piper complains.

Percy disregards her, giving Annabeth a dashing smile that never fails to make her knees weak, and he stands up to hold his arms out towards her. “Come here.”

“No,” Annabeth says, taking a step back.

Percy gives her the look, and she finds herself unable to resist approaching him anyways. She steps into his arms, despite Reyna’s animated gagging motions and Leo’s whoops, and he wraps around her tightly. He’s really warm right now, and he smells so good that she could just curl into a ball and fall asleep right now. She never wants to leave his embrace. She feels protected and cared for, and it offers a place to hide from Leo’s mean flirtatious remarks.

Percy holds on for longer than expected and Annabeth has to pry his arms away. It works for a second, but then his hands are going to her cheeks and pulling her towards him, and her stomach is dropping.

He presses a sloppy wet kiss to her cheek, making sure to be obnoxiously loud, and Annabeth gasps, smacking him and wiping her cheek.

“Got you!” “You’re embarrassing me,” she whines, taking the bottom of his shirt to wipe his slobber away.

Piper has her phone out and a big smile across her face. Percy gives Piper a thumbs up before looking at Annabeth. He’s still smiling, basking in her misery and humiliation.

“But I made your day better!” Percy says, laughing. “Tell me you don’t feel better.”

“Oh, I feel fantastic that you just planted one on me in front of a bunch of students,” she says sarcastically, shoving him by the chest. He stumbles back but immediately returns, undeterred.

“As a student of yours, I do not feel fantastic,” Reyna interrupts. “In fact, I feel violated.”

Leo winks at Reyna, and Reyna shivers.

“I hate you all,” Annabeth says. “You children are the sole reason I regret becoming a teacher.”

The banter continues on between Percy and Annabeth for the rest of class, the students chiming in to team up against them. Even though Annabeth was immensely annoyed, she still has to admit that she does feel better. She hates these kids so much, but they also mean the world to her, so she can’t find it in her to be too bothered that they lost a day of teaching anymore.

The bell for lunch rings and Annabeth all but kicks her students out. Piper is the last one out, demanding a hug from Annabeth, and it’s only a little weird. Annabeth was used to Piper’s antics by this point.

Once the door closes, Annabeth turns to Percy, tilting her head at him.

“It was funny,” he says, snickering under his breath at her face. He comes up in front of her, and because there is no one else around, he puts his hands on either side of her to trap her against the wall.

“It was embarrassing,” she mumbles, resting her head against his chest.

“I love you,” he says, kissing the top of her head. “You were having a rough day and I thought I could make it up.”

“By nearly outing us to the class?”

“You said it yourself — they’re too stupid to actually suspect anything.” Percy nudges her chin up with his nose. “If you’re still having a bad day, I can perform some tabular integration with you?”

Annabeth snorts, accepting the short kiss he gives her. “What?”

“Urban dictionary. Look it up.”

Annabeth shakes her head and bites her lower lip, endeared. She really loved this boy, even if he taught marine and used undeniably dirty terms off of urban dictionary.

“You plan on interrupting future classes again?” Annabeth asks, pressing her lips back to his. She breathes into it, letting her earlier worries slip away.

Percy smiles into the kiss. “If this is what I get, then yes.”

#percy jackson #percabeth #annabeth chase #pjo #percy and annabeth #percy jackson and the olympians #my writing #anon #asks #teacher au #i hope u enjoy😬i admit i am quite nervous with this

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drariellevalentine · 4 years ago

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Medically Inevitable

Chapter 2- Scintillating Second Days

Characters:- Arielle Valentine, Bryce Lahela, Sienna Trinh, Elijah Greene, Landry Olsen, Ethan Ramsey, Ines Delarosa, Naveen Banerji

Arielle’s PoV:-

You wake up to one of your favourite angst songs, “Please Don’t Go”, by Joel Adams. “Hmm, good morning to me!” You stretch your legs and half blindly walk to your suite’s bathroom while slipping on a pair of AirPods- a small gift that Adrian gave. You hum along to the song while stripping off last night’s clothes and slip on your favourite silk robe. Proceeding along with your morning routine which consists of washing your face, brushing and flossing and lastly a cup of green tea with honey and lemon, you head to the balcony to find a mesmerising sunrise. You savour the tangy taste of the tea as it hits your dry throat. You find yourself belting out the last few lines of the song, using the balcony railing as a piano for your skilled fingers. Checking the time, you head into the shower. Steam rolls off the water as it comes cascading down. You step inside the rather luxurious shower, taking off your robe. Pumping your favourite shampoo of vanilla and cinnamon in your hand, you massage it into your scalp and pin it up while you lather and rinse off the rest of your body. Turning on the water, you let your hands sift through your hair, slowly rinsing it. You let yesterday’s events get washed away with the warm water that rinses your whole body. Ringing the excess water from your hair, you dry yourself with a towel, wrapping your head in a towel and your body in a wool robe. You blast a few of your favourite tunes while you do your hair, deciding to pin it up with a braided half-up, after drying and massaging in a leave-in conditioner. You get dressed, an off shoulder lace top with a pair of leggings, walk to the cafe for breakfast and get in your Lexus, grabbing your mini backpack.

General PoV:-

Arielle parks her car and slides out, heading to the staff entrance, where she sees a bunch of interns playing basketball. The ball skitters to her feet. A muscular intern yells, “Are you going pass it back or what? She scoffs. Little do they know, she’s been trained in self-defence and gymnastics her whole life and decides to give them a show. She sprints towards the court, dropping her backpack, jumps up and dunks the ball. The interns whistle and cheer. “How’s that?”, she asks. The same intern who teased her is impressed. “Damn! Was not expecting that! I’m Dr. Bryce Lahela, surgical resident.”

“Scalpel jockey huh! That explains the arrogance. I’m Arielle Valentine, internal medicine.”

“Well Dr. Valentine, would your very skilful self like to join us for a round or two?”, he asks feigning respect. “I would, but my shift starts in a few minutes. See you later, Bryce.” He replies with a wave. Arielle heads to the locker room to find a rather cheerful Sienna and three sleep deprived interns. “Hey Ari! Can I call you Ari?”, Sienna innocently asks.

“Yes you can.”, Arielle replies. “Tone it down!”, Jackie says. “I baked some cookies. Sugar helps combat sleep deprivation.” Sienna hands out the chocolate chip cookies. Everyone praises and thanks Sienna for the cookies. “How do you manage to look like you slept for 10 hours, Arielle?”, asks Elijah. Arielle doesn’t want to lie, at the same time she doesn’t want to boast that she is rich. Before she can reply, “She’s rich you dumbass, but too kind for her own good to rub it in our faces. It’s kind of refreshing actually. Especially with Princess Nepotism.”, says Jackie. Arielle smiles, “Thanks Jackie, and yes I am quite well off. Anyways, I found an apartment that fits our requirements. Wheelchair friendly, near the T, 5 bedrooms. Listing price is 5k. I already spoke with the landlord and visited the place. We can go there, but on one condition. I get the master bedroom. I’ll pay extra if you want.”

“Why do need so much space? I take it back.”, says Jackie. “It’s nothing like that, I already bought a bunch of furniture for my apartment which includes my bedroom and balcony. Plus I have a piano.”, says Arielle.

“Okay then that settles it! Arielle already bought furniture which saves us a lot of time and expenses plus none of us need that much space.”, says Sienna. Jackie apologies saying that she was wrong about Arielle. “We’ll meet up in the parking lot after our shifts. I’ll drive us there.”, says Arielle.

Arielle’s PoV:-

"I hope they are nice. I have heard stories of residents making interns' lives hell," I say as we head towards the atrium.

"That's why you've gotta give as good as you can," Jackie smirks.

"I think that's them," Landry says nodding his in the direction where two doctors are standing.

Dr. Delarosa from the other day spots us standing in a corner. "Oh hi!" She beams,"Over here, with the other interns."

We walk towards them as they start giving their introductory speech.

"Do take your time. We've got all day!" The other doctor yells sarcastically at us and we hurry towards them.

"It's so lovely to see so many new faces ready for exciting adventures! I’m Dr. Delarosa, but to you. I'm just Ines!" Dr. Delarosa says when we approach them.

"And I'm Dr. Zaid Mirani. We've got your cases for the day. Come and get on."

"Do not ask me for something better than what you get. will treat you like you don't exist," He adds. God, this guy has a temper!

As the other intern starts to get their cases from either, I approach Ines to get my case. She seems nice and is way too better than the guy.

"Hi Dr. Valentine! Remember, we met yesterday?" Ines smiles while handing me a file.

"Of course! And you can call me Arielle," I say taking the file from her.

"Zaid and I will be your mentor during your intern year. We'll assign and monitor your closet and help you if you run into any problems," she explains. "Our purpose is to teach and guide you. Think of us as your safety net, okay? No matter what, we'll get through this together."

I smile at her before leaving her to help the other interns. By that time Jackie is finished talking with Dr. Mirani too.

"What was he like?" I ask her while waiting for the others to collect their cases.

"Ass. What about Ines?"

"Bubblegum-rainbows, incarnate," I smile.

"Gross. I'll take the ass." She snorts and I laugh.

By the time Elijah and Landry joins us the residents are done distributing the charts.

"Now that you've all got your cases, go forth and shine bright," Ines says, her infectious smile never leaving.

"What are you waiting for? A red carpet? Move, for god's sake!" Zaid scowls at us.

The interns scramble, moving to their designated patients.

A few hours later, you realise you’ve been paged for rounds a few minutes ago on the 4th floor, and you happen to be on the 14th floor for labs. “Crap! You flee down the flights of stairs and make your way to the fourth floor.

Ethan’s PoV:-

You decide you join this year’s batch of interns’ first rounds. You tell yourself, “It’s just to make sure the intern don’t kill anybody.” But deep down, you know it’s to sneak another glance at an owner of a pair of vivid violet eyes. You take the elevator to the 4th floor, just in time to inform Dr. Delarosa that you’ll be joining rounds. Her eyes flicker with surprise but doesn’t say anything.

You reach the 4th floor and before you can stop yourself, you find your eyes scanning the bunch of interns for a certain intern but she’s not there. You frown in confusion until a strong waft of vanilla and cinnamon hit you. You turn around and there she is, her almond eyes wide, cheeks flushed and lips slightly open, breathless.

“Sorry I’m late, Dr. Delarosa. I was on the 14th floor.” She doesn’t seem to notice me.

“It’s alright, Dr. Valentine. Make sure it doesn’t happen again.”, Ines says.

“Gather round interns...” She explains to the interns how rounds work.

“Today, Dr. Ramsey will be joining us!”

“Let’s see who the interns kill today.”, I say.

Arielle scoffs. “Anything you would like to say, Dr. Valentine?” The interns suddenly starts whispering among themselves. You roll your eyes, expecting Arielle to deny.

“Actually yes, Dr. Ramsey. It’s only our second day. You don’t have to joke about our careers to shake our confidence.” You’re surprised. Ines gulps.

“Has your confidence been shaken?”

“No, but I can’t say the same for others.”

“Well, what I say is absolutely nothing compared to what you will face here at Edenbrook.”-

“Haha! Let’s get back to rounds.”, Ines laughs nervously.

“Well, why don’t we start with your patient Dr. Valentine.”

You lead the doctors to a patient’s room. “Are my eyes multiplying?”, the patient asks.

“Good Afternoon, Mr. Knoblauch. They multiply, it’s horrible.”, says Dr. Ramsey with absolutely no remorse. His son plays on the room’s floor, unaware of the sudden crowd. Mike apologies for the noise his son makes and explains that he has ADHD.

“Everyone, this is Mike Knoblauch, age 43, my patient with Dr. Olsen.” You gesture Landry to start presenting. He starts presenting but stammers, you do your best to help him but he doesn’t improve.

“He’ll be forty-four by the time you’re done.”, Dr. Ramsey says.

You quickly swoop in and present the case yourself. “At least one of you knows how to speak. You continue with rounds with the rest of the interns.

“Hey Arielle?”

“Yeah Landry?”

“I know you were trying to help me, but next time just give me a little more time.”

“I did Landry, I also gave you clues but you didn’t say anything. That’s why I stepped in. You can’t expect me to give away our whole presentation. If you don’t say anything, it still affects me.

“You’re right Arielle. I’m sorry.”

“It’s all right. Just make sure you prepare next time. Alright, I have to go, bye!”

You check on some of your other patients until your pager beeps with a result for Mike’s labs.

You consult with Landry and figure out the answer. You inform Ines and Mike, and plan a treatment for him.

After your shift dwindles to an end, you change into your previous outfit and meet up with your friends at the entrance.

General PoV:-

“Ready? Wait here, let me get my car.” Arielle jogs down the parking lot and appears a few minutes later, driving a Lexus. “Damn! Nice car, Arielle.”, says Elijah. “Thanks Elijah, now I can drop you off anytime we have the same shift. Same goes for all of you. There’s no use of being rich if you don’t use it to help other people.” “I call shotgun!”, says Elijah. Jackie helps him into the seat while the rest of them slide in. Arielle turns on the radio and drives. They reach the place in a few minutes. “Looks nice!”, Sienna exclaims. They enter the building and take the elevator to the top floor, where the landlord is waiting.

“Ms. Raines, glad you could make it. Please come in.” Arielle’s friends share a confused look. Arielle flinches and whisperers, “I’ll explain.” Everyone goes in and tours the place. They decided on their bedrooms, Arielle having the master bedroom and bathroom, Landry and Elijah share a bathroom and so does Sienna and Jackie. They finish off the deal, leaving only the gang in the empty hall.

Arielle’s PoV:-

“So..... you going to tell us why you were called Miss Raines?”, asks Landry.

You sigh. “So the truth is...” you tell them about your family and how you used your influence to lower the rent of the top floor apartment. “That’s really sweet Arielle, but I can’t believe The Adrian Raines is your brother!”, exclaims Sienna. “I know, I didn’t want to bring him in but this was the only apartment that was wheelchair friendly and had 5 bedrooms. You guys have been so nice to me I wanted to repay the favour.”, you say. “Group hug!” Sienna brings a recluctant Jackie and everyone else into a hug.

A week later...

You’re setting up your bedroom like everyone else. This past week, you’ve been slowly setting up the furniture and decor in the apartment while letting everyone crash in your suite. “And... that’s the last of it!”, Sienna exclaims while arranging the decor in the living room. “Soft bed... here I come!”, exclaims Landry. Everyone heads off onto their bedrooms. You head into your blush with pearl and gold accent bedroom.

You’re emptying out your bag when you realise that your ID badge is missing. “Shit! I must have left it at the hospital!”, you curse. You explain to Sienna that you don’t want Dr. Ramsey to have another reason to shout at her and head to Edenbrook. You’re digging through the surprisingly neat lost and found when your face catches your name. “Aha! Found it!” You’re about to get up when you hear shouting. Instinctively, you run and hide behind the nurses’ station. You see Dr. Ramsey yelling at someone but can’t see who. You’re about to make a run for the exit when you see him. Your godfather. No, your father, your actual father doesn’t give a damn about you. This man is...was your father since you were a child since your actual father was too busy burying himself in his work. You gasp and quickly clamp a hand over your mouth. You know they’re fighting but you can’t focus on what they’re saying. Your mind is overwhelmed with memories flooding it, you run and don’t look back. You get in your car and slam the door, speeding away. You park a block away to catch your breath. Exhaling, you drive back to the apartment. “Did you find it?” You look up to see Sienna whipping up something in the kitchen. “Yeah, I did. Thank God, or else I would be screwed!”, you say trying to smile as genuinely as possible. She doesn’t sense anything amiss. You wish her good night and enter your bedroom. You reminisce of the happy times as you get ready for bed. Slipping on a silken pajama set, You set an alarm and tuck yourself under the covers. You know you’ll have to face him someday, but you can’t help but wonder if he’ll accept you.

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eToro Review - An Efficient New Way to execute Stop-Loss orders on the Forex Market

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eToro Review: The First Social Trading Platform for Internet Traders. eToro launched the first truly social trading platform, revolutionizing the financial online brokerage sector. This eToro review is going to give an in-depth overview of this innovative company and discuss some of its key features. eToro has a very simple yet powerful design that allows its users to trade anytime from any country.

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Miraculous Medal Novena & Memorare

HEALING TESTIMONIALS

These short testimonials are well worth reading and studying.

MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA

While the first Miraculous Medals were being produced in 1832, Paris was hit by a cholera epidemic, claiming more than 20,000 lives. In June, the Daughters of Charity distributed the first 2,000 medals, especially to infected people who filled the hospitals. Healings multiplied. The rest who wore the medal remained protected from the disease and from fear and distress.

1 Cure of M. Fermin, A Priest—1834

"To the glory of Mary conceived without sin, I, Jean Baptiste Fermin, unworthy servant of the Blessed Virgin, and subject of M. Olier, have, together with my Superior and confrères, thought it my duty to transmit to our very honored Father, an account of the special favor accorded me.

Many persons knew what I suffered for six whole years, how I was worn out with a nervous, worrying cough, whose attacks were so frequent and so prolonged that one can scarcely imagine how I ever survived them. My physician himself told me that, for the first three years, my life was in imminent danger, and if in the last three I was less exposed to death at every step, as it were, the giving way of my stomach, the weakness of my chest, were such that all my days were filled with bitterness, and new crosses were laid upon me.

O, Mary, how deplorable was my condition when you cast upon me a look of mercy! The 15th of November, 1834, I was sent a medal, struck in honor of the Immaculate Conception, and already celebrated as the instrument of many miracles. In receiving it, I was penetrated, for the first time, with a strong feeling of confidence, that this was the Heaven-sent means by which I would reach the end of my afflictions; I had not foreseen this hope, still less had I excited it, for I believe I can say, conscientiously, that I felt naturally disinclined to ask a favor of which I deemed myself unworthy. However, the feeling became so strong that I thought it my duty to consider it prayerfully next morning; and not to oppose so good an impulse, I determined to make a novena, and I commenced it on the 16th.

From that moment my confidence was boundless, and like a child who reasons no longer, but sees only what he feels sure of obtaining, it sustained me amidst the new trials to which I was subjected; for on the 19th, and several days after, my sufferings were redoubled, affecting at once both stomach and chest. On the 22d I felt considerably better, on the 23d I believed myself strong enough to abandon a diet on which I had subsisted a long time, and on the 24th I wished to eat just what was served the Community; that very morning I commenced, like the hearty seminarians, to take a little dry bread and wine, and it agreed [126]with me. Thus my desires were accomplished.

I had implored the Blessed Virgin to give me health to live according to the rule, and she had done so; but a good Mother like Mary would not leave her work imperfect, and she chose the very day of her Conception to bestow upon me her crowning favors. I was still troubled with a slight indisposition of the stomach accompanying digestion after dinner, but it was not positive suffering, and even this remnant of my old infirmity disappeared entirely.

On the eve of that Feast my devotion to Mary, which had lost a little of its first fervor, was, when I least expected it, excited anew, and I felt urged to implore the consummation of a good work so happily begun. I did so that evening, and next morning at prayers, at Mass, at my thanksgiving, and it was in finishing this last exercise before a statue of the Blessed Virgin, after a most fervent prayer, that I realized the recompense of my confidence—I felt assured that my petitions had been granted.

Since then I have experienced no indisposition worthy of attention. I was able to fast the Ember week before Christmas and the eve of that great solemnity; I sang the ten o'clock High Mass the fourth Sunday in Advent; I followed all the offices of the choir on those days the Church consecrates to the celebration of our Divine Master's birth, and, instead of regretting these efforts, I find in each one of them a new motive for blessing the Lord and testifying my gratitude to our good Mother.”

2 Ajax Francois / Bergie Chanlatte

Among those who were praying Novenas at the shrine were Ajax Francois and Bergie Chanlatte. Both are from Haiti and attend Creole Masses in their parishes, seated together at the shrine on Tuesday, still praying the Novenas.

“This is really part of my culture coming from Haiti,” Francois said. “I have been Catholic all of my life. I went to all Catholic schools. I have been praying the Novenas as long as I can remember. I always wear my large cross during Novena prayers because it helps me to feel the power of these prayers.”

Chanlatte said that she has been bringing all her special intentions to her Novena prayers. She said that she had a laundry list of prayers that have been answered by praying either Novenas for nine consecutive days or for nine consecutive weeks. She said that she has particularly had prayers of a very personal nature answered.

“I don’t share my Novena list, but I have been blessed. When you sit in a place like this and pray you know that God is hearing you. That’s why I love my Catholic faith. I live as a Catholic and I will die as a Catholic. I will always pray Novenas,” Chanlatte said.

3 Geraldine Dennis

Geraldine Dennis, a member of St. Raymond of Penafort in Mount Airy, said that she has also been blessed by praying Novenas. She said that she usually prays her Novenas to a certain saint, like St. Rita. She prays them along with her other daily prayers. This includes three to five rosaries, a prayer to St. Michael, prayers to Sorrowful Mary and chaplets.

“Usually Novenas are prayed to saint, at the shine to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal,” Dennis said. “Many non-Catholics think that we, as Catholics, pray to saints. We do not pray to the saints or to Mary, but we always pray to God. We understand that once someone is a saint when they die they go into heaven.

“So, they are alive. We are not worshiping the dead. What we are actually doing is taking our prayers to them knowing that they are in heaven near God and Jesus. We are actually asking them to pray for us. It is just like when you know someone who is holy and close to God, you ask them to pray for you,” Dennis said.

Dennis said that the Novena prayers have much intimacy in them. She usually will write down a list of all the prayers others have asked her to pray. For instance, they may ask her to pray for them to recuperate, receive assistance in the financial area or for a family member who have lost their way.

It is from this exhaustive list that Dennis will pray her Novenas, usually for nine consecutive days. “When you consolidate all the prayers and all the people you are praying for, your prayers become more powerful. All that I know is that it brings more intimacy with God praying this way. I have done Novenas to the Holy Spirit, the Immaculate Heart, St. Therese and others. It really deepens your spiritual relationship with God,” Dennis said.

MEMORARE

Fr. Claude Bernard is credited with spreading the devotion to the Memorare after the prayer cured him of a serious illness. St. Mother Teresa used it extensively with wonderful results, even changing the weather.

1 Maura Roan McKeegan

Not long ago, I went through a very difficult and intense period of suffering in my personal life. There were times when I did not know how I would make it through the next ten minutes with the level of suffering I was enduring, let alone the next hour, day, or week.

Throughout this time, I prayed traditional novenas, Rosaries (especially the Seven Sorrows Rosary), and many other prayers. But during those instances of immediate and almost unbearable need, the Holy Spirit reminded me to have recourse to the Emergency Novena. Nine Memorares (with a tenth for thanksgiving).

With the first few Memorares, I began to breathe more easily. By the end of the last ones, I felt increasing peace. What was even more amazing, though, is that every single time I prayed the Emergency Novena, my prayers were immediately answered. Every emergency was resolved. Every prayer that came forth from the depth of my heart was heard. Every cry of spiritual agony was answered.

2 Lori Hadacek Chaplin

When Mother Teresa had an emergency, she and her sisters would pray the Memorare nine times for what was required, adding a 10th prayer as a thank you for the Blessed Virgin’s intercession.

Msgr. Maasburg in his book, Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Personal Portrait said this about the saint’s practice: “She took the collaboration of Heaven so much for granted that she always added a tenth Memorare immediately, in thanksgiving for the favor received.”

The saint didn’t dub the devotion the “Flying Novena.” That title came later when people realized that this prayer works fast when said with confidence and faith.

Two of the most memorable answers to this novena happened when I prayed for my eldest daughter, Ella. She was suffering terribly from a toothache. Feeling helpless about what I could do for her, I said the Flying Novena. After I finished the prayer, I called her, and she told me that the pain, mercifully, had eased up noticeably.

The second time was when Ella was photographing a wedding. I got a frantic message from her, saying that the lens cleaner had seeped inside her portrait lens and the liquid had completely fogged the lens making it unusable. I told her that the lens would clear when the cleaner evaporated. She said she didn’t have time to wait — a quick search had told her that it could take days to clear — and asked that I pray.

As soon as I finished the 10 prayers, the lens was back to normal. Ella told me, “Mom, it happened too fast to be a coincidence.”

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The outcomes are vigorously affected by how precisely skinfold locales are found

There are a ton of extraordinary things about calipers that make them advantageous. They are generally cheap, compact, and offer you a superior evaluation of your general wellbeing and wellness than a scale or utilizing an obsolete measure like BMI. On the off chance that the test is finished by an appropriately prepared proficient, they're likewise a dependable method of estimating muscle to fat ratio change after some time.

Be that as it may, their accommodation includes some major disadvantages. In the event that you are utilizing calipers to quantify muscle versus fat ratio, you ought to know about 4 factors that may influence the precision of the outcomes.

#1: The outcomes are intensely affected by how precisely skinfold destinations are found

There are a few unique techniques to play out a caliper test, yet one of the more exact forms is the 7-site test utilizing the Jackson and Pollock condition for body thickness. The 7 destinations on the body are appeared here:

caliper test squeezing potential destinations

Every one of these destinations must be found decisively on the body, and a X ought to be attracted on the skin to guarantee appropriate jaw arrangement. You can't simply eyeball an area; for exactness, you should set aside the effort to utilize a tape measurer to find each site. The stomach site, for instance, is 2 cm to one side of the midsection button.

In the event that you have two individuals with an alternate degree of experience perform back to back tests on a similar individual, the odds of getting a predictable precise estimation drop altogether.

#2: Perfect Technique is Key

Finding each site precisely is just the primary obstacle to finishing an exact test. As indicated by the Center for Disease Control's rules for caliper use, not exclusively are there rules for finding each skinfold site, there are differences between how the jaws must be put on each skinfold. These can be possibly appropriately positioned if each site is set apart with a X. In any case, simply putting the X on the skin is just a large portion of the test.

For instance, while squeezing the subscapular (shoulder bone) site, the upper jaw must be put straightforwardly on the X mark. This is interestingly with how the jaws must be put for the rear arm muscle squeeze; for this situation, the two jaws must be put on either side of the X. In the event that these little yet basic techniques are not followed, exactness may drop.

caliper test squeezing the subscapular cutting edge

Legitimate procedure reaches out past dealing with the calipers. For example, the CDC's rules direct that a perusing must be taken subsequent to squeezing, holding, and hanging tight for three seconds. This permits the skin to pack appropriately for an exact perusing. Contingent upon skinfold thickness, taking a perusing following squeezing can misshape the outcomes.

#3: Caliper Results Take Empirical Estimations Into Account, Particularly Age

Calipers utilize the whole of skinfold estimations to report muscle to fat ratio. Be that as it may, so as to transform the estimations into a fat rate, two conditions should be utilized – one to ascertain thickness and one to change thickness into muscle versus fat ratio.

The Jackson-Pollock Equation is as often as possible used to quantify body thickness and is ordinarily the initial step to deciding body structure. The condition resembles this (accentuation included):

Body Density = 1.112 – (0.00043499 x total of skinfolds) + (0.00000055 x square of the whole of skinfold locales) – (0.00028826 x age)

Notice how age is a significant variable in the condition. This is a purposeful addition proposed to alter and expand the condition's exactness.

Be that as it may, by representing age, the Jackson-Pollock Equation makes inborn suspicions about the impact age may have on body thickness, which at last impacts the last muscle to fat ratio result. These suppositions can distort individuals who fall outside of typical reaches for their age.

Consider a 50-year-elderly person, who drives an idle way of life, and has a body organization and muscle to fat ratio that the Jackson-Pollock Equation considers to be normal for his age.

Presently think about a similar man, however accept that he has been genuinely dynamic for the whole term of his life and has more muscle and a lower muscle versus fat ratio than your normal idle 50-year-old. His skinfold estimations will clearly be diverse too. In any case, paying little heed to the skinfold estimations or the way of life, the two adaptations of this man will be dependent upon a similar change for age, which will slant the exactness of the muscle to fat ratio estimation towards what is viewed as normal for a 50-year-elderly person.

This implies in our model, the idle 50-year-elderly person will have results that mirror his body organization, yet the exceptionally fit and athletic rendition of a 50-year-elderly person may have his muscle to fat ratio overestimated in light of the fact that he likely falls outside the normal for his age gathering.

#4 Caliper Equations Also Make Assumptions About Body Fat Distribution

Calipers just straightforwardly measure the width of skinfolds; they depend on conditions to take this information and transform it into important muscle to fat ratio results. So as to do this, specific suspicions about muscle to fat ratio must be made, for example, how much muscle versus fat is because of subcutaneous fat and what amount is because of instinctive fat.

Today these presumptions can be very enormous.

The Jackson-Pollock Equation was created during the 1970s. Since that time, heftiness levels have risen significantly, multiplying somewhere in the range of 1980 and 2000. As per the International Journal of Body Composition, this represents an issue concerning the viability of the Jackson-Pollock condition's capacity to create solid body thickness results for current grown-ups today. The essayists contend (accentuation included),

There can be little uncertainty, the Jackson and Pollock muscle to fat ratio conditions for men, and the Jackson et al. conditions for ladies are both precise and substantial techniques for evaluating muscle to fat ratio (%) for subjects taken from a delegate populace of grown-ups saw during the 1970s. In any case, an agent populace of grown-ups in the 21st century will be extensively heavier and fatter.

On the off chance that we look at the outcomes of utilizing the Generalized Body Density conditions prescribed by Jackson and associates to anticipate the muscle to fat ratio of overweight or hefty subjects from the present populace, there is a genuine threat of underestimation.

For certain individuals, especially the individuals who are overweight, depending on this condition may not give a genuinely precise outcome for muscle versus fat ratio. What's more, since calipers utilize this condition, all the better they can do is give an estimation and a conceivably inconsistent one at that.

In any case, when you're paying attention to your wellbeing, for what reason would you acknowledge an estimation?

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Luckily, propels in innovation have made finding exact muscle versus fat ratio and body structure results a lot simpler.

First of all, hydrostatic gauging and DEXA examines are both viewed as highest quality levels to decide muscle versus fat ratio/body structure, despite the fact that tying down access to one of these tests isn't generally the least demanding or monetarily practical.

Among the most helpful and fastest techniques to decide muscle versus fat ratio are gadgets that utilization bioelectrical impedance examination (BIA). Despite the fact that these gadgets are undeniably more helpful than both of the highest quality level systems, they can go generally in quality and exactness.

Because of the wide range in quality, the requirement for exact, medicinally solid muscle to fat ratio tests has prompted the ascent of expert evaluation BIA gadgets. These gadgets utilize trend setting innovation that takes into account exact outcomes with no of the burden of the highest quality level methods. They likewise dispense with a portion of the downsides of calipers, such utilizing experimental estimations that slant results or the requirement for a considerable length of time of preparing and practice to play out a test appropriately. Furthermore, not exclusively would they be able to quantify muscle versus fat ratio, however a few gadgets give a total body creation examination. That implies they measure the muscle versus fat's, muscle, and water levels. These clinical BIA gadgets give significant measurements like instinctive fat, skeletal bulk, muscle dispersion, BMR, and the sky is the limit from there. BIA gadgets go past simply fat to give a total image of somebody's wellbeing, something you can't do with calipers.

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Sports activities betting is simply setting a gamble on the sporting event. You will be bets that your team, pony, dog, or driver will certainly win. If they perform succeed, so do anyone! If they shed, you actually lose your bet volume. Sports betting takes area across the world, though in typically the United States this kind of bet is not necessarily as highly acknowledged because it is in The european union.

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On the web sports betting is actually probably the most suitable choice intended for those who are intriguing in hoping it to get the first time. In the event that you have by no means experimented with online sports wagering, a person are missing so very much fun along with excitement, in addition to it can all transpire in the comfortable atmosphere of your residence! The art associated with sports betting can be perplexing at first, but thoughts is broken familiar with some regarding the jargon which for you to explain the concepts as well as logic behind each sort involving bet, it will be all simpler to understand.

A single of the best approaches for you to expertise this engaging way to help wager on your favorite racing and also sporting occasions is to get familiarised with on the internet sports gambling. However, so as to best acquire advantage of all in which sports activities betting has in order to offer, you need to be able to know a little bit more about this.

Sports Betting rapid The actual Odds

How does on-line athletics betting work? A person should start studying often the odds for the showing off event you are almost all enthusiastic about placing a guarantee upon. Whenever using online sporting activities betting, you will discover these chances in the several on the web sports books utilised by World wide web gamers everywhere. You should start an account with a good on the net sports book prior to you can put your own bet, but it is straightforward to do.

Once an individual have selected where anyone are going to carry out your activities betting, you actually need to decide precisely how you will definitely place your guess. There are many ways for a person to wager your selected total of money, but initial, let's mention the distributed and how it might influence the amount you think.

Athletics Betting - The particular Distributed

The spread is usually a stage advantage within sports bets, which is definitely usually given to they that is generally likely to drop a distinct sporting event. When you make a decision that you will side bet within the team that is actually expected to earn, that they will have to gain by simply more than the actual spread number along with handle the spread prior to being deemed to have chosen accurately. If you choose the particular team that is supposed to lose, that team have to lose by less when compared with typically the spread number inside order for your current decide on to be considered appropriate. If by chance they wins by the range of factors that were being chosen as the pass on, the game is known as a press.

No 1 who engages in sports activities betting wins a issue when a game is named as a drive, however you do get often the amount of your own personal first bet back. The actual distribute is done in obtain to make the actual almost all of the bets appear out possibly for the particular sports book, which is generally done for sports for example basketball or football.

Sporting activities Betting - The Think

If you were for you to bet contrary to the spread, nearly all likely you would location a type of wager called a great 11-10, or maybe spread guess. By bet $11, an individual win $10,50 if your team's rating covers the propagate. This kind of is another way this the on the internet sports guide makes their money.

A over-under think is additionally an 11-10 side bet. Using this type of wager, the complete score of typically the two squads that performed will be possibly more than or under the entire score that was stated prior to game was played out. Bets on the report being above is referred to as 'betting on the ball'. Betting on the credit score currently being under is identified as 'betting around the clock'.

The proposition guess is any type of bet where online sports book decides what the odds in addition to the situations of often the bet are going to help be. This kind of bet may be most interesting, obviously any good little fun at instances, to the conditions can always be as unusual since that of two basketball competitors will make the the majority of touchdowns, which of a pair of baseball teams will ranking by far the most three pointers, as well as even which usually individual person will make a clear transfer for the team. The percentages for this kind connected with bet can be 11-10, yet can be a great deal better or even worse depending on the actual instances.

A parlay think comes about when you are wagering on one or more event, typically three. This sort of bet presents you a much larger payout if you need to win, though the catch will be that all the activities you bet on may have to get. In the event even one of all of them will lose, they all reduce, and you get rid of the particular amount that you side bet.

Any money line wager would seem rather formidable, specially in order to someone who is usually just getting into on-line sports betting, but that is basically one of typically the simplest bets coming from all. The idea is also called some sort of Straight Up guess, as well as there is no level distributed to consider. An individual will just select your personal sport, and then they you think will possibly be either often the underdog or perhaps the favourite. In the cash line bet, the actual athletics book will have quantities listed that are throughout the 100, with both a plus or possibly a subtract sign beside these. All these numbers are considered the particular 'money line', and are generally the multipliers for typically the bets.

If the funds line for your staff shows up as 100, anyone will call and make an even think. This means you may bet the same amount which you will get back again. If the money range states -110, then you actually must produce the quantity of money you possess decided to side bet, in addition 10%. This further 10% is known by often the name of 'juice'. In case the money line on your team is listed while +110, then you merely place your own bet along with the amount you choosed to wager. If you win a new money line bet, you obtain the amount of your current bet as well as 10% backside. For example, when you guess $10. 00 and also $1. 00 in drink upon a -110 money brand and it wins, a person get $21. 00.

Some sort of teaser think in sporting activities betting is in reality a proposition side bet that allows you to be able to alter the odds for the actual bet with either route so that the guess is in your prefer. You may go up or maybe down within points, along with must pick at very least two teams, ones own accomplished in a parlay wager. You can have seeing that many as 6 independent teams included on the teaser bet, but just about all of the groups picked have to win in order that your bet to become expressed a winning one particular. Once the game titles usually are over, the items via the teaser bet tend to be added or subtracted in the final scores. The probabilities with regard to teaser bets can easily be distinct each time period, so it is any good prefer to always verify the sports publication just before placing your guess.

A new tip to remember is generally, when placing some sort of gamble on any game that can end together with a high score, like football, you will have got a spread. Activities exactly where the ending score is definitely low, such as inside hockey will have a new money collection. Remember furthermore that favourable possibilities in a game can often job in your favor. Online activities betting makes it possible for you to easily get from sports book for you to sports book to get the best likelihood.

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