"Like, with the Remedial Goodness book, I'd tell myself 'okay, I'm going to do the reading in five minutes,' and then three hours would pass and I wouldn't have done the reading, or I'd put it next to me and say 'I'm going to do the reading as soon as I'm done with my English' and then I'd get distracted tracking down a poem and wouldn't read it, or —" 

Another, sharper hairpull. 

"Is it because the subject is boring and sucks or--"

"No. It's like that with all my classes, that was just the first example I thought of." 

"Sounds like-- some kind of brain problem. Like the thing that makes things start isn't there. Was it that way when you were on the Isle?"

"Sometimes? But the things got done, because if I didn't do them I'd starve or I wouldn't have a gang anymore or —" 

"I don't know how you feel about mind control but one thing we could do is try to find a fairy to help. --It wouldn't have to be, like, 'now you're blissed out and you can't think', fairies can get rid of seizures or make people smarter."

"...I'm not definitely against mind control but I don't think I trust a fairy." 

"--Uh, part-fairy, the mortal ones with human personalities, I'm not going to subject you to the tender mercies of Fairy Godmother or you might stop wanting to kiss me."

"You'd better not," he says, but there's no heat in it. "But I don't think I trust the part human ones either." 

"All right. Would it help if I sat and talked you through it?"

"...maybe? I don't know." 

"We can try that, and if that doesn't work we can try something else, and if nothing works you can always be my sex slave."

He tries laughing. It doesn't really come out right. 

He kisses Sasha's temple. "Okay, so what's the first problem?"

And he turns his head into Kaleva's neck and shoulder and rests it there and does his best to explain. 

"The traditional way to explain fractions is with pizza but I don't think you had pizza on the Isle."

"Not only did I not have pizza on the Isle, I still don't know what pizza is." 

"Okay we need to order pizza right now."

"We can do that!" 

Kaleva rejects the first two pizza places he finds for being Auradon-City-style, which is apparently an abomination. 

Then he wraps his arm around Sasha's shoulder and draws pictures and tries to explain things. 

He is not clear on the distinction between Auradon-City-style and not that, but Kaleva seems to know what he's doing. 

(Having Kaleva draw pictures doesn't quite make it click but it gets him so much closer.) 

Then maybe he can try to explain converting fractions via pizza slices when the pizza gets here. 

He can definitely do that but he should be aware that Sasha is going to eat the illustrations. 

Well, they're supposed to be subtracting fractions anyway!

"What do you think of pizza?"

"It's pretty good but I'm not sure why it's a travesty that I hadn't had this in particular and not a whole host of other things I also hadn't had, it doesn't seem that special."