"If A is fifteen and B is seventeen, what is C then?"

Artemis looked at him with a blank expression. "No idea,"

Wally signed. "Come on, if A²+B²=C² … come on Artemis, it's easy..."

Then she signed and leaned up against him. "I'm tired."

Wally just looked down at the math book. "If you don't get this, then we need to start with something simpler."

"Do we have to do this now?" She asked sleepy and kissed his neck.

"Your mom said you at least have to get an A on your midterms," he said and tried not to smile as she kissed his neck some more.

"Who cares," she whispered. "My mom can't enforce her threats, so why even bother?"

"You maybe not afraid her, but I am," Wally said and push her head gently away from his neck.

She rolled her eyes at him.

"What are you doing?"

They both turned around in the couch, it was Robin.

"Trying to teach Arts about the wonders of the Pythagorean theorem," he said and continued with a smile. "But it doesn't seem to be sinking in."

"Really?" He asked, as he came closer and leaned up against the backrest of the couch. "But isn't that the easiest formula?"

Artemis looked from one to the other with an irritated expression.

"You have got to be kidding me!" She said in a low, threatening voice.

The two boys smiled at each other.

Then Superboy and Miss Martian came in.

"You guys are back early," Robin stated.

"Yes," M'gann said, cheerful as always. "One of our teachers became sick so we got the last period off."

"Connor, if using the Pythagorean theorem and A is fifteen and B is seventeen, what is C then?"Wally asked over his shoulder.

Connor didn't even blink. "Twenty-two point six, seven, one."

Wally looked at Artemis with a smug smile.

Artemis threw a fist in his direction, but he caught it just before it hit his face.

"Arts I thought we were making some progress here," he said, clearly finding this amusing.

She ripped her fist out of his hold and got off the couch.

"You're such a geek!" She said and stormed off.

"Connor didn't even have to use a calculator!" He yelled after her, but she was already gone.

"I think you went a little too far," Robin stated.

Wally shrugged. "Maybe, but she likes it."

Robin huffed. "If you say so."

Wally leaned back against the couch and smiled. Then he looked over at Connor and M'gann "So … if you're free now M'gann, are you going to bake cookies?"

She threw a stone out into the water.

"That's not how you skip stones."

She turned around. "Hey Zatanna, when did you come back?"

"Just now," She answered and came closer. "So what are you angry about?"

Artemis just turned around and threw another stone.

"Wally?" Zatanna guessed.

Artemis just threw another stone.

Zatanna signed. "He is kind of a handful, isn't he?" She asked and stepped up on her side.

"Yeah," Artemis said through clenched teeth and threw another stone.

"You know..." Zatanna said as she leaned forward with a wry smile. "This isn't normally what girls do when they're angry at their boyfriends..."

Artemis turned to her with narrowed eyes, clearly not happy. "Then what do they do?"

Zatanna still smiled. "One word: Shopping."

"Hey, mom!" He yelled at he ran into the house.

"How was your day?" His mother asked with a gentle smile from the kitchen door.

He scratched the back of his neck nervously. "I think I lost my girlfriend, but school was good."

She shook her head smiling and went back into the kitchen.

"What are you making?" He asked and ran to the door.

"No running in the house," his dad said behind him.

He turned around smiling, as slowly as he could.

His dad raised an eyebrow at him, clearly not impressed by his little joke.

"Have you done your homework?" He asked.

Wally straightened his back. "Yes, sir!"

"And cleaned your room?" His dad then asked.

Wally signed. "No..."

His dad's face clearly showed that that wasn't the right answer.

Wally signed again. "I'll go clean it right now," he said defeated and walked to his room.

As soon as he closed the door behind him, his phone rang.

It was Artemis.

"Yes?" He answered and sat down on his bed.

"Wally?" She said. "About what happened today..."

"Yeah … I'm sorry about … I went a little too far."

"Yeah," She just said.

He smiled. "So … am I forgiven?"

He heard, what sounded like a chuckle. "I guess so."

There was quiet for a bit.

"Me, Zatanna and M'gann are going shopping tomorrow, so I'm not going to be able to make it to your tutoring." She then said.

"That's okay," he said. "I can't make it either, I have to study with my lab partner tomorrow."

"Oh … Okay..." She almost sounded disappointed.

He smiled. She probably wanted him to be disappointed.

"Wally, dinner's ready!" He heard his mother yell from the kitchen.

He sat down at the table. His dad sat across from him.

His mother put a plate in front of him, with steaks and potatoes piled up.

He smiled at her and started eaten.

"When are your midterms?" His dad suddenly asked.

Wally stopped his eaten and put the fork down.

"In the last part of March." He said.

"And how are your grades?"

"Good," he answered. "I'm going to go studying in Metropolis tomorrow with Lia, their library is the only one that has what we need."

His dad nodded.

Wally put the fork in his mouth.

"Why are you so concerned? I always do good on my midterms." He asked.

"I'm just looking out for your own good, you have great potential, and you need to keep doing good in school, so you can get some great opportunities."

Wally thought about it for a second, then put the fork in his mouth again and nodded.

"So why did we come to Metropolis?" Artemis asked as they got off the bus.

"They have some of the best shops around," Zatanna said and pulled her down the street by the arm.

M'gann followed behind them.

"You two know I'm not really into this kind of..."

"Look at that!" M'gann cut Artemis off and pointed to a store across the street.

Zatanna looked at Artemis with a raised eyebrow. "Let's go check it out."

Artemis signed.

"This is really cute, don't you think so?" M'gann asked and showed her a bright yellow shirt.

She raised an eyebrow at her in confusion. "Why do you even look at clothes? Can't you just change into whatever you want?"

M'gann's expression didn't falter.

"Yeah," she said and looked down at the shirt in her hand. "But it's fun, isn't it?"

Artemis shrugged.

"Hey, look at this," Zatanna said, she was standing a few clothes racks away.

"What is it?" Artemis asked.

Zatanna showed her a flier. "It says, there's a discount for the students at this nail salon down the street."

Artemis almost cringed and looked down at her nails. Would that affect her archery?

"Can you even do that?" She asked M'gann, hoping she would turn down.

M'gann showed her, her hands, and her nails changed color and became bright red.

"I'll just watch you get your nails painted." She smiled.

Artemis smiled nervously but followed them nonetheless.

They walked down the street.

"When we're done at the nail salon, we can go find somewhere to get something to eat," Zatanna said and looked around.

"Yeah," Artemis said.

She didn't have anything against shopping or Zatanna and M'gann, but she was really bored right now.

"Artemis, didn't you say Wally was studying today?" M'gann suddenly asked she sounded surprised.

"Yeah?" She said confused.

"But isn't that him?" M'gann asked and pointed across the street.

Wally was walking down the opposite sidewalk, with a soda in one hand and talking and smiling with a beautiful girl with long black hair.

Artemis' eyes widen.

They were holding hands.