"Did you understand all of that?" Mariah questioned as she closed her notebook and then packed up her books into the backpack she was using. School was interesting, and she did like her uniform, but there was just a lot of everything and none of it involved swimming. She had gotten to talk about the ocean a couple of times, but otherwise...

"Not really," Aisha admitted with a shrug. "But I wrote everything down so I can ask Mr. Butterfly about it later."

Mariah smiled and nodded but she couldn't bring herself to ask Wagnas to help her.

Not ever.