"You understand everything? Why did you go and ask Ethan about something that you didn't understand that night? So, did you really have something that you didn't understand, or did you pretend? Huh?" Zach pinched Madelyn's chin as he looked into her eyes. He squinted as he said, "Or is it that you don't want me to teach you?"

He pinched her waist to punish her.

Madelyn was in so much pain that she frowned. The spot where he pinched her last time still had not healed.

She thought, 'It happened so many days ago. Yet, he still brought it up.'

Madelyn responded, "You misunderstood. That question was beyond my syllabus."

Zach, "Really? Show me then."

Madelyn looked away as she impatiently said, "Zach, I'm really bothered by you. Can you give me some personal space? Can you stop constantly watching me making me feel like a prisoner? Don't you have anything else to do?

"Why don't you go and find Jadie?"

Zach responded with a half-smile, "You two are separate individuals! I came to acc