"Even though I have a damn headache, I'm still gonna keep going with this!" Cassie was nearly bouncing off the walls and thankfully her neighbors weren't in their apartments to complain about it. Cassie played her music as loud as she wanted as the noise that would normally travel through to her downstairs and side neighbor didn't matter at the moment.

Cassie sang loudly to the lyrics she was likely pronouncing wrong, she threw herself into the sound and would adlib whenever she wanted to. As the song was fading into the next song, she heard her phone going off.

"Aw! Who the fuck is it?" She jumped onto her couch and took her phone before hanging and leaning from the back of the couch. She answered it. "Hello?" She said with a small singing voice.

"Cassie?" Oh shit! She calmed down and sat on her knees on the couch. She turned down the next song in her playlist and spoke to Brayleigh.

"Yes?"

"Oh, sorry did I bother you?" Yeah, you did. She was smiling at the joke, but calmly responded with;

"No, I was just listening to music."

"Oh, I'd love to ask you what song, but Jess was telling me she wanted to talk to you, but you weren't picking up the phone or answering your door."

"Oh, I thought I heard someone at my door before... tell her I'm sorry but I'll call her later tonight."

"Alright, that's all I called for." Then hang the phone up.

"Then Au Revoir!" She heard him chuckle.

"That's right, you did take French in highschool didn't you?"

"Yep!" She said.

"Well, how about I teach you a little something." She beamed and jumped on her couch.

"You would? I totally forgot everything I learned and I am trying to be trilingual."

"You're cool with me teaching you some French?"

"Yeah! You pick the day and text me about it okay?"

"Okay then, I'll text you in the morning then."

"Alright, but bye then!"

"Yeah, see you." Cassie then went to text Jessica.

"Sorry, I'm not calling you tonight, you'll have to wait until the morning." Cassie sent that before shutting off her phone and returning to her music and resuming playing and jumping around.

...

The day after her sugar rush ended, Cassie found herself wondering. Why did I agree to this again? Cassie pondered this while she stared at the papers on her desk, it was full of the notes she had taken from her highschool French class, I know I'm not gonna learn anything so why did I even say anything? Before she could think to answer that Brayleigh's voice came from her entryway. He then found himself in Cassie's living room.

"Bonjour Cassie!" She gave him a small smile, "Are you ready to study?" Not really but-

"Yeah, I really don't remember anything so I think it'll be better if we just went back to the basics." He nodded, removing his bag and sitting down on the couch where she was sitting. Brayleigh looked to the papers and seemed as if he were trying to focus for a second, he then smiled and nodded.

"So you know like hello, goodbye, my name is, and you can likely form a basic sentence right?" She nods.

"That is if I even remember that."

"You're super smart so I'm sure it'll come back easily to you." Says the person who's actually French. "But I guess for today I could just refresh you and see if you can say something to me without my help. How's that sound?" She nods. Brayleigh smiled and began his lesson.

...

Cassie would have liked to think she learned something in the last two hours Brayleigh was speaking perfect French to her, but her mind was mostly on the fact that French really was a romantic language. Then again, she'd think that about anyone with as pretty of a voice as Brayleigh's, she was listening well enough to just say whatever he wanted back to him, but she knew she wouldn't remember a single bit of this after today. Just like highschool.

"Okay, I think the last thing I'll teach you is some informal stuff, things you would say to people like me." She nods, Like I couldn't understand that much. "You would say Salut if you're saying hello to a friend and yes is kind of tricky because if you're a friend saying Si would be fine too, but I've known business partners who were fine with me saying Si to them, at the end of the day I guess it is just yes." Cassie nodded. "Other than that I can't really think of much else. That app you have is good, your pronunciation is really good too."

"I was told that by my teacher before too, do I really sound good because I think I sound like I'm saying stuff with too much of an accent."

"No it's perfect, my mom would likely think you're a natural!" She smiled at that, "Oh, now that I'm thinking about it, you remember that nouns have genders right?" She nods, "Okay, then can you tell me how you would say beautiful or pretty between males and females?" What's with this question, but I guess I'll answer it.

"For females it would be Belle, for males it's Beau." Brayleigh chuckled.

"That is easy, but I just wanted to be sure you remembered to think about that." Cassie nodded.

"Can I ask a question though?"

"Sure?"

"This is a lot to waste time teaching me French, so why'd you accept when I told you about it?"

"It's not a waste of time, and mainly it was because this is my native language so of course I would want someone else to speak it." He paused, Jess speaks French just talk to her, "And, you know, maybe one day you might wanna visit France and if you do I'm going with you no matter what you say. I don't believe that any foreigner should stay in a local hotel when they're in a different country, so you would be staying with us." Cassie stared at him, That's why, you want me to make a good impression on your parents if I ever met them. Well I shouldn't have asked.

"I'll have to take up that offer, but expect me to be nervous."

"Don't worry, it's adorable anyways." Fuck you, this shit isn't adorable. You wouldn't be saying that if you were the person who had to deal with this. Cassie just gave him a smile. "But before I go I was thinking of getting something to eat, do you wanna go with me?" For free food...

"Of course."