Elodie pushed her wire-frame glasses up her nose bridge. She'd gone over the idea in her mind. Theoretically, incentives don't work as intended because the focus becomes the incentive and not the true goal. In other words, if Elodie gave her tutee incentives in the form of free coffee every time they got their homework done, they would be doing everything they could to get that coffee instead of improving their skills in writing. Still, Elodie hoped that it might work for her.

Maybe increasing the value of the reward would help, she thought to herself. From coffee to a full meal to... something they would find valuable? Whatever that is, Elodie doesn't think it's too much trouble anyway. Not with them... for some reason.

She peered through her lashes as she leaned her cheek on her palm. Elodie's been tutoring them since they came to her at the beginning of the semester. They were begging, absolutely on their hands and knees, that she tutor them till they pass their creative writing class. Since tutoring counted for credit, Elodie bit the bullet.

However, she didn't expect them to be that... abysmal at creative writing. The student didn't have a creative bone in their body, that was the only conclusion Elodie could come up with.

"Almost done? May I see?" Elodie straightened her posture, letting her tutee turn the laptop screen at their own time. "I will check your work and if it's not any better, I propose a new method of studying."

She wished she knew why she was so insistent on seeing them succeed, but thinking about it took too much time. Time that could be spent working on her schoolwork.