I wanted to say that instead of dumbly sitting here like a bag of bricks listening to her complain about her English teacher. Then again, 'in a bind?' Maybe it was all the better that I wasn't opening my mouth.

"But hey, that's English," she finished. "Anyway, what's on for today?"

"Right." I sat up straight and looked over the textbook. "So, uh, you're getting permutations, so let's move on to combinations. It's kind of like permutations, but not ordered. So, kind of like, if I wanted to choose two colors from a set of six colors, how many different combinations of two colors could I pick? Make sense?"

Taylor...