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Morning Glory frowned. Math was Sugar Shine's worst subject and he was practically napping in the back row! She cleared her throat loudly and tapped the chalk board.

"These sorts of questions will be on test.." she said, pointedly looking at Sugar. "If you've been having trouble with them now, pay attention to these next few exercises." Sparkling, golden magic picked up a piece of chalk and she wrote out several equations on the board.

The blustery day outside made the windows of the one room school building rattle a bit in their frames. With luck, the wind would die down before class was over. Glory's attention returned to her class and she picked a random foal to work the first problem.

A giant crack of thunder made the walls and floor vibrate. Several foals shrieked and a couple ducked under their desks in fright. Glory went to the front door just to peek outside, but a giant gust of wind grabbed it up and threw it wide open. The huge black and grey cloud swell that was rolling towards the park and the city already was twinkling with lightining.

"Ok everyone, class is dismissed early!" Glory said, yanking the classroom door shut. "No use trying to send you guys home in the rain AND wind. Pegasi, flutters, no flying, earth phonies be careful running, same for you unicorns. Get back home as fast as you can before it starts raining." As she spoke, she was putting papers and books into her bag. The other students started packing up to go home as well. "And this doesn't delay the test!" she warned, to the groan of several.

A foal cautiously opened the door but again, a gust of wind blew it wide open. Many papers on Glory's desk went flying into a whirlwind of white. "Go on!" she called over the wind as her magic darted around, grabbing papers in the air. Several foals spilled out of the school and headed for home.

"Oh!" Glory blinked down at Sugar offering up a hoof full of ungraded tests and lesson plans and takes them from him gratefully. "Thank you Sugar, I'm sure you guys don't want to take that geography exam again.." The wind roared outside. "Now get home and study hard!" she shooed him off, stuffing the last of the papers into her bag and preparing to leave herself.

Much later in the day, Glory sat in her home, drinking some tea thoughtfully, a pile of graded tests on her desk. Everyone had done very well, even Sugar Shine. Actually, Sugar Shine had done TOO well. She was pleased when he got the first few questions right, confused when he got a couple of the harder ones right, and completely suspicious by the time she'd finish grading his test. A colt who's average in this subject was a F managed to score an A+ over night.

Glory mulled how best to approach the matter. The direct approach would most likely cause Sugar to go on the defensive and deny her claim. Was it possible that Sugar just woke up knowing math in the morning? HIGHLY unlikely but not impossible. Besides, she had no real proof he'd cheated.

Tucking away the tests, she made up the next week's homework schedule. This would be a more subtle way to find out the truth of her new math genius's abilities.

The next afternoon, Glory handed out the homework sheets. "You all did so well on our math exam, I've decided to advance you all a level up." She smiled, handing Sugar Shine his homework sheets. "I'm sure you will all do well." She turned on her hoof, humming lightly. Every foal's homework sheets had the same stuff they'd been working on with a couple basic algebra questions peppered in to test the waters. Every foal except Sugar Shine, who's homework had questions from previous homework sheets as well as advanced Trigonometry questions. The bell rung and Glory waved as all her students left for the day. Now all she had to do was wait.