"Q.5. Draw a labeled diagram of a flower showing its reproductive parts."

"I know, Papa," Arjun mumbled. "I’m stuck on a grammar question."

He flipped to the next paper:

He realized the "Sri Chaitanya Techno School Question Papers" weren't his enemy. They were a weird, grumpy friend. They showed him where he was weak (Science diagrams) and where he was strong (Maps). They made him sweat over division and laugh at silly grammar mistakes.

Arjun stared at the first one:

And for the first time that night, he smiled.

At midnight, Arjun closed the last paper – He hadn't solved all of it. Some questions about "odd one out" and "pattern completion" still looked like alien code. But he wasn't scared anymore.

His father smiled. "That’s a universal truth, Arjun. The tense doesn't change." He helped him write: The teacher said that the Earth moves around the Sun.