"It sounds it," Michael replied, "but are you sure I wouldn't be distracting? I'd hate to be responsible for blowing the bell curve for some deserving student because their teacher wasn't paying full attention as he worked."

To be dead honest, he wouldn't mind watching Eli fold clothes or do pretty much anything. Just being with him he felt...normal in a way he never had been before. Freer. More what he thought normal people must be like.