A/N: Sorry for no updates! I was trying to learn my drama monologue for a competition I had today. I came second!
Here is chapter two!
Ziva was in the middle of folding her clothes neatly into drawers when she heard a familiar voice.
"Timmy! You can't steal my BN and then eat it too!" Ziva stifled a laugh, and then froze. Timmy? As in Tim McGee? He was here? What was this, School Camp Reunion?
"ZIVA!" She turned at the shriek and was immediately squashed by Abby. "I can't believe you're here!"
"Um, hi." Ziva smiled and waved. Abby grinned and laughed.
"Timmy's here too!" Abby said gleefully, pulling McGee forward.
"Tim!" Ziva exclaimed.
"Ziva?" McGee said, slightly confused.
"Woah, this is… strange." Abby wiggled her eyebrows and they all laughed.
"I will just leave you girls to unpack then." McGee made a fast escape. Ziva and Abby glanced at each other, and then burst out laughing.
"Just like old times." Abby smiled.
"Just like." Ziva agreed.
Two hours later they were summoned to the dining hall for a beginning of term assembly. Ziva and Abby sat at the back, next to Tim and his roommate, Daniel.
The headmaster stepped up onto the stage.
"Welcome to Highbrook Academy. My name is Doctor Cullen and I am your headmaster. The deputy headmistress is here to my left," Here he gestured towards a pretty woman who looked no more than about thirty, "Miss Hale."
Abby elbowed Ziva in the ribs.
"What?" Ziva hissed.
"Do you recognize that name?" Abby asked.
"What name?" Ziva asked, confused.
"Cullen!" Abby protested.
"No." Ziva replied, shaking her head. Abby shrugged and turned back to what Doctor Cullen was saying.
"We have many new pupils this year, mostly in Year 9 and 10. Welcome to Highbrook." Abby smiled at the headmaster's words
"At least we aren't the only new ones!" She said to Ziva, who nodded, agreeing.
"We have four houses here at Highbrook, Maia, Apollo, Minerva and Ceres. To test your general knowledge, does anyone understand the idea of the four houses?" Ziva put her hand up. "Yes, Miss David?"
"Dah-veed." Ziva correctly automatically.
"Do excuse me." Doctor Cullen smiled.
"They are four Roman gods. Maia is the Goddess of 'rimon', Apollo is the God 'shimshon', Minerva is the Goddess of 'hokmah' and Ceres is the God of 'adama'." Ziva then thought back to what she had said and flushed bright red. "I mean, 'growth', 'the sun', 'wisdom', and 'the earth.'"
"Thank you Miss… Dah-veed." The headmaster smiled kindly at her. "And can anyone else now remember the Hebrew for each of them, as Miss David helpfully gave us?"
Abby put up her hand.
"Ramon, shimshon, hookah and Adam." Abby said. Ziva hissed corrections to her.
"Rimon, hokmah and adama." She whispered. Abby shrugged.
"Whatever." She hissed back.
"Thank you." The headmaster was obviously trying to stop himself laughing. "If anyone new to Highbrook would please stand up, you will be allocated your house."
Ziva, Abby, Tim, Daniel and about fifty others stood up. Ziva noticed some of the Year 11s who were not knew groaning. She wondered why.
"Barbara Ainsworth?" A short girl stepped forward and nervously approached Doctor Cullen. "Welcome to Highbrook. We will give you some questions to answer and then you will be allocated your house."
"Um… okay." Barbara smiled nervously.
"Which year are you entering?" Miss Hale had stood up and asked the girl the question.
"Year 8." Barbara replied promptly.
"What color do you prefer, green, yellow, brown or blue?" Barbara thought for a moment.
"Green." She replied.
"Do you prefer to play sport, read, do gardening or relax with friends?" Miss Hale questioned.
"Relax with friends." Barbara answered.
"Would you consider yourself academic, sporty, musical or creative?" Barbara tilted her head as she mulled over the question.
"Creative." She replied after a while. Miss Hale smiled.
"Thank you, Miss Ainsworth. Doctor Cullen?" She turned to the headmaster for his verdict.
"Ceres." Doctor Cullen smiled, and a woman of about forty who looked like a secretary stepped forward with a small package. Ziva wondered what was inside.
They went through about six more people before they got to her. She waited as they reeled off surnames.
"Damien Ashford?" A tall year 10 was allocated to Maia.
"Melanie Ashford?" A year 9, female version of Damien who was allocated to Maia as well.
"Angela Bell?" A year 7 who was in a wheelchair was allocated to Apollo.
"Jennie Blackburn?" A slightly Goth looking year 10 joined Barbara in Ceres.
"Elijah Chayim?" A year 11 who, Ziva noted, was wearing a 'kippah', which is the traditional black skullcap. He was put into Minerva.
"Gabriella D'Alessandro?" An obviously Italian year 10 girl.
"Ziva David?" Ziva walked forward.
"Which year are you entering?" Miss Hale asked.
"Year 10." Ziva replied.
"What color do you prefer, green, yellow, brown or blue?" Ziva didn't even have to think for the answer.
"Blue." She answered, thinking of how Tony had complimented the color against her.
"Do you prefer to play sport, read, do gardening or relax with friends?" Miss Hale questioned.
"Read." Ziva smiled.
"Would you consider yourself academic, sporty, musical or creative?" Ziva pondered the question.
"Academic... Or sporty. I am not sure." Ziva replied.
"Doctor Cullen?" Miss Hale turned to the headmaster.
"Minerva." He handed her a small package of which she received and opened. Inside was a tie with the house colors, a badge, a hair band, a booklet and some coupons, which had things like 'sport shirt' and 'blazer' written on them. Now Ziva understood why she only had part of the uniform.
Both Tim and Daniel were 'M's, and they ended up both being in Minerva. Daniel sat back down with them and put on the hair band.
"Doesn't it suit me?" He asked, and Ziva stifled a laugh.
Finally, they got to the S's.
"Abigail Sciuto?" Abby walked up to Miss Hale and Doctor Cullen.
When they got to the color question she asked, "No black?"
"Unfortunately not." Miss Hale replied, smiling. Abby sighed.
"Blue, then." In the end, Abby was allocated to Minerva as well.
Twenty minutes later, everyone had been given their houses. Then Doctor Cullen said two words that would change Ziva's life forever.
"House meetings!" Most of the older students groaned as they filed out. Abby, Daniel, Ziva and Tim followed the stream of people with blue-striped ties. They ended up in a large room decorated in shades of blue. There was a statue of Minerva, a sign declaring "Minerva's Common Room" and a selection of large trophies trailing blue ribbons.
The inscription on the trophies read things like,
"House Trophy 2007"
"House Trophy 2008"
"Sports Day 2006"
"Sports Day 2009"
"Language Award 2005"
"Language Award 2006"
"Language Award 2007"
"Language Award 2008"
"Language Award 2009"
Ziva sat down on a couch next to Abby. Tim sat on the other side of her while Daniel perched on the armrest.
"Welcome to Minerva House." A tall boy with messy bronze hair had stood up and was addressing everyone. "My name is Edward Cullen and I am your Head of House. As some of you already know, I am also this year's Deputy Head Boy. As you may have noticed, this is the Minerva Common Room and our house color is blue.
"This is Elisabetta Procacciani," Edward rolled the 'r's is her surname, "and she is your Deputy Head of House."
"If everyone could stand up?" Elisabetta moved forward to stand by Edward's side. Everyone obliged. "If you could all introduce yourselves, with your full name, year and any nicknames?"
"Amelia Amoretti, year 9, Mia." A petite girl smiled at Elisabetta.
"Rosalie Hale, year 11, Rose." A beautiful blond who looked like a model flashed a smile.
"Alice Cullen, year 11." A small, pixie-like girl with short black hair bounced forward. About ten more people introduced themselves.
"Abigail Sciuto, year 10, Abby." Abby winked at the boy opposite her. He blushed and some people laughed.
"Ziva David, year 10." Ziva smiled at everyone.
"Timothy McGee, year 10, Tim."
"Timmy!" Abby added. McGee glared at her.
"Daniel Muchamore-Mitchell, year 10, Dan or Danny." The door opened Ziva couldn't see who it was as her view was blocked by some year 11s near the door.
"Welcome to Minerva." She heard Edward's voice welcome the newcomer.
"Sorry I'm late. Did I miss the party?" Ziva twitched at the familiar voice.
No, it couldn't be…
Could it?
A/N: Ooh… Who is it? Oh, I love cliffhangers!
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I decided to up it by adding… Twilight! Sorry, I was kinda bored. And I just watched Twilight. Which was released on DVD today.
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