Chapter 6: The Entrance 'Exams'
(Lulu, Louisa, Roger, Wesley)
Ah mornings. To some they are gracious events to starting the new day. to others it was a constant relief for them, just being alive. While Lousia could understand both points she still hated mornings. Especially when that specific morning involved a certain prankster. None of the others knew how it happened but she somehow woke up and….well you will see.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh." She yawned after waking up from an uneventful sleep. She then went to wipe her face and thats when it happened. "Agh. What is this stuff?" She took a few moments to gather herself before seeing the red paint on her hand. She realised that the gooey stuff she felt on her face and the one on her hand were connected. It took a few minutes in her groggy state to think of a culprit. The moment her mind processed the information her rage over took her groggy state and she was instantly energized. So much in fact that she yelled out at who she assumed to be the culprit. "WESLEY!" Everyone in the building could hear that one.
"Come on mom. Five more seconds…..actually minutes. No towers…...or was it hours." Roger's 'exemplary' measurement of time was transferring to his dream as he was transported from a sleepy state to a groggy one. He wasn't the only one.
"Ughhh. Who's being loud now?" Lulu's annoyance had overridden her sense of logic as she soon recognized the voice afterwards. "Oh crud.' This time she made sure to keep her words to a whisper as she slowly opened her eyes. Lucky for her Louise had payed his comment no mind. She stalked around. She was still slightly dazed especially from the paint streaming down her face but it was clear as day that Wesley, the man in question was not here.
When it was clear Louise's rage wasn't being targeted towards her she asked the pivotal question. "What's the problem?" She than noticed the splatter of paint on her face. It took all of Lulu's willpower NOT to show any signs of her amusement.
"The problem is that pathetic twerp pulled this little stunt on my me!" She then showed her hand which was splattered with paint as well.
However serious the situation is Lulu couldn't put her curiousity away. "How did he get the paint on your hand without any of us knowing?" Louise glared at her.
"I don't know. Maybe you can ask him…..you won't get an answer out of him though. By the time I'm through with him he won't be able to speak." She then sent an even more chill inducing look towards Lulu. As if she was challenging Lulu to disclaim her threat.
"I have every speck of confidence that you will do as you say."
As Lulu tried to reassure Louise, Roger finally stopped his attempt to go back to sleep. After getting up and having Lulu explain to him why they were making so much noise Roger remembered something. "Now that you mention it I remember him waking me up in the middle of the night, he said that he was in the making of planning the prank of the century. Asked me to join or something, I was kinda tired at the time."
Louise didn't seem to care about how tired he had been or not. Lulu however decided to try and get some information out of roster, "Did he tell you who he was going after?"
Roger took some time to think about this one. He didn't want to mess with an angry Louise. He didn't wanna mess with any type of Louise for that matter. "He said something about pranking the stuck up b*tch! That doesn't really help does it?" Louise's eyes turned a deadly red. Lulu just gave Roger a strange look. "What? You asked me who he was going after and I told you what he told me."
"I'm going to completely annihilate that little punk!" Before either of her roommates could reply an announcement was heard.
"All contestants, please get yourselves presentable and come downstairs, it's time to decide your future here at this school." With that Blainley signed off.
"ERGH! She just HAD to choose this specific time to make her announcement. Whatever. I'm going to get dressed." She took her clothes and stalked out of the room. Some of the other contestants were confused as well. Some of the other contestants came out in their sleepwear Alexander walked decently close(not too close though) to Lulu.
"Heh. What's her deal?" Lulu just shook her head in slight disgust.
"It's a long and uneventful story. I'll tell you later, but right now I have to get dressed." Alexander shrugged and the other contestants resumed with their duties. All noticing that a specific set of twins were gone.
(Confessional Cam-Double Trouble?)
Alexander- I can only assume that we are going to be taking some kind of test, to see where our mental standings are. I'm not worried about that….what I am worried about is Louise's pissed off mood. I'm already gonna be an outcast. I don't want to end up a paralyzed one.
Greer- I can only hope that this 'announcement' won't hurt me in any way. And from what is saw the Comedy Twins better hope so too. I didn't see either of them this morning. Good thing to, this morning without them was surprisingly…...peaceful.
Alice Wolf- She starts writing on her notepad. 'I'm pretty happy with the way things ended up yesterday. Jennifer is pleasantly quiet. I also see a layer of intelligence in her. We should get along. Mark is a bit overstressed but he's respectable about it. And Charles…..*She blushes slightly as she writes this next comment* he's a nice person to be around and to talk to. He's very…...interesting for lack of a better word.'
Abby- *She is sweating slightly* I'm no idiot by any means, but I'm not exceptional at school subjects like writing and history. I think I'm pretty decent at math but from what I heard of this school it only accepts the best sooooooo I'm just gonna hope that there isn't a test.
Anna- *She is visibly shivering* It's not cold if that's what you were thinking. And I'm not worried about this announcement. I'm just….not comfortable around Jerome or Fluffy or whatever his flipping name is. Don't get me wrong, he's quite nice. And he has this aura around him which just convinces you that you and him could be friends. The thing that disproves his fact is the axe hanging either from his belt or from his hand. He was the first one to pass out, and you wanna know something? He slept with that thing in his hand for at least 30 minutes! Hanging from the side of his bed. I ignored it after that, but when I woke up he was already dressed and he STILL had it in his hand. Now normally I wouldn't believe he could hold something like that in his hand without it falling to the ground or not. but, with the way he treats that thing…...I don't know WHAT to believe right now.
(Lower Level)
All the contestants(well most of them) had gathered on the bottom floor and were surprised to see Wesley and Evan Stone sitting down completely dressed talking with one another. They were whispering with one another, Evan obviously seemed distraught about something. Closing in from behind was Louise. Just before she was in striking distance however…..
"Louise. Please stop. All of you sit down so I can make my announcement." There goes Blainley again. Talking through the mike again.
Wait a second. "Why do you have a speaker installed into our dorm and why aren't you hear to make this announcement yourself?" Louise asked in annoyance.
"Chris demanded that we install the speaker and the voice recorders, not the school. And the reason I'm not their is because of a certain pair of twins." Blainley's usually bored tone became much angrier as Wesley turned a glare onto his brother who had his hands spread in a helpless gesture. "Anyway as I said sit down." The contestants having all been dressed up reluctantly sat down on furniture and on the floor.
"Ah come on." Harvey said as he found himself sitting on the rough mat. To this Wesley snickered lightly….that was until his smile was thrown out by the heavy glares of both his brother and Louisa who he was squished between on the couch.
"Okay I know why my brother is pissed, but what's got your panties in a twi-OOOW!" His earlier comment was stopped in it's tracks and twisted into a howl of pain. The source was from the enhancing bump that was growing on his skull after coming into contact with Louise's fist.
"Shoosh. Now today you learn about how things work here at Congrate Highschool. We don't operate like other schools. For instance we are a project based learning school. You will have to cpte individual AND group based projects. Your teacher will give an in depth details as to what these projects actually are. But onto the more important matters at hand. All of you may have special access to the school but before you actually become a student there is an important matter to settle. The Entrance Exam!"
"The what?" Harvey said with heavy sarcasm. "I can't hear you over the free passages we were promised into this school!" Although the other competitors aren't as rude as Harvey they all murmured their assent to his statement.
"You will each take an entrance exam." Blainley said blatantly ignoring Harvey's outburst. "They will be arriving shortly. Based off the knowledge each of you show you will be submitted into 3 groups. One groups will be the ones who exceed our standards here at Congrate. The other group will be comprised of the contestants that meet those standards and the last group will be made up of the contestants that don't meet those standards. As you can probably guess those groups will affect your future for the rest of the school year."
"Pft. And?" Harvey, the ever loveable soul kept up with the sarcasm.
"What of it?"
"MAYBE you'd understand why it's important if you would zip it." Harvey rolled his eyes at this comment but decided(after being silently threatened by Louisa's glare) to shut his yapper. "Thank you. Now you may be wondering how this will affect you? While I will admit it may seem unfair at first but for all the contestants that don't meet the standards, they will be taking private classes with a 'temporary' teacher. In other words they will be taking classes with one another with a brutality blunt teacher and will be shunned by all the other students." Like the high schoolers they were they started muttering amongst themselves about this new development.
"Now as for the passing protocols. Nothing less than a C+ will be accepted as a passing grade. There are no D's in this school. If you get lower than 70% on an assignment well than that's an F." The muttering grew slightly louder but stayed at a sustainable level. "Now we will give you some prep time. However you will only get today for pre time as tomorrow is the last day before the school week starts. A student will come by your dorm with a stack of practice test. Do with them at you wish. I wish you all good luck." With that the speaker was cut off. There was all of 3 seconds before everyone started shouting with distress.
"Everyone be quiet!" This was Jennifer's attempt to calm the situation down as she stood on top of the wooden table. "We need to calm down. I'm sure if we all work together that we ca-" A doorbell rang and interrupted Jennifer mid sentence. Most of the other contestants started jabbering again and Jennifer just sighed. She had tried, and she had failed. Anna just sighed at this and went to open the door as she was the closest to it.
She opened up the door and was greeted by two student's. One had long black hair with light blue highlights, light blue eyes and a tannish skin tone. She wore a blue belly shirt, black jeans and blue sneakers.
The other had short auburn hair, a slim, well toned build, he was about 6'4" and had black eyes. He had more than his share of scars, tanned, and he was of European descent. He wore a leather jacket, a black t-shirt, a black jeans and black sneakers. He also was a familiar face to Anna. She smiled at him and gave him a soft hug. Casio Lundrigren blushed lightly but smiled and gave her a hug back. Emily rolled her eyes at the sight playfully.
"If you two glomp each other not only am I gonna puke but they won't be able to study for their entrance exams." She said it a teasing voice but she made a good point. Reluctantly Casio removed himself from Anna. Anna wasn't necessarily happy with this and resumed to give Emily a long stare.
"And who are you?" Emily not wanting to cause any trouble put her hands out in a gesture of peace.
"I'm just a classmate of his call me Emily." Anna at the word classmate released her stare. She didn't believe Emily was lying. "Anyway we are hear to deliver to you the practice exams." Emily held out her hands containing a stack of papers. However before Anna could take it a mystery set of hands came in and snatched it.
"Thanks for the papers. Have a nice day." And with that Dirk slammed the door straight in the faces of the two student's full force. Literally. The show of force was able to shock all the other competitors into silence.
"Ummmmmmmmmm what the f**k was that?" Evan said without any sort of tact whatsoever.
"I don't know ask Mr. Door Slammer over here." Anna said with more anger than she normally uses. With that the attention of the room turned to Dirk. He simply folded his arms to the best of his ability while holding the papers.
"What? They were here to deliver this, they delivered it and I closed the door. Nothings wrong with that." What Anna gave Dirk wasn't just a stare it was glare. An incredible one at that. If looks could kill Anna's glare would be more dangerous than Cyclops.
(Confessional Cam-Anna has a darkside?)
Dirk Manic- (He was currently muffling his face with his palms before looking at the camera.) Seriously?! I came here to get AWAY from Emily. (Sigh) Before you ask, yes she's my Girlfriend. Well….my ex girlfriend. We had a big fight about our photography a few months ago. She is a photographer like me….although she has the most absurd creative ideas EVER. (He scowls) It ended with Anna transferring schools. But, I didn't know she had come here of all places. Ughh. This is a nightmare. One that the other competitors can NOT know about. Why? Because it's honestly none of their business, that's why?!
Anna Trove- (She still had that intense glare in her eyes) I don't care what your reason is. I don't care who you are. You don't slam the door on people. Especially my boyfriend. For several reasons. 1. It's extremely rude. 2. Cas has a bit of an anger problem. He may have been rude but I don't think Dirk should get hurt for it. I hope I can talk to Cas before it comes to that.
(Dorm Room-MCJA/Markus Fang, Charles Logan, Jennifer Harris and Alice Wolf)
After all the papers had been passed out to people several of them went their separate ways to either study or ignore it. For instance the two people who represented these specific options were Markus Fang and Charles Logan.
Markus was taking this time to currently sit back on his bed and relaxing…..or at least he was trying to however he kept glancing over to Charles who currently was studying vigorously on the test. He noticed this and gave Markus a sideways glance. Markus being a master of silent conversation got the message.
"Sorry man. It's a force of habit. I've been completing papers WAY to long."
Charles raised his eyebrow at this.
"Why don't you go back downstairs and watch TV than?" Immediately Markus put up two of his fingers.
"Two reasons. The first being that I almost never get a chance to relax and I rather do it without having a massive amount of people bother me. The second being that even if I wanted to watch TV I can't, Layne and Lily are both down there playing video games. I'm honestly surprised you haven't joined them." He threw it out as a noncommittal comment but really he was trying to check for Charles reaction. This guy seemed a little to focused. Which could make him very dangerous in the future. His next comment confirmed this thought process.
"I have every intention of being added to the Advanced group or whatever it's stupid name is. And to do that I have to study." Markus shrugged.
"Not necessarily. You can pass without studying. Which is why I'm going to take my chances and relax….although I will admit it's a bit boring here. I wish we could start decorating already." (Look at the bottom of the chapter for details about this.)
Charles just shook his head. "We need to get Chris' consensus before we do anything. Imagine how bad it would be if Chris got as pissed as he was yesterday?"
Markus sighed at that thought. "Yeah it would suck. Eh. I'll take this layer of peace and quiet any day of the week." And with that the two of them went back to ignoring one another in peace….for 5 minutes anyway.
A certain pair of contestants entered the room. Markus pulled off a mock sigh when he saw Clara and Alice enter with their practice test as well. "And there goes our silence."
(Lower Level)
While the group of contestants up their were either doing nothing or studying the three downstairs were already getting to the action.
"Yes! You just got brutalized!" Lily got off the couch she was sitting on and raised her arms in victory at this sudden revelation. (She made sure to put the controller down before doing this.)
Well they were getting to the action games anyhow. Layne rolled his eyes. "It's a brutality. Not brutalized. And we both know the way you won deserves to be called nothing short of HAX!"
"HAX?! I'm not the one who spammed the same ranged attack several times!" Lily said in false indignation. Layne scoffed.
"I did not spam! I did a few things in between the use of the arrows." lily just stared at him. "Okay I spammed. But can you blame me? I've played this game maybe two times, including this one. And the first one was the demo version at Gamestop!"
"Do you not have the game? You seem as if you enjoy it." Lily said with honest curiosity. Layne blushed in embarrassment at this. There was a reason he didn't have the game. He didn't want to speak it outloud though. Lily could sense this and changed the subject. "Don't worry you will get better at it…...not good enough to beat me though." Lily smiled at Layne who uncharastically smiled back.
"Not wanting to sound rude here but can you keep it down bit." Jennifer said who was sitting in the armchair to their couches left, trying to get some rest. "The others may come down to complain. And that would be a bit of a bother."
Layne nodded. "That's true…...Don't take this the wrong way but why aren't you studying? I mean I'm not studying because I honestly have little interest in going to Advance classes or anything like that. And Lily here despises test so much that i'm starting to think she's afraid of them." Lily punched his arm lightly at this.
Jennifer smiled sleepily at their interactions, "I have confidence in my ability to pass the exam without studying."
"Oh really?" Lily said intervening with a good willed joust at Jennifer's mental abilities. "Is that the only reason?"
Jennifer's smile turned to a look of embarrassment. "Well I maybe a little bit lazy." Lily and Layne smirked at this. Jennifer narrowed her eyes at them. "It's better than being scared of the exam. And you do know that test and exams are different right?"
Lily frowned at this. "Really? Well it honestly doesn't matter because not everyone here calls it the same thing. I heard some people call it the Exams and some called it a test. They are basically the same thing in all reality." Jennifer shrugged at this not really caring that much. With that Lily grabbed the controller again. "Come on Layne. Pick up your controller and get ready for your 6th defeat.
"Pfft you wish." Layne said with a confidence that even surprised him as he and Lily went back to making their respective characters overkill each other.
(Confessional Cam- Exam or Test. Is there really a difference?)
Layne: Man I haven't had that much fun in days. It's nice being able to play people other than Kai. No offense to the dude but he kinda sucks at video games. (It takes a few seconds for the realization that his best friend was probably watching to reach his head) Hehehehe. Sorry Kai. But hey man, I'm making friends. So thats a plus. I just hope we don't get separated in different classes because of the freaking exam…..or the test. Whatever the heck it's called.
(Chris)
The scene transitions to Chris sitting in the monitoring room watching over the competitors and drinking a while he enjoyed the sights before him a phone call arrived his way. "Hello?" He said flipping the phone on his. Eyes suddenly popped outta his head. "Wait what do you mean the shows already over. I know it's long enough but the fans…..hey. HEY!" Chris just sighed as he shut down his phone. "Stupid Blainley." Chris then looked towards the camera with his usual smirk (although it was noticeably more fake than normal) "That's it folks. Who is going to meet the standards of Congrate Highschool? Who is going to fail and become an outcast from the school? And what kind of events will occur with the soon to be students? Well you are just gonna have to find out next time. Here on TOTAL! DRAMA! SCCCCCCHHHHHHHHOLARS GUANTLET! Man I am nailing that one."
3 Weeks huh. Eh not as bad as long as last Chapter so I'm kinda satisfied. Don't worry though summer break is gonna end next week. While so people will have less time to do this, during school when i'm earning new writing techniques I actually become more dedicated to my work than when I'm on summer break. Anyway you may have noticed the note about the room decorations. Thing is that's optional so if you don't really wanna have your guys decorated the that's fine to. Anyway hope you guys have a good one, have a great day.