"How do they expect us to get this all done?!" Teddy flopped down on the carpet throwing his papers in the air.
"It's supposed to imitate real life work and situations," I mumbled and rubbed my eyes sleepily.
"I know what it's for but why?" He whined.
"They have sick twisted senses of humor," I flip a page in my history text book.
We only had two weeks of school left before the summer vacation trip. For the last three months our "wonderful" teachers had been preparing
us for the final projects and exams. There was hardly any time to hang out with friends anymore or goof around especially the week before
the final exams. England had assigned four lengthy book reports on some dusty old literature. America had assigned two science experiments
and six long packets of review work. Prussia had pretty much thrown the text book at us and told us to do all the problems in it. France
wanted a well written highly detailed paper about our fantasies. Germany had been running all of us ragged every Saturday and Wednesday
for the past three months. Italy felt bad for me and Shawn and just said we could pick out our best piece of art or make another one for his
final exam. History was supposed to be a really long and hard test and Greece didn't want to grade anything extra so he told us we had to
read certain information, though none of the reading could be considered light.
I glared at my pile of work but that didn't make it go away. I had already finished three and a half of England's assignment and I had most of
Greece's history books read. I just had this last one and I would be done with his work. I was almost afraid to start France's writing. I pause
and take a break for a few minutes to stretch my legs and arms and give my eyes a break. Teddy and I had been camping out in my room for
the past three weeks every other afternoon to study. He wasn't having much more luck than I was on getting some of the harder material
learned.
"You're so lucky that you have photographic memory," My twin grumbled.
"It only helps me with the history and besides you know the history as well as I do. And besides I'm shit out of luck when it comes to the
Chemistry portion of this," I sighed.
"Maybe Alfred will help you with it," Teddy yawned.
"He's been teaching me it all year and I still don't feel like I know the first thing about Chemistry."
"That's why you should ask for some one on one tutoring where you can't be interrupted and maybe he can find exactly what you don't
understand."
"At least we don't have to worry about the Peace Keeper stuff yet," I tried to make light of our situation.
"Not until next year and our last year here. And you heard Canada he said the tests for those are going to be harder than any test we have
ever taken and nothing will prepare us for it," Teddy pointed out.
"Stop being such a downer! At least it's not something we have to worry about until summer gets here," I closed my history book and put it
away on my bookshelf with all the others. I glanced at the clock on the wall and smiled with relief.
"Well we've got all our studying done for tonight. You'll have to be getting back to your dorm soon before lights out," I reminded him.
"Awesome," He replied and shoved all of his work material in his bag," Good night,"
"Night, Teddy, get some rest," I gave him a kiss on the cheek as he walked out.
I slumped down in my computer chair and pulled out my homework list. I marked out everything that I had accomplished feeling pretty satisfied
with myself. I only had one thing left to do before I went to bed.
Hastily I wrote down a shopping list and walked over to Kailyn's room. I rapped on the door and waited for her to answer. She opened the
door with a rather bored look on her face.
"What do you want?" She asked.
"Could you run by the market tomorrow and pick me up a couple of things," I held out my list for her.
"What do you want with three playboy magazines, the strongest beer available, a prostitute's email address, and the smuttiest romance
novels?"
"Homework."
"For what classes?"
"The magazines, beer, and email are for Prussia to get me out of the homework and the end of the course test and the novels are material
that I can copy over for France's class."
"Fair enough, I'll have them to you by tomorrow afternoon," She closed the door to her room without another word.
The next morning I walked to Chemistry extra early to ask America about the tutoring sessions. Like always he was sitting behind his desk
staring at his computer screen.
"Hey, Alfie can I have a favor?" I asked.
"Depends what kind of favor," he propped his chin on his hand and as an afterthought added," It's Mr. Jones."
"Could I get some one on one tutoring, pretty please?" I gave him my best puppy dog look.
"Sam, I can't just give you private tutoring, not when it's so close to test time and everyone else is asking for tutoring too," He sighed.
"But I need it worse than they do. I don't even know where to begin. I've been lost all year in this class and you know it," I insisted.
"And it's going to make it that much more difficult to cram all of that into a few tutoring sessions."
"Think of it as a challenge! Don't you love challenges, being able to pull of the unexpected?" I walked around his desk and gave his arm a
shake.
"Yeah but…" He sounded uncertain.
This was my last resort if this didn't work nothing else would. I took a deep breath and said," Please, I don't see any other way and without
you I-I'm gonna fail. Please."
He stared at me for a long moment. I didn't take my eyes off his and I let my worry and fear of failing show. My lower lip trembled and I blinked
back a few tears. Mr. Jones ran his fingers through his hair and gave a great sigh," Fine."
"Thank you! Oh you're the best!" I threw my arms around his neck.
"Yeah I know just don't tell anyone about the private tutoring. Meet me here straight after school, okay?"
"No problem Mr. Jones," I smiled widely.
America walked out into the hall to greet a few students and to talk with England and France for a few minutes. I took my usual seat in the
front row and waited for Teddy to show up to tell him my plan was a success. I didn't have to wait long, Teddy showed up to class two
minutes after that.
"I can tell the getting extra tutoring was a success," Teddy grinned and sat down beside me.
"Uh huh, all I had to do is give him my puppy dog look, add a few unshed tears, and a trembling lip and he's sold."
"All that for an extra couple classes," Kiko mused," You must be really worried about this test."
"It's not that I'm that worried. Don't get me wrong I'm worried but I'm not the kind of person to cry about it. America just needed a little extra
persuasion that's all."
Teddy shushed me as Mr. Jones walked in the room and got ready for the class. During the whole thing I diligently took notes but I felt no
better off about what I had learned. I even looked over at Teddy's notes but it still didn't make any more sense.
The rest of the day passed in a busy blur as I completed all of my school work and before I knew it the bell rang. I shoved by books back into
my bag and waved to France. I dashed across the hall and waited for Mr. Jones's last class to clear out and sat down in my chair.
"Let me just get these last few grades put in, Sam and I'll be right over there to help you," He glanced up at me while typing away on his
computer.
I dug around in my bag and pulled out my chemistry notes and pulled out the first chemistry review packet. While I waited I tried a few
problems on my own and didn't get much of anywhere.
Mr. Jones grabbed a desk and slid it over next to mine and sat down close to me and tugged the review over to him.
"All of these are wrong," He gestured to the whole front page of answers.
"Way to be positive there," I grumbled.
"Well they are. Now tell me what you remember about Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons."
"The protons are positive and make up the middle of an atom with the um Electrons?"
"You got the protons right but the nucleus of an atom is made up of Neutrons and Protons, not electrons. Electrons are around the nucleus.
Neutrons have no charge and electrons have a negative charge."
"Oh," I looked down at my packet in shame and quickly rewrote my answers out. The next half hour that's how my tutoring went. I answered
a page of questions, I got them all wrong, and Alfred would explain to me what I did wrong, and then I would have to fix all of my answers.
Sometimes I had to redo a page twice because I got all the answers wrong again.
The bell rang announcing dinner and Mr. Jones and I called it quits for the day. I had managed to get half a packet done. We walked together
over to the café and he was telling me he was starting to see an improvement in my work.
I quickly swallowed down my dinner quickly and said good night to my friends, who all seemed rather stressed from all their work like I was,
and went back up to my room so I could finish that last paper for England.
I was looking over my final draft making sure I didn't leave anything out or miss any errors when Kailyn walked in and handed me a paper bag.
"That should be everything you asked for," She leaned against my desk.
Inside the bag were five cheap romance novels, a six pack of beer and three play boy magazines. I thumbed through one of the novels and
skimmed the sex scenes. This should please France well enough.
"What about the email?" I asked setting the book to the side.
She stuck her hand into her black coat and pulled out a folded piece of paper. I grabbed it from her and snuck it into one of the play boys.
"How's class going, not that I really care," Kailyn asked.
"My papers are done for England, I've got Prussia taken care of, France's paper shouldn't take long at all, and I'm almost done with my history
reading," I ticked things off of my fingers.
"All that leaves is Chemistry. What are you going to do for the projects?"
"Shit, I've totally forgot about those. I guess I'll ask Alfred about some easy ones tomorrow."
She reached over and turned off my lamp," It's time for lights out."
"Good night."
I saved my work and closed down my computer. I fell asleep exhausted and anxious about the tests that were just a week next
morning I shoved a few of those cheap romance novels and my laptop into my bag. I figured I could get some work done during my free
period. At breakfast everyone seemed to be feeling the effects of the nearing tests and that's just about all of what they talked about.
I closed my eyes and leaned back in my chair. Who did I find attractive from the movies. That Chris Evans guy from the new Captain America
was cute. He looked really good with that forties haircut and I liked him better when his hair was blonde. He reminded me a lot of Alfred but
without the glasses. My thoughts envisioned that scene with Captain America shirtless and getting out of the vita ray thing. Sometimes when
Alfred boxed he'd take off his shirt and he would get sweaty like that and the way his shorts hung off of his hips- WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS I
THINKING ABOUT HIM LIKE THAT FOR!
I shake my head and quickly begin to fill in the details that matched Chris's description and filled in his name where it needed to go. I almost
had the whole thing finished before the bell rang signaling class change. I saved my work and put my laptop away as hurried over to gym so I
would have time to change and maybe collect my scattered thoughts.
I changed quickly and met up with Ami who was looking nervous as always, Germany really scared her. Ludwig wasn't giving us any slack
these days. He made us drill the same obstacle course over and over. We stretched and did a few push-ups before he sent us into the course.
It wasn't as bad as it could have been. At least it hadn't rained the night before and the ground wasn't covered in a foot of pure mud and
muck. Germany drilled us in any kind of weather and many a time we entered the café caked in mud and had several cuts.
Despite the difficulty of the tasks, I had grown used to the routine of the course, though Ludwig did change it from time to time, and I was left
to let my mind wander as my body went through the motions of climbing a rope or jumping several hurtles. I was in the best physical condition
I had ever been in. I could run for a few miles and pull my own body weight up. Germany had gotten me into the routine of jogging in the
mornings and eating slightly healthier.
Ami kept up with me through the whole thing and talked my ear off about her subjects and how she was worried with all the tests. I
somewhat listened but my thoughts were directed to my paper for Sexual Education. Why did my thoughts stray to Alfred? He was my legal
guardian and a good friend.
"Come on moron, he's like sixteen times older than you," I mumbled out loud.
"What?" Ami gave me a sharp look.
"Just thinking out loud, sorry," I shook my head.
"Who were you talking about?" Ami probed.
"No one important, what was that about your French class? You said you had a difficulty with the all the verbs?"
"Oh yeah, well with Lucky's tutoring I'm getting better," She blushed.
"Sounds like you two are doing more than tutoring," I shot her a sly grin.
"That's not the point! As long as I get my work done it doesn't matter what else Lucky and I do. I hear you doing tutoring with Mr. Jones" She
changed the subjected.
"Yeah, and it's going well so far. I'm going back this afternoon and maybe we can get this packet done and I can get some tips on a science
project."
"Everyone fall back in line!" Germany barked and blew his whistle.
Ami and I slowed down and fell in line with the other students our conversation forgotten as Mr. Ludwig went on about what to expect for the
test and how to be prepared for it. The bell rang and he dismissed us. Ami grabbed her bag and rushed to get away from gym while I took a
few minutes to change into my uniform and brush my hair.
The rest of the day passed in a blur and before I knew it I was in front of my desk editing the last of France's paper. I worked well past curfew
and stared at my computer screen until my eyes burned and I was so exhausted that I couldn't see straight. I typed my last sentence before I
knew it Kailyn was shaking me awake telling me that I was late for class.
For the rest of the week everyone was too busy getting final projects done and studying for tests to hang out much. All conversations were
sort, clipped, and usually had to do with some kind of problem. Alfred and I had been skipping dinner to work through some of those packets
together and Saturday and Sunday was spent working on my experiments. My nights were dedicated to studying for all the tests. Teddy had
to remind me to eat at meals and I had to help him stay awake while writing his papers. Leroy was unusually quiet and Kiko barely spoke in
English. Lucky and Ami had their first big fight and weren't on speaking terms.
Monday morning crept up all too soon. I swatted at my alarm clock and sat up dreading what came next. I pulled my hair up into a pony tail
and put on a pair of jean and a ratty old t-shirt, we weren't required to wear our uniforms today. I met up with Teddy on my way to breakfast
and we exchanged a look. I sighed and he nodded in agreement. Teddy had large, dark circles under his eyes and I knew from looking in the
mirror this morning that I was quite pale. He held out his hand and I slid mine into his and we walked into the café together.
I had thought that walking into the breakfast this morning would be chaos. I expected people to be arguing and others to be crying like it had
been over the past week but I was mistaken. The room was filled with an odd silence and no one seemed to have the energy to worry. We
were all exhausted from studying.
The bell for first class rang and we all unwillingly stood and went to take our tests. Lucky and I sat down next to each other and gave each
other a curt nod and muttered good luck under our breath. Prussia was on time to class for once and looked like he was suffering from a
severe hangover.
"No talking during the test. When you've finished sit quietly until the end of the hour. You have one hour to complete this exam," He barked as
he threw our tests at us violently.
As he passed me he gave me a glance and thumbed through his papers and handed me a certain packet and marched down the row. Carl
followed him with the answer sheets and sat down in his seat to begin his test.
I swallowed and turned to the first question in the packet and saw that the correct answer was circled. I glanced quickly down the page and
saw that the rest of them were marked too. Smiling to myself I bubbled in the correct answers and paused to doodle on the test to make it
look like I was working. I cast a quick look over to Lucky and flashed him the answers every few minutes. Sometimes I would sign him the
answers when I caught Prussia shooting me a dirty look. I pretended to be busy until the test only had ten minutes left. Around me everyone
was putting down their pencils too but some were looking at the paper worriedly.
The bell rang and Prussia took up our tests. I nodded to him and handed mine in before I shuffled up the stair to Chemistry. I sat sank down in
my seat and cast a look at everyone.
"You guys have an hour to finish the test. Try to stay quiet and no cheating. I know you guys can do this!" Mr. Jones gave a fist pump and
gave us all a high five before passing out the test. His hand brushed my shoulder and he gave it a small squeeze before passing the test to
Leroy.
I nervously glanced through all of the 50 questions on the test. Everything that I had been trying to study had suddenly left my find and I
started to panic. I glanced around and saw that everyone was busily working and I heard someone flip the page. How could someone already
have answered the first page?! The first problem looked like it was written in another language and I felt like running out of the room already.
I tried to calm myself down and answer all the problems I knew but it felt like I didn't know any of them. Every single one of them felt even
more wrong than the last and I was a nervous wreck by the time the bell rang.
My hand trembled as I passed the test to America and he ruffled my hair as I walked past him to English. I felt exhausted and I just knew that
I was going to fail my English exam.
During the test Leroy seemed to be having a worse time than I was and that made me feel a bit better. Plus after Chemistry I felt like that
English was almost too easy. It was everything I had read and studied for. Mr. Kirkland did throw in some extra questions that he hadn't gone
over in a while but it was simple things like types of poetry. I breezed through his written response and had time to spare to check my
answers at the end of the test.
We didn't have a test for sexual education; our final grade was our project that we turned in. France let us lounge around and rest for the
hour before lunch.
I walked to lunch feeling better than I had in weeks. The hardest parts of all my exams were over. All of the rest of my classes would be a
breeze compared to what I had just gone through.
I grinned and sat down next to Teddy.
"What are you so happy about?" Leroy asked.
"I am done with the Chemistry portion of the test! It's all smooth sailing from here!" I laughed.
"Well good for you," He said sourly.
"What tests do you have left, sis?" Teddy inquired.
"Gym, History, and Art," I said matter-of-factly.
"How come you have three tests rather than four like the rest of us?" Leroy shot me a jealous scowl.
"Peacekeepers don't have to take the test until next year and again our senior year. And it's not just me that has only three tests, Teddy has
three tests left too." I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Yeah, Leroy, plus these tests that we take our sophomore and senior year are ten times harder than your diplomacy test you have to take,"
Teddy added.
We didn't get to finish the whole conversation because lunch ended right after that. Teddy and I walked to the conference room and relaxed
for the next hour. Teddy sank down in one of the office chairs and pressed his hand to his eyes sockets. I walked over to him and ran my
fingers through his hair and rubbed his shoulders.
"I hate my life, can I just find the nearest bridge and jump off of it," He groaned.
"Sure as long as I get your half of your comic book collection. Oh and those leather bound copies of Harry Potter. Those will go nicely on eBay,"
I soothed him.
"You suck at cheering people up," He covered his head with his arms.
"Only you dearest brother, I'm supposed to make your life hell," I pat him on the shoulder before I sit down in a chair a few feet away from
him. I put my feet on the table and lean back to stare at the ceiling. I wondered what the tests would be like next year. Would I even pass?
What would I do if I didn't pass the test? Teach high school or something, yeah that wasn't going to happen in a million years. I rolled my eye
and watch Teddy from the corner of my eye. His head was buried in his arms and he looked like he was almost asleep.
I slid my hand into my pocket and pulled out my pocket watch. I pressed my thumb on the tiny button on the top and the catch released the
cover with a soft click. I watched the second hand tick along the face, the soft sound of it was soothing. I stared at it for five minutes before I
closed it with a snap and closed my eyes. I'm five minutes older. I'm five more minutes closer to getting these tests over. I'm five more minutes
closer to getting out for summer. I'm five more minutes closer to starting school again. I'm five more minutes closer to graduating. That's scary.
For our final exam in Gym Ludwig wanted us to run the same course we had been running for the past week in under ten minutes. He
switched up a few of the obstacles to make it more of a challenge but the course remained mostly unchanged. The ground was solid and there
was a soft breeze blowing, perfect conditions. I changed quickly into my shorts and t-shirt and tightened my shoes laces and pony tail. Ami
jogged over to me looking nervous.
"Today's the day," she gave me a weak smile.
"Last day that you have a class with Germany, so smile," I punched her lightly in the shoulder.
"Yeah," She grinned looking peppier already.
"Come here and help me stretch," I waved her closer.
She nodded her head and her hair bounced around her looking perfect as always. Together we stretched and prepared ourselves for our
exam.
"Everyone get to the starting line and line up in two's," Germany stood next to the starting line with his whistle in one hand and a stop watch
in the other.
Ami and I lined up next to each other and were third in line. Germany blew his whistle and clicked his watch and sent the first wave of
students down the course. We all waited quietly for about ten minutes until they returned sweaty and covered with dirt. Ludwig nodded his
head and sending the pair in front of me off. They returned a little later than the group before them and Ludwig shook his head and restarted
the stop watch. He gave a small gesture with his hand and blew his whistle.
Ami and I set off at a quick jog, almost a run and paced ourselves until we got to the first obstacle. Our first challenge was to army crawl under
some wire, not barbed wire because that would be a safety hazard much to Germany's disappointment. He wanted to make the course as
close to an army course as possible but there were certain restrictions placed to keep us safe. Ami and I breezed through that and continued
up to wall. The first side we had to use a rope to scale the side of the wall and on the other we had to us a series of ledges to jump down the
other side. I struggled on jumping down, I was never a big fan of heights and I didn't like the feeling that I was going to fall off the ledges at
any moment. I caught up to Ami at the set of hurtles and surpassed her but barely. We reached the end of the course and had to turn around
turn around and run the course backwards to complete it. So instead of jumping down ledges we had to climb up and slide down the rope on
the other side. Together we crossed the finish line with two minutes to spare.
Germany gave us a nod of approval and gestured to us that we could go and get a drink of water and change out of our clothes. Ami dug into
her bag and pulled out one of her language books and busied herself with last minute studying. I watched the other students take their turn
and stayed quiet to let Ami study.
"Ugh, what is sunshine in Russian again," She flipped through her book looking for the word.
"солнечный свет," I answered to her.
"How do you know Russian?" She looked at me in surprise.
"Моя мать была русской," I yawned.
"Your mother was Russian. That's why you know Russian."
"Da."
"Can Teddy speak Russian too?"
"Yes, but I'm better at Russian because I use it more," I switched over to English.
"That's interesting; you guys could be translators if your Peacekeeper job doesn't work out. We could work together!" She exclaimed.
"Study."
"Fine," she sighed.
Germany waved us down during the fast five minutes and thanked us for working with him the whole year and dismissed us to our next class.
I waved good bye to Ami and walked to History class. Greece handed us our tests after everyone had set down and fell asleep at his desk.
The history was test was overly easy and I finished it within thirty minutes. I loved my photographic memory sometimes. It made written
responses very easy because all I had to do was remember the passage I found it in and I could copy that down.
The art test was easy too because all I had to do was ask Italy what the answer was and he pretty much gave me the answer. Shawn had
opened up a bit over the year and we all sat around talking about the Renaissance and types of pasta that we liked to eat.
"Ciao~ I'll see you at dinner tonight," He gave us a warm smile and a hug when our test was finished.
The café was a sight to behold that night. It was decorated with streamers and candles and the most delicious food that I had ever seen or
smelled. Everyone was again in good spirits and was celebrating their finished tests. We could all breathe easy and had the rest of the week
to do whatever we wanted. Lucky and Ami were had apparently made up because they were making out at the table when I arrived. Roze
was talking to Teddy quietly and Kiko and Leroy were arguing over who was better Spiderman vs Deadpool.
"Deadpool could totally kick Spiderman's ass," Leroy said smugly.
"Yeah but Spiderman is a nice and has better morals. It doesn't matter about skill only." Kiko pointed out.
"Oh fuck you!"
Kiko stood up and stared at Leroy," Do you want to go?"
"Yeah, sure!" Leroy stood up.
I shook my head and grabbed Leroy by his ear and yanked him down in his seat," Cool it dummy, and they're both good characters. Just
because someone has their own opinion doesn't mean you should try to hit them for it."
Teddy put his hand on Kiko's shoulder and nodded in agreement," It's not worth it to get into a fight this late in the school year anyway."
"You two should apologize," I recommended.
Leroy glared at Kiko and Kiko snubbed Leroy.
"Whatever, we tried. They're not our responsibilities anyway," I shook my head and continued to dig into my stir fry dinner.
"May I have your attention," England addressed all of us. The whole room fell quiet and looked at him.
"Tomorrow at noon we will have your results posted on the café doors. We all are very proud of you efforts today," He paused and looked like
he what he was saying was causing him to have a kidney stone," To reward you we have sent out a permission slip to all of your families
about a summer trip to the beach. If you want to go and have permission you may come on the school trip for a week."
Behind him America gave Japan a high five. All the countries looked really excited and all the students cheered and began to discuss the trip as
soon as England was finished with that announcement.
"I'm not finished you wankers!" He yelled and got our attention again.
He waited for everyone to quiet down before continuing," You all will have free time for the rest of the week but that doesn't mean you can
break every single rule in the process. We still have you under our watch for the rest of the week and we can make the rest of your week a
living hell," He gave us glare and sat down.
"A beach trip, hell yeah!" Leroy and Kiko cheered.
"That means tans and bikinis!" Ami giggled.
"Surfing!" I yelled.
"Girls in bikinis," Teddy nudged Lucky.
"Shirtless guys!" Ami blushed.
I smiled all the way back to the dorm that night and with all the excitement Hungary had to make sure that all the girls followed the lights out
rule. Even after she had left every now and then I could hear a high pitched giggling explode from one of the floors below me.
The next morning I slept in until ten and had a light breakfast. I went out to the stables and saddled Alfred's horse, Freedom. It was a silly
name but it didn't demean the horse in anyway. He was a tall, sturdy, black stallion with a white star on his forehead. Freedom was the most
stubborn horse I had ever been on and only Alfred and I could manage to get him to do anything. Freedom wasn't afraid to buck or kick or
maim whoever was on his back if he didn't like them.
I patted his neck and pulled myself on the saddle. I gave him the choice of were to go and how fast he wanted to go once I got out of the
main area and in the large field. He galloped around for several minutes before I slowed him down and followed the fence around the field. I
watched the wind blow the branches of the trees in the forest. It looked like a wild forest that elves from Lord of the Rings would run through.
We stayed out for most of the day and when the sun climbed high in the sky I turned around to go see my grades. I gave Freedom a good rub
down first before I went to see them; Alfred would kill me if I didn't take care of Freedom after I rode him hard.
Teddy was already at the door when I arrived, fighting the crowd to go see his grades. I wormed my way over to him and together we pushed
our way to the front. I took a deep breath to try and calm my nerves before I found my name on the page. Samantha Pruitt, Geometry: A, Art:
A, History: A, Gym: A, Sexual Education: B, English: A-, and Chemistry: D.
"Oh my god," I grabbed Teddy's arm and pointed at my Chemistry grade.
"Damn," He breathed.
"I made a D," I whispered.
"Yeah, you did," He confirmed.
"You know what that means, right?" I swallowed.
"What does it mean," He asked.
"I fucking passed Chemistry! I passed! I can't believe it!" I screamed and jumped on Teddy.
Teddy laughed and yelled with me while we jumped up and down and celebrated my passing grade. Now all I had to look forward to is
summer vacation!