I warned you that I'd only update within a week if I got ten reviews on my fictionpress story. I got five, so I decided to update in a week and a half.

Chapter 17: Claiming, Sorting, and other Important Decisions

"D'you think Emma Davies is a daughter of Aphrodite or Apollo?" I pondered, picking apart my sandwich to take out all the lettuce. Gods, I hated lettuce.

Cassie swallowed some of the cafeteria's tuna surprise, turned green, coughed, spluttered, spit something into a napkin, gulped some of the cafeteria's warmish milk, and then finally managed to reply, "I don't think she's a demigod at all." And that is why Cassie is my best friend.

"Theoretically speaking," I clarified, giving her my apple juice.

She took it gratefully, with tears in her eyes from my kind gesture. Or maybe it was because she could still taste the tuna surprise. Or perhaps even both.

"Apollo, then," she decided. "She got the lead solo in the musical last month."

"Whatever she is, she's definitely a Hufflepuff." Susan pointed a French fry at us. "I think you two would be Hufflepuffs, too. I'm a Ravenclaw."

Cassie tossed her lunch into a trash can with a last look of disgust at the tuna surprise. "What about Bree?"

"She's definitely a Muggle."

"Excuse me?" Bree demanded. She sat down next to Cassie and pretended to glare at me and Susan.

"Daughter of Aphrodite," Cassie mouthed to me.

I nodded and mouthed back, "She's even more Aphrodite than you are."

"I'm a daughter of Zeus!"

"But you act like a daughter of Aphrodite."

"Well, you don't even have a godly parent."

"I'm waiting to be claimed."

I suddenly noticed Bree and Susan watching our silent conversation like a ping-pong game.

"Uh…" I desperately tried to break the awkward silence. "What electives are you guys taking next year?"

Cassie stole a piece of my sandwich. "Oh, I don't know. When are the forms due?"

"Tomorrow," Susan said calmly.

Cassie looked like she'd taken another bite of tuna surprise. "Di immortales!"

"Just sign up for drama and French again," Bree suggested. "That's what I did."

"Thanks."

"French," I repeated to Cassie as the bell rang, "and you say you aren't a daughter of Aphrodite?"

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