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Chapter XII: The Test

Annabeth's POV

Dorm Room

FirstDayofSchool

I remember the dream. And I dreamt of nothing after that. Gods! What did it mean? The Romans can't help us? Why?

Would they be too in-trouble to help us? Or are we going to start hating each other again or something?

I was still half-conscious, but with too many questions in my head, I came into full focus.

"Well, good morning Annabeth," I hear Mitchel tell me.

"Morning, where's everybody" I ask.

"In the classroom, about to take the test" she says

"What?!"

"You overslept" and those two words was all it took for me to shower and get dressed in eight minutes

"How much time do we still have? I'll just skip breakfast" I ask

"Barely ten minutes" she says as if it doesn't bother her that we were about to miss a test.

"Let's go!"

"Why didn't you go ahead?" I ask. She got up a small sling bag and put it around her. "I was going to go ahead, no offense. I really didn't mind waiting. But Percy insisted us to go on and he'd just wait for you, but Nico suddenly appeared out of nowhere and took Percy by surprise, so I waited" she says.

"Thanks, Mitchel. Wait, what? Percy was here?" I ask her.

"Yup" she says as she moves towards the door.

"Oh, and there's a sandwich there by the table. It's yours" she says.

I went to the table and there was a flower above the sandwich.

Thought you might skip breakfast.

-P

I hurried to catch up with Mitchel, and I swore she looked like she was supressing a smile. Oh, she read the note on the sandwich.

Mitchel isn't really that type of Aphrodite's children who thinks of nothing but clothes, beauty, and love.

Well, she thinks about that, though. She likes clothes, kind of like a hobby. She gossips (but hey she's a girl after all). But she isn't really self-centred. And besides, she's quite a level headed mature person.

I ate the sandwich on the way and we got to the classroom.

Everyone was there already. And then there were some other people I didn't know. Probably sophomore transferees or something.

I sat a sit across Percy. "Thanks for the sandwich" I say. "Anytime," he smiles and it was the type of smile you'd do anything to see again.

The teacher came with someone bringing in a slick black machine of some sort. It looked like a gigantic printer. But I had a feeling it may be a scoring machine or something.

She explained the rules, no talking, cheating, etc. the usual, and handed out the test papers.

It was easy enough. It was a fifty item question. The hour wasn't done and we were given two hours. I submitted mine in advance.

The teacher put it into the machine. "Hmm" she says and gave me another test. Oh, there was a part too.

I started answering. I noticed Lacy and Mitchel were in part two already.

I finished part two as fast as the second. And when it entered the machine, the teacher raised an eyebrow and gave me another.

Sheesh. How long does this test? I think I know most of the answers to the test except that my head won't be able to take anymore dyslexic moments this morning.

I passed the third test and she handed me another one! What?! I noticed that there were others who had finished already.

Lacy and Mitchel seemed to be finished, and so was Clovis.

Gods, my dyslexia is slowing me down. I'm too tired to read the fourth test and so I'm pretty sure I got a lot of it wrong even though I knew the right one.

This is annoyingly horrible. I do not just pass test with wrong answers. I'm a daughter of Athena for the gods' sake! Luckily, the teacher didn't give me anymore sheets.

I grumbled on my way outside. I got my things from my desk first when Percy kicked a small box towards me.

Nobody noticed. The teacher was looking down and everyone else was focused on the test.

I shot him a questioning look but he acted as if he didn't do anything. I got the box.

I knew the sandwich was small. It was all I could make before Nico dragged me shadowtraveling. I know you're still hungry.

I took a look at the box and saw two more sandwiches and a small bottle of water.

I couldn't resist. I kissed him on the cheek on the way out.

A lot of people seemed to notice this and was staring at Percy who seemed to have lost focus on anything and was gaping like a fish and as red as a tomato.

I giggled outside quietly. Seaweed brain.

Percy's POV

The test sucked. I mean seriously. It sucked.

I had no idea what I was answering.

Annabeth seemed to be fine. She kept on going to the teacher. I bet she was saying something how the questionnaires were wrong.

Tss. And I couldn't focus at all after the kiss! I mean seriously, you'd think after kissing her a lot, I won't really mind a kiss on a cheek, but nooooooooo. My body did not agree.

I was feeling I was tomato red and everyone in the room were staring at me. I could hear Travis and Connor chuckling.

I groan. Gods, why Annabeth? Why?...But I'll admit, I am pretty happy about it. If I had known this is what happens when you give a girl a sandwich, I'd had given her one when we were twelve!

I finished the test. Travis and Connor were still there.

After the test, I was instructed to go to a room. Too bad, I wanted to tell Annabeth good morning.

It was a small white room with a desk and an old lady sitting. She gestured for me to sit.

"Hello, Mr Jackson" she said looking at a paper.

"Uhm, hello," I say. "ma'am," adding that quickly. she smiled a bit at that.

"I'll be conducting an interview, so I'll be asking a lot of questions," she says. I nodded.

She looked at the paper at her hands. "According to this, you did uhm…uh, normal on the test" she says. The results are out already? But I'd just put my paper on that giant printer. I blush a bit. I'm pretty sure I knew what she meant with me doing normal.

"So, yes, do you know what these tests are for?" she says. I shrug. Not really. "To get into the curriculum?" I tried.

"Yes. You see, the other curriculum is a more…flexible…curriculum than the normal school's use. The test was actually, kind of a scholarship test. If you get high grades, you get in the curriculum" she says. Bummer. I'm not going to get in.

"Then, there are the afternoon tests. The different chosen clubs of the school will test you. It's like having a scholarship because of basketball or soccer. Do you follow me?" she asks me kindly I nodded.

"So, I'm offering you a choice, are you content with the curriculum you are in now, or do you want to be tested for the curriculum?" she asks.

I was thinking that with smarts alone, Annabeth could get into this curriculum thingie for sure. I had to be together with her too.

"yes" I tell her.

"So tell me, what do you want to be when you grow up?" she asked and it caught me off guard because I forgot this was an interview.

I thought about it and since birth I though a seaman!

If I were captain, I'd get to spend every day at sea.

But I hesitated. If I were going to be captain of a ship…I'd have to be far for Annabeth for weeks, maybe even months.

"I dunno," I shrug.

And she continued on asking me questions until I was dismissed.

Kayla's POV

MainBuilding Lobby

After the Interview

The tests were okay, but I doubt I was smart enough to enter the other curriculum. But if the guys were going to be in the other curriculum, it'd be easier to stick together with them.

I decided to take the afternoon tests.

Lacy and Mitchel seemed to be calm. I wonder if they're going to take the tests this afternoon.

Annabeth was devouring a sandwich.

And Percy just showed up at the lobby. Annabeth hugged him and they continued talking about whatever they seemed to be talking about.

It's sweet, Percy and Annabeth. They feel so natural together. I guess that's what happens when you fall in love with your best friend.

Travis and Conner just finished their interview.

They were running smoothly. Although the lobby was a bit crowded, they ran without bumping into people, minus the times they purposely bumped into them for fun. I grinned at the thought.

Katie scolded them. She's really close to those two. I have a few classes with Katie at camp and we've became good friends.

After three seconds of scolding, the boys couldn't take it. Conner started it. Taking a strand of Katie's hair and twirling it around her. Travis followed suit. And they were revolving around Katie.

I laugh a bit. Katie wanted to get out of the circle Travis and Conner imposed around her. She then had a glint in her eyes and pushed Travis. Unfortunately, the push was too hard and Travis collided at me.

"Aaaah!" we both said.

We fell to the floor. And Travis quickly got up and I laughed a little as he scowled at Conner and Katie who were laughing hard, specially Katie. Katie had a hand on Conner's shoulder laughing. And it seems Travis's scowl was intended to Katie.

He turned around and offered me a hand. He looked as if he was trying to figure out how to say something.

I took his hands laughing. His eyes widened a bit.

"..Sorry" he said blushing a bit. I laughed harder. The son of the god of mischief was actually embarrassed to say sorry to someone.

"It's alright, Trav" I tell him and he smiled and had that mischievous glint in his eyes that were among most of his brothers at camp that interested me a lot, partly because it just really captured you as if daring you to find out what caused the glint and partly because my siblings and I have that same glint in our eyes.

"Excuse me, fair lady" he said acting as if he'd pulled out his hat from his head. "I am terribly sorry for accidentally bumping into you," he said the word accidentally as if directed to Conner and Katie.

"And would like to make up for it sometime, but now, I am sorry to say that I have to kill the two people behind us," and bowed. He said it all with a French accent and I laughed as he then turned and chase the two of them.

Huh.

Lunch was fine. We made it to the cafeteria building just at the back of the main building.

I saw Percy taking food for Annabeth and holding out her seat for her while Lacy and Mitchel squeak

"So how did the tests go?" I asked them thus starting the conversation.

As expected, Travis and Connor and Percy were going for the afternoon tests. Annabeth was offered the curriculum already since her test results were amazing. Apparently she had to do four tests. But she told her interviewer that she'd still try for the afternoon test

Clovis was also already offered the curriculum for his test results and told us that he was going to skip the afternoon tests.

"Hey, you see a lot of stuff when you dream" was all he said about passing the tests

Lacy and Mitchel were also offered the curriculum for their test results. You wouldn't expect that from the Aphrodite cabin.

"There's beauty in smartness" was all they said. Lacy was also going to skip the afternoon test but Mitchel wanted to try it. Huh.

We continued lunch discussing what the afternoon tests could be.

When it was almost one pm, we started to gather at the sports complex

Let the afternoon test begin.

A/N note: this my longest chapter I think. Told you I'd make it up.