Chapter Four: Dear Exams, I Hate You

Want to know something extermely stupid? Having a full day and then four half days at the end of the school year. It's just wrong. Why not five half days? That way, I could spend the last day relaxing, rather than taking exams. But no. It's not that way. Ugh.

"Olivia, you have to get up. Mom said so!" Ryan yelled, pushing me off my bed.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! What do you think you're doing? Have you ever heard of-"

"C'mon!" he complained. "Just get up. I, unlike you, actually have a life."

"A third grader with a life? I doubt it."

I slowly walked outside of our apartment and walked down the hall to the elevator. "Why are you so slow in the morning?"

"Έχετε ποτέ κλείσει το στόμα?"

"No, sorry, I never do," Ryan said, pressing the button for the lobby about 200 times.

The air was warm as we walked towards our school. Keygan jumped out of his building, right into my path, scaring the crap out of me. "Ιερά χάλια, Keygan! Να μην τρομάξει μου αρέσει αυτό!" I yelled at him.

"Well, well, who's in a horrible mood today? Or yet again to you blame hormones?"

"Mmm... hormones."

Ryan started to walk ahead of us, probably trying to escape the awakwardness of the conversation.

Keygan and I prefer having coversations in ancient Greek... it's funny when people give you stares for speaking something they've never heard before. I mean, it is ancient.

"Έτσι, έτοιμος για τις εξετάσεις?" Keygan asked.

"Δεν έχει πραγματικά. Σπούδασα για τα αγγλικά, αλλά δεν μπορώ ακριβώς να το πάρει!" I replied, earning a few glares from people passing us.

"Feet on the floor," Mrs. Kraps said.

Never gonna happen, you old hag, I thought. Okay, I am sorry! But you have never meet Edna Kraps! She is horrible! I mean, evern her name can tell you that much!

"Sit sqaure in your seat..." she droned on as she passed each of us our exams.

"You may begin."

I did all of that stupid crap you do on exams- pun intended, if you can find it.

I walked up to Mrs. Kraps to hand in my exam. She looked up at me, but there was something different about her face. Her eyes weren't their usual blue... they were red.

I would've groaned out loud, but decided that might attract attention to the situation, and I didn't want Keygan to get too distracted. But hey, I can't control an ADD and dyslexic boy, now, can I?

"Τα μάτια της," I said in an undertone as we walked to our lockers, "συντονισμένοι κόκκινο όταν περπάτησα από την ίδια."

"That is not good," he replied, thinking over the situation I had just told him. "I dunno, but after the next few days, we're off to camp and we could tell Chiron. Besides, no more Kraps ever again!" he said, rejoicing at the thought.

After my exam for science, I asked Mr. Totala if I could use the bathroom. He said yes, even if it was against the rules to use the bathroom during exams.

As I walked down the hall, I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around, but no one was there. I felt like I was in some kind of movie where I was the person who was about to get killed by some mysterious person, though everyone watching the movie knows who it is. In this case, I thought of Mrs. Kraps.

I heard the footsteps again and stopped in the middle of the hall. No way was I going to get into a fight with a monster during school. I'd never been explelled from a school, which was just pure luck.

I quickly whipped around to see a Mrs. Kraps with glowing red eyes and wrinkled skin.

Oh, crap, I thought, and then I reached for the silver ring on my finger.