Echo the Copycat by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

Author:Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams [Holub, Joan & Williams, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2016-04-26T07:00:00+00:00

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Copycat

READY TO TALK TO MY dad?” Athena asked Echo as the girls landed in MOA’s courtyard a short time later. There were just four of them now—Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Echo. Persephone lived off campus with her mom and had parted from them to head home after they’d left the river.

“Not yet,” said Echo as they all pushed through the bronze doors into the Academy and began trading their winged sandals for their normal ones. “I need to think some more.”

Aphrodite nodded. “You’ll know the right choice when you feel it in your heart.”

“You should sleep on it,” Artemis advised. “Like I said before, you can spend the night in my room, if you want. I don’t have a roommate, so I’ve got a spare bed.” Then she added, “And if you want to try some other nymph realms next week, I’m game.”

“Thanks. I’ll think about it,” Echo told her with real gratitude. At least she had a temporary home and some hope for the future.

“How about some food for thought?” Aphrodite suggested. “I say we hit the cafeteria for dinner.”

“Good idea,” said Athena. “After all that dancing, cloud-tumbling, and swimming, I’m starving again!”

Once inside the cafeteria, the four girls grabbed trays and went through the dinner line. An eight-armed lady served up helpings of ambrosia salad and something called nectaroni. Then Echo’s new friends invited her to eat at their table in the dining area. After she sat down, she took in the scene around her.

Over at a nearby table she saw Medusa, Pandora, Pheme, and another girl she didn’t recognize. Medusa was tossing small objects that looked like peas and pieces of carrot into the air around her head, and her snakes were snapping them up!

Echo took a sip of the nectar the goddessgirls were drinking, wondering if it would make her skin glitter like theirs. No such luck. She looked over at the mortals, Pandora and Medusa, and saw that the nectar was having no effect on them, either.

Apollo was back from the IM, she noticed. Narcissus and Tiresias were sitting with him and his godboy friends. She recognized Ares, Poseidon, Hades, and Heracles among them. Wow! It was hard to believe she was hanging out with all these wildly popular immortals. If only Daphne and Pan could be here too.

Apollo’s friends had finished eating already. Now, after pushing two tables together, they were entertaining everyone around them by building towers of leftovers atop their lunch trays and seeing who could carry theirs the most times around their tables before their tower collapsed.

A bunch of giggly girls at an adjacent table were rooting for Narcissus to win. Who could blame them? He was fantastically cute and also proving to be a good athlete! The girls clapped after he made it around the tables five times. Then he posed, holding his tray on the flat of one hand. When his blue eyes flicked to Echo, she quickly looked away, a little embarrassed to be caught staring.

Noticing the direction of Echo’s gaze, Aphrodite smiled at her.

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