Nightgrove Academy Book One by Bailey Blackwell

Author:Bailey Blackwell [Blackwell, Bailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The next two weeks passed in a blur of testing, training, and showers hot enough to soothe the constant muscle aches and soreness. Still, despite all her fears and strife, Izzy wouldn’t have traded it for the world.

She’d been growing by leaps and bounds—they all had—and she was starting to get really excited about the future here at Nightgrove. Before, she’d harbored hopes of getting a scholarship running track and hopefully being able to afford to buy a house of her own one day in Stockridge. Now, she harbored hopes of being asked to join the FBI or something cool like that.

Something that could change the world.

Molly had been given a clean bill of health and was back in class just a few days after her fall. Jake was still a thorn in her side but, like her, his focus had been more on improving his scores each week. Even Jessica had been less crappy to her, although that might have had more to do with the girl’s own exhaustion rather than her newfound apathy for Izzy. Best of all, though?

Izzy had gotten a letter from both her dad and Sam. They were doing great, and her dad swore he wasn’t mad at her, so long as she was happy. She’d been lying the first time she’d said she was, but now? It was basically the truth. Everything was coming up roses, and even her terrible dreams had stopped. She was in the middle of a lovely one, in which Tom was building a castle out of his famous sausage bread, when a sharp tug on her arm jerked her awake.

“Get up! The scores should be posted by now,” Rebecca hissed.

Izzy’s eyes shot wide and she sat up straight.

“Get out?!”

They’d been told days before that all of their test scores to date would be totaled and the students would be ranked, first to last. Not everyone was excited, but everyone was definitely interested in the results. Izzy had been improving every day, and butterflies exploded in her belly as she rolled out of bed.

She glanced around and noticed that Jessica wasn’t in the room. Max, Aiko, and Ashley were sitting in their joint living room chatting, dressed in their personal clothes rather than the typical school day uniforms because morning class was cancelled due to the posting of the testing results. Tom would be holding a large celebratory brunch after everyone had a chance to look at their scores.

Izzy got dressed and brushed her hair before going to the bathroom to put on a little mascara and lip gloss. Aiko and Rebecca were waiting impatiently when she got out.

“Ashley and Max said they’d meet us at the table,” Aiko said. “Now let's get going or we’re gonna be the last to know!”

When they got to the cafeteria where the rankings were being posted, there was already such a large crowd of students around the screen that they had to squint to even see their scores. Aiko pumped her fist, no doubt seeing her overall ninth place finish.

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