Calliope the Muse (Goddess Girls Book 20) by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

Author:Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams [Holub, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2016-08-09T06:00:00+00:00

7

Tidying Up

ONCE BACK AT MOA, CALLIOPE ran down the hall to the Hero-ology classroom. She reached out to twist the doorknob, then hurried across the room and dropped the bag Homer had given her on top of Mr. Cyclops’s desk. The teacher would be sure to discover it first thing Monday morning.

Then she slipped out of the room and carefully closed the door behind her. Check that errand off her to-do list, she thought as she hurried upstairs to her room to change out of her purple concert chiton. She was happy to have helped both Homer and Mr. Cyclops. Not to mention all the students who needed to use those figures in class. Goodbye, shells! She’d be kind of sorry to see them go, because students had decorated them in funny ways with ink and string and other doodads to give them the character of the heroes they’d replaced.

Emboldened by her success at returning the Hero-ology figures, she decided to invite Aphrodite straightaway to sleep over that night. So after she slipped out of her purple chiton and into her favorite turquoise one, she went down the hall to Aphrodite’s room and knocked.

“At music festival. Be back late. I’d love it if you leave a message,” said Aphrodite’s voice. It seemed to be coming from the pink feather quill pen, which was attached to the heart-shaped wipe-off notescroll hanging on her door.

Calliope sighed. Quickly she took the pen from its holder, intending to write on the heart-shaped scroll. But then she stopped. She’d really rather deliver her invitation in person, not write it where everyone who walked by could read it. She set the pen back in its holder.

Maybe she should have stayed at the festival longer too. She’d kind of wanted to get away before anyone else brought up her big mistake, though. Plus her sisters had been leaving, and she had schoolwork to do. As it turned out, she’d had Homer’s bag to deliver as well. Probably most of the MOA students who had gone to the theater that morning were still there—the ones not behind on their homework, anyway.

Unable to face the loneliness of her dorm room, she decided to do homework in the MOA library instead. Quickly she gathered up some supplies—her planscroll, list of ideas, pens, and so forth—and headed downstairs. Unfortunately, the library proved no easier a place to study than her room. Distracted by a multitude of scrollbooks on every imaginable subject, she pulled out one after another and got even more project ideas. As if she needed more. Not!

She was reading about gymnasiums and considering what it might be like to design one with multiple indoor tracks and a covered chariot racetrack too, when Principal Zeus entered the library. His arms were full of old scrollazines, which he proceeded to dump on a table four over from hers.

Mr. Eratosthenes, the librarian, hurried out of his office at the side of the library. “Can I help you?” he asked softly, coming over to Zeus.

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