The Gay Teen's Guide to Defeating a Siren: Book 1: The Seeker by Cody Wagner

Author:Cody Wagner [Wagner, Cody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reference
ISBN: 9780996713511
Publisher: Cody Wagner
Published: 2015-10-27T06:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Christmas Visit

The last week of the semester had everybody stressed. Sanctuary Prep scheduled our finals the following Monday and Tuesday. Who does that? They were supposed to finish on a Friday, so we could enjoy a weekend of bliss. Talk about torture.

Spreading all my books on the desk that Saturday evening, I felt unprepared. I shouldn’t have been surprised—I was never the most focused student. Looking through my textbooks, everything felt as if it had been written in another language. Especially Spanish, which I guess made sense. The only word I understood anymore was “biblioteca”, but that’s just because it was fun to say.

“Calm down,” Cassie finally said, when I started singing, “I’m really screwed,” to my favorite songs. “Instead of worrying about studying, why don’t you actually study?”

Not to be deterred, I looked at her and said, “Biblioteca!”

“I wish I was at the library,” she said, rolling her eyes. I thought she was crazy; with the Internet, I never had to visit the library.

“We’ve been studying algebra for weeks and you passed all your tests,” Jimmy said, trying to make me feel better (although I heard him say, “Barely,” under his breath).

“Same with history,” Cassie said.

The three of us sat at our respective desks, not two feet away from each other. Cassie’s leg kept cramming into mine, but I liked being surrounded by people in the same boat as me. Of course, they weren’t freaking out. My anxiety was confusing. After all, I wasn’t a bad test taker. And they were right—I was doing OK in my classes. For some reason, though, the semester tests really got to me.

For a second, I even worried I’d forget how to run and somehow manage to fail my gym test (we had to run two miles in sixteen minutes). Leaning my head back in the chair, I pictured myself forgetting I had a left leg. Bouncing around in a circle on my right foot, I stared, helplessly, as everyone passed me.

Groaning, I snapped back to attention, opened my English book, and forced myself to study for the rest of the evening. Well, most of it, anyway. After a few hours, I got so antsy, I had to take a quick walk. The second I stepped outside, the cold jarred something in my brain, and I realized why I was so nervous. I was afraid that if I failed, I might be expelled or withdrawn. The idea sent shivers down my spine.

* * * * *

Despite my incessant worrying, the tests weren’t too bad. I actually blanked on ‘biblioteca’ and wrote ‘dance club’ until I heard Cassie in my head saying, I wish I was at the library. In English, we had to write an essay on Tom Sawyer (if it was such a classic, why did it suck?). I felt most comfortable with history (thanks to Cassie) and, of course, gym. Luke, Darrin, Tracey, Roze, and I could have crab-walked two miles in sixteen minutes.

All in all, I was pretty happy walking

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