Welp, another update :D this is going to be a very stressful chapter... by that I mean the twins are stressed, lol.

Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter 18 - Test

It was almost exactly a month until final exams were to start. And even though it was a whole month, it was still easy to stress about, especially for Amy.

For the past half hour, she'd been staring at a page of her geography textbook, trying to recall what her teacher said could possibly be in the exam. "Ugh, there's too much stuff," she grumbled, slamming her textbook shut. "Okay, I need a break."

Across the hallway, Sammy was darting between studying for her scholarship test, which was now only a few days away, and a large piece of homework for English. "Um…" she muttered, turning the page of her maths study booklet to see what was on the next one. "Oh great, trig," she groaned, banging her head on the table.

Meanwhile, Amy, who was standing in the hallway sipping on a glass of chocolate milk, heard Sammy from her room, and immediately went to open the door out of curiosity. "What's going on?" she asked, poking her head in.

"I have no idea…" Sammy replied with a sigh, her shoulders slumping in frustration. "I'm stuck on the English book review thing, and I've… just found the trig section in my study booklet and I really don't want to read-"

"Okay, you need a break like, now," Amy said, cutting her sister off. "I thought me stressing out over what to study for geography was bad, but compared to you right now, it's like… not. At all."

Sammy sighed again as she stared helplessly at her computer screen. "But I don't… ugh, I can't!" she exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air.

Amy groaned and looked up at the ceiling in exasperation before putting her milk down on the floor. "Samey. Break. Now," she ordered, marching over and grabbing Sammy by both wrists, then trying to pull her out of the chair.

It took another five minutes of convincing, but eventually Amy had gotten Sammy in the living room with a lemonade and X Factor performance replays on the television. And although she still felt reluctant to be away from her studies, Sammy had realized that she had no choice, and needed a break. It wasn't until two hours later that Amy had allowed her to go back up to her room and continue with studying. Although just an hour after that, she was pulled out again, this time for more track training.

The next few days went by very slowly. The first was mostly uneventful except for a biology test, which somehow had a senior-level question in it, and due to that, there were only a couple of people that were able to make an attempt at answering it. Yet as for Amy and Sammy, who were seated one behind the other, it didn't take them long at all for both of them to figure out that the question wasn't meant to be there, and passed a note around the entire class to let them know.

The day after that, both girls were in for a double cheer practise, which due to a sudden clean-up of the gear room ended up running into their next classes. Whilst Amy's geography teacher didn't have a problem, Sammy found herself stuck in the hallway with her strict English teacher and Heather, who was desperately trying to explain the situation.

And then, with one more day to go until the scholarship test, Sammy was almost burnt out from studying, and wanted nothing more than to just do something that had nothing to do with homework or studying, or anything relating to it. Though a track practise, which was scheduled at late notice, wasn't quite enough.

But finally, the day arrived. And if stress was anything to go by, the weather was also turning rather sour, with a possible rainstorm starting late in the morning.

As soon as the bus stopped outside the school, Sammy shot up from her seat and strode towards the exit, her body tense with a mixture of determination and nervousness. "This is it…" she breathed as she got off, walking through the gates.

A little ways behind, Amy walked with her friends, not bothered at all by anything else. But when she looked up to try and find another friend, she saw Sammy heading towards a large group of sophomores who were sitting on the grass outside the school gym. Amy immediately presumed that they were all others who were sitting the test.

Due to the scholarship tests running, a lot of areas had been reserved for those that were sitting the test. Both the game gym and the school gym were to be used, along with several classrooms, meaning that some classes had to be moved to somewhere else.

Having moved to one of the computer labs in the library for English, Amy looked around the room and counted how many people were there. "Serena, Thomas, Gabby, Jasmine…" she muttered under her breath, then turning to her side of the room. "Jonah, Max, Alessandra… and me…" she slowly looked down in confusion when she realized how small the class was for that day. "Crap… so many smart people…" she groaned quietly, then quickly checking her phone. "Nothing…" she muttered, then going to send a text to Sammy.

Have you like started science yet?

Amy heard her teacher coming back in and hurriedly put her phone back in her satchel, then going back to her work.

Half an hour later, when the teacher left the room again, Amy checked her phone for any messages, yet didn't see anything, and only presumed that Sammy had most probably started the first part of her test. And just as she put her phone away again, the bell rang for the next class.

Throughout the morning, Amy sent several texts to Sammy, hoping to at least get some sort of answer out of her. But since Sammy had to turn her phone off for the test, she never ended up getting any of them.

With her last class before lunch being moved to a classroom right next to the cafeteria, Amy was quick to move through to next door, only to notice that it was a lot busier than she expected. "What's going on?" she muttered, looking around and spotting a few familiar faces. "Wait, there's Alice… and Scarlett and Andy… um… what?"

Amy eventually figured out after asking several people that those taking the test were still able to have lunch in the cafeteria. But after a while, a large amount of them were called out to be placed into classrooms for the next part of the test.

Amy turned around as people left the room, looking for anyone she knew in the long queue. "Kieran, Brigitte… um… aha," she sighed quietly when she spotted Sammy, then quickly sending her a text.

How did science and math go? And are you like gonna answer or what?

But even for the entire afternoon at school, Amy still didn't hear anything from Sammy about the tests, and by the time her last class of the day finished, she had given up completely. "Samey's gonna be home later so whatever," she muttered, rolling her eyes as she grabbed her biology books and stuffed them into her satchel.

Once Amy got home, she realized she didn't have a key to the house, and waited around for ten minutes for her brother to arrive. And after that, it was almost a full hour until Sammy got home, and another half hour until their parents arrived home from work.

Amy stopped in the hallway when she saw that Sammy's bedroom was shut, and considered going in and asking her about the test, but immediately decided against it. "Yeah, no," she said to herself as she walked back to her own room.

Once dinner came, Sammy was the first one to the table, soon followed by Amy. Neither said a lot for several minutes, Amy because she had given up on asking about the test, and Sammy because of tiredness and a headache. But one eventually spoke up.

"So um… the test…" Sammy began, yawning.

"How did it go?" Amy asked, sitting up in her seat.

Soo later on in the story (I ain't saying when) Sammy will get her results for the test... and you will have to wait and see for that :) just keep an eye out for it!