I wake up to my Mom calling me down for breakfast. After quickly getting changed, putting on deodorant, and brushing my teeth I head downstairs to eat. "Good morning Honey, how'd you sleep" My Mom asks me as I enter our dining room "Fine I guess, still tired though" "Well maybe if you didn't stay up til 2 in the morning playing video games you wouldn't be" she says in a scolding tone clearly hearing me last night playing with Rien. I wasn't really ready for last night. I wasn't ready for Rien to drop all of that on me just like that. Not that I was upset about it or anything but I just wasn't ready for him to tell me all of that. I look up to see my Mom just staring at me waiting for an answer since I apparently forgot to respond while thinking "Uh sorry Mom." "Wow you're really tired huh" "uh yeah" I say since I'm not about to tell her about Rien's business especially since we're about to meet up with him and the guys for our elemental aptitude test. "Alright while eat your breakfast to wake up." she says while sliding a plate across the table towards me. "Okay" I say in response. While eating my mind just drifts to the same thing I was thinking about last night after Me and Rien logged off for the night, What Rien told me. I mean it's kinda expected though he told me that he hoped that none of us got Elements even though basically everyone besides him wants one. Truth be told I still don't know how to feel about it, even with what I told him last night I don't really know if it's the truth, since to be honest I do kinda think it's shitty that he's basically praying on all of our downfalls but I don't really care, since if were being real none of us are gonna get Elements let alone all of us. I feel like if I did care about what he told me it could end causing a rift between us and I definitely don't want that since he is one of my best friends and I love him but I kind of wish he didn't tell me that since now my brains all jumbled together, but at the same time I'm glad he did come to me since I'm sure that was eating him up the past few days maybe even his whole life and I'm really happy I could help him with it but I don't know how I feel at all now. Looking down and seeing I haven't touched my breakfast at all I quickly get to it trying to push last night out of my mind for now since if none of us get Elements last night wouldn't really matter.
After finishing my breakfast I call to my Mom who went upstairs to get ready since we had to get going soon, out of the 4 of us I live the closest to our school so a few weeks ago we decided we'd basically all meet up as we passed each other's houses and since Art said he was going to leave his house at 7:15 and he lived about 30 minutes away from the school he'd probably be here at like 7:40ish so they should be here any minutes now "Eli there here, go greet them at the door I'm almost done!!!" I hear from upstairs right as I sit on our couch to relax for a bit those fuckers always got great timing huh not really pleased that my friends decided to get here right as I sat down I ignore that there here and just wait for them to come knock on the door. After another fantastic 15 seconds of sitting on my couch I finally hear it so I bounce up and go open the door to see all three of them standing on my porch "You ready!!!" Art exclaims the second he sees me clearly really excited for today "Hell yeah I am!" I say as I walk out as we get to the street Kim's mom asks me where my mom is, I got so swept up with Art's excitement I nearly forgot my mom I think kinda scared that Art has that much control over me "Uh she's still getting ready she said she'd be out in a second." I answer, getting a nod from Kim's mom then basically right on cue my Mom comes running out ready to leave, and so we get going. Me and the guys lead our group of parents and siblings since Art is practically running to get there even earlier then we planned too. The test starts at 8:30 and because of Art's insistence on us getting there an hour early and all of our reluctance on that idea we decided we'd try to get there a half an hour early. "SLOW DOWN ART!!" I hear Art's Mom say, clearly tired already. I can't even imagine how hard it is for her to manage him right now. "It's fine honey, just let him run around and get his energy out." I hear Arts dad say to calm down his wife since she looked like she was about to lose it but apparently what Arts Dad said somehow worked since she seemed to visibly calm down Damn I wish my Dad could do that I think before I'm interrupted on my thoughts by Art wrapping his arm around my neck "You think it's funny to ignore me huh" he says while putting me in a chokehold "Ow Ow uncle..uncle" I say meekly as he chokes me harder "Fine I'll let you off the hook just this once." He says while having a tone that's makes it sound like he's showing me generosity which honestly pissed me off "Art you seem really happy for someone who rage quit last night" Rien says clearly trying to get under Art's skin which obviously worked cause in response Art immediately sprinted towards him to tackle him, but since Rien was not only better at fighting but faster then Art he just dodged him then ran away. "Man those took look so dumb right now" Kim says to me as we speed walk after them not wanting to lose them since they were both running as fast as they can "Yeah honestly I'm just waiting for one of them to get yelle-" "ART I SWEAR TO GOD!!!" "There it is." I say while doing a finger gun at Art which in turn got a laugh from Kim.
After another few minutes of walking we arrived at school and after a quick look around we were the first ones there for the test unsurprisingly. "I call dibs on going first!" Art shouts like an excited little kid "No one was planning on taking it from you" Kim says in response trying to poke fun at him "Oh.. Thanks guys!" Art respond clearly not realizing Kim's condescending tone "Went right over his head huh" Kim mutters too me "Yeah he's too stupid right now for us to mess with him, kinda sucks" I whisper back "Yeah no honestly it's kind of annoying how happy he is right now." He whispers back "Yeah no we should totally do something to ruin that" I say back with a smirk so Kim understood what I meant, after processing what I said he respond with a nice big grin and a nod and so we both prepare ourselves to jump him but then "Man you being so happy is pissing me off" Rien says as jumping Art "AH!" Art shouts clearly not ready for the unprovoked attack from Rien. Seeing this me and Kim both look at them then each other and grin before immediately joining in on the dog pile.
"Man screw y'all can't a man be happy." Art says as we finally get out of our four way wrestling match in which Rien immediately responds with "Your 12." "So? I got the mind and soul of a man so age really matter?"
"You really should word stuff better." Kim says after we all processed what Art just said in which we all start laughing. After we all calmed down and stopped making fun of Art for being an idiot I noticed that a line was starting to form and then a quick glance at my watch I see that it's 8:20 How long were we in that dog pile? I wonder but my thoughts are cut off by the doors of the school opening, by men in nice looking suits. "We will now start taking the first few people for their aptitude test."