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AURORA SNAPPED HER FINGERS.
Her dorm mates rushed around, passing her the makeup brush she was looking for.
Her phone rang, making her groan.
Riley had sent Aurora a demigod-safe phone years ago for her birthday. She used it occasionally, but still preferred Iris-Messaging.
Aurora was almost late for school and now someone was calling her. Spitting her toothpaste out, she pressed the speaker button on her phone.
"What?" she grumbled.
"Hi, Rora," Theo's voice came from the other end.
Theo Badeaux, the only French Aphrodite kid (at Camp Half-Blood). His French origins meant his name was pronounces tay-oh, instead of thee-oh. Aurora had fun saying his name when he first came to Camp, but now he was just as boring as the other campers.
"What do you want, Theo?" she grumbled, washing her face.
"Cayden and I are having a disagreement," Theo told her.
Aurora made a sound of protest. Theo and Cayden were both dumb in their own brilliant ways. And when you put them together... you were sure to loose a few braincells.
"Basically, I'm saying that—"
"Uh, Silena's right!" Aurora said quickly.
"Wait, you didn't even—"
Aurora didn't wait. Instead, she hung up and dried her face. She quickly tied her hair into a loose ponytail and applied some makeup. Children of Aphrodite didn't need it, but Aurora would take any chance to be more intimidating.
She was packing away her mascara when a knock on the door made her jump.
"Hurry up! You're gonna be late!" one of her dormmates, Sana, said from the other side of the door.
Aurora fixed her ponytail, and swung the bathroom door open.
"Easy for you," she grumbled, running her fingers through a knot in her hair. "You don't have to deal with your hair. Just put a hijab on and you're done."
"You think this is easy to put on," she said, motioning to her hijab. "It takes time to get it to look this nice."
Aurora rolled her eyes playfully.
"Hurry!" Nea, one of her other dormmates said. "I don't know about you two, but I don't like being late."
