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AURORA LIKED SCIENCE CLASS, NOT THE SUBJECT.
The class was filled with nearly thirty kids, so Mrs. O'Conley often let everyone off easy. Aurora sat at the back of the class, Jimmy on one side of her and Sana on the other. In front of her was Ethan — the one from her math class — and next to him were Drew, Jacki and Leah.
Nea sat at the front of the class, right in front of the teacher, because she didn't like the little corner everyone had tried to squish into.
Mrs. O'Conley was a good teacher, Aurora knew that. But the material she had to teach the students was a little boring. And on top of that, Aurora often caught the teacher staring at her, eyes narrowed and lip curled, as if she'd just smelt something really foul.
"Alright, let's get into your groups," Mrs. O'Conley said, handing out worksheets. "I announced your groups yesterday, if you don't remember who's in your group, find out."
"Thank you," Aurora said as the teacher handed her the worksheet.
Mrs. O'Conley wanted to start this assignment yesterday, but she'd only had time to announce the groups before the bell rang. Aurora was with Jimmy, Ethan and Drew. All in all, it could've been worse.
The four of them fit their desks together, making a group.
Drew sat in her seat next to Ethan, twirling her pencil mindlessly. Ethan scowled at the worksheet. Aurora blinked twice, unable to read the assignment requirements very well.
"Okay, so we need someone to research the effect of emulsifiers and different types of them and lots of background information on them," Jimmy said, reading the worksheet out loud. "And then someone else to think of a safe experiment that we can use to display the effect of emulsifiers to the class."
Drew shrugged, "I'll do the research."
"Great, Ethan you can help her," Jimmy said before Aurora could volunteer.
Ethan shrugged, as if he didn't really care.
Aurora pursed her lips, trying not to look disappointed. She needed solid confirmation that Drew was a demigod, and she'd thought that the group assignment was the perfect idea.
But of course, Ethan had to be paired up with Drew instead.
"That means you're with me," Jimmy said to Aurora. "We need to think of an experiment to show this to our class."
"Okay, just one problem," Aurora said. "What's an emulsifier?"
Jimmy laughed, "Dude, where the hell have you been for the past three weeks?"
Aurora didn't answer.
"This is literally the only thing we've done," he told her. "It's used to bring together polar and non-polar molecules during experiments and stuff."
