Rose

Chapter 3

I woke up before alarm. I looked at my phone and saw that it was 7AM. I still had half an hour to sleep but I decided to get up. I was excited and nervous at the same time. I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and a took a shower. After i finished drying my hair it was almost 8 o'clock. I went downstairs and quickly made breakfast for grandpa and me.

Soon grandpa got up as well. "Good morning, Rose", I heard him say.

"Good morning, grandpa", I turned around and smiled at him. "How come you've just got up? Late night conversations with George?", I asked, because grandpa always liked to get up earlier.

He laughed and sat down at the kitchen table, "Well we might drank a little wine and then ended up talking about God knows what all night", he said.

I smiled at that. George and grandpa are best friends and really could sometimes talk all night about politics, electricity because they were both eletricians, their families, books, TV shows and anything else that came to their minds. I think thats how I imagine Abigail and I in 50 years.

I sat down and we had breakfast while we talked about the today's testing. I felt my self getting more and more scared because I guess that physical part of the Test is more imortant and probably harder. As we finished eating I started cleaning up but grandpa stopped me. "I'll clean up, you go upstairs and get ready", he said and looked towards a watch on the wall. It was 8:20 so I had a little time to get to Castrum, again Abigail and I agreed to be there 15 minutes earlier. I quickly thanked grandpa and went upstairs.

I put on a red shirt, black high waisted jeans and red shoes. I really liked this combination, too bad I'll be changing when I get to Castrum. I didn't want to put any make up on today so I just grabbed my key and headed downstairs.

"Are you working today?", I asked grandpa.
"No, sweetie", he smiled at me, "I'll be here, waiting for good news."
Again, I felt fear in my stomach. What if there are no good news? What if I don't get in?
"Let's just hope for the best", I said and smiled weakly.

After meeting Abigail in front of Castrum, we went inside. We were in the enormous room from yesterday, waiting. I saw Max at the opposite corner of the room talking to somebody and I also recognised a couple of faces from yesterday.

After 10 minutes of waiting, which felt like ten hours, the man from yesterday, William Davies, appeared above us. The room fell silent.
"Good morning, RHs.", his voice sounded so formal, "As you all know, today we will test you physical abilities. We will test your speed, reflexes and strength." I looked at Abigail, it is like we both expected it to be, so I guess that's one good thing. "You will follow me to the dressing room. There you will find clothes for your testing." He said and started getting down the stairs. He then lead us to the dressing room. He just showed us one room and told us to wait there until they call our name.

We all went inside and realised that there are no separated parts for boys and girls, so we all have to change here together. In the middle of the room stood boxes with male and female clothes in them, sorted by size. Abigail and I grabbed two packages for us. Inside were black leggings, black shirt, trainers, hair tie and a peace of paper. On it were written the instructions for today's testing.

We will be called out in alphabetical order and when we get inside we will first go to the part of sports hall marked with number one. When we are ordered so, we will run to the red line. Then we will go to the section two where our reflexes will be tested. Everything was explained in detail: stand in the middle, then when you hear a sound and a red light on the floor, run to that place as fast as possible and tap it with your foot. Then when you see a new light, repeat. After that is finished ww should go to the section three where we will find different weights. From the lightest to the heaviest we could lift, we should carry them to the red line. And with that our testing is over.