"YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES REMAINING!"

The test proctor signaled that the test would soon come to an end.

"Sorry, excuse me."  After a loud hacking cough that I acted out, I apologized to everyone.

"SHUT UP!"

I looked up and the test proctor was glaring at me.

I heard snickering behind me.

"I think you need to go and see the doctor for a checkup because of that cough as violent." Snickering even more. The boy behind me was bothering me throughout the whole test.

I hit his desk and told him harshly "Shut up and just write the answer down."

"Calm down, I'm just trying to have some fun."

"There's no time fo-"

"TIMES UP! PUT YOUR WRITING UTENSILS DOWN OR TAKE THE RISK OF GETTING YOUR TEST VOIDED"

The proctor was so obnoxious the whole test. He kicked a student out because he said "bless you" when someone sneezed.

When the last test was collected the proctor pulled out a paper and recited "YOU MAY NOW LEAVE! IF ANYTHING IN THE TEST IS DISCUSSED OR POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEFORE THE TEST IS OVER YOUR TEST WILL BE VOIDED!"

"That wasn't horrible right?" The boy from behind me draped himself over me with a huge smile on his face.

"Get off of me Ben." I stabbed him with one of my pencils.

"OW! Ed" Rubbing his arm he started smiling again.

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A few minutes later we left to go to our lockers to get our bags. It was 3:43 PM and the only people left on the school campus were teachers, students exiting the building from the test, and students in clubs or on sports teams.

As I was waiting for Ben to get his stuff from his locker three people approached us. Two girls and a boy. The boy was very tall, probably six feet and five inches.

"So how was the test?" The tall boy asked with a mischievous look on his face.

"It was wasn't bad excluding the parts when Ben spoke the whole time. Oh, wait...He wouldn't shut the hell up!"

The girl on the right of the tall boy uncontrollably "Not surprising, during our last test together he kept asking me for movie suggestions."

The girl on the left started taking something out of her bag "So, did you guys get the textbook for the advanced physics class?"

"Yes, I got that before my test started" I pulled the book out of my bag and showed everyone."

The tall boy did the same and his name read "Simion House"

The girl to the right of Simion did so as well and her name read "Emily Eve."

"Okay, okay! I'm hungry let's go and get something to eat." Before Ben was done with the sentence he was sprinting down the hall.

"I swear…" Emily said as shaking her head in disapproval "That boy is such an idiot."

"But Ellie, you use to act just like Ben".

"What? Do you really believe my mom?" She asked incredulously.

"Well, we should catch up wi-" A loud noise interrupted me as I was speaking.

Ben came back, running down the hall screaming and laughing. "You'll have to catch me for it fattie!"

"IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME BACK MY LUNCH I'LL KILL YOU." It was at the test proctor chasing Ben down the hall furiously.

"So immature. I'll be heading home now"

"Wait, Ellie." Emily grabbed Ellie's wrist. "Just come to the diner with us."

"OOF!" The proctor tackled Ben and took his lunch back. "EXPECT A SUSPENSION AND A CALL YOU TO HOUSE! Hmphf." The proctor walked away panting heavily.

With no surprise, Ben was laughing and drenched sweat.

"Let's go before the diner closes." We all started walking.

We arrived at the dinner and sat down. Simion asked "So, tell us how you guys cheated" creeping close to me from across the table.

"All we did was use coughs there wasn't any need to do anything extra since it was multiple choice and I sat front of Ben."

"That's way too simple if you ask me. Ellie, Emily and I did not have the luxury of sitting near one another. So, this is how we cheated. Since we were allowed to use our calculator for our test, unlike you guys."

"Lucky!" Yelled Ben.

"SHHH! Keep quiet" covering Ben's mouth Emily said, "Tell him the rest."

Before Simion could continue the waiter came and took down our order.

"Anyways, I brought our calculators to a programmer. Luckily he's my friend or I'd have to pay over $500 per calculator, but he did it for free. He installed a messaging system on the calculator because imputing a system for internet access would take too long and would have extra parts which would be obvious. So we just messaged each other the answers to the test."

"Wow, that's genius." I said astonished.

"We all just cheated on national advanced placement tests. It was easy if we can do that we can continue to do the same for the rest of high school. Two more months and we'll be heading to 11th grade. Next year is the most critical, if we can stick together and do this we'll be fine!"

Everyone was stunned at the fact that Ben didn't say something stupid for once. He was right, as long as we stick together and not get caught..right...