"Well there's no going back now." D said as he sat around the table of the literature meeting room, his friends huddled by him the brown leather seats. "And now the whole school knows my real name." He let out a somewhat regretful sigh at his choice to reveal his actual name in front of everyone.
"What even made you do that? You didn't have to-" Val began to say, but D cut her off.
"It's better this way, I'm done running and I've got nothing to hide Val..."His eyes lingered on her for a bit too long. He was still curious as to why she'd dropped out of the trials last minute, but thought it better to just drop the subject.
"Alright, so the first trial is tomorrow. Does anyone have any questions?" Nashoba said as he looked around the room at the ragtag group of people he'd come to know as his friends.
Silence fell over the room as each of them thought about what the first trial, the exam they called it, would entail.
