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I Know I'm Gonna Be

Chapter 8: Aristeia

Notes:

Shoutout to Aeneas's hot mom

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

September 8, 1:38

[Chat: Odysseus and Diomedes]

Odysseus: What if I skip school tomorrow

Odysseus: Technically today

Odysseus: Like what if I fake sick 

Odysseus: My parents will believe me

Diomedes: what about your meeting with penelope

Odysseus: Why are you awake?

Diomedes: why are you texting me at 2 am

Odysseus: It’s 1:38

Diomedes: bruh

Diomedes: why are you awake

Odysseus: Idk I can’t stop thinking

Odysseus: I can’t miss school tomorrow we’re actually doing stuff in class now

Odysseus: And if I miss school I have to miss practice

Odysseus: And I’d just be in my house all day thinking

Odysseus: What if I just oversleep and miss the meeting

Odysseus: But I don’t want to 

Odysseus: But I also don’t want to go

Odysseus: I don’t know

Diomedes: dude

Diomedes: go to sleep

Odysseus: I don’t want her to think I’m ghosting her but I never have trouble ghosting people so I don’t know why this is bugging me so much

Diomedes: it’s because you like her go to sleep

Odysseus: But I don’t like her

Odysseus: I know I like her

Odysseus: Gods I like her so much

Odysseus: She’s like

Odysseus: I can’t do this

Odysseus: My parents would believe me if I fake sick right

Diomedes: you are thinking in circles go to sleep

Odysseus: Wait why are you awake?

Diomedes: when am i not awake

Odysseus: Dude

Diomedes: don’t worry about it

Diomedes: we’re both going to sleep

 

6:00

[Chat: Clytemnestra and Penelope]

Clytemnestra: helen never came home last night

Clytemnestra: she went back to the priamedes house

Penelope: Are you surprised

Clytemnestra: yes i am i thought she’d at least let me know

Penelope: She didn’t text you??

Clytemnestra: no 

 

6:00

[Chat: Cassandra and Penelope]

Penelope: Is Helen at your house???

Cassandra: Yes didn’t she text you??

Penelope: No, she didn’t

Cassandra: Oh my gods

Cassandra: Yeah she and Paris got back pretty late

Cassandra: Apparently Paris got in a fight with Menelaus but a teacher stepped in before he could get his ass beaten??

Penelope: [sent a video]

Penelope: Paris started it

Cassandra: That doesn’t surprise me

Cassandra: Where did you get the video?

Penelope: Clytemnestra

Penelope: I don’t know who sent it to her

Cassandra: Who else does she know on the football team?

Penelope: No idea

Penelope: I have to go I have another meeting before school

Cassandra: Book Club again?

Penelope: Yep

Penelope: It’s actually easier to reserve the library before school so it might end up being a regular thing

Cassandra: Hmmm

Cassandra: Is Mystery Boy in Book Club??

Penelope: No

Penelope: Mystery Boy isn’t a nerd

 

6:00

[Chat: Odysseus and Diomedes]

Odysseus: Dude did you see

Odysseus: Theseus scored 4 touchdowns last night

Odysseus: Last season he had 15 TDs 10 rushing and 5 receiving with 1,850 rushing yards so if he scores like that again he’ll tie the record Perseus set when he was on the Gorgons

Odysseus: But he’s also playing with a whole new team so that might set him back

Odysseus: He’s the last founding member of the Minotaurs now it’ll be like a whole new team once he retires

Diomedes: i had fifteen minutes left of sleep before my alarm was supposed to go off

Diomedes: could your nerd ass have waited

Diomedes: actually since im up what was going on at 2 am

Odysseus: It was 1:38

Odysseus: Had a minor crashout

Odysseus: And now it’s chill

Diomedes: right

Diomedes: so what time do you have to leave to meet with penelope?

Odysseus: oh shit

 

6:02

[Chat: Icarius and Penelope]

Icarius: Why is Perileos driving everyone to school today?

Penelope: I have a Book Club meeting this morning

Penelope: I told you about it yesterday

Icarius: Oh. Right

 

6:10

[Chat: Ctimene and Odysseus]

Odysseus: Ctimi you need to hurry up we are so late

Ctimene: im going fast

Ctimene: u didn’t say we wre going early 

Odysseus: Yeah bc Nestor sent out the reminder super late

Odysseus: Ctimi

Odysseus: Ctimi

Odysseus: Ctimothy

Ctimene: stop im literally almost done

 

6:11

[Chat: Odysseus and Penelope]

Odysseus: Im on my way I may be like 10 minutes late

Penelope: I thought we weren’t meeting until 6:45?

Odysseus: Yeah I live like 45 minutes away

Penelope: Where do you live????

Odysseus: Ithaca

Odysseus: In Cephalonia County 

Penelope: How did you end up at Achaea??

Odysseus: Long story short I did really well on a lot of tests

Odysseus: Time management was not one of them

 

6:12

[Chat: Ctimene and Odysseus]

Odysseus: I am leaving without you in 30 seconds

Odysseus: 29

Odysseus: 28

Ctimene: no wait

Odysseus: 27

Odysseus: 26

Ctimene: im putting shoes on

Odysseus: 25

 

6:45

[Chat: Odysseus and Penelope]

Penelope: I’m by the tree, no rush though!

 

6:50

Penelope: Oh my gods you will not believe what just happened

Penelope: Drive faster

Penelope: Don’t speed but drive faster

 

6:52

[Chat: 1000 boats]

Patroclus: guys wtf just happened

Patroclus: why are mene and dio in the principle’s office

Teucer: it was so fucking badass

Agamemnon: these pricks from ilium showed up in the parking lot and tried to beat him up

Patroclus: what?????

Agamemnon: they tried to beat him up

Agamemnon: they’re fucking dead for putting their hands on my brother

Patroclus: is he ok????

Menelaus: i’m completely fine agamemnon is overreacting

Agamemnon: they pushed you

Menelaus: and i’m literally fine it was a wimpy ass push

Agamemnon: whatever

Agamemnon: i’m just glad dio was there

Menelaus: dude he went absolutely feral it was so cool

Diomedes: THREE DAYS OFF SCHOOL LETS GOOOOOO

Menelaus: only three days????

Menelaus: you punched Mr. Ares

Teucer: he punched Mr. Ares????

Menelaus: and some guy’s hot mom

Diomedes: coach athena convinced them it was an accident in the heat of the moment 

Diomedes: i have the most aura in this entire school

Diomedes: i am so cool 

Agamemnon: so how many people did you fight in total?

Diomedes: uhhhh

Diomedes: at least 4

Diomedes: pandarus the guy who pushed mene, some bitch named aeneas, aeneas’s hot mom who ig was the one who broke up the fight with mene and paris, and then mr. ares

Diomedes: light work

Agamemnon: dude

Agamemnon: that’s really badass

 

6:54

[Chat: Odysseus and Penelope]

Odysseus: HERE

Odysseus: Wait what happened

Penelope: Your friend Diomedes punched Mr. Ares and somebody’s mom

Odysseus: He what

 

6:54

[Chat: 1000 boats]

Odysseus: Diomedes Tydides what the actual fuck

Diomedes: scroll up bro

Diomedes: read about my achievements

Menelaus: i think the fame is going to his head

 

6:55

[Chat: Odysseus and Penelope]

Odysseus: [sent screenshots]

Odysseus: So he fought four people and I missed it????

Penelope: [sent a video]

Penelope: Consider this repayment for the video from Friday

Odysseus: Oh my gods this is awesome

Odysseus: Are you still by the tree

Penelope: Haha yes

Penelope: I see you

Penelope: You looked the wrong way

Penelope: That’s still the wrong way

Penelope: Hi :)

Notes:

I hope this makes sense but this is where I think all the school districts are
Cephalonia County (Ithaca) has its own school district, Achaea is a really big school district that has Peloponnese County (Sparta, Argos, Pylos, Mycenae) and Attica County (Athens, Thebes, Salamis, etc), and Ilios County has its own district (Troy/Ilium).
Achilles and Patroclus technically live in Thessaly County (Phthia) but they switched schools for football

Notes:

I am once again asking you to read operation penelope by sillykeychains