Inspirational quote: Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people. So stop doing it!

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Anastasia was happily doing her triumphant dance with Lauriel still lying there half dead, when Dr Kozak came back into the room after waiting for both of them, smiling at Anastasia.

"Well someone's happy," he muttered to her, laughing.

"Dr Kozak, we just survived your so called 'dangerous' obstacle course test!" Anastasia squealed at him, then after that, since she was so happy, she physically had to hug him, and Dr Kozak reluctantly hugged her back.

"That's nice to hear. Although how did you survive? A lot of girls didn't."

Anastasia couldn't tell him that they cheated. She also couldn't tell him that it was her idea to cheat.

So she didn't. She just kept her mouth shut.

"Oh," she replied, turning red, making Dr Kozak suspicious and look at her blankly. "We just, you know, used our spy skills to ace the test."

She also really couldn't mention that Lauriel had murdered one of Dr Kozak's chickens either because she was so desperate and keen to get out of and past section five.

"Nice. But quick question? How are you not dirty?"

Anastasia didn't say anything.

"A magician never reveals her secret," was all she said to him, making Dr Kozak roll his eyes and laugh even more at her.

"Come on. We're all allies here. You can tell me. Also I thought you were working with Lauriel? Where is she?"

Anastasia sluggishly pointed behind her to a deceased looking Lauriel filling out a questionnaire still lying hopelessly on the ground.

"Oh wow. She looks, uhm, horrible. Also, have you lost your voice? You don't sound like you."

"Yeah I did. Also. I have to go."

Anastasia quickly grabbed her bag from the waiting room and headed out of room 30 thousand and something. The actual room number was unknown, but then again, there were too many of them to be fair.

There was over 50 thousand, if not then more.

"Oh okay. Bye."

Dr Kozak stared helplessly at Lauriel, who didn't even know or realise was there. He thought that it would have been a good idea to scare her.

Lauriel in the meantime was filling out the questionnaire the people aged fourteen or younger had to do once they survived the test.

Write your name, second name and surname here, she read to herself in her head, still lying down on the ground but feeling much better now.

Lauriel quickly got out the pen that was attached to the iPad the questionnaire was on and rolled her eyes in disbelief.

Name?
Lauriel.

Next question.

Second name?

Hmm, stalkers much, Lauriel thought to herself in arrogance, forgetting the fact that Dr Kozak could totally read her mind.

She very rapidly wrote why the hell do you want to know my second name, idiot, before reading it to herself and crossing it out in case someone real had read this.

Then she put Caitlyn.

Surname?

The flip! Stop with the personal questions! Lauriel wanted to scream, before writing Wilson down in her neatest, although turning out to be messiest handwriting ever.

Next question.

How do you feel about surviving this test?
Trick question much? If Lauriel had written something rude then would she have gotten marked down for it?

Lauriel didn't even think about it, and so therefore laid down there for about ten seconds thinking of what she would write.

Dead.
The elephant was proper aggressive, let me not lie.

Last question.

Would you recommend this test to someone else?

What kind of question was that?

Lauriel didn't even have to think about what she wanted to write before she wrote it.

Are you kidding me? Of course I wouldn't recommend it. And I'm sure plenty of other people have said that as well.
Unless you surely want to die, then no. Never do this test.

She placed the pen back down next to the iPad again before lying back down as she physically couldn't stand up.

It was then that Dr Kozak walked up to her, rather flummoxed at her because she had survived and she was sick as well.

"Oh wow. You made it out alive. Kind of surprised."

Lauriel didn't reply. She was a hundred percent sure that she had gone completely deaf because she could hear almost nothing at the moment.

"Err... You alright there Lauriel?"

Lauriel still couldn't a hundred percent hear him. She tried to look up but it backfired.

"Am I alright, you ask? You tell me! Do I look alright to you? I look like I'm about to die here."

Dr Kozak rolled his eyes in disbelief.

"Jeez. I was just asking you a yes or no question kid. There was no need to give me such a lengthy and snappy answer."

"Well I'm sorry, rude person. But I think it'd be best if you got out of my face. Plus why is your face so shiny?"

"You're staring at my shoes kid."

Lauriel looked up. At least tried to, anyway.

"Who is this?"

She paused when she realised something.

"Oh. Dr Kozak! It's you."

Dr Kozak didn't reply. He just shrugged to himself nonchalantly.

"Wait a second. You made the test up didn't you? I hate you! Why would you make a test like that? Trying to kill everyone huh?"

Slightly annoyed at everything he had just heard, Dr Kozak rolled his eyes heavenwards before saying anything else.

"I'm sorry but what did I tell you? I said that the test was a life or death situation. What were you expecting? An evil carousel ride or something? Please, you should know better than that Lauriel. I hate you too by the way."

"Yeah well maybe an evil carousel ride would have been better. And can you help me up? I can't stand up."

Dr Kozak couldn't stop staring at her, Lauriel doing the same back to him. Dr Kozak then shook his head in slight irritation.

"No, I won't help you up. This is your problem, not mine. What do you want me to do about it?"

What did he mean by that?

Was this guy insane?

Forget life or death situation; this was death and nothing else but death situation.

Lauriel physically couldn't move or feel her body and she groaned internally as the pain was seriously getting to her.

"Stand there like a lunatic? What did I just say? Help me up!"

Dr Kozak just looked at her for a long time before saying or doing anything else. He then helped her up straight afterwards but Lauriel fainted, Dr Kozak catching her, and leaving her to lie like that, with both of his hands underneath hers.

"Jeez. You need to stop fainting. It's not every time that I'll be there to save you, you know."

There wasn't a reply from Lauriel, then...

"And like I said earlier, I'm surprised you made it out alive. I was hoping .. Er... Thinking you'd die."

Lauriel must have not heard the last bit of Dr Kozak's sentence or something because she was still pretty much focusing on what he had said before that.

As if the girl wasn't already frustrated enough for doing a deathly and fatal test, now she was even more frustrated by what Dr Kozak had just said to her.

"Okay! That's it! What is up with you people here and death?! Honestly, it's like everyone here wants everyone else to die or something. Honestly Doctor Kozak. Leave and you die, Lauriel. Look at me and you die, Lauriel. Breathe and you die, Lauriel. Have you got an obsession with death or something?"

Dr Kozak: Whoa. I see you've gone off on a wild tangent there. And no, I didn't mean it in that way. I just meant that you're under poor conditions and you look low key unwell so I just genuinely didn't think you were going to ace this test. But I was clearly wrong.

Lauriel: Oh. Well, sorry for screaming at you. I guess.

Dr Kozak: It's fine. I probably deserved it anyway. Don't worry, Lauriel.

Lauriel: Dr Kozak...

Dr Kozak didn't say anything.

Dr Kozak: Lauriel....

Lauriel: Why would you make up such a difficult test?

Dr Kozak: Hey. Don't complain. You should be lucky. The boys got a much harder test than you girls did.

Lauriel: Which was...

Dr Kozak: Kid you seriously don't wanna know.

Lauriel: Tell me...

Dr Kozak: How about no?

Lauriel: I'm not leaving here until you do.

Even more silence from Dr Kozak.

Plus staring at each other for a while.

Dr Kozak: Fine. They just got this test in reverse order. Happy? Jeez.

Even he was becoming fed up with Lauriel's annoyingness and constant questions. And Dr Kozak didn't even get annoyed that fast anymore, but Lauriel was seriously pushing the guy's limits.

Lauriel: How is that harder? They got to tackle the harder things first then the easier ones. That's great! I think?

Dr Kozak: Well, it all depends on perspective. From mine, yeah it might be harder, from yours, yeah it might not be harder. Either way, most of the boys didn't make it past the second section.

Lauriel: And how would you know?

Dr Kozak: Statistics kid. Statistics.

Lauriel: Well, may I see them?

Dr Kozak: I was going to show you anyway, calm down. Jeez. He then brought out his iPad from his bag which Lauriel didn't even know he had.

"Here are the statistics for the boys' test."

He took out his iPad sluggishly, then doing something unknown, eventually ended up on the statistics for the Perilous Obstacle Course Test, then showing it to Lauriel.

Lauriel then impatiently took the iPad away from him, and before she had actually read the statistics, Dr Kozak yelled at her for snatching the iPad away from him instead of just taking it lightly.

"75 boys took the test...", she read, the iPad extremely close to her face. "50 died, 18 gave up, 2 got disqualified and 3 survived?"

Dr Kozak: The last two got beheaded but it doesn't say, for some reason.

Beheading someone was worse than killing someone, for God sake. Why chop their head off then they could have died with their head on? It just didn't make any sense to Lauriel.

Although it wasn't like a beheaded person knew that they were going to be beheaded, as they were dead... but still.

Lauriel: Hang on a second... I just realised something.

She always realised something. Dr Kozak rolled his eyes before saying anything else.

Dr Kozak: What?

Lauriel: More boys took the test. Only 50 girls took the test. Are you sure these statistics are correct sir?

Dr Kozak didn't even realise that. Carefully taking the iPad away from Lauriel, he deeply examined the statistics, blushing when he found out they were wrong.

Lauriel was testing his intelligence, but she was right about the statistics being incorrect.

Dr Kozak: No, Sorry these were last week's ones. I must have clicked on the wrong one by mistake. Here are this week's ones.

Then he instantaneously handed the iPad back to her before she read it out loud for both of them to hear.

Lauriel: 50 boys took the test. 24 got disqualified. No one gave up or got beheaded, 21 died and 5 survived. That's not too bad. Although why did so many people get disqualified?

Dr Kozak: Because. They cheated.

Lauriel: How?

Dr Kozak: I don't know Lauriel. They just cheated in the test. And speaking of the test again, I'm very curious. How did you end up surviving?

Lauriel was in deep trouble.

Well, she would have been in deep trouble if she had told Dr Kozak the truth. Hopefully he didn't have some sort of lie detector on him or anything to identify if Lauriel was lying or not.

Lauriel: Uhm...

Dr Kozak: I haven't got all day you know...
Neither did Lauriel. And she didn't even want to be in this conversation either but here she was.

Lauriel: I really don't think it's important on how I survived.

Dr Kozak: Yep. You're hiding something. I can see straight through ya kid.

Lauriel: But then again I can't be hiding something because I'm not holding anything.

Dr Kozak shot Lauriel a dirty look.

One of the dirtiest looks he ever gave anyone in his entire life.

Lauriel was kinda pushing his limits, this was why.

Dr Kozak: You know what I meant. Don't annoy me on purpose. Now how did you end up surviving?

Laurie; glanced at Dr Kozak, Dr Kozak doing the same thing with her.

She then sighed to herself quietly, rolling her eyes, Dr Kozak still staring rather blankly at her.
She might as well have been straight up about it, whether it had offended him or not.

And, to be honest, it kind of did.

Unsurprisingly.

"Ok fine. You really want to know how I survived?" She didn't want to tell him, but then again, what choice did she have? "I cheated."

Even though Kozak had kinda figured this out for himself, he still acted relatively surprised anyway.

Dr Kozak: I'm sorry. What?

Lauriel: I said I cheated. And I admit I cheated, before you find out I cheated.

"Yeah yeah I heard that." Kozak hissed kind of rudely. " I meant how?"

Lauriel: Doesn't matter. I just did. And Anastasia cheated as well.

"Figured." Dr Kozak deadpanned, deeply examining his short fingernails. He really needed to stop biting them.

Lauriel: And how would you know?

Dr Kozak: She was you partner for the test? I'm not stupid. And both of y'all are in serious trouble.

Lauriel sighed, she knew this was coming.

Lauriel: Yeah, I know.

Dr Kozak: I'm still slightly mad at you for cheating. Although thanks for admitting it. I probably would have found out anyway.

Lauriel: That was kinda the whole point sir.

Dr Kozak: Whatever. Look, we haven't got all day. Let's go. I'm tired, annoyed, stressed and I have a lot of things to do.

Lauriel: Same here. I don't really have anything to do though, but I feel you.

She was also depressed, but she didn't want to mention that to Dr Kozak... despite the fact that he could read her mind.

He moved forwards, Lauriel didn't, so he looked back at her in return.

Dr Kozak: Are you coming or not?

Lauriel: I can't walk sir.

Silence filled the room again, until Dr Kozak rolled his eyes and picked her up, both of them walking out of the room.

Dr Kozak: Guess I'll just have to carry you again then. Come on. Let's go. I kind of want to sleep.

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Moral of chapter: Cheating gets you nowhere in life. It's much better to fail and learn from your mistakes than to cheat and not gain anything from it.