It was now the beginning of March. The zodiacs grew more uneasy as summer kept coming closer and closer. Everyone's strength, stamina, and power grew enough to give them hope for the trials.

  Aquarius was doing well now that he was taking his vitamins. He didn't pass out anymore. He spent his time trying to find a way to gather the courage to ask Leo out.

Gemini continued his research. He showed the weird letter to Gem, but she had no idea what it said. He also tried to figure out if there was a way to bring her memories back, despite Gina telling him not to.

Taurus spent a lot of time in the hospital. She hit her back when she fell from the tree hard enough to become paraplegic. The doctors were unsure if she would ever regain control of her legs. Taurus hoped that she would somehow recover since constellations heal faster and better than humans.  Libra helped teach her exercises, and she tried to build strength in her arms since using her legs was not an option.

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Virgo sighed as he dropped his backpack on the classroom floor. He choose a desk in the second row from the front. "I still can't believe we got caught up in this bullshit."

Libra sat beside him. "We don't even do anything, but we still get in trouble."

"I'm going to kill Sagittarius and Gem as soon as I see them again."

"Let's lock them out of the house tonight."

"Or we'll serve them dog food later while we get something else."

"Wow, you guys are mean." Virgo and Libra turned to see Aquarius in the doorway.

"Why are you here?" asked Virgo.

Aquarius looked around the empty room and picked a desk in the back row. "I'll tell you for five bucks."

Libra rolled her eyes. "We'll find out eventually."

Suddenly, a voice shrieked from down the hall. "It should be ILLEGAL to keep students hostage after school is over!"

"Here comes the walking disasters," muttered Virgo.

Sagittarius walked in the classroom. Her hair and clothes were covered in a blue substance. She smirked when she saw Virgo and Libra. "I didn't know I'd see you guys here. What did you do?"

Libra gave her a stern look. "WE didn't do anything!"

Gem walked in after Sagittarius. Her hair and clothes were also covered in a blue substance. They chose to sit beside Aquarius in the back row.

Virgo leaned back in his desk. "Did you guys actually frame us to get out of detention, but still manage to get in detention?"

Gem sat cross legged on the top of her desk. "No."

Aquarius looked out the window. The snow on the streets was starting to melt. "I can't wait until it gets warmer."

Sagittarius gasped dramatically. "But then it will be closer to summer."

"Hey losers!" Pisces ran in the classroom and sat in front of Sagittarius. He had multi colored paint splattered on his clothes and face. He also had a few bruises on his face. "I'll sit next to my best friends!"

"Why are you here?" asked Aquarius.

"Wait WHAT HAPPENED?" gasped Sagittarius.

Pisces shrugged.

Gem chuckled. "It's a family reunion."

Pisces stared in disbelief at Libra and Virgo. "Why are they here?"

"Because they're naughty," replied Sagittarius.

Gem shook her head. "They're the reason we're covered in this blue stuff."

Sagittarius started pushing desks together. "I think I'll take a nap."

Gem helped. "Do you have your fuzzy blanket?"

Sagittarius pulled her blanket out of her backpack. "I always have my fuzzy blanket."

"Wait why are you guys all here?" Cancer paused in the doorway.

"Because we're bad kids," replied Libra. Then she flashed her teeth.

"Okay..." Cancer decided to sit next to Pisces in the back.

Leo walked in the classroom without saying anything. She sat in a desk in the middle of the classroom, using her backpack to save the seat next to her.

"Even Leo is here," chuckled Pisces.

"Did our entire friend group get detention today?" joked Cancer.

"Do you think Taurus would get detention?" asked Aquarius.

Cancer turned to look at the door. "Watch her walk through the door after you said that."

Gem got up and poked her head out the doorway. "There's nobody else coming yet." She went back over to making her desk bed.

"Wait why are Virgo and Libra here?" asked Leo.

"I'm going to hide so nobody else asks that question." Libra got up and hid under the teacher's desk.

Virgo shrugged. "We killed a few kids."

Sagittarius chuckled and pointed at Virgo. "You two nearly killed US!"

"First of all, we didn't nearly kill you. Also it was YOUR fault since you caused the whole mess."

"Then why are you in detention for it if it was our mess?" asked Gem.

"Anyone else wondering what they did?" asked Cancer.

"I don't think detention is usually so full." Capricorn sat beside Virgo. He had some half dried patches of water on his clothes.

"You're here too?" asked Virgo.

"What? No. You're just hallucinating."

"What a hideous hallucination this is."

Capricorn crossed his arms. "You're mean."

"Virgo are you bullying poor Cappy?" Gemini walked in the room and sat on the opposite side of Virgo.

Virgo looked at Gemini. "That's Libra's spot."

"But I'm Libra. I'll even pretend to be your girlfriend."

"Please don't."

"That's no way to talk to your wife."

"Didn't you just say girlfriend?"

"Yeah but we just got married, so now I'm your wife."

"Gemini, please shut up."

"I'm not Gemini, I'm Libra."

"Libra please shut up."

"Okay daddy."

Libra hit her head off the top of the teacher's desk from laughing so hard. "Ow!"

"I heard something." Capricorn looked under the desk. "Oh it's just Libra."

"Why is Libra under the desk?" asked Gemini. "And why are you guys in detention?"

"Why are YOU here?" asked Libra from under the desk.

"Because I like it here." Capricorn leaned back and kicked his feet up on Virgo's shoulders.

Leo got up and sat in the teacher's chair. "Okay class. Today we're going to learn about the most beautiful creature to ever be created."

"Why are we learning about me?" asked Pisces.

Leo threw a white board marker at him. "Leo is the fifth constellation. Leo represents the lion." She drew her symbol on the board.

"Leo is stupid!" yelled Sagittarius who was lying down on her desk bed.

Leo threw a white board marker at her too. "Leo is the most beautiful of the zodiac. Everyone wishes they could date Leo."

"I don't want to date you," announced Gem.

"Guess who can't relate?" asked Pisces while elbowing Aquarius.

"Shut up," hissed Aquarius.

Cancer shrugged. "I love Taurus."

"Stop interrupting your teacher while she's teaching!" Leo grabbed all the white board markers and threw them at everyone.

Capricorn used Virgo as a shield from the flying markers. "This is a violent class. I didn't sign up for this."

"Wait." Aquarius stood up and began collecting the white board markers. "Let's hide these from the teacher."

"What teacher is unlucky enough to deal with the however many of us today?" asked Gemini, rhetorically.

Everyone heard something being wheeled towards the classroom.

"Is that Taurus?" asked Aquarius.

"I don't think she'd get detention," replied Capricorn.

"Oh wow. Hi everyone." Taurus wheeled her wheelchair into the classroom. She had a box of pizza in her lap.

Scorpio walked in after her. "You're getting good at using that wheelchair." She helped bring Taurus over to the teacher's desk.

"Why are you here?" asked Cancer.

"Why are YOU here?" asked Taurus.

"Why are we all here?" asked Virgo.

"Because we were given the chance to experience life," replied Capricorn.

"Why is Leo drawing a lion on the board?" asked Scorpio.

"No reason." Leo closed her marker and tossed it to Aquarius, who then proceeded to hide it with the other markers. Leo sat back down in her desk.

Scorpio sat down in the teacher's chair. She stretched her legs and accidentally kicked Libra in the arm.

"Ow."

"WHAT?" Scorpio looked under the desk. "Oh. Hi Libra."

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE LIBRA?" asked Libra. "I just wanted to say it before anyone else does."

Taurus opened her box of pizza. "Does anyone want any? I have an almost full pizza here."

"Pisces can you get us a slice please?" Gem was lying down on the desk, curled up with Sagittarius in the fuzzy blanket.

"Alright." Pisces got up and grabbed a slice for himself, Cancer, Aquarius, Gem, and Sagittarius. Capricorn got a slice for himself and one for his footstool Virgo.

"No thanks," said Gemini who was still full from lunch.

"I don't like pepperoni pizza. Wait why do you have that pizza?" asked Leo.

Taurus smiled. "Because I like pepperoni pizza."

"OH NO I'M LATE FOR DETENTION!" Aries walked in the room calmly. "The teacher isn't here? Aww shit I was trying to be late."

Leo removed her backpack from the desk next to her. Aries sat down.

"You reserved a seat in a nearly empty classroom?" asked Scorpio.

Leo shrugged. "Why not?"

The principal walked in the classroom. "There usually isn't so many people here."

Sagittarius spoke without moving from her sleeping position. "Virgo and Libra usually don't try to kill us."

"Sagittarius, I have told both you and Gem that you're not allowed to make a bed out of desks and sleep during detention."

Sagittarius sat up and poked Gem. "She's sleeping. Don't wake her up."

The teacher moved her gaze to Scorpio. "Why aren't you in a desk?"

"I am in a desk." Scorpio kicked her feet up. "The teacher's desk."

"I need to sit there."

"Alright." Scorpio got up and sat in front of Virgo.

The principal walked to the desk and sat down. "Since there's so many of you here today-"

Libra grabbed her ankle.

The principal shrieked and hit her knee off the desk.

Libra crawled out from under the teacher's desk, and pushed Gemini out of his desk before sitting down.

"Rude." Gemini got up and sat in the desk next to Libra.

The principal rubbed her knee. "Maybe I should have let Scorpio stay there. Anyway, I want to know how you all got stuck in detention."

"I was late for class," announced Aries.

"That's it?"

"Well..."

"There's more than that." Sagittarius stretched her arms and yawned. "You strolled into math twenty minutes late with a smoothie. Then when the teacher told you smoothies weren't allowed in class, you poured it all over his desk."

Aries crossed her arms. "I only did it because I despise mr. Stompson."

"A lot of students complain about mr. Thompson, but that doesn't justify your behavior."

"I know."

The principal scanned the room. "Who wants to go next? How about Pisces? I know why you're here, but why don't you share with the others?"

Pisces shrugged. "Erik tripped Cancer earlier, so I ran to the store during lunch and filled his locker with cans of paint. Then I opened the cans and tied a string from the bottom of the cans to the locker door. When he opened his locker, the paint cans got tipped upside down and paint splattered everywhere."

Cancer rolled his eyes. "And you get mad at me when I provoke him."

"He beat me up a bit. So I have detention while he got suspended, again."

The principal leaned back in her chair. "Between you and Cancer, there's been a lot of issues involving Erik."

"Then let's expel him," suggested Cancer.

The principal shook her head. "We can't just expel someone."

"I want to know why Virgo and Libra are here," smirked Leo.

The principal nodded. "Then why don't you explain why you're here first?"

Leo shrugged. "I was on my phone in class."

The principal looked at the others. "Is that the full story?"

"She airdropped memes," replied Aries.

"What kind of memes?"

"Ones that made fun of mr. Stompson."

"Can we get a new math teacher?" asked Leo. "We all literally hate Stompson."

"Anyway, why are Virgo and Libra here?"

"They caused a mess in the chemistry lab," replied Gem. "And they tried to frame me and Sagittarius."

Libra cleared her throat. "Here's what really happened. The chemistry teacher was preparing a lab in the chemistry lab. He poured up a solution in a few test tubes, which is also the stuff all over their clothes and hair. So when the teacher left to go get something, we saw Gem and Sagittarius sneak into the lab-"

"Stop putting the blame on the victims!" cried Sagittarius.

"Do you think anyone believes you're the victims?" asked Aquarius.

"Shhhhhhhhh!"

"Anyway," continued Virgo. "They were trying to mix another solution in the pre-existing one, so that it would react violently with the third solution that the chemistry students were going to mix with the first solution."

"They do that all the time," chuckled Leo. "They don't even switch it up, it's always the same prank. The teacher really should have expected this."

Virgo sighed. "So Libra and I went into the chem lab to stop them. As soon as they saw us, they dropped a test tube on the floor, which is why they're covered in solution."

Libra nodded. "And when the teacher came back, they somehow disappeared, causing us to take the blame."

Gem sat up from her desk bed. "No, they tried to create an explosion and kill us. I'm lucky to be alive!"

"Then why are you here if you weren't caught?" asked the principal.

"We gave our language teacher a present."

"What kind of present did you give her this time?"

Sagittarius frowned. "We gave her some pet spiders but she didn't appreciate them."

"Were they dead?"

Gem shook her head. "Not this time. We didn't want to restrain them, so we let them wander around in her desk."

Sagittarius crossed her arms. "She was rude enough to scream at us and kill her pet spiders."

Scorpio chuckled. "You guys are here for this kind of stuff. Meanwhile, I'm just here because I drew sharpie mustaches on everyone in my text book."

The principal rubbed her temples. "Why?"

"Even the goats have mustaches."

"Okay. Then why is Cancer here?"

"I fell asleep in class," replied Cancer. "We were watching a movie."

"Why is Taurus here? And why do you have a pizza?"

Taurus opened the pizza box. "Want a slice? It's pepperoni."

"No thanks."

"We were watching a movie in class, so I ordered a pizza."

"During class?" asked Aries.

"Yeah. I ordered online and even put the classroom number in the location. My teacher wasn't very happy."

The principal hit her head off the desk. "I can't say I've heard that before. I suppose I should be glad we have such entertaining students. Aquarius, how did you end up here? Were you caught up in trouble because of Sagittarius again?"

"I accidentally tripped annoying Becky."

"Was it really an accident?"

Aquarius shook his head. "She was making fun of Olive again since she wears a swim cap when we go in the pool for gym class. So I kind of made her trip and fall in the pool. After she put on her clothes and make up."

"Picking on Becky doesn't make you any better than her."

"But it's satisfying to see her freak out after trying to bully people."

"Still... anyway, Capricorn why are you here?"

"I opened the window during history and threw a snowball at Gemini."

Gemini nodded. "But it missed me, so I picked up as much of it as I could and threw it at him."

The principal stood up. "This I guess it's time to start. Detention begins now. Wait, where's all the white board markers?"

Aquarius shrugged. "How should we know?"

Everyone sat in silence as the principal looked around the classroom for the markers. Except Gem and Sagittarius, they fell asleep on their desk bed.