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It was time for the Annual Poe cup race. All the teams were sat in their canoes, ready to race. Primrose sat in the second seat in the front, ironically parallel to Ajax.

Primrose looked to the right to look at him. Almost like he felt her staring he turned his attention to her. Primrose smiled and did a slight wave.

Ajax smiled and winked at her. He looked down with a smile on his face before looking back forward.

"Focus" Wednesday scolded the young Fae. She nodded her head, dropping her smile and looking ahead.

"What do we have here? The runt of the litter" Bianca said, a snobby tone appearing in her sentence.

"For the record, I don't believe I'm better than everyone else. Just that I'm better than you" Wednesday shot back.

Primrose couldn't help but let out a big laugh in Bianca's face.

"You're so going down" She muttered after calming down. Bianca rolled her eyes before looking back forward.

"I want to welcome you all to the Edgar Allan Poe cup. This is one of Nevermore's proudest annual traditions, dating back 125 years" Principal Weems said.

"Each team must row across to Raven island, pull a flag from Crackstone's crypt, and hustle back without sinking or being sunk" She explained.

Primrose gripped her ore in determination, wanting to finally win this year. She stared at Principle Weems, who held up a revolver, announcing that the race will begin.

As soon as the gun went off everyone began rowing as fast as they can.

"Oh excuse us" Xavier said to the black cats as they rowed in front of them. They knocked their boat in the process causing Primrose to roll her eyes, huffing.

She could feel her arms already burning but she's far from giving up. She had to quickly suck along with the rest of the girls as another teams canoe had an Axe trying to cut their heads off.

From the corner of her she saw their canoe suddenly going in a different direction. Primrose continued to row thinking that's one team out of the way.

"Faster" Enid breathed out as Wednesday stopped rowing to look in the telescope.

Once she saw the culprit of peoples canoes being sunk, she ordered Thing to handle it.

The girls canoe finally arrived at the island. Wednesday and Primrose got off.

"Stay here and make sure Bianca can't sabotage our boat" Wednesday told Enid who nodded and sat back down.

"Remember what you need to do" She then turned to Primrose and said. The young Fae nodded and the two girls ran through the island to the crypt.

As the girls arrived at the crypt Ajax and Xavier already had gotten their flags.

"Later, ladies!" Xavier shouted behind him. Wednesday gestured her head towards the boys, Primrose getting the hint.

Primrose held out a hand, making a tree branch sweep the two boys off their feet and landing on the ground with a hard thud.

Wednesday grabbed the flag but when she did she immediately fell to the ground.

Primrose gasped and shook the girl in black. Wednesday suddenly woke up and they began running back to the boat.

By that time the boys had already gotten back onto the lake.

"Hurry up! We have to go!" Enid ushered. The two girls climbed back into the canoe and they were off. They rowed as fast as they could, eventually catching up to the boys.

Enid had sabotaged their boat so they could move. As the girls last by them, Enid gloated at them, making them grunt in frustration.

"I just asked myself. "WWWD?". What would Wednesday do?" Enid says, slight turning back to said girl. Primrose giggled.

She couldn't help but feel a little guilty for doing that to the boys but she just kept telling herself to not let it get to her. It was a competitive race after all.

Suddenly the girls boat was being pushed to the side of the Lake. The girls grunted in frustration, trying to row them towards the correct direction.

Primrose saw Thing jump into the water and suddenly the boat had finally stop. Thing got back in and the girls quickly went back on the right track.

"Good job, thing. Remind me to give you a hand massage" Primrose praised. To which Thing gave a thumbs up.

The girls rowed their canoe closer to Bianca's boat, putting holes into the side. Primrose smirked as Bianca stared at them in disbelief. Water was quickly flooding their boat and the Black cats were the first ones to the finish line.

All the girls but Wednesday, jumped for joy. They had finally won the Poe cup.

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Everyone cheered for the Black cats after Principle Weems announced that Ophelia Hall had won.

Everyone has dispersed into their own group, talking amongst each other. Primrose sat with Enid and their other friends.

Primrose and Enid were currently talking excitedly about the last events when Ajax approached the table.

"Hey, Prim" He said gesturing to follow him. Primrose said a quick 'be right back' before getting up and following him to the side.

"Great win, by the way" He congratulated.

"Thanks! Sorry about sabotaging you guys. I feel bad" Primrose apologized. Ajax waved it off.

"It's all right. It was a race, no big deal. We'll totally get you girls next year anyway" He says. They both laughed.

"Hey. So, I was thinking if you want to, like, come over and hang out? Or we can have that date, tonight?" Primrose asked. She played with her fingers nervously.

Ajax's heart fluttered, "I would lo-" He began but suddenly cut himself off. "I forgot. I can't. I have plans" He says, regretfully.

"Oh" She couldn't help the disappointment in her voice but she tried covering it up with a smile. "That's totally fine! I'll, uh, I'll catch you later" She quickly said.

Ajax tried stopping her but she had already walked away. He sighed, shaking his head. He regretted joining that stupid secret society.