MaraTwasHere
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“Yeah…” Piper quickly took notice to Amanda when she shrieked, her eyes narrowing.
“What the heck is your problem, butter fingers? Do you have any idea how hard it is to clean this jacket? It’ll need to be dry cleaned…!” She pinched the bridge of her nose, cheeks turning red as she tried to steady her breathing and calm down. Pecan, her familiar perched on her shoulder snapped his toucan colorful beak at him. “Just watch your step, freshman,” He remarked as Amanda grabbed at the bagels stuck onto her and threw them on the ground at his feet. She gave him a dirty look as she huffed toward the girl’s bathroom, but didn’t say anything.
“Did you just see that?” Piper said gleefully, unable to hide her smile. “Amanda just got creamed.” She laughed at her own joke before noticing the boy that had bumped into her was clearly distressed on the ground. She stood to move over to him, feeling bad at how everyone stared. She threw some bystanders a glare before picking the bagels up and throwing them in the trash. “I dont think these are good anymore.” She didn’t look for her friends to follow her, if they didn’t want to be on the spot that was totally fine.
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“Hard? Not when you’re that pretty.” Piper smiled sweetly. “What would be hard is to find a nice date. I think a lot of guys here are full of themselves.”
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“I know right! That was half of the reason I applied for this school. There’s a Halloween Bash in the fall, a ball in the winter, and a Spring dance in the spring…!” There were reasons behind all of these events, of course, though unlike most humans that forgot the meaning of Christmas witches stayed true to these reasons…The Spring Dance was to celebrate the Spring Equinox and the return of Persephone, according to the beliefs of witches in ancient days, and the Halloween Bash a few days–before Halloween was the supposed time where the deal was set between Hades and Zeus of Persephone’s marriage and staying for months to come…The Winter ball, delicate and formal to bring joy on the darkest day of winter, when Demeter’s sorrow was at her greatest for the loss of her daughter.
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“No problem!” Piper hugged Goldmyth back, glad that someone finally found a love for hair like she did. “I’ll do you guys’ hair whenever you want, and if you like I can do it for the Winter Ball, too.” She grinned. “I think the half-romantic up-do would look nice on you, Goldmyth,” Piper turned to Liv. “And don’t think you got out of this, Liv, I’m thinking of a curly side ponytail half-up do twist? We could put emerald pins in to compliment your eyes.”
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“Great-!” Her voice breaks off into a laugh at Liv shooting the piece of bagle across the room. “Nice.” She began to twist the hair back and forth, her nimble fingers working quickly. “Let me know if it gets too tight.” She murmured, a smile still on her face as she twisted the hair down the girl’s back, slowly finishing up to make sure the ends look nice. “Okay…now let me just get a hair-band…” She reached into her school jacket’s pocket to pull out a miniature small light brown ringlet of a plastic band to tie it off, being so small and blending with the golden hair it was not even noticeable. She pulled it out a bit so it was a bit more sloppy looking, but in a nice way. “There. Done.” Â (Ok it looks like that but with blond hair okay. xD)
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“Alright!” She throws a glare at one of the guys staring, protective of her new friend, before standing up on her toes to gather the hair together. “How about a side fish tail braid?” She asks, beginning to section the pieces of gold locks.
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She smiled, getting distracted by Goldmyth’s pretty long gold hair. “Can I braid your hair?” She asked, sounding like that one girl at recess with mad hair skills back in first grade.
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“Yes, of course. I’ll lead you there. We were on our way to the breakfast room already.” She checked her watch. 7:45 AM. “Hurry, the tour will start soon.” She led him down the hall into the breakfast room where most of the students were no longer in line but sitting and eating and chatting. “I’m gonna go talk with the staff. And Ace, smile more and make eye contact. Your cat eyes are rather exotic. People here will like them.” She smiled with a wave before taking off.
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“…Maybe you’re right.” She eased up a bit, relaxing. “I’m way too tense. I blame all the mystery novels.” Piper looked up at Goldmyth, who was considerably taller than her, “Really? I’m pretty sure everyone’s gonna try bribing him into being their familiar because he’s a mythical creature. Did you know he is equivalent to three familiar’s worth? Insane.” She shook her head with a sigh, following suit of making a small flame and running it under the edges of her bagel too. “Dang! It burned.” She said sorrowfully.
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“If you’re in this school you either had a scholarship, benefits, or paid a lot of money to get in. If you hadn’t noticed, our school is very…wealthy and glamourous, if I don’t say so myself.” She pulled up his name on file, nodded, before closing the scroll and moving over to her desk to get out a unlit torch and pointed a finger out that sparked a flame. The torch burned gold until she sprinkled something in it to make it shift green. “In our school we use a point system as to how much you can buy in one month. For clothes, food, and other items. If you’re wondering where we get our money from then, know that we are a school that is necessary and old. Higher ups, crone witches and so forth mostly support us.” She held the torch to him and handed over a slip of paper and pencil. “Write your name on the slip of paper before tossing it in. The torch will put you in the place you belong this year, as its green flame is connected to one within the school that act’s as the heart of the school’s magic.”
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“Why would I hate you for something we both are?”  She smiled, standing up to head over to a scroll. It acted as a touch pad as she scrolled through the names, “Now, what is your name?”Â
Genie, hearing his stomach growled leaped onto the desk and dug out a power bar to bring over to him. “This should settle you until breakfast which is open until noon when lunch starts.”
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Piper glared after Amanda’s retreating figure, unconsciously hugging into Liv and Gold’s side. “She bothers me so much…but that’s weird. You really think some girl actually went missing in there?” Her eyes sharpened and she straightened up. “I don’t believe it either…what if Amanda’s just trying to scare us off from something she’s keeping in there?” Her eyebrows raised at the thought. “Oh, the conspiracy!”
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“We sort of threatened him.” She said sheepishly with a smile. “Well, we didn’t know he was a familiar, we thought he was one of the monsters of the forest….“
Amanda moved behind them, her lips thin as she examined the back of their head strictly. “What’s this about the forest? You’re still on that?”
Piper jumped back a few steps, gritting her teeth as she whirled. “Oh. Amanda.”
Amanda ruled her eyes, and her toucan fluttered his wings. “You better stay out of that forest,” He chided and Amanda nodded with a scolding look. “A girl, a trouble maker like you three was here last year. She went into that forest because she thought it would make her school-famous. Instead, she went missing after her Nighmarian Unicorn was heard screaming. The next morning they found his horn, covered in blood…” A smile seemed to flash across her face for a moment, but it disappeared. “So stay out of there, unless you want to be Stephanie Blanc.” Then she sashayed away, her thoughts of herself being higher up clear in her movements.
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Ms. Vine’s red lips went into an ‘o’ of surprise. “Oh, dear, it’s fine. Com here.” She held out her hand as if talking to a younger distraught child, a small smile coming to her face. “It’s okay. No one’s going to hurt you here. This is a chance for you to start anew, a place where harm won’t come.” She knew her words were nearly meanigless to him most likely, but the friendships that bloomed here wouldn’t be. “You will make friends! Not only a familiar, but witches and warlocks like you.” Genie climbed down from her partner’s shoulder to hop onto the boy’s knee and look up at him. “You’re okay.” She soothed, rubbing his back.Â
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“There’s cold-cuts over there,” She pointed over to a small crowd of students–some wearing uniforms to sweatpants. “The line’s not too bad.” She took a bite of her bagel sandwich happily. “So who do you suppose your familiar might be?” She examined the crowd, students mixed with familiars dreamily. There were foxes, peacocks, snakes, even dragons. She couldn’t help but notice the panther that sulked in the corner shadows, and elbowed Liv. “There, in the shadows…it’s the panther from last night. Should we apologize?”
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“Hey! Did you eat already? Nice outfit by the way.” She grinned, joining Goldmyth’s pace toward Liv.
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Ms. Vine stood up, Genie hanging on her shoulder. “Don’t worry, do you have your acceptance letter? It is not uncommon for students to come in a few days late, dear. No worries.” She held out a hand for his letter. “Currently the students are getting breakfast, so you are not missing anything important.” She tilted her head, noticing how he didn’t look at her. That was the sad thing, really, when students came in feeling isolated and alienated. Some came from the human world where humans were cruel and skeptical of anything that was different or odd. But that was okay. She and her staff would assist them all.
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“Yeah, me too.” Her green eyes widened as she caught sight of apple juice in chipped ice. “Every witch for herself!” She called, running over and expertly making the apple juice shoot into her hand before shimming by to the bagel spread to grab a few.
After having a bagel cold-cut sandwich, apple juice and a banana she made her way back toward Liv, smiling sheepishly as she saw Goldmyth on the way and waved at her.
