𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕨𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪 𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕦𝕥𝕤 [𝐻𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓃𝑒𝓃𝑒] {𝘛𝘉/𝘑𝘚𝘏𝘒}
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 20; ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴛʀᴜꜱᴛ ᴛʜᴇᴍ
Hanako POV:
I stared at my phone. When will Kou reply? He's left me on read for hours. He never does that.
Relax, Hanako, he's probably just swimming or out at dinner, I told myself. I need to remember that he's a human, a real living human, and he should be out there living his real human life instead of wasting time with not real living humans like me.
Renee was being a pain. She was suddenly so suspicious of me; she wouldn't stop asking me who I was texting, she flinched whenever Yashiro's name was brought up, she wouldn't let me out of her sight.
It was surreal how much she could care about me. She must know this can't go on; soon she will grow older than me, and she will grow out of me. She won't want someone much younger than her when she's twenty, will she? She'll move on. There's no point trying to keep me right now.
I'm just not a keepable person.
Perhaps my gloomy mood and irrestitible loneliness was what had sparked the little opening, but just as I was taking my evening walk around the school I felt a spark.
A spark of power, apparition's magic.
Immediantly I recognise it. Intrusive, borderline purple flames inside me that wanted my memories. No, it wanted to take my memories. This was mind manipulation power; a difficult trick to learn, with the only written spell extremley hard to obtain. Even I hadn't learn it; couldn't bother to.
But I recognised the purple flame inside of me. I felt as if, though I couldn't see the colour, the flames felt purple. They just did. This fire could be no other color.
And only borderline intrusive mind manipulation apparition magic burned purple inside of me.
I hissed as I drew back from the path, my back against a tree as I cursed. I had to focus every inch of my apparitional magic into resisting this force. It was powerful... the apparition casting this spell must have devoured many humans. But why would they target me? I was only a Wonder in a school. A school, for goodness sake. Unless...
Unless someone put them up to it.
I racked my mind. The terrorist, Kou's brother? No. He's the type to just skewer me with a stick himself. The girl with purple hair? She's got a dark side. But she doesn't have a motive, at least I don't think. Another Wonder? The mokke hate me. But they aren't powerful enough.
My train of thought subsides as I focus on repelling the mind manipulation. It was strong, but I was stronger. Slowly the flames died down to a tiny spark and I focused to make that spark wither down too.
After the flame was gone I sighed in relief. My head throbbed with pain and I felt increasingly dizzy. I hadn't done such magic in a long time.
I groaned as the flame sprung back to life. Whoever wanted my memories must really want them.
Nene POV:
I hurried back to my house, eager to escape the creepy-crawly feeling the quicksand had left me with. I was glad to see Kai was already gone. I wrenched open the front door. My parents were gone.
I rushed upstairs to my room, ignoring Kira, whom was eating sushi downstairs. I got out a green hoodie and black leggings and tugged them on. Usually I'd feel insecure about the leggings but they were warm and that was all I cared about. The hoodie was equally snug and as a bonus, the hood hid most of my cropped hair.
I filled my satchel with a small sleeping bag, a water bottle, my phone, my wallet and a few packets of snacks. Enough so I could stay a night at my old school. Then I refilled Black Canyon's water and food bowls and rushed downstairs, once again ignoring Kira.
I slipped on my comfy ugg boots and quickly ran out the door into the street. Then I turned the corner to the bus stop and waited till the orange bus came.
I should get to Kamome Academy in a few hours, I told myself as I settled down in a seat on the bus. Then I'll see Hanako and Renee will be gone and all will be fine again. Kai is gone too. I'll convince Mom and Dad to move back. I'll see Kou and Aoi again.
My life will go back to normal. But then again, it's never been normal, has it? I thought miserably.
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