Many people may find the next idea familiar- Negima!? Summer episode influenced this story.
Stretching, Hilary forced her tired body to sit and sighed. Looking lazily across the room she eyed the calendar hung perfectly on the wall; 13th of February. She placed her head in her hands, Valentine's day was tomorrow, she didn't know what to do. Walking over to the table a small pink envelope lay alone. How on earth did she convince herself to buy it, she knew he wouldn't accept it.
She hopped slightly, as she descended each step and strolled into the kitchen. Her mother had her back to her,and was humming a happy tune as she stirred the eggs in the bowl. Hilary grunted, head planted firmly on the table. Her mother turned her head slightly and chuckled.
"What are you hungry for?" she asked sweetly
"I'm not hungry" Hilary muffled through her mass of hair. Her mother just sighed.
"Growing girls need their food" She replied with her back to Hilary. When she turned back around her daughter had disappeared.
Hilary was strolling slowly down the street when a couple of familiar voices caused her to turn. Mariah and Emily were running up to her full of energy and laughing to each other.
"Hey we were wondering if you were still coming to tonight's lover's lust!" Mariah beamed wildly
"What?" Hilary puts her hands on her waist, looking confused.
"She means the sleepover on the eve of valentine's day" Emily pushed Mariah out the way
"Oh, yeah I am" Hilary said as she pushed past them and wondered off down the street.
"awwww, she's been bitten by the valentine bug" Mariah grasped her hands to her chest, her eyes shining. Emily looked at her
"According to you, everyone we met has been bitten including those two rats we saw down that alley"
"So anyway, I was gonna show you that book I found" Mariah grabbed hold of Emily's arm and dragged into the nearby book shop. Once inside, she produced a book with a heart engraved on its cover.
"And this is?" Emily asked, tracing her finger along the pattern of the cover
"love spells, I'm gonna buy for our little gathering" Mariah chuckled and skipped off to purchase it, leaving Emily to watch her leave, feeling slightly confused.
The look on her face was mirrored by the other girls who were at the sleepover. As well as Mariah, Emily and Hilary, there was Matilda, Julia and Ming Ming (she invited herself). Mariah went on to explain that they each had to pick a page number and that spell was going to be cast on that girl, regardless of it. Reluctantly, each girl called out a number and Emily wrote them down in a small note book.
"So who's going first?" Ming Ming chirped. Mariah's eyes flashed and she glanced over at Hilary, who automatically felt incredibly scared. Placing one hand on the front cover, Mariah opened the book which instantly landed perfectly onto the correct page number Hilary had picked, and giggled.
"You picked the thread spell. It says that two people who are meant to be together are connected by the pinkie by a thread" Mariah raised her own pinkie into the air in case no one knew what it was.
Hilary stood in the centre of the room and prayed into her hands so she couldn't see it coming. Mariah mumbled the spell and then they all held their breath. When nothing happened they all relaxed and started laughing. Hilary opened her eyes and smiled, slightly relieved. Then she noticed her little finger; there was a strange red glow around it, she raised it to inspect it further. The laughing stopped.
Before anyone could say anything, a small light broke away, creating a path that flew out the open window and disappeared downwards.
"I guess it worked" Hilary giggled nervously. Then without warning, the light stream tightened and Hilary was dragged along the floor and out the window. The girls screamed and clambered over each other to get to the window. Peering out they found Hilary had landed on top of someone.
The body underneath moved and sat up, it was Kai who had been making his way to the Bladebreakers late afternoon training. All the girls upstairs waited to see if Hilary was ok. Kai raised his hand to shake her and found Hilary's hand rose too. The pair's little fingers were connected by a red thread. Kai looked at it puzzled.
Matilda's little voice sounded out in the silence.
"That can't be good"