"Love and magic are powerful things, but together, they will conquer."
I pulled on a plain black shirt, adjusting the lace turtleneck under it so it wouldn't wrinkle.
Running a brush through my long black hair, I eyed myself in the mirror. Something wasn't right. I grabbed my favorite eyeliner and dragged it across my left eyelid, lengthening the line that extended from my lashes by a fraction of an inch.
Perfect.
"Bye!" I yelled back sarcastically into my empty house, my adopted parents left long ago.
I pulled my black mini skirt down a bit (dress code) before entering my favorite high school, but tugged it back up when I entered 1st period.
I twirled my ring absentmindedly while staring out the window, deciding not to pay attention to whatever bull crap that my math teacher was filling the other students' minds with this time.
"Morgana?" A Carmel hand waved before my eyes brought me down to earth. "Class is over." I smiled sweetly at her.
"Let's go Gwen. I have a class not to attend." I said, grabbing my books and leading her out the door.
Gwen leaned up against my locker while I put my backpack in it.
"Look at him..." She gazed longingly across the hall to an all too familiar blonde who was too busy cramming a freshman in to the wall to notice her.
"Do I have to?" I snarled, slamming my locker closed. The noise brought one of his cronies' attentions to us, and the dark haired boy whispered into his blond companions ear. He turned to look at us, and stalked over. CRAP.
"Well lookie here guys; it's our favorite witch." He spat the last word bitterly.
"Wiccain" I whispered, suddenly feeling very small.
"What was that FREAK?" He yelled, getting so close I could smell what he had for breakfast. (Bagels)
"Hi Arthur..." Gwen muttered. He turned, wyes widening considerably.
"G... Gwen! How are you?" He asked cheerily, and I ran.
Storming out onto the courtyard, I picked the furthest picnic table from the school and began brainstorming exactly what I was going to do to Arthur. Perhaps I could turn his hair green! Or maybe a huge zit on his nose! No, none of those would work. Even if they did, I couldn't do all the spells right.
"I am going to go ahead and guess that isn't homework" A lighthearted boy's voice came from above me. I looked him down at some of the random symbols I'd been drawing and scrambled to cover them up before he could see.
"Relax, I am not going to judge you." He sat down across from me, brushing his raven hair out of his eyes with a black manicured hand. I looked him over subtly. Dark skinny jeans, paired with beautifully with a long sleeved black shirt. A cord hung around his neck and dipped down below his collar, so I couldn't see what it bore.
"Morgana" I put my hand out for him to shake, and he did.
"Merlin" He smiled "You know, you're not as antisocial as you want them to believe. You're really a sweet girl"
I stared at him. The only other person who saw through me like that were Gwen and I've known her forever.
"How... How did you..."
"I can read you aura." He said. I smiled.
"That is so cool! So are you a warlock?"
He nodded. "I prefer sorcerer. Just saying."
"…And you can read auras well?" I asked.
"Yeah. It is difficult, but I can teach you if you want."
"Heck yeah!" I smiled my widest smile as the warning bell rang. "Oh that's-"
"Yeah." I sighed, at the bell he'd have to leave, and I'd probably never see him again. "What do you have next?" I asked hopefully, even though I knew there was no way he had biology next.
"Biology."
"Me too." There is hope! "How come-"
"New here."
"Oh cool! Why don't we-"
"I would love to."
"Stop cutting me off!" I yelled, and we both burst out laughing.
I headed for class, Merlin in tow, and we barely scooted through the door before the final bell rang.
Merlin took the seat net to mine.
"So who were you trying to hex earlier?" He whispered as the teacher walked in, calling other than Arthur-frickin-Pendragon to her desk.
"Him" I pointed and Merlin nodded.
"Ok on the embarrassment scale 1-10"
"11 ½" I answered almost breaking my pencil in half. Merlin turned to his desk for a moment, grabbing a memo pad and scribbling into it.
"Try this," He said passing the book to me.
"A verbal spell?"
"Try it!" He encouraged me.
I turned to the front of the class, and focused my energy on Arthur, and read it off.
It took a moment, but when Arthur turned around to take his seat, I noticed it.
Apparently I wasn't the only one.
"Oh my gosh..." a girl in front of me said.
"Arthur's got a hard on!" the girl next to me squealed.
I stared at Merlin, smiling. He smirked and leaned over
"I have one that lets you skip the awful thing you have to go though ever month too."
Gwen met up with us in English, and I guess she liked Merlin too, she chattered away to him until class started.
When the last bell sounded, Merlin and I said good-bye to Gwen.
"Where do you live?" I asked. He pointed in the opposite direction from my place.
"Do you want to come over?" I asked.
"That would be great" We began walking in the direction of my house, talking bout TV and other light-hearted topics, when a red convertible pulled up.
"Oh look our favorite witch has a girlfriend!" Arthur taunted from the driver seat. I ignored him, and judging by how Merlin acted, (He continued babbling away) he'd experience similar torture in his old school.
"It looks like she cast a spell so that she can't hear us!" one of the creeps said loudly; I think it may have been Lance.
"Witch!" they all screamed in unison.
"For the last time," I screamed turning on my heel to fume at them face to face. "I'M WICCAIN!" Merlin pulled me away before I blew up their car or something really stupid.
"Don't do anything stupid"
"So we are on the same page?" I said, scathing. He nodded. "This is my place anyway." I pointed behind to my house, and we walked in. He untied his laces after entering, and I took of my boots.
"Mom I brought a friend home!" I yelled in the direction of the kitchen.
"Come have something to eat Gwen!" She called back, and we strolled in. "Hi- that's not Gwen..." She starred at Merlin for a moment, then laughed "Sorry, I must have made a terrible fool if my self. Its nice to meet you..."
"Merlin" He pulled her hand towards his mouth and kissed her knuckles lightly. "Pleasure"
"Oh, Gana," She said blushing. " I love your new boyfriend"
I tensed up "He's not my boyfriend." I said quickly.
"Ok, Ok." She backed off "Why don't you kids watch some TV while I make dinner. You will be staying won't you, Merlin?"
"If you don't mind." He said.
"Not at all dear. It's only one more plate." I led Merlin into the den to pick a DVD. When he tripped and feel over his own two feet.
"Merlin are you ok?" I helped him up.
"Yeah, I'm just a bit of a clutz."
"You didn't seem like that earlier."
"I put a balancing spell on the bottom on my converse."
"You are defiantly going to have to show me that later."
A/N: ok, so my helpful friend pointed out some inaccuracies and then I noticed some mistakes, so I took it and re-did most of it.
I would also like to point out that apparently, when you cast a spell according to Wiccain 'Law' or whatever they call it, (I honestly forgot, I mean no offense.) it comes back at you seven fold or something like that. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think Merlin would mind having a huge- shall I say it? Oh well, its rated T for a reason. - BONER. There, I said it. Haters can hate, I won't care. Also with the symbols she draws; they are not Wiccain. I got those from a book called Sabriel By Garth Nix, they are called Charter Marks. So there. And thank you sosososososo much to my dear best friend Kayla, who not only typed this, but also gave me so many ideas, it's hard to call this story my own. I love you Kayla!