Chapter One
Note: This story takes place when Charlie, Fido, and gang are fifteen, which means that Lysander and Tancred are sixteen, and Manfred is 19-21.
"You've got everything you need?" their father, Darius, asked right before they all got into the car.
"Yes, Dad. We've got everything. I've got my clarinet, Sapphire's got her sketch book. We're good." Evangeline told her father, sweeping the stray pieces of red hair that had fallen out of her ponytail behind her ear.
"You've got everything?" Darius asked, once more.
"God, Dad, they've got everything!" Liam, their twenty-year-old brother, said from the door frame where he was watching.
"Dad, we've got everything." Sapphire reassured him.
"Alright. Let's go." Darius said, starting up the car.
"Bloor's, here we come." Sapphire said from the backseat of the small car.
Sapphire was the average fifteen-year-old. Other than the fact that she could change the color of anything at will. She was perky and energetic and usually spent at the least, two hours in front of the mirror.
Evangeline, morely called Evie, was sixteen and was the oppisite of her sister. She usually had her mind buried in a book and spent at the most, thirty minutes in front of the mirror. She was down to earth and organized. She could also change her appearance at will, not like a shape-shifter, only her facial appearance.
There were some similarities between the sisters though. They had both inherited their mother's deep red hair and their father's bright blue eyes. Though Evangeline had freckles dotted across her cheeks and nose, Sapphire had their mother's amazing bone structure.
The ride was silent. Sapphire had taken to humming and Evangeline was drumming her fingers on her thigh.
"Girls, I'll see you on Friday. Please meet up before you get on to the different buses." Darius told them as they each took their bag from the trunk.
"Bye, Dad. We love you." they said waving goodbye.
They watched as he drove away.
"Ready?" Sapphire asked.
Evangeline only nodded, looking at the gray school with dread.
- -
"Who's the new girl?" Fidelio Gunn asked his best friend, Charlie Bone at assembly.
"No idea. I hope she's endowed, but not evil." Charlie commented. "Gabriel, have you talked to her?"
"No." Gabriel Silk said.
"To your sections!" Dr. Saltweather roared.
When the three boys looked over to where they'd seen the girl, they was already gone.
- -
"The new girl's name is Evangeline Nimbus, age fifteen. She has a sister, in Art named Sapphire, age fourteen." Fidelio said as he ran up to Charlie and Gabriel at break.
"Oh, so you've talked to her?" Charlie asked.
"Sort of. I talked to Evangeline, I bumped into her. She's actually very pretty." Fidelio commented.
Just then they spotted the two new girls.
They were standing at the other side of the garden, talking with Olivia Vertigo and Emma Tolly.
"Hey!" Olivia said, running up to them, a minute later.
Today her hair was bright purple with streaks of bright pink.
"Have you met the new girls?" she asked.
"I have, very briefly." Fidelio said, raising his hand.
"Well, come on then. You'll love them!" she said running back over to the new girls.
Fidelio, Gabriel, and Charlie followed slowly. While they were walking, Lysander Sage and Tancred Torsson fell into step with them.
"Where are we going?" Lysander asked.
"Meeting the new girls." Charlie said briefly.
"Oh."
"Evie, Sapphire, this is Charlie, Fido, Gabriel, Lysander, and Tancred. Guys, meet Evie and Sapphire." Olivia said pointing to each of them as she went.
"So, are you two endowed?" Tancred asked, always the outgoing one.
"Yeah. Wanna see?" Sapphire asked, but didn't wait for an answer.
She took the corner of her blue cape in her hand and stared at it.
"See, now I'm in Drama." she said, dropping the corner of her cape which was now the exact shade of deep purple as Olivia's.
"Wow, impressive." Tancred said, a cool breeze shifting through the warm air. "What about you?" he asked, turning his attention to Evangeline.
"Yeah. But I'd rather not." she said shyly.
"Come on, Evie. You could do some totally awesome things with your endowment." Sapphire said.
"I could, but I'm not going to." Evie told her sister.
"Oh, come on." Tancred begged.
"You never let up, do you?" Evie asked him. He smirked and shook his head. "Fine." she said and closed her eyes.
Just as Tancred was about to question her actions, her hair turned spiky yellow, to match his.
"So, you're like a ... shape-shifter?" Charlie asked, shuddering as he thought about 'Belle Donner'.
"No. I'm not sure what it's called. I can just change my appearance. Face wise." she explained, her eyes closed as she turned her hair back to its normal color and length.
"So, what do you really look like?" Tancred asked.
"This is what I really look like. I don't do it often. I always had the best halloween costume though." she smiled.
Just then, the bell rang, signaling Break was over.
- -
"Everybody sit down and shut up!" Manfred shouted in the King's Room that night. "We have two new girls. Evangeline and Sapphire Nimbus. Now everybody, get to work."
So there they sat. Sapphire beside Emma, Evangeline beside Sapphire, Tancred beside Evangeline.
"So, nimbus is a type of cloud." Tancred whispered to Evie.
"Oh really, I did not know that." she whispered back, not looking up from her textbook.
"Yeah, well, I can control the clouds. We're made for each other." he said.
"Not necesarily me. Just someone whose last name is Nimbus. My sister does have the same name as me. I'm one-hundred percent sure she'd love to have a guy who's head is so big that it's amazing that he can hold it up straight." she hissed. He chuckled lowly and got back to work.
"Alright, you can go." Manfred said two hours later.
"Hey, Evie!" someone called after her in the hall.
"There's no talking in the hall, Tancred." she said, looking straight ahead and not at him as he fell into step with her.
"I'm sorry if I came on a bit strong."
"You were hitting on me. You're not sorry." She said, finally glancing over at him.
"You're right. I'm not."
"Wow, look who decided to own up!" she said sarcasticly clapping her hand.
"Fine. G'night." he said, speeding up ahead of her.
She smirked to herself and continued to her dormitory.
- -
"Hey Olivia?" Evangeline asked as they got ready for bed.
"Yeah?" Olivia asked, brushing out her hair.
"What's Gabriel's endowment?"
"He can like feel things through clothing." Olivia said.
"That's interesting." Sapphire commented.
"So, Fidelio's not endowed?" Evie asked.
"Nope. But he is an astounding violinist." Olivia said, crawling into bed. "And Gabriel's a genius on the piano."
"Our brother's a great piano player too." Sapphire said.
"Did he go to Bloor's?"
"No, he did it more privately." Sapphire yawned.
"Well, g'night." Evangeline said, getting into her own bed.
"G'night Evie." Sapphire said.
