Sophie bashed her head on her locker before slumping against it.
"Bad day today, huh?"
She looked up to see a familiar dimpled face grinning at her.
"You bet. I was late to my Linguistics session, and that was a disaster. You will not believe how much my mentor scolded me. Blah blah blah, set a good example, blah blah blah, I expected better from the savior of the Elven world, blah blah. In P.E., my channeling gave out when I was jumping so I crashed, you remember right? The only good part was my Telepathy session-"
Den raised an eyebrow.
"I-what? No-it's not because of Fitz."
He snorted, "I never said it was because of Wonderboy."
Her face turned red.
"I-oh just shut up already."
He raised his hands in mock surrender, which she rolled her eyes at.
"I was planning to ditch Elvin History-," she was sure that she heard Dex mutter, "Keefe would be proud," "-but I dropped my satchel while I was running and guess who else was ditching? No Dex, that's a rhetorical question, you don't answer it. But yeah, it was Keefe, and if he could have handed me my satchel instead of holding it for the longest time and playing 'Make Foster Blush', then maybe Sandor wouldn't have caught me. At least he won't be following me around next year, since prodigies and mentors only in the Silver Towers. And I still had to go to my session and I was late once again. It was so boring, well more boring than usual. I guess it's more interesting than human history, but still. And in Elementism I bottled a tornado with a bottle made for small water ripples and that shattered everywhere. So I had to go to the Healing Center-"
She glared at Dex who was trying to keep a straight face.
"What? I'm not doing anything. I swear you have to go there at least 5 times a week."
With a slight blush she said, "Well it's only been 3 this week."
"This week.. "
Ignoring his comment, she continued on.
"And when I got to there, you know who else was there?"
Before he could reply, Biana came into view behind him.
"Aren't you two going to go home? Everyone's leaving," she asked.
"Well I was going to, but Sophie here decided to narrate her whole day," he said with a pointed look at Sophie.
She sighed.
"You're the one who came here in the first place, and I'm not done complaining."
"Maybe you could complain once we get to the Leapmaster," Biana suggested.
With an overly dramatic sigh, she agreed.
"Just let me get my satchel out first."
She tentatively licked the DNA strip, knowing Elwin had picked the flavor.
"Gross."
Biana nodded, "I know. Might be yeti pee or reekrod, it's disgusting either way."
The trio shuddered at the very thought.
Sophie pulled open her locker, maybe a little too forcefully as it swung and almost hit her head. And she reached in for her satchel which was smelling a little too much like Iggy burp for her liking.
Bianca scrunched up her nose as she asked, "Ew, what's that smell?"
"Um...It's my satchel. It's the smell of Iggy."
"No wonder."
Sophie used her elbow to nudge the locker door shut, but her satchel and all the books inside it tilted towards south and came tumbling out.
"Great. Just great," she grumbled as she knelt down to gather them.
"Hey, what's that?" Biana pointed to a creamy, white envelope.
"I don't know. Should I open it?"
Biana and Dex both nodded.
She shoved her books into the satchel and checked to see if was closed correctly before swinging it over her shoulder. Sophie took the envelope, flipping it over a couple times to see if it said anything.
"It's addressed to me. It says for Sophie F."
Biana rolled her eyes.
"Well no duh. It was in your stuff after all."
She tore the seal and gingerly pulled the paper out, unfolding it, and smoothing the neat creases.
They both looked over her shoulders.
"What does it say?" Dex asked.
"I haven't read it yet."
She turned her back and glanced at them.
"I'll look first to make sure there's nothing embarra-"
But she was too late. Biana had already scanned over the letter, and started chanting several humiliating words.
"Sophie has a secret admirer. Sophie has a secret admirer. Sophie has a s-"
She was interrupted by a cute(oh no she didn't not just think that, bad Sophie), blond boy who had just walked up alongside another familiar face.
"Oooooh, a secret admirer hm?" He elbowed his teal-eyed friend beside him.
"What do you think of that Wonderboy?"
"I thought only Dex called me that, and why would I think anything if that?"
The words stung but not as badly as the bruise that was starting to form from the head bashing she had done earlier.
"Lemme see that."
Keene lunged for the letter but Sophie dodged.
"Nuh uh. I'm reading it first, well except for Biana who already read it."
The aforementioned girl merely shrugged innocently.
Sophie stepped away from the cluster.
"Will you let us after?"
With a small smile tugging at her lips she replied, "maybe."
Focusing her eyes on the paper she began to read silently.
Except she didn't understand the words. Because they were runes. And for some reason, the Black Swan modified her without the ability to read Elvin runes.
Turning back to her friends she said ,"Um, I can't read this. It's in Elvin Runes."
Keefe rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.
"Oh well...he probably wanted to be fancy? Right Foster?"
There was a murmur of agreement form the rest of the group.
"Fine then Fitz you read it." She handed it to him.
There was a muttered protest from Dex, but that was pretty normal.
"It says...oh wow, this is pretty straightforward."
"Just get on with it, " Keefe grumbled.
Biana raised an eyebrow, "Why? Any reason? Maybe jealous?"
"I-haha. Thats funny. Real funny. Like super funny. Like super duper humongously fu-"
Sophie interrupted saving him from further embarrassment, or maybe it was because of the uneasy knot of feelings.
"Ahem. 'I like you. Signed, a secret admirer.' See, I told you."
"Hahaha. I bet a ton of boys like you, Sophie. So this will be hard to narrow down."
A blush spread like wildfire across Sophie face.
"Oh no. It's fine really. There's really no need to narrow it down."
Maybe she was just seeing things or maybe it really did happen, but Keefe seemed relieved.
"Nonsense! Let's go to Havenfield. I'll hail Linh and we can chat and catch up. Oh just shush, it's Friday. There is no homework. Let's go!"
Sophie reluctantly let Biana drag her to the Leapmasters. But not before waving goodbye and securing her satchel. She did not want her stuff to spill out again.
"Havenfield!" And then they were gone.
A/N
Hello! How did you like that? I tried to get it longer than my usual chapters but it still ended up super short. I bet you can all guess who the note is from. Shhhhh, but don't say it. Maybe I should add in a plot twist. *evil laugh* What things can I improve on? Criticism is appreciated. Until next chapter! I think this will only be 10+ chapters, because this is a simple plotline. And I had people on Wattpad vote for the ship, but don't go there and find out, it'll be more fun if you try to figure it out(it's super easy) Bye!