"Just another day..."
Liddell sighed as she woke up. She was drowsy; she looked unable to go to school today. But, if she wanted to become a great witch one day, she had to learn... She flopped back into bed. It was 3 days after she had been knocked ass over tea kettle by Babayaga, who did so because of Liddell's urge to find FORBIDDEN magic in a castle with an Evil (?) Vampire that would "kill you dead no lie." But all Liddell could remember was the schizoid insane dream she had after she was walloped.
She rolled over, and looked at the clock on the other side of her bed. 6:48. she didn't care at this point. She hopped off her bed, and slipped on some simple jeans, and a purple striped shirt over the undergarments she slept in. She walked into the bathroom by her room, stumbled over the usual crack in the floor, and looked in the mirror. Her hair needed work, so she put it up in two ponytails with scrunchies as usual, and letting the poufy blonde hair settle on its own.
She grabbed her school bag, and opened the door of the principal's office where she lived. She then awkwardly trotted down the halls with everyone else.
The school would look normal from a human's eyes. But this school was overflowing with magic. Witches, Wizards, Hybrids, Sylph, Mer-people with legs, Half Dragons with fiery stomachs, and even a few vampires here and there. More gifted beings than one could name. Liddell, wanting to find her friend, Kitty, ignored everyone as she went to find her before class started.
The bell rang. She went to class without finding Kitty, and she arrived late. Everyone thought lowly of her because mostly everyone knew she lives in the school. How on earth can someone be late to class while living at school?
The day went on as usual. Slow, boring, longing for the lunch bell to ring so she could go into the library when she finished eating lunch.
Liddell sat in her classroom, staring at the clock.
"Only five more minutes until that bell rings, then ill be free..."
She started to draw in her notebook instead of taking the given notes. She drew something without knowing what she drew... And she made a loud screeching noise when she looked at what she had created.
It was a picture of a long table set with a tea party... From her dream that she had 3 days ago.
She slammed the notebook shut, and stuffed it in her bag, as she ran out the door.
The bell rang as she ran down the hall.
She sat down in the bathroom and stared at the drawing. Every detail of the table was on the page... She stopped drawing as it took up a lot of room near the top. She wondered what had made her draw that?
She stared at the wall.
"This is starting to scare me..."
She blinked her teary eyes. She couldn't even remember the dream, but she felt like she was connected to it somehow. It confused her.
She looked for a clock after wiping her eyes.
It was 11:36. She would usually leave the lunch room to go to the library by now... Forgetting about Kitty, she walked out of the bathroom and across the hall, and up the stairs, across a hallway, and into the library.
She set her stuff down except for her notebook, which she held in her arms as she paced around the library looking for a good book.
She turned around again, and heard laughing coming from somewhere. Usually she would be alone in the library around this time. Who was there? She looked on the other side of the shelf, and saw a door was open on the opposite side of the library. "Who could be in there?" she thought to herself. She slowly approached the door. When she looked inside, there were four people eating lunch in the librarian's office. Liddell dropped her notebook when she saw one of the people inside the room, not loosing eye contact as she shivered in disbelief. The notebook opened to the page on which she drew the picture. Everyone sat in complete silence. One of them picked up the notebook. "This is fantastic," the girl said, looking up at Liddell. "what's wrong? You look pale!" one of the other four said. "Should we take you to the clinic?" another said.
Liddell continued to stare.
"Hatter?" she barely managed to ask the person in the back of the room who was eating in silence.
The other three laughed.
"Oh, you mean Molly?" one girl asked, still laughing.
"Molly?" Liddell asked.
"This has been quite a weird introduction!" a girl got up. She had long curly teal hair, her smile gleamed as she held out her hand for Liddell to shake.
"I'm Julia," she said as she opened her eyes. They glittered a deep tone of orange and hazel.
"What's your name?" She asked Liddell.
"Liddell," She said while looking into Julia's fire-eyes.
"Here, you can sit with us!" Julia sat down, dragging Liddell to the floor.
The second girl looked up at Liddell with a lethargic look on her face. She had short brown hair, and A funny bow clipped to a small pocket on her shirt.
She peeled her eyes open, revealing a toxic yellow.
"I'm Marjorie..." she said before her hair flopped over her tired face.
Liddell wondered why they were being so nice when she heard a loud crash.
"MARJORIE, WAKE UP!" Julia was pulling her head out of the trashcan she had fallen backwards asleep into, and forcing her awake.
While this was happening, the third girl scooted over, and smiled brightly. "Hi! I'm Lily," she said, still smiling. Her purple hair was up in a ponytail on the side of her head, on the other side it was held up with clips. Her eyes were a deep hazel, almost red. Her pupils looked like cat eyes and dialated when she smiled at Liddell.
Liddell scooted back a bit because she was getting a bit too close to her face.
They all settled down after Marjorie woke up (well... Almost) and Molly scooted over to the group. She cleared her hair from her face.
"Hi Liddell, I'm Molly." She held out her hand and Liddell shook it.
She sat and stared.
Liddell didn't understand. She accused her of being someone from her dream, more so someone she didn't really understand that well. But why? Why did she remember him when she saw Molly for the first time?
Was it just a strange coincidence that the group of four looked a little like the people from her dream?
"Are you okay?" Molly asked, getting the others' attention.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Liddell sounded shaken up.
"Why are you guys eating lunch in the librarian's office?" Liddell looked over at the mess on the floor.
"She lets us if we clean everything up before people start coming in." Julia said, holding up Marjorie.
"Do you always eat in here? At this time?" Liddell had never seen them in here before. And she would always cut lunch, (or class) to come to the library.
"Yeah! Every day, at least since the second semester started," Lily said.
Liddell didn't know what to say about this. Had they shut the door, gone into another room in the library, had she just not noticed them until now?
"Can i come here with you guys tomorrow?" Liddell asked, wanting to know more about them. She couldn't help but be curious.
"It's alright with me," Julia said, everyone else agreeing with her.
"Okay! I'll come tomorrow at 11:20 if that's alright!"
"Bring your lunch." Molly said as Liddell got up and started to walk out the door.
"I won't forget!" looking back at Molly, as she walked out into the open library which now had a few people in it.
When school was over, Liddell saw Kitty in the hallway.
"Liddell!" Kitty ran over to Liddell and pulled at her pigtails.
"Where were you? I was worried!"
Kitty looked sad.
"You were worried?"
"Well... More like bullied... They called me Shorty and took my pin!"
Kitty pointed to her chest. The pink jewel pin she wore on her favorite dress was missing.
Liddell looked very angry.
"Was it Shelley and Sandy again? Those idiot mermaids are gonna get fried into fish sticks!"
Liddell ran down the hallway.
"Wait for me there, Kitty!"
She yelled as she ran down a corner. She turned again, then went down some stairs. There was a door at the end. Inside the door was a large pool area, usually where mermaids would take swimming or magic classes. The mermaids that bullied Kitty usually hang around this area afterschool.
Liddell looked around.
"Well, if it isn't Shorty's-"
She was cut off by Liddell's yelling.
"Shut up, squid-for-brain, ill pummel you 20,000 leagues away from here if you touch Kitty again!"
Liddell walked toward the edge of the pool.
"Well, someone's defensive!"
Liddell grabbed the mermaid by her hair and pulled her out of the water. Liddell kept yelling.
"Who took the pin?"
The mermaid screamed, she lifted her hands and tried to point somewhere.
Liddell let her hair free.
The mermaid dove under, then came back up.
"You mean this pin?" She had it pinned to the bathing suit top she had on.
"That belongs to my friend, and you took it from her! Give it back!"
Liddell reached for her hair, but the mermaid dodged it. She regained her balance.
"With your mom being the principal, I'm sure you have a ton of time before you have to leave for home. Like you even have one! And were not leaving yet, so we can talk all night!"
The other mermaids giggled.
Liddell grew furious.
"Don't you dare bring that up."
Liddell closed her eyes.
"Why? Gonna go cry to mommy?"
The mermaids continued to laugh.
"Exactly that, she is the principal, right?"
"She's admitting it? Finally!"
The mermaid flipped her hair.
"Not that, you crustation. My MOTHER, the PRINCIPAL, can get you knee deep in shiitake."
Liddell laughed at her words.
The mermaid threw the pin to Liddell, giving up. She was out the door to Kitty in two flaps of a mermaids' tail.
Kitty thanked Liddell, and went home. Liddell decided not to tell Kitty about her new library friends, but told Kitty that she wouldn't be eating lunch with her again tomorrow. Kitty didn't ask why, she just perked up her ears, and hopped away, determined to leave the school so she could get home and study.
Liddell slumped down on her bed.
"What a weird day..."
She fell asleep, without doing any homework or getting ready for bed.
During the next few months, Liddell continued to grow closer to her new library friends. Molly likes creepy things, and tea, Julia likes books she has read a good fraction of the library, Marjorie likes to sleep, and Lily likes pictures of people. Even if she doesn't know them, she'll gaze at their smiles forever.
All of them got along very, very well.
As it grew closer to one weekend, Liddell had an idea.
"Hey, we should all get together this weekend."