Chapter Two
Melinda left and surprisingly all my stuff was here. I went through my closet and then took a shower. "Hey Alice, do you want to come down and have dinner with us?" I heard Zoey ask me from outside the door of the bathroom. "OK, when?" I replied back to her. "Like, in a few minutes." Crap! I jumped out of the shower and dried my body then dried my hair.
I got dressed and walked out and Zoey was doing her make-up. I quickly brushed my hair and put on some mascara and lip gloss and we hurried out of our room before I bumped into a beautiful blonde fledgling. "Sorry," I quickly said and Zoey turned back to lookat me. "Aphrodite, be nice!" Zoey snapped at her.
"It's OK, so you're the new fledgling on campus?" She asked me. "Yeah, I got here today." I said. "Nice, you know you would easily fit in with the nerd herd." She said before walking off. "Nerd herd?" I asked Zoey. "It's my group; she calls us the nerd herd." I nodded and we kept on walking.
"Erik," Zoey said before he kissed her. "This is my new roommate, Alice. This is Erik, my boyfriend." Ok that means he is totally off-limits. "Hi, I'm also the drama professor, are you taking drama?" He asked me. "Yeah so you must be Professor Night, right?" He laughed before nodding and said, "Yeah, but you can call me Erik." I nodded and smiled at the two of them.
We walked off to a table where I recognised the twins, Damien and Jack where sitting. "Hey Z," Damien started, "The twins are thinking about sneaking out to a show sale tomorrow and skipping class and the need to be covered and I'm not covering them!" Jack hit Damien's arm and then Jack said, "Hey Alice! I remember when I was new how weird this place was, but it gets better."
"Good, everyone staring at me is kind of freaking me out. I mean everyone looks at me like I'm some freak from the circus." I sat down as they laughed and then Erin (if I am remembering right) handed me a mirror. "What's this for?" Have you seen your tattoo? I mean really, they're simply gorgeous, no one has every seen tattoo like that before." I opened the little mirror and studied my tattoo.
"Alice, do you want to come shopping with us tomorrow night?" Shaunee asked me. "I'd love to but it's going to be my first day or night or whatever you call it." I took a bite of my garlic bread and looked up and Zoey was gone. I looked behind me the outside and saw her.
"What's Zoey doing outside?" I asked. "She's outside?" The twins asked together. They then looked where I was looking and Erin said, "I can't see anything." "Ditto, twin." Shaunee said again. "How can you not see her, she's right outside the window." I asked. "I think you got a gift from Nyx Alice!" Damien said happily.
"You can see extra well, like I can't even see her and I have the best vision." He had a huge grin on his face. "I think you might be," Shauneestarted. "Totally right Damien!" Erin finished. Zoey walked back in and looked confused when everyone else was looking excitedly at me. "What did I miss?" Zoey said.
"We think we just figured out Alice's gift." She sat down next to me. "What can she do?" She asked sounding just as excited as the twins. "She can see extremely well. I mean she could see you and none of us could!" Jack said. "It's not that big of a deal. It's probably not even a gift from Nyx." I said it sounding like I had way too much confidence in what I was saying.
"Where did you see me? Who was I with?" She asked all of us. "You where just outside that window near that old oak tree and you were talking to Erik, actually you were-" She cut me off and whispered not to tell what she was doing. "That definitely sounds like a gift from Nyx, it may not be much but it still is something.
"Guys, we got to practice for the ritual tomorrow night, Alice, want to come?" I nodded and we all walked off into Nyx's temple. "Alice, can you just hold this candle for a minute." Zoey asked me politely. "Sure, I grabbed the red candle and Shaunee whispered "Fire, I need to you to light my candle for a second," And then she flicked her fingers over to me and the candle lit and I felt warm and weird. But weird in a good way.
"Fire, you can go now." She whispered again and the candle went out. "How did you do that, whispering 'fire, I need you to light up my candle for a second' and then whispering 'fire you can go now.' Do you like control fire or something?" I asked as they all looked amazed. "How did you hear her, even I didn't hear her?" Erin asked. "But you are way closer to her than me, how could you have not heard her?" I asked.
"Maybe you can hear and see things that a far away a lot better than us as a gift from Nyx and an affinity for fire by the looks of it." Damien repeated. "An affinity for fire? What do you mean?" I asked. "Lets test her!" Erin said. "Command fire to light the candle than flick your fingers in the candle's direction." Shaunee finished.
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