Thorne walked up to the front door of Alfea School for fairies, a disgusted look on her face. She couldn't believe she had to go to the same school as her good two shoes cousin Flora. Thorne put on her best fake smile and walked through the gates to the building. The campus seemed to buzz with excitement. As she walked through the front doors, she spotted her cousin Flora walking toward her next class.
"Hey Cuz, Long time no see." Throne said walking over to Flora.
"Thorne, what are you doing here?" Flora asked. Neither Flora, nor Thorne could stand one another, but they knew better then to bicker in public.
"I go here now. Beta just wasn't working out and mom and dad heard such wonderful things from Aunt Iris about this place so they decided that I go here. Now can you tell where I can find Ms. Fairghoula?" Thorne asked. Not a total lie, but not the truth either. She can't blow her cover.
"Faragonda. Down the hall and to the left." Flora directed her. Thorne thanked her cousin and left. Flora's directions were spot on. It was only a few minutes later when she found the doors to Faragonda's office. Thorne gripped the knob and opened the door. Faragonda was sitting behind her desk talking to whom she knew to be Griffin of Cloud tower.
"Can I help you?" Faragonda asked, turning off her chat.
"Hi, I am Thorne." She introduced herself.
"Aw yes I was expecting you. Hope the journey wasn't too much for you. Please take a seat." Thorne left her bags by the door and walked over to the chair, taking a seat in it like Faragonda had offered.
"Now I understand you were once a student at Beta School for fairies, but the rules here are different. All students have curfew. 10 o'clock on weekdays, 11 on weekends. You are to attend classes and be attentive. If you are feeling ill and cannot go to class then you will report to the infirmary. If you need to leave campus for any reason you will get permission from either me or Ms. Griselda. Magic may not be used on other students or teachers. These rules are here for your protection as well as the protection of the other students here. Now this is the key to your room. Ms. Griselda will show you were that is." Throne took the Key from Faragonda and followed Griselda to where her room was.
"Here you go and this is your class schedule. Classes start at 8 o'clock sharp. Please do your best to be on time." Griselda left leaving Thorne to unpack.
Throne opened one of her larger suit cases and took out a bottle of hair dye. Ever since they were kids, they have heard time and time again, that she and Flora looked like identical twins except for their hair color. Flora had beautiful dirty blonde hair while she was stuck with this ugly muddy brown color. Well that was going to be no more.
After she rinsed out the dye, she dried her hair and got dressed. Perfect. No more ratty brown hair. The dye had done its work and now she had dirty blonde hair like Flora's. Thorne looked at her watched and realized that she had to go give a briefing about what was happening and what she had accomplished. She headed out of her room and outside into the courtyard. The courtyard seemed mostly empty except for a few girls who were doing homework together. She sat behind an oak tree and pulled out her phone when she heard a voice.
"Flora." It said. Thorne looked around and spotted a boy running toward her. He wore a specialist uniform like the one from red fountain. His dark blue pony tail swayed in the wind has he ran toward her.
"Hi there." Thorne responded. She had no idea who he was but one thing she did know was that he was cute.
"Flora," He kissed her hand. "My precious flower. I am so sorry but I have to cancel our date tonight. I hope this makes up for it." He pulled out a rose and piece of folded paper from behind him and handed it to her.
"It does and it's alright. I understand." Thorne said pretending to be Flora. He leaned down and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
"I have to go." He said as they parted. Thorne nodded her head and let him go. He ran off but turned around for a second to blow her one more kiss. Thorne smiled and went back to her place behind the tree. She tossed aside the rose and opened up the paper.
Your eyes sparkle like moonlight
Your lips as sweet as a rose
You are more beautiful than any flower
Just know that I love you.
As Thorne read this she felt like gagging. It was so mushy and gross. She grabbed her phone and made her call. After the third rang someone answered.
"It's me. Everything is going as planned." Thorne smiled at what was said on the other end and hung up. She stood from the tree and decided to give her cousin a visit.
She knew where their room was after some asking around and headed there. She knocked on the door and was greeted by a girl with pink hair in a pixie sort of cut.
"HI, can I help you?" She asked.
"Flora here?" Thorne asked. She couldn't wait to see her cousins face when she told her. The girl moved out of her way letting her in.
Thorne could see Flora's eyes grow wide. "Thorne, what did you do to your hair?" She screamed.
"I thought your color was so much better so I dyed it. That dark brown I once had, was so disgusting. I wish I had done this sooner." Thorne said smirking.
"What do you want Thorne?" her cousin asked.
"A real cutie came up to me, called me Flora, kissed my hand and said he was so sorry but was going to have to cancel our date. He gave a rose and poem, which made me want to hurl by the way, kissed me then lef.t I wanted to know if you had his number so I could give him a call." Thorne said. Just like she thought flora was turning red with anger.
"Thorne, you stay away from my boyfriend, Helia is off limits." She said.
"Helia's his name. Well he is cute. Just thought that I would ask, oh well. See you in class." Thorne said. She left the room, flora slamming the door behind her.
Everything was now falling into place and she was going to get a little extra bonus named Helia.
