1"Fin!"
The brown haired girl turned around hearing her name called from somewhere behind her. Her twin sister, Laura, was so shocked by her sudden move that she dropped the books she held in her arms and her glasses fell down as she bowed to get them from the floor. She noticed her sister waving enthusiastically beside her. Fin was always smiling and she immediately took over every room as soon as she entered. Laura threw one little peak at her and felt sadness coming up. Just a bit, but it was the kind of feeling she always had, when she felt ugly and clumsy and in any way less great than her sister.
"Hi!", three girls came for them, waving back, smiles playing on their lips.
"Hey chicas", Fin laughed and threw flirtatious looks at passing boys.
Laura picked up her books from the floor and smiled at them. After putting her glasses on again she saw that the giggling girls in front of them where Fin's girls, tall Hanna, who was blond and fit, Maria, who was a bit shorter but more beautiful and Ria, a red haired petit girl. 'With Fin -spitting image of their mother in between- they looked like a cover image of a fashion magazine,' Laura thought and remained silent as they started to talk about the events of the past week-end. Although Laura looked exactly like her sister (and got confused by everyone all the time) she had never found her way into the popular community in magic school. 'So it isn't all about the looks really,' she thought as she turned her back on them and made her way into the common room and asked herself ones again, what the hell it was, that made her so much different.
"Hey, Laura...," Fin said from behind, "look who's there"
Laura turned and saw handsome Mr. Elliot coming from another aisle through the room. She blushed and dropped her books again, though this time her glasses stayed on -too bad, because now she could see the amused look on her Defensive Magic teacher's face. She kneeled onto the ground and took a bit more time than needed to pick up books to make sure he would be gone when she got up and that her face would get back to its normal color. That was the most embarrassing thing... She felt her sister's hand on her shoulder.
"Chill, will you?" she calmly spoke, a hint of amusement in her voice.
"Shut up," she said through gritted teeth and removed her sister's hand with a quick move of her shoulders. She got up and looked straight into her sister's eyes, still red-cheeked and with an angry, blazing look on her face, "could you try to make it a little less obvious?" How could she be so mean? Laura never did those things, that was not fair!
Her objection was no more than a whisper.
"What do you want from me? No one but you and me noticed it.", Fin said yet didn't really seem to care.
"HE noticed", Laura said, emphasizing the word 'he' while worriedly looking around, catching some eyes and knew that some more did too.
With her long hair waving behind her, she turned around and got into the classroom -without forgetting not to speak to her sister until lunch.
Fin broke the silence between them, as she sat at the table, drinking orange juice and copying her Transformation homework from Ria.
"Look", she said calmly , "It's no big deal falling for a teacher, you know, that happens to all of us...but, really sissy, behaving like you do around him makes it a big deal. And I just want you to relax, right."
Laura kept her mouth shut, stubbornly ignoring her sister's rant.
"Now come on...aren't I right?" Fin insisted trying to keep the irritation out of her voice, she never meant to embarrass her sister. But she thought, if Laura loosened up a little bit, people would notice what a great girl she was. And maybe she would start to see what's right in front of her eyes and stop building up her little dreamworld as Mr. Elliot's wife.
"Maybe," Laura finally spoke, her gaze intently elsewhere. "But I would still like you to please cut the crap when it comes to this -although that might be hard for you," answered giving her sister a murderous look.
"I'll try, if you let loose," her twin immediately replied and caught a boys look from an aisle on the left.
Laura suddenly took her book with furious gestures and walked away from the table pushing her sister's shoulders roughly as she left.
"Chill!", Fin said loudly behind her.
Laura didn't turn around but she had a hard time controlling her anger from orbing Fin somewhere to the moon. Instead she just orbed herself into the Levitation classroom.
Daniel sat at his place already, which disturbed Laura a bit, because she wanted to be alone, and she didn't think that someone else would be in the big room -which was stuffed with blankets and pillows, to catch the falling students- in the middle of lunch break. But obviously Dan had the same things in mind as Laura had -which was bathing in self-pity.
"Hey", he said and gave her a crooked smile.
She slipped onto her chair and put her head on the desk with a frustrated groan.
"Tired?" he casually asked, leaning against the back of his chair and placing his hands behind his head but he threw hidden looks at her every now and then.
"Nah..." came the short reply.
"Bad Mood?" the boy tried again.
"Yes", her breath felt warm on the arm that lay in front of her face on the table and she thought about leaving for the toilet.
"Wanna talk about it?" Dan pressed.
Laura was beginning to get impatient from all the questioning. "No", was her simple, monosyllabic response.
"Okay...no need to be so pissed, right?"
"I'm not pissed," the girl shot back, putting slight emphasis on her last word, lifting her head and shooting the boy a pointed look. "I just don't wanna talk right now…"
"'Kay," he agreed, lifting his arms in a surrender mode, making the witch sigh.
Usually she wasn't like that with him. He was nice, hardly the only one who treated her like a real girl, but he annoyed her right now. Come to think of it, everyone would.
And it wouldn't get better.
As the rest of the class entered, instead of her cousin Lisa Halliwell, Phoebe's daughter, who was becoming a teacher, another pedagogue entered.
And who else but Mr. Elliot could've stood in front of class?
Laura shook her head and tried to keep her eyes on her hands, but he made it very hard.
He stood there and talked about controlling the body while soaring and all that stuff and looked so cute that she had a really hard time keeping her mouth shut. His voice had something hypnotizing about it hence why she couldn't keep her eyes away although her mind hardly registered a word he was saying. She imagined him on a big tree, helping her climb up to show her the birds in the crown -and then she could almost feel his touch as he lifted her onto a bed made of fluffy clouds and her mind swooned.
Meanwhile, Fin had one a window in her schedule. She walked across the empty common room, because her friends were currently in the toilet, leaving her to end up copying her homework. She heard steps behind her and turned around. A classroom door had opened and a giggling girl and a handsome guy stepped towards her.
"Hey Fin", the man greeted, a smile gracing his features.
"Hi guys. Well, what have you've been doing in there?" she replied, adding a devilish smirk at the last question.
"Tutoring", the guy said with a hidden smile and his eyes blinked shortly.
"Yeah", the girl beside him said laughing, "Chris is tutoring, so he has something to do"-the guy stepped behind her, took her waist and lay his head on her shoulder -"so he doesn't get-"
"-bored", Chris immediately cut her off.
"-frustrated", she corrected and frowned at him, heavy weight on the word.
Fin smiled up to Milly, Chris' new girlfriend, in her senior year at magic school, and thought about the time when Chris had indeed been frustrated. He used to look furious and angry, he missed family dinners and was rude. That was around the time he met Milly. Fin had been so annoyed by his behavior and she had been very worried, because not even her brother Henry knew what was up with him, and Henry usually knew everything. But they all learned at the last family dinner that Chris had saved them all. How was still a mystery to her, but she was still grateful for whatever it was that her cousin had done.
"Well, I'll guess we see you on Sunday?" Chris asked in a desperate attempt of changing the subject.
"Yeah -family Sunday...we will be there", Fin said and smiled brightly, "Bye!" she added, seeing as the couple was eager to head for a more private location.
"Bye", Milly said and turned to face Chris, who kissed her and orbed them away. Milly didn't really seemed to care about missing classes… Fin supposed it had something to do with the whole 'I love you sooo much' aspect of her life.
She finished the copying as the bell rang to the next lesson and she felt her stomach aching all of the sudden.
If Fin wouldn't be able to get her grades right, she would fail class this year and this knowledge fought itself back into her mind every now and then. And right now it literary hurt her.
She was heading towards the potions-classroom and hoped her quickly copied homework would do. Nervously she gasped at the piece of paper and sensed danger. Danger to be tested on what was on this sheet.
"Hey beautiful!", a guys voice said close behind her ears.
She turned around and looked into the bright face of Jason, her on-off- temporally off-boyfriend.
"Hey Jase...", she said slightly bored.
"I've been wondering if we could go have dinner or something ...-soon!"
"I fear I have to learn", Fin felt pushed and she hated being pushed, especially by Jason, they said they'll take their time off and he was disregarding her boundaries all the time.
"Come on, forget the learning and go on a date with me...", he stepped closer to her.
"No! Jason!", she pushed him away and got into the classroom.
