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When Tom was nine years old, he experienced his first great love and his first great heartbreak. Her name was Amy Benson and she had beautiful curly red hair and pretty blue eyes and so was the most wonderful person he had ever seen.
She, unlike the other orphans, didn't grow up in the orphanage. She came to the orphanage on the eve of Tom's ninth birthday after her parents both died in a fire. Tom was the first person to comfort her, and the first person to become her friend. He thought they would make a perfect pair, even if she couldn't do the amazing things that he could.
But then, Dennis Bishop gave her a hug and she hugged him back and she was only supposed to hug Tom and Tom was very angry because she left him for a stupid boy who still picked his nose. He didn't like to be made a fool of. He didn't like to be disregarded. He was better than Dennis Bishop.
They went to the beach a week later and Tom convinced Amy and Dennis to swim with him to a cave off of the shore. Amy was fascinated by the place, gasping in awe and pointing at various things. She grabbed onto Tom's arm in astonishment but he pushed her away. He wouldn't deal with her traitorous ways any more.
It was there he showed the two his magic. It was there he got his revenge on Amy for betraying his trust and on Dennis for leading her astray. It was there he invented his first dark spell. It was there that Tom realized how worthless love truly was.
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The Ten, Twenty, Thirty Chapter Challenge – The Cave
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