December Fifth—Fourth Year
So the days have actually gotten a lot longer, and I noticed this during math class, which is really boring because I understand everything and everyone else doesn't, well mostly everyone but I can't really blame them, and we're stuck always going over the same stuff over and over and over and over again for three days straight half the time.
I didn't understand why everyone couldn't understand it, because if they all did their homework it was really really easy to understand. I thought maybe they were doing it on purpose, or maybe the just didn't know what to do for the dance that was coming up really soon. So I followed a small group, secretly, to see what they were doing because I was getting really mad about covering the same topic over and over.
As it turned out, there was actually a club. A club! A mage tower club! And I wasn't allowed in it. Or maybe I was and I just didn't know, but I figured that the twins would have told me about it if it was a really important club because the twins tell me everything important. Really.
But, even the twins didn't know about it this time. I asked them later. It was a club for non-red heads, which automatically ruled me and Aria out. Which really sucks, 'cause I'm pretty sure I'm the most manly boy out there, and they were depriving themselves of my existence. It's sort of sad. Really.
Since I wasn't allowed in the club, I crawled into a little vent and spied on them from the top. I couldn't really see much, not with the grate in the way, but I could tell they really hated people with red hair. They said we had no souls and when we died we came back as vampires and ate their souls and that's why red heads had to have people with them when they died so they could kill them again when they came back as a vampire.
That's obviously not true, because if it was, one of my parents was probably a ginger and they would be alive and trying to find Stiply and I because we're their kids, and everyone loves their kids. Even if they're dead and wanting to eat their souls.
Or, I really think so. I haven't ever really thought about my parents, now that I think about it. I mean...I'd occasionally think about what it would be like if mom and dad were still around, but I really didn't care if they were there or not. I just sort of...forgot they existed.
Does that make me a bad person? I really don't know. I want Stiply to be here. A lot.
He'd make those idiots not ignore me just 'cause I have red hair. He'd make sure no one made fun of me or anything like that. But he's busy with his huntership, and I'm too busy trying to master the arcane to care.
I don't like this at all. Stiply and I are growing further and further apart, and people I shouldn't even know are growing a lot closer to me. Like the twins. I shouldn't know them.
I've considered what they said about magic and arcane, and I've noticed that they never actually use arcane. They use little tricks that can be taken as arcane usage, but it's really not. I don't think they're really mages, and I don't care if they take this journal and read this part, because it's true.
You're not really mages, are you?
And those aren't tears, Aria. They're just drops of water. From my glass.
December Nineth—Fourth Year
Coffee eats your soul. I am convinced of this.
DO NOT TRUST COFFEE. IT WILL STEAL YOUR SOUL. FOR LIFE. And death.
December Fourteenth—Fourth Year
The dance is almost here. Just eleven more days, can you believe it? I've worked really hard on all of the outfits, and all that's left is finishing touches. I don't think they'll take too long to make. I've spent less time with the twins, except for when dance lessons were in session, because I realized that spending too much time with girls would end up taking away from my manhood and making me very feminine. That's not good for boys.
I've also grown my hair out again, 'cause it grows really fast apparently, and I can put it into a small ponytail now, which Luna says makes me look really handsome. I think I'll keep my hair this length for awhile. And not blow anything up.
I've been staying away from enchanting for the past month and something so that way I don't even have a chance of exploding anything. Or not anything I can be punished for anyways. That'd really suck.
December Eighteenth—Fourth Year
Stiply can't come for Christmas, but he said he'd visit as soon as he could. I really hope he does. I also have to worry about finding him a present, and the twins. They're closest to me, so I thought I'd let them know by getting a present.
I don't know what to get them, though. I already know I'm getting Stiply a brand new bow, made with the best wood I can find here. I think he'll like that. But the twins, I have no idea. Maybe I'll get them both some jewellery, because girls really like jewellery. Or, I think they do. It'd really suck if they didn't and men kept getting them that sort of stuff.
I've actually learned a lot of things about girls.
You do not get them flowers. They prefer jewellery.
You do not call them by their name. They prefer endearing terms.
You do not try to act like the boss. They really are.
You do not cry in their bosom. They will smack you.
December Twenty-Second—Fourth Year
I have another problem. I'm supposed to have a partner to dance with, and I have to ask someone out because I'm the man, so I don't know what I'm supposed to do! I don't have anyone to ask, because if I ask one of the twins, the other will get angry with me and then I'll be dead and I won't get my dance! And then I don't really know any other girls that I can ask, so I really don't have anyone!
I could go talk with Luna and Aria, maybe they can think up a solution.
December Twenty-Third—Fourth Year
I went to the twins this morning, and I learned that they want to share me. They decided without me, that since they both worked really hard to teach me how to dance they'd both dance with me at the dance. It's horrible.
I mean, I don't mind dancing with them, but what happens when they want to dance with me at the same time? I only learned how to dance with out person! Is there even dances for three people?
I'm so confused. Stiply, why can't you be here? I mean...you're my best friend, and you could take one of them and then I wouldn't have to...well. It doesn't matter.
Luna also suggested that I start writing actual conversations and describing everything to the best of my abilities. Maybe I will.
Upside, after classes, I got them all their presents. Stiply is really going to like his bow. I even managed to enchant it without blowing it up! Luna and Aria both got a necklace, with Luna's being a moon and Aria's being a sun. I thought it suited them, with how opposite they are.
Our outfits are also complete. I look like I just came from a nobleman's house, a militant nobleman's house. I didn't get to see what the twins looked like. I will in two days, though.
December Twenty-Fifth—Fourth Year
Today was the big day. All classes were cancelled today, and yesterday, for preparations and everything. I wrote a letter to Stiply, and then I tore it up. Then I tried to write another one, but I ripped that one up too. Words just couldn't explain how much I really needed him right now. I was scared. Really scared. I was ready to just not go, but I didn't want to face Aria's wrath. She's scary.
I spent most of my day trying to write that letter, but it didn't work, so I went to getting ready for the dance. It was the most oddest thing ever. I had never kept my hair long, not really, and when I was able to pull it back into a short ponytail, I really didn't recognize myself. It looked alright just hanging loosely, but it made me look more handsome with it in a ponytail.
I really didn't look like the little boy that came from Elwynn. I've already grown a good five inches, and I've started losing most of my boyish looks. I never noticed until now.
Luna had knocked at my door some hour later, after I had made absolute certainty that I would be the best looking man there, and told me it was time to go. I looked at her, amazed. She had emphasized the curls in her hair, and I think they'd stolen some cosmetics because she was blushing slightly, and the dress I had made actually looked wonderful on her. I slipped my arm through hers and grinned, leading her to the room. Aria was waiting there, looking just as stunning, and ready to kill me for holding onto her twin.
I let go.
And Luna grabbed hold again, laughing, saying that Aria wouldn't kill me until after I danced with her.
Aria gave an eyeroll at that, saying that Luna ruined her fun. Apparently it's cute when I'm scared I'm going to die? :[
I wasn't allowed a single second of rest. The twins kept switching places, and while they got to stop and have a drink and eat some food and whatever else was going on there that I wouldn't know BECAUSE SOMEONE I KNOW KEPT MAKING ME STAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR I had to stay on the dance floor and dance.
But I did get a lot of giggles out of them. Good giggles.
I ended up getting the slow dance with Luna, who got close and personal and said it was because that's how those sort of dances worked, and then when I relaxed she just moved even closer, and I didn't know what to do so I just kept dancing trying to hold a conversation, but she ended up telling me to shut up and enjoy the song. So I did.
And then Aria threatened the music player to put on another slow dance so she could get that a dance with me too. I didn't even try to hold a conversation for fear of my life.
Everything else is a blur.
Except for the part where Aria somehow managed to find some alcohol (do we even have alcohol here?) and got drunk, and then Luna made me carry her all the way back to their room and put her on the bed. She's a cuddly drunk, by the way.
I gave Aria her present, who just cuddled with it and snuggled under the blankets, and then I gave Luna's hers, who managed to thank me for it, and kissed by cheek. She laughed at me when I just stood there in response, still trying to figure out what just happened. Oh, um . . . Aria, you didn't read that part, okay?
I also won't be getting my present until tomorrow, because apparently they're supposed to give it to me together.
Girls are just so very complicated. I swear, whatever creator there is out there, made women just to confuse men into submission.
It's working.
