The classrooms door swooped open once again and a kind-looking smiling man entered the room. "All right, are we all ready for class today?" Professor Merkulova asked looking around the class with his kind droopy eyes. "Oh, I'm glad to see you decided to turn up to lesson today, Luca," he said, Luca gave me a dirty look and I gave him an innocent grin. I shortly took my seat on the desk next to Lexi's. "Now, there should be two students that arrived here yesterday. Is that you two perhaps?"

The seat which the flustered Lexi was at on screeched as she shot up from it, I remained seated and nodded at him. Sometimes I wonder if we really are related, she has the same personality all the time whereas mine changes depending on my surroundings and mood. Even my appearance changes everyday, even I can't figure myself out. "Y-yes! I'm Lexi!"

"Hello, Lexi. And welcome back Maxine," he said as he strode to the front of the classroom. "I am Loran Merkulova. I'm in charge of Astronomy, the History of Wizardry and Magic Potion Pharmaceuticals."

"N-nice to meet you, Professor Merkulova!" Lexi stammered energetically once again and I had to suppress a giggle after looking at how worried and embarrassed she looked.

"Glad to see you're full of energy today. Please, Have a seat," she thanked him and pulled the chair back in and sat down once again. The professor wasted no more time and proceeded to the teaching part of the lesson. "Okay, today's class is about tarot cards. Everyone, please take out your tarot cards." he instructed and then looked over at mine and Lexi's desk. "Hmm, Maxine, Lexi."

We looked up at him. "Yes?" we said together.

"You don't have your own tarot cards yet, do you? Come up here please," we nodded and did as Professor Merkulova asked. When we got there, he placed a jewel covered, golden jewelry box on top of his podium.

"What a pretty box..." Lexi said and we both stared at the glimmering box.

"This box is completely empty right now. Go ahead, open it and have a look," when we look inside, it was just as he said, it was completely empty. The bottom was lined with crimson colored velvet. "Now please put back the lid." I stepped back and let Lexi close it. "And now, place your hands on top of the box and close your eyes.

Closing her eyes, she muttered. "...Like this?" Slowly, the box began giving of a light pink glow and the gems reflected it nicely. Professor Merkulova raided his wand and gently tapped the glowing box while muttering a spell. with that, magic began flowing from Lexi's pam into the box and gave of a small gust of wind making her hair rise. "What's going on?!"

"Okay. you can open your eyes now. Please, take a look inside the box," the professor instructed. I couldn't help but peer across Lexi's shoulder as she lifted the lid of the box. When she opened it, she found a set of pink Tarot cards inside. "These are the tarot cards you have chosen."

"...I chose them?" Lexi asked taking them.

"That's right, using tarot cards just given to you by someone else has no significance at all. This box is called the Courteous Box. It summons a deck of tarot cards made significantly for you," Professor explained and then turned to me. "Your turn Maxine."

"Right," I stepped forward and placed my hands on the beautiful box. Just please don't be red... I closed my red eyes and felt the box begin to heat up, it felt rather nice compared to my cold hands. The sound of wood against metal and the sound of Professors voice triggered the reaction within the box. I felt a bit o magic leaving my palms and a cold wind swept across me. This reaction was different to Lexi's.

"Hmm, you can open your eyes now," the professor said and I did so. I instantly reached for the box and opened it, to find what I dreaded. RED tarot cards. "Please, return to your seat. All right, let's resume class."

I slumped back in my seat looking at the Red set of tarot cards. The reaction I got was different from Lexi's, mine was colder and more vicious than hers... I hope it's nothing bad. The other students all have nice colors to their Tarot cards; Luca had a green set, Elias had a light purple set, Yukiya had a dark, nearly black shade of blue and then there's me, with a violent RED set! I guess I'm cursed with the color red.

Everything I never got to chose was red, my wand as a light brown with little rubies edged into it and my eyes. It was a family genetic heirloom and I was born with a very strong piece of it, whilst Lexi had less of the problem as everything she got was a different shade of red... a cute pinky color. Our family, which used to be a large clan, specializes in animals and magical creatures of most sorts.

"And how about to Maxine?" Professor directed a question at me whilst I wasn't paying attention.

"Huh?" I said and looked up from my Tarot cards to look at his calm and smiling face.

"How many Tarot cards are there in total in a deck?" he asked and my eyes widened. How the heck should I know? Readings and predictions was never my subject! I need to think of something fast to cover up.

"Errm... Sixty?" I answer knowing that it was the incorrect answer. Well that's what you get for not studying..

"I'm afraid that's wrong, the correct answer is seventy-eight cards," Professor Merkulova corrected me and continued teaching. "The tarot cards are mainly used for reading. The art known as reading uses magic to predict the future. Tarot cards help us draw out that power of prediction. Even those with weak magic can easily draw on that power to see the near future."

Let's see that happen, I can't even use a simple dream prediction! "Now today, everyone will learn the simplest reading technique-The one card tarot reading. First, shuffle your cards well. Then, imagine in your head what you seek to know and draw a single card."

"Sounds simple enough," I murmured and then shuffled the cards. I want to see if I'll pass the prefect test today. I drew one card. "The Wheel of fortune in a reverse in a position huh?"

A person with green hair and an earing leant over my shoulder. "Ohh bad luck for you today."

"Hmm? What do you mean?" I asked Luca and shifted to get a better look at him.

"I mean that you're going to have bad luck. Look!" he said and passed me a text book ad pointed at the card I just drew. "See?"

"Luca, if you want to talk then why don't we talk after class today?" Professor said and looked straight at Luca with a serious face. Luca roled his eyes and leaned back in his char lifting two of it's legs of the floor. "Stay after class."

My predictions are never right, so this one can't be either... Right?