The next day…

I woke up to the familiar pale nurse's office. The floral curtain surrounded my bed. I felt better and I instantly pulled up my hospital gown to check my wounds. The big bruise on my stomach had faded and all that remained was my smooth pale skin.

I felt fine, I felt good enough that I wanted to stand up and stretch my unused muscles. I stared at the ceiling only a short while before Nurse Scotch waltzed inside my private curtain room and check my wounds and my pulse and my IV.

She gave me a gentle smile and asked how I was feeling.

"Actually I feel great today," I smiled stretching my arms, "Am I allowed to get up today?"

"Well…" She gave my wounds another peek, "I suppose you can, but if the pain is too much come back to me and I'll give u some meds, ok Marissa?"

"Ok, thank you," I smiled out of pure happiness as Nurse Scotch pulled the needle out from my arm.

I stood up on my bare feet. I only had a hospital gown thing for clothes.

"Oh Marissa the school clothing closet is right in the next room," Nurse Scotch pointed to a door across from where my curtain set up was. Being outside of my curtain was funny but it was a good kind of funny.

I entered the open door which Nurse Scotch pointed to. Inside were racks of clothes, a rack for girls and a rack for boys. I walked over to the rack for girls and looked through the medium sizes.

They had plenty of dresses and unique girly clothes. It was all wizard prep so it all looked sorta unique, no plain t shirts and jeans here. I just picked out and light colored outfit that I thought would make me look good, I figured clothes didn't matter that much anyway.

I walked out, I wore tall boots that came up to my knees and laced up. I liked my outfit and Nurse Scotch complimented me as I left her office.

I walked out into the open halls of Will-o-Wisp academy and felt as though I didn't belong again. There were so many people. I just hoped I would be able to find one of my friends who had talked to me yesterday.

I knew Miss Madeleine would be my teacher so I walked into her classroom. She was class B at the academy and when I walked into her classroom I felt a wave of relief that it was empty. I didn't want to have to face a bunch of curious kids and feel their eyes follow me across the room.

Miss Madeleine smiled at me, "Marissa, how are you feeling? You're out of the nurse's office I see,"

I don't know what it was but something about Miss Madeleine made me feel good and made me feel as though I belonged and had a place. I couldn't help but smile.

"Yes I'm feeling much better," I looked around at the empty desks and sat on the edge of the nearest one, "I was wondering where I needed to go because it's my first day," I began to feel nervous.

Miss Madeleine smiled understandingly, "Right now the students are at lunch, I'm pretty sure Lassi, Mokka, Chai, Sorbet and Pico have a table and would be happy to let you sit with them. At Will-o-Wisp we eat lunch outdoors so just exit the front gate and you should find them."

I left Miss Madeleine class and then something funny struck me; how had she known I was friends with Lassi, Mokka, Sorbet, Pico and Chai? I hadn't told anyone. Well it didn't really matter I guess. They probably told her they went to visit me at the Nurse's. Plus I came inside Will-o-Wisp with Lassi when I came the first time.

As I walked through the green grass of the outdoors and sure enough, I found Lassi and the gang sitting at a table on the east side of the castle.

I walked over to them worrying if they would accept me. I kept my head on the ground and marched over.

Lassi seemed to notice me because next thing I knew she was calling my name.

"Hey Marissa," Lassi's high girly voice rung out, "They let you out! Come sit with us!"

They invited me to be with them, they wanted me. I felt my heart warm up.

I sat down at the empty space between Lassi and Mokka.

"So the nurse let you out?" Pico asked starting the conversation as he took a huge bite out of chicken.

"Yeah she said I was all good and that if it hurt to get more meds," I explained realizing I was awkwardly the only one not eating.

"Well that's good," Chai said, "Do you feel better?"

I nodded and smiled in his direction.

"Are you coming to class with us after?" Mokka inquired.

"Yes…" I said happily, "But I've never been before."

"That's ok," Lassi said.

"Yeah don't sweat it," Pico said.

"You'll fit in just fine," Sorbet said.

"Oh ok…" I said feeling unsure.

"Just take it from us," Chai said, "We've all been there.

The bell rang and I marched with a crowd of eager students to get back indoors. I followed close behind Chai because he was the easiest to pick out of a crowd and he walked about the same pace as me.

I headed into Miss Madeleine's class room and sat in and empty seat between Pico and Chai that was in the center of the room. Miss Madeleine casually walked over and dumped three books on my desk.

I smiled. They were spell books titled:

Famous Magicians in History

The Greatest Magic

Hexonomics

I remembered the spell book I used to have and kept under my floorboards, it was The Greatest Magic. I had hidden it when I wasn't allowed to use magic.

I looked over a Lassi smiled at me. This really was the place I belonged. I had made all these friends and I could tell that school would be quite an adventure for all of us.

"Alright students," Miss Madeleine started the class, "I would like you all to open your spell books to page 100, we will learn about spell strikes."

I watched as my friends grabbed The Greatest Magic and began to flip through pages. I flipped to page 100 and open it. There was a demonstration on how to make your spells stronger but that wasn't what had caught my eye.

What had caught my eye was the sliver of glass fragment in the center of the page.

It was from the broken mirror at my house. It was the fragment I had stepped on. Dried rusty blood stained the edge of the glass from my accident. I peered into the glass and faced my reflection. I had the same violet eyes, the same golden hair and the same familiar face my mother had called ugly.

But I wasn't. She had lied. I was beautiful.

And everything this mirror reminded me of was simply just a memory.