The next day, Rachel was at her lessons
with Numair, Kel and Roald were practicing in the practice courts, Kalasin was
reading a book near Rachel and Daine was very calmly trying to tell Numair that
Rachel didn't just have wild magic with animals, she had it with fire, water
and earth, as well.
"Numair, how many times do I have to
tell you? My head hurts!"
"Fine, Rachel. Go sit down. I guess
we've done enough for now." Rachel sat down next to Kally and from her bag, pulled
out a library book. She flipped through until she found what she was looking
for.
Back in the practice courts, Neal,
Cleon, Seaver and Merric were getting their horses saddled. They all noticed
that Kel and Roald were also saddling their horses.
Neal said (loud enough for everyone in
the stables to hear), "I heard that Roald, Kalasin and Rachel are planning to
tell Kel that she can't hangout with them anymore. Of course, it was Rachel's
idea in the first place." Roald spun around and stared coldly into Neal's face.
"What did you say?"
"You heard me, Roald. You guys are just
using Kel. For what I don't know, but you are using her." He looked at Roald
and then at Kel. They were both staring coldly at him.
"I see that Neal has decided to turn Kel
on me." Rachel said calmly from the stable doors. "He doesn't know anything
about me, so he has to make things up." Everybody turned to see Rachel,
Kalasin, Daine and Numair standing in the doorway.
"Neal, where do you get off saying
that?" That was Seaver. "Rachel didn't do anything to you and you just insulted
about half of the royal family. Never a good thing to do."
"Yeah," Merric said, "insulting Kel
isn't too good of an idea either. Remember what she did the last time you
challenged her?"
Neal knew what they were talking about;
too late he realized that he had just lost two of his friends. "What is
everybody turning against me?" Neal asked, exasperated with his friends. "You
don't even know her!" Rachel had been telling Kally her idea when Roald's
horse, and Peachblossom had gotten her and Daine's attention. Now Rachel turned
toward Kally and saw that she nodded while smiling mysteriously. Rachel turned
her head towards Neal's horse and in her mind, to the mare, she said, "Now!" In
answer to Rachel, the mare reared, throwing Neal off. Without stepping on him,
she stood still once again, while everybody present exploded in laughter. Only
Rachel and Kally kept their cool. Neal glared at them. They glared back.
Rachel turned and walked away saying to
Kally, "Isn't it a wonderful day to be alive?" Then not being able to control
it any longer, burst into uncontrollable laughter.
The next day, Rachel was walking towards
her room, when she heard footsteps behind her. She turned and saw Owen.
"That was a jolly funny thing you did to
Neal yesterday." He grinned at her.
"You really think so?" Rachel was a
little wary of him. For all she knew, he was still Neal's friend.
"Of course. Neal doesn't need to go
around insulting people. It's not jolly. And to boot insulting a member of the
royal family. He must've gone insane." Rachel laughed. She could tell that he
was telling the truth.
"You saying that you want to be my
friend?"
"If you'll let me."
"Of course. Come; let's go see Numair.
I'm supposed to be studying right now." They walked off towards the palace,
laughing and talking.
Two hours later, Rachel was still
studying, her head was one whole ache, but Numair wasn't listening to her. To
Rachel, he seemed preoccupied with something and she thought, had forgotten she
was there altogether.
"Numair."
"Numair. Numair!"
"Are you listening to me?" Finally after
ten minutes of getting no response from him, she shoved him. She instantly got
a response.
Numair glared at her, she had drawn him
out of meditating. He had actually forgotten that his student was there, but he
would've thought that she would've left. She had never actually worked this
long, before.
"What?"
"I've been here for two hours. Can I
leave yet?"
"You had to disturb my meditating to ask
if you could leave?" Numair couldn't believe it. She wasn't acting like her
usual self. He wondered what was wrong.
"Yes, remember you told me that I can't
leave until you say I can? Remember?"
"Oh, yes. I didn't think you would
actually listen to me. You never usually do. Is something bothering you?" When
she didn't answer, he kept at it. "Is it what's been going on with Neal an the
rest of them?" She nodded, looked up at Numair and started crying. Numair was
baffled and didn't know what to say, so through a speaking spell he got Alanna,
who got Thayet and they came at a run.
When they got there, five minutes later,
Rachel was still crying hard. She looked up at Alanna and Thayet and finally
managed to choke out, "I can't take it anymore!"
Thayet knelt by her daughter and said,
"You don't have to Rachel, Alanna and I will take care of it." She paused, and
then added, "By the way, what did Neal say to you anyway?"
"He called Kally and I sluts. Then, he
called Kel a bitch and said that he would've been better off, if he had never
met us."
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For
everybody who's actually read this far, thank you!!!! Some people have been
asking if there is going to be a romance in my story. Well, there might be in a
couple of chapters from now. It might be longer, but it all depends on how the
chapters fall.
Magelet_03
P.S.
If you want to tell me who you think should get together in the story, please
e-mail me at magelet_03@hotmail.com.