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The girls found this too much; they started
laughing. Roald looked at them questioningly, which looked so funny on him that
they just laughed harder. By now, they had gotten quite a few people to look
their way, with confused looks on their faces. That just made them laugh
harder.
Finally, Daine and Alanna just couldn't take it
anymore. They walked over and ordered
the girls to quiet down.
When they were finally calm again, Daine asked, "Now
what got you guys laughing so hard in the first place? To me, there is nothing
funny about this ball. It's actually rather boring."
"Well, Diane. We'll just have to spice
it up for you a bit!" Rachel said. She nodded to Roald, and then whispered
"Watch Numair. You'll get why we were laughing in a minute." As soon as she
said that Numair's shirt moved. It looked like someone was pulling on it. He
looked around, and then carried on with the conversation he was in.
When they had gotten a hold of themselves, Jonathon
and Thayet walked over. "What's so funny?" Jon demanded. They showed him. Jon
and Thayet were laughing after the first try.
During that whole party, whenever one of them got
bored, they would walk over to Roald and get the entertainment that they
wanted. The best part about it was that Numair didn't even suspect a thing. He
just thought that somebody was pulling a prank on him or something.
For the next week, things went smoothly. The girls
didn't do any pranks, they didn't actually laugh until exactly a week after the
ball. That was the day that Daine had asked Kel what she had put in the note.
Kel laughed and said, "I had started by writing that
I had a crush on him. Then I put that 'I now the person you really are: a dumb
unsophisticated pig.' I went on to say that he was so bad with a sword, my
nephew could beat him and he's two." They all started laughing.
They were at lunch and there hadn't been any sound
at all for the past week (as if they had realized that there was tension in the
air). When they laughed, it rang through the lunchroom and once again the
lunchroom was filled with sound.
A month later, during the midwinter festival, Rachel
turned 15 and Kel was a first-year squire to Alanna. In the two months that
Rachel had been there, she had learned control over her wild magic with
animals, part of her gift, and her wild magic with the earth.
Rachel enjoyed living with her family and not having
to worry about whether her adoptive-father was going to beat her or not.
She had actually forgotten him, until
that day when a squire (she had accidentally run into) had yelled at her and
slapped her. Usually she was very good at showing herself as someone that
didn't have any fears and was strong, but that squire had sounded exactly like
her adoptive father.
After he slapped her, she stood cowering
against the wall waiting for him to hit her again. She must've been shaking,
because instead of hitting her, he hugged her.
"Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to slap
you. I'm just in a bad mood. Are you going to be all right, your highness?"
"Yeah, yeah I'll be fine. I'm sorry for
running into you." She walked away as fast as she could and when she knew she
was out of sight, she ran to her room.
When she got there, she threw herself
onto her bed and Spook settled onto her shoulder.
**What is up with you? ** Spook wanted
to know. "I just remembered how my adoptive-father used to treat me. And I
can't believe that I had to live through that." **Are you feeling sorry for
yourself again? I don't think that is a very good idea, considering how many
people you have to talk to around here. ** "I guess you're right, Spook. It's
just- I don't know how to tell anyone." **Why don't you ask Kally if she'll go
for a horseback ride into the woods with you. ** "Hey thanks, Spook. That's a
good idea."
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Guess
what? Next chapter and you'll get a very big surprise!!!! Don't you just love
me? Giving you a cliffhanger and running away with the rest of the story.
**Grins evilly** (I know what's going to happen!!!!) **Smacks Cleon over the
head** He does not!!!!!
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