As the bell rung and Mandrake was in a better mood, Jonah tries to sneak off while his friends were too busy with the new girl, but he feels a sharp pain in between his shoulder blades. He sneers in pain and glares at the culprit. Rowan. Of course.
"Dammit, DeVries! Just leave me alone, will ya?"
Rowan laughs and pats on his injury. "Dear Kinlock. You'll always be my favorite nerd to pick on."
"Leave my brother alone."
They jump to the sound a little boy with reddish hair and blue eyes. Kenzie. Jonah sighs and comes to his younger brother.
"Kenzie, just because I'm being bullied, doesn't mean you have to intervene like a brat."
"Oh, so I'm a brat? I'm a brat whose a Senior, dear brother...!"
Jonah rolls his eyes. "Thanks for the constant reminder."
Kenzie grins. Due to his intelligence in technology, he bumped up in a few grades and helps Harmon Fitch, an Anaweir, and Rudy with the technology and the school announcements. Rowan smiles at the family reunion and bumps Kenzie to the ground as he laughs in triumph while walking away. Jonah growls and helps his little brother. Kenzie glares at Jonah.
"I don't your 'big brother' help every time Rowan acts like a-"
"McKenzie Kinlock! Manners.", says Jonah with a smile.
Kenzie rolls his eyes as they walk to class. "Father."
They laugh as Kenzie walks into Mercedes Foster's class. Jonah goes into his least favorite teacher's classroom as he hugs his brother ("Gross!") goodbye. His least favorite teacher? Leander Hastings. Why? Obviously, he's a wizard. As he goes in, he nearly bumps into Emma, who was talking to Madison Moss, not only she was the Dragonheart, but also a cheerleader. Seph McCauley's cheerleader. Who was also Hasting's son, so it gives him every excuse to mess with Jonah. Jonah rolls his eyes as Emma tries to say hi but frowns as he sits down and buries his head in his hands.
"What's up with him?", Emma asks Maddie, who was curling her brown hair with her finger.
Maddie rolls her eyes. "Jonah's naturally like that. Stay away from him, though. He's bad news."
"Bad news? How?"
"He keeps to himself. One time, though, I heard he set fire to a dumpster and framed Seph."
Emma looks from Jonah to Maddie again. "I don't think he'll do that."
Maddie smiles and pats her shoulder gently. "Don't let my judgment-anybody's-judgement of Jonah dictate how you like him. Kay-kay?"
Emma smiles as she says goodbye to Maddie and Emma sits next to Jonah, who nearly fell out of his chair.
"Are you ok?"
Jonah sneers as he got up. "I'm fine."
Emma looks away and saddens. Jonah blows and says, "Look. I didn't mean it. Just...why do you wanna join us, anyway? Aren't you a sorcerer?"
Emma glares at him. "YEA, I'm a sorcerer. Natalie's one of us but she hangs with YOU."
Jonah shrinks into his chair and glances at Emma.
Am I REALLY this bad at talking to girls? No wonder Rudy's better at this than me.
"I'm sorry. I get sensitive about these kind of things sometimes."
"It's ok..."
Emma smiles at him, making him blush. What was wrong with him? Jonah never fell in love before. Especially with a sorcerer. As Hastings was giving his lectures, Jonah drowned him out as he was still checking out Emma, who was taking notes, glancing at Jonah as she felt she was being watched. Jonah was blushing as a ruler came crashing to his desk, scaring the crap out of him.
"Hastings, you-"
"Mister Kinlock, you have plenty of opportunity to flirt with the new girl later, but now is class."
"I wasn't-"
"Jonah...?"
Jonah looked at Emma then walks out of class, bumping into Rowan DeVries.
Great.
