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"SHIT! Do you think she's okay?" A familiar female voice sounded worried, "She's been out a while."
"I don't know. I'm not a doctor," another voice fought back. This one was male though. The voice was raspy but with a sexy edge to it.
"A doctor! That's what we need," The girl's voice sounded back.
"She's fine. I think we should have just left her back at her apartment."
"Of course you would Danny. You don't care about anyone but yourself."
I slowly opened my eyes, blinking widely, staring up at a ceiling. "I think I need a doctor," I croaked out turning my head to where the voices came from. The girl from before and compass person were standing very close together until their noses touched. I felt a burst of jealousy flood through me but ignored it. I was obviously just overwhelmed.
"Oh Thank God. Are you alright?" the girl walked over to me, "I'm Henley, I forgot to introduce myself before you… you know," She said sheepishly.
"Became a problem? Yeah she's always been like that," Compass guy said leaning against the door.
Henley glared at him before walking away to the kitchen.
"I'm sorry but where am I?" I asked loudly but quickly put my hand up to my throat to soothe the burn.
"We brought an apartment for the year considering we can't travel ten hours just to get back to our homes. We brought in all our own furniture as well. We can get your stuff tomorrow if you'd like?" She asked holding up a mug, "Hot chocolate?"
I nodded before piecing the pieces back together, "The apartment. The magic blueprints… everything was real?" I asked my heart beating faster.
"Well isn't she just captain obvious," the guy behind Henley said sarcastically.
"If you say another word, I'm going to beat you up and take your lunch money," I said groaning as I slowly sat up. I was lying on an expensive black leather couch facing a massive T.V. Bookshelves lined the walls with romantic comedies and magician books. The room was modern but spacious. I went to stand up but quickly sat back down holding my head in pain.
"I knew we should have taken you to the hospital," Henley said hyperventilating as she stirred her coffee.
"I'm fine seriously." I said quickly rubbing circles into my forehead, "Hey I distinctly remember these two other guys. Where are they?" I asked looking around the apartment.
"Who? You mean dumb and dumber. They're throwing cards at each other," Daniel said leaning against the door.
"If sarcastic burned calories, you'd be one skinny bitch!" The guy with the fedora said walking out of the room followed closely by Jack.
"I'm sorry I didn't catch your name?" I asked from the couch. The two men jumped in the air clearly shocked that I was awake.
"Look: sleeping beauty's awake. Missed your time to kiss her Jack," Fedora guy said with his hands on his hips just as Jack threw a punch at his shoulder.
"First of all I have a girlfriend. Not that you aren't pretty," Jack said looking back at me. I just shrugged, "And second of all we were not throwing cards. We were practising out technique."
"Whatever floats your boat," Henley called out from the kitchen.
"I'm Merritt McKinney by the way," The guy with the fedora said holding out his hand.
"Andria Unity," I shook his hand moving over so he could sit next to me.
"I'm Jack Wilder," Jack said with a small wave before sitting in the chair opposite me.
"Well I don't need to introduce myself. Everyone knows me," Daniel said shrugging with a smile.
I screwed my nose up looking to my right at Merritt. Merritt shrugged his shoulders.
Daniel looked between all of us, "You really have no clue who I am."
Jack went to say something but Daniel silenced him, "Besides you. You've made it very clear you know who I am."
"You'd think the confused looks and blank stares would have answered that for you," I said resting my elbows on my knees.
Daniel wrinkled his forehead before turning to Henley, "You look…"
"Beautiful? I know. Can we move on now?" I said with a smirk as he fumed with anger.
"Like you're telling the truth. You seriously have never heard of me?" He asked again.
"I'm sorry no. Should I?" I look back at Henley who laughed at me. "Look no one has ever heard of me if it makes you feel better," I said as Daniel sat down on the love seat.
"On the contrary," Merritt said, "Everyone's heard of you. You're nickname was Dior right?" He asked shuffling a pack of cards in his hand.
"Yeah… How'd you know?" I asked curiously looking at everyone in the room.
"Andria Unity. Au. The chemical element of gold. Dior means gold in French. That was where you had your major break." Henley said coming back with my hot chocolate and a beer for Merritt before taking a seat next to me.
"I'm an average magician like you guys," I said pointing to all of them.
"Your dad was a surgeon; your mum was a magician. There were some people who said that she was an actual witch… there were some things no magician could explain." Jack said star struck.
"Is that why you read peoples futures? Because you're psychic?" Daniel asked just as curious as the others.
I paused for a moment before thinking what the heck, "I've had numerous brain tumours," I said slowly, "My mum had the gene, that's how she met my dad. Thing is sometimes they bring visions, sought of like fake dreams. My mum thought they were real because even after the tumour was removed she still saw glimpses of people's future or past when she touched them. That's why a lot of people think I'm psychic. That's why I see aura's and can read tarot cards. It's not that special." I said waiting for them to process this information.
Daniel cleared his throat drawing our attention to him, "I have to go… iron… my cat," He said walking out the front door.
The others gave each other blank looks while is sat there seriously, "We have a cat?" I asked while the others started laughing uncontrollably.
"I like you kid," Merritt said giving me a gentle sideways hug, "We're going to be good friends."
I got to know the other while we sat around playing cards. 500 to be exact. Except for Danny. He had left around three hours ago.
"So tell me Andria, why do you work in that little shop?" Henley asked me placing down a king of hearts.
"Well," I sighed, "It's actually personal but let's just say I had a falling out with someone and moved about two years ago," I said shrugging placing down and 6 of spades. "Yes mine." I said placing it in my pile.
"Dammit. Anyway where'd you move from?" Jack asked placing a 4 of spades down. The apartment was nice with four bedrooms, apparently, Jack already had a place with his girlfriend here but there was a study just in case. The apartment was black and modern but had a vintage vibe to it.
"London. I was actually born in Australia but moved to America when I was three. My parents were on their honeymoon around the world when I became a pit stop. I moved back to New York but wanted to study medicine and magic so I went to London. Not really that exciting," I said blushing slightly.
"Uh that's what the accent is," Merritt said to Jack exchanging a ten-dollar bill.
"What accent?" I asked screwing up my nose, "I don't have an accent."
"Hate to break it to you sweetheart but you do. It's sought of posh but the way you say different words and well… how do you spell color?" Merritt asked curiously.
"I am not posh. And I spell it C–O–L–O–U–R. I know that's the English spelling but I can't stop it. It's in my DNA." I say taking a swig of Merritt's beer when he wasn't looking. Henley threw me a glare before snatching the beer from my hands handing it back to Merritt.
"Any other questions?" I asked.
"Yeah actually," Jack asked, "How old are you. I just want to know if I'm the youngest one here."
"I'm twenty-four." Jack slowly hung his head in shame whilst Henley and Merritt laughed.
"What colour is you real hair?" Merritt asked.
"Blue." I say quickly. "This is real hair."
"Funny. I meant before you died it." He said rolling his eyes.
"It was blonde but… when I went into surgery I was under a lot of stress and my hair began turning pure white. I was picked on a lot at school so I dyed it. Red first. Then green. Pink. Purple. Brown. Then blue and it sought of stuck."
Henley rubbed my back laughing quietly. "I'm really sorry for interrogating you. You can ask us all a question if you'd like." She said with a smile.
"What are we having for dinner? I'm hungry," I said rubbing my stomach as Merritt placed down a card.
"I've only known you a short time," Jack said placing down another card, "But it seems you are always hungry."
"Sue me," I said throwing down my last card, "I won. Suck on that suckers."
"So what are we having for dinner?" Merritt asked.
"Takeout?" Henley asked. We all nodded in agreement when Daniel burst in the door, soaking from the rain. He looked at all of us glaring before going to his room and slamming the door behind him.
I looked at the door before muttering, "Man, someone needs a happy meal."
"So… Pizza?" Merritt asked.
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