Chapter Four;

I was sitting in my dorm room, lying on my bed and staring at the ceiling. There was so much to think about lately. My roommate was a girl with long brown hair. I don't really know much about her, other than that she dresses like every day is summer. I think her eyes are green, I'm not sure. She is fairly quiet, but will share complaints about having too much school work and will participate in breakfast chit chat. All in all; I found her presence in the room very awkward.

The other big thing on my mind was the murder. It happened yesterday; a grade six girl was found in her room dead. The rumors told me her name was Nicky Reynolds. All the names and cultures here was all mixed together in a giant pot. That giant pot was our school. The girl was a sweetheart (says the rumors), and was also a little bit of teacher's pet. Particularly with Ms. Kabuki, who taught the more advanced Earth classes. The girl's roommate walked in to see her sprawled in a strange position with most of her limbs broken, and no pool of blood. Out of respect, the Headmaster tries to keep her death secret, but the rumors fly around, and people are saying it was a magic-caused death. What death wouldn't be?

Just stabbing someone was sloppy. Not to mention cruel.

It had been almost twenty-four hours since Nicky's death. Now that I think about it, why was she in her dorm room? Maybe she was dropping off her school stuff before she went to the cafeteria. Still, something told me that wasn't normal behavior. How could someone have gotten in her room without the key? I would have to ask Ikuto how a student could get away with murder. Who had any motives? I'd never met the girl, so I didn't know any of her enemies.

It was Friday, and I checked the digital clock for the time. Yep, it was time to head down for dinner. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. I remembered Ikuto saying something yesterday, about how my bond with my elements would increase tonight. My nerves were sure racing. I inspected my hair, and decided to clip my bangs back.

Once I got down to the cafeteria, because I was starting to get the basic routes down without help from others, I noticed something. Dirty looks. And they were towards me, of all people! I tried to ignore them, and the hushed whispers as I walked past, but it wasn't something you can just forget. It was in the moment. People were angry with me for some reason. I tried to think it through. What have I done? Showed up. So that's not it. Then, what do they think I've done?

Murder.

The world flashed across my mind in just a moment, but a moment was all I needed to nearly collapse onto my knees. How could they think that? I would never commit murder! As all these assumptions arose, I couldn't push them back away. Well, maybe they didn't think I was the one who did the killing for sure, it just looked like that way. But I couldn't stand it, all these glances.

"I never even knew the girl!" I yelled out, looking around me at all the shocked faces. My eyes blazed with anger, and a few people I shared a quick glance with were glaring right back. There was some strong people in here. But now I was just fed up with this welcoming. "I was sent here against my will! I miss my family! My mother, father, and little Ami..." As I began to read out my family, my voice was a whisper. Nobody could hear that part. I rose my voice a little once more, "All I wanted here, was some friends that could be like a whole new family. I guess not."

Now the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. I missed Rima. The whole day I hadn't seen her, or Ikuto. Not even Nagihiko. Because I had locked myself in the dorm room and thought about the murder and practiced magic all by myself. After the end of my willy-nilly spell casting day in my room, I had made an apple appear with a certain phrase, and a photo frame with two cats on it. Yeah; useless.

I sat down at the table after getting a bowl of tomato soup and some crackers. Utau wasn't here, or Rima. Today was just a lonely day. I felt evil glares burn the back of my head. There was nothing I could do to please them. Geez, I just wish I could create a tidal wave that would sweep them all out the door. Oh, right, I'm not connected enough yet. I slurped one more spoonful of soup and shot out of my chair. I was supposed to meet Ikuto and Rima in the courtyard!

My mad dash resulted in me arriving on time. But Rima shook her head in disapproval, as a joke. Although her jokes are so thickly-dipped in sarcasm it's hard to tell if they're jokes or not, sometimes. Ikuto looked bored, "Okay, you ready yet?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" I asked right back, folding my arms across my chest and leaning on one hip.

He shrugged. Ikuto pulled out his wand, and it was the first time I'd seen it yet. I noticed it was made out a dark wood, and it was entwined with strips of glowing blue. Almost like pieces of the moon was put into his wand. Wow. "Wand, please grant this girl, Amu Hinamori, with the ability to be in greater touch with her powers," and I swear I heard him whisper, "and this time in uniform." What does that mean?"

Ikuto struck his wand out at the direction of the ground and swirls of blue light struck the ground and the earth began to shake. I turned around, having a feeling that people knew this was happening, and sure enough, at the windows there were tons of eyes on me. I stuck my tongue out for a quick second. It's not like they could tell from there anyway. When I looked back at the scene, there was a black cloud of smoke that looked so out of place in the beautiful, pristine courtyard, that I longed for it to evaporate. I heard multiple people coughing from inside the cloud. To be specific, it sounded like men.

My heart began to beat like crazy. And then I saw the four of them, taller than me, by a lot. Oh, and yes, they were guys. I noticed that Ikuto was not looking pleased.

The one on the left had long bangs, his hair was the color of fire. He had eyes that look like a shade of hot pink. The guy next to him had bright blue eyes, and he looked intrigued by the situation. He was the type to observe, I could tell. Or it was like something in me already knew that. His hair was a few shades light than Ikuto's, and it was fairly short and messy. The third boy had extremely messy hair, and his hair was big. It was curly, too. Don't forget to mention it is a very dark green, almost black. His smile was very big, and his teeth were perfect and white. And last, but definitely not least, was the fourth boy. Although he seemed a lot more mature than the others. By stature and appearance. His eyes were the color of amber, and his hair was orange. I noticed his lips looked very kissable. I vigorously shook my head, I should not get attracted by this...guys! If that's what they even were!

I noticed the gray uniforms. I remembered the girl with the rainbow braid. She was probably one of these...element people as well! They didn't really have a grade, so they were just in the gray uniforms!

"Hey," the fire one said, "my name is Ran." I nodded and said hello after each of them introduced themselves. The blue one mumbled with interest, "My name is Miki..."

Trying to look nice and appealing, I smiled brightly and said, "Hello, I'm Amu Hinamori!"

The third one, the most feminine of them all, bowed a little and said with an even bigger smile than mine, "Nice to meet you. I'm Suu." Well, that's certainly a girly name for a 'boy'. When I looked at the fourth one expectantly, he didn't say his name. I had to walk up and offer my hand for him to shake it and say, "Dia."

Ikuto stepped forward, rolling his eyes, "Great. Now that you're all acquainted, it's Rima's turn." He said his piece and the black cloud appeared and disappeared. The guy in her cloud was pretty handsome as well as all four of mine. He was a strawberry blonde with bright blue eyes. He looked very human. Rima bowed to him, "And what is your specialty?"

"I'll help you embrace the comedic side of your life," he said with a big grin. Rima smiled, almost as if it was contagious, and nodded her approval. Ikuto then walked up to us and handed us each a phone. I was so giddy! It was a white iPhone, and one of the new ones. Ikuto mumbled something like, "My number is on there, text me if you need anything, first month is on me, but you need to get a job if you want to keep using it."

He also explained later, through text, that these "people" were referred to many different names. Like calling them Shugo Charas, Formers, or even just Magic People. There have been cases, apparently, where people have fallen in love with their Charas. I certainly won't end up in a mess like that. Your Charas are apparently allowed to get their own jobs so they can have a phone, and are supposed to sleep in the dorm with you. Otherwise, you have to pay an additional fee to let them sleep in the dorms for formers. I didn't have any money yet, so I just let them sleep in my room. I wasn't sure how my room mate would react.

Before I could walk into the dorm buildings, though, Ikuto stopped me, "One last thing; when you assign one or more of them to your wand, you'll know because they'll turn into little floating people. Almost like fairies." I was about to ask if fairies exist when he just turned and left. Well, whatever. I went in the building with them, and we had a quiet ride up the elevator and into the room.

My room mate was sprawled out on her bed, her arms like a zig zag, and she was dead.