Chapter Four: D's diary
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"Attention ladies! Your headmistress Griffin is coming" a Cloud tower professor shouted as the students took their places around the long columns of dark emerald seats.
The headmistress sat down on her black throne in the center of the auditorium.
She was wearing a floor length burgundy dress with a huge collared neck that went far past the top of her head. Purple eye shadow sat on and underneath her eyelids and she wore dark purple shoes.
Students upon students were sitting down chatting amongst themselves.
Some were sitting quietly and looking rather bored, wishing that the others would shut up.
There was one witch in particular that was the loudest. She was cracking jokes here and there and making her peers cackle.
She had short burgundy hair with braids connecting at the back of her head.
The headmistress cleared her throat, as if telling the girls to quite down. But the girl wouldn't be quite. Her cackle was radiating through the hall, and Miss Griffin's eyes darted over to the burgundy haired girl.
"Um...excuse me" a witch behind her tapped her shoulder.
"Can you shut up? Miss G is trying to speak". She said whilst flipping her dark brown hair.
The witch glared at her but shut up. She knew not to cause a scene on her first day.
"Now students. If you would all be quite" she sneered "I could start with introductions."
A group of professors walked in from behind her throne.
"These are your professors for your duration at Cloud tower. You will get to know them over the course of your stay here."
The professors each said their names and what they teach.
"Now. That's it for introductions. I trust that you will behave." She clapped her hands. "Go to your dorms. Classes start tomorrow 8pm sharp. You don't want to find out what happens if you're late."
Miss Griffin snapped her fingers and disappeared, leaving the girls to find their way around the castle themselves.
The brunette quickly bounded down the steps and walked over to a dark green door labelled 'dormitories'.
As she walked to her dorm she smiled. Paintings of past witches and dark wizards covered the walls. She recognized some of them.
The brunette came to halt when she spotted her name encrusted on a black door.
She opened it and walked in.
3 beds were placed in a row at the center of the room.
A girl with burgundy hair was sitting on the bed on the far left facing the other way.
"Oh, hi!" The brunette exclaimed. The red head turned around and frowned "Oh it's you" she sneered after realizing who it was.
They hadn't got off on a good start earlier in the auditorium.
"Look. We might as well be nice to each other since we're going to be spending a lot of time together." The brunette said.
The redhead sneered and shrugged. "Fine. My names Onyx."
"And my names Garnett"
They smiled, unpacked their suitcases and chatted for the rest of the night before falling asleep.
Garnett lay awake, listening to the creeks that the windows made as the wind passed.
"Urgh" she mumbled. She couldn't sleep. Garnett rolled over and looked at the alarm clock on her bedside table. 3:04am.
She grumbled once more and lifted herself off the bed, throwing her bed sheets across the 3rd empty bed next to hers. She wondered why they were given a three person dorm room when there was only her and onyx.
Who cares she thought while shrugging and making her way over to the window. She wearily looked upwards at the moon and sighed. She loved the moon. It's so beautiful and magical...and dark she thought. Like herself in a way.
She'd always liked the night sky, ever since she was a child.
She'd been through many foster homes as a child and the only thing that stayed constant in her life was the moon and the night sky.
She had never met her mother or father. She just assumed that they were dead. Garnett didn't care for them much, but has always wanted to find out who they were.
It was like being a detective. Which she thought was rather hysterical.
She sighed nervously, shut the blinds and wandered over to her bed yet again. This time she knew she'd fall asleep.
"Wake up!" Onyx yelled over Garnett's sleeping body
"Remember what Griselda said if your late!"
Garnett mumbled and rolled over to look at the time.
"Oh crap!" She squirmed to get up, throwing bed sheets all over the floor.
"You only have 10 minutes to get ready, so be quick; I'm not waiting any longer than 10"
Garnett rushed to her closet and pulled out the first thing she could get her hands on, a short purple dress.
"Urgh this will have to do"
She said while pulling the dress over her head and slipping on her favourite black doc martins.
She slicked her hair back into a bun, applied a coat of mascara and ran through the door.
"C'mon Onyx!" She yelled as she pulled Onyx's hand through the door and down the hallway.
"Wait, what class do we have today" she asked slowing down.
"Garnett. Are you serious? The schedule was on the closet door." She cackled "are you blind"
"Well I was rushing. Where are we supposed to go?"
Onyx shrugged "well I have potions class with Professor Alabaster. I didn't check your schedule. Maybe you're in the library."
Garnett groaned, turned around and headed for the library.
She stopped outside of the library doors and peeked in. There were a few students in there that she could see. Even if my class isn't in here I can still look for my books she thought.
Garnett opened the library doors and tiptoed over to the books podium where she could order a book and it would appear in front of her.
"Potions class vol 1" she muttered.
A grey boring looking book with a cauldron on the front of it appeared in front of her. She opened its contents and looked through it.
"This is exactly what I need for the class"
She looked over the names written on the first page of the book. They were all the past owners.
"Mirta, Agatha...Darcy..."
The last name stuck in her head. Darcy...now where did she recognize that name.
She put the potions book onto the table next to her and placed her hands back on the book podium.
"Darcy" she said. Nothing happened.
She shrugged and tried again. This time loud enough that the librarian glared at her from across the room.
The podium shuddered. A few books came from the far corner of the library. The corner that nobody ventured into.
3 books were neatly placed on the podium. She sighed. None were what she was looking for. As she moved the books to put them away she noticed a note sticking out from underneath one of the books.
She opened the book the book on the note.
It read 'D's Diary: section 1.01'.
"Hhmm. Maybe I should try that in the library's directory."
She repeated the name and just as she expected a huge leather book landed on the podium.
She gazed at the book. She could tell it was at least 10 years old. Maybe even more. The leather binding was intricate and a long red velvet page keeper was set in the book.
She opened it to the first page and gasped.
'Dear diary...' It read.
"This was...Darcy's diary" she shuddered and grinned.
The brunette checked the potions book out and when back to her dorm room, excited to read the contents of her new book.
When she got back to her dorm room she immediately opened the book and started reading. She was intrigued by Darcy's diary. It was full of excitement.
A few hours had past and she was still reading the book. She must have missed a few classes since the day had started but she didn't care.
The room door opened and Onyx came rushing back in. "So how were your classes" she chimed.
"Oh...they were great "Garnett replied, uninterested.
"You didn't go did you?" Garnett shook her head.
"No but I found this cool diary. It belonged to Darcy, a former witch"
"Hey let me see that" Onyx said as she reached for the diary and plonked onto her bed. She laughed and flipped all the way to the last page.
"Hey Garnett, your last name isn't Hartley is it..."
Garnett shrugged. "I've had many last names. For each foster family I've had a different one." She got up and sat next to Onyx.
"Now that I think about it though...Hartley is my last name. My REAL last name"
She sighed, "They're hard to keep up with after a while"
Onyx was silent. She looked over at Garnett and placed the diary onto her lap.
"Read the last page. Or the last paragraph"
Garnett sat still and read.
With every word she processed she felt a little sicker. Beads of sweat fell from her forehead and her throat chocked up. She couldn't breathe.
"Garnett...I think Darcy... Is your mother"