A Different View
What's up! It's me, June, I know what a weird name. Parents got that creative. Okay here is why I am writing this. I'm an elf. I'm writing from my point of view of Sophie Foster's biggest mistakes. Haha, gotcha! I know, you're probably like, This girl is crazy, I already know all about Sophie Foster! She's the most famous elf! Yes, but what you didn't know is that I was her friend. She doesn't talk about me for this exact reason. I like to write on my own. Yes, yes I was there for almost everything. But, let's start at the very beginning, a few weeks before Sophie Foster arrived in the Lost Cities.
"Mother! I can't go to school today wearing this!" I exclaimed.
"Honey, it's your Level Two outfit! You have too!" my mom said. A Halcyon. I mean I'm dressed up as a bird, and I have to dance. This day couldn't get that much worse.
"Okay, this will last in my memories forever," My older brother, Hugh, said as he walked towards the Leapmaster.
"Hey! Get out! You don't get to see this, only for parents eyes only," As I said that time seemed to stop. My father had left us a while back. It wasn't that common in the Lost Cities, so we were considered weird. My tightly pulled back braid was tugged.
"No telekinesis! I have to leave this house," I groaned.
As I shouted Foxfire to the Leapmaster, my mom gave me a tight hug fixing my hair.
"Now, don't make a fool of yourself!" She said as I got whisked away from the light.
Since my father had left us, my mother had referred us to being perfect, not that my brother cared. He was already in the elite levels when my father had left. My uniform tomorrow was not going to have a single wrinkle. I had to stay low in order to get the judgement of Stina. Stina Heks was the meanest girl in the world. Nothing could beat her. If you weren't in her friend group and you got in a 5 foot radius of her, I'm pretty sure you would get the wrath of her words.
Lost in my own thoughts, I bumped into some older kids dressed as dragons, Level Fours.
"Sorry," I mumble as a quickly hurry away to where I needed to be.
When I look back, I realized that I had bumped into Fitz Vacker and his friend Keefe Sencen. I probably was never going to hear the end of it from their friends, and most of the school. The teal-eyed boy had an effect on every single girl. But, not me, I did not understand why most of the school's girls had a crush on him. He had just seemed like a perfect boy, Wonderboy. Yep, that's what I'm calling him now. When I got to the other Level Twos, I had no one else to look for, no one wanted to see me anyway. As the other Levels went I almost got lost in my thoughts again, till a boy bumped into me. Seriously! How much was that going to happen today?
He mumbled a "Sorry," and quickly left me in the dust. Wow, that's never happened before. Someone bumps into ME and quickly leaves. Maybe things would change this year.
When a few weeks of school had already passed, I started to get the hang of things, being alone, not that much could change. Then the news of a new prodigy came spread like wildfire throughout the school. The word spread fast and soon everybody was talking about the new girl. I mean everyone said it was a girl. I was excited that I maybe had a chance of getting a new friend.
The next few days passed so fast, that I barely noticed that one day Dex Dizznee was talking to a new girl, that I had never seen before. As I passed I saw that her eyes were, am I seeing this right? Brown.
My brain could barely believe this. I had to talk to that girl soon.
The next day, I caught her at her locker.
Looking at my feet I said, "Uh hi. I'm June,"
The girl seemed so taken back that I was talking to her.
"Uh Sophie," This conversation seemed really awkward.
"I was wondering, maybe, you would like to stop by sometime at study hall?" I asked.
"Sure," Score! I had just gotten my first hang out time with Sophie!
Later that afternoon, at study hall, I was working on Elementism.
"Hey, can I sit here?" a boy said.
"Ummm. Sure I guess," I replied. When I looked up I saw that is was Dex Dizznee and his friend, Sophie.
"Hey! Glad you could make it,``I said to her.
Then the worst happened, Fitz came over to the table. Great, I was having a great day then he's going to show Sophie what a freak I really am.
"There you are," Fitz said,"Why didn't you sit with us at lunch?"
"Jensi invited me to sit with him, and I didn't want to hurt his feelings," Sophie replied casually.
I tried to zone in on my paper and didn't hear the rest till I saw him hand her a piece of paper. Fitzy got a little note for Sophie! Fitzy? Okayy, self-conscious.
"Ooh! What does it say?" I said leaning near her.
Dex looked up at me for once and I saw his pupils go large.
"What? I guess Sophie and I are friends!" I stared at Dex. From next to Dex, Sophie looked at me and smiled. So she thought that I was her friend. Score!
Sophie didn't tell us what it said all she did was smile, again.
Dex cleared his throat.
"Oh sorry. Do you guys know each other?" she asked, putting the note away.
At the same time Fitz said "No," and Dex said "Yes,". That had to be awkward.
"Well," Sophie said trying to fill the silence. "This is Dex,"
"Nice to meet you."
"Right," Dex snorted.
I couldn't help but smile while looking at my books.
"What?"
"Nothing apparently."
Then Fitz frowned and Dex glared. I saw Sophie watch them looking at their animosity.
"I should get started on my homework," Fitz looked at Sophie, "But I just wanted to check on you. See you tomorrow?"
"Sure,"
"Oh, and uh, nice to meet you, Deck," he said quickly as he walked away,
"It's Dex," in which it sounded like a growl.
Sophie whispered something to Dex.
"Me? 'Nice to meet you Deck," he spat as he intimated Fitz's voice. I chuckled underneath my breath. They continued to talk and I tried to focus on my homework. I only caught bits of Sophie's talk with Dex. So that's why Wonderboy came over here, I thought, she stayed with them her first night here.
Towards the end of the conversation I heard Dex say, ".. I saw what you did when he smiled at you. You lit up."
"I did not!"
"Yes, you did. You were beaming."
Sophie seemed to think for a few seconds. "I wasn't beaming," she argued.
I saw a big eye roll from Dex has he said, "Girls."
Next thing was phys. ed. I did not want to be there. I did not like being active. At all. As long as I got good grades I would be fine. When Sophie entered the locker room, I stare at other people staring at her. Wishing, just wishing that I could punch them. When Sophie came out Stina talked to her and I was too far away to hear. Then I saw Marella come to her rescue, at least I hope. I went outside to the little crowd of Level Twos. I silently watched as she talked to Marella. When Sophie looked around, she didn't see me. That day we all worked on channeling. I was surprisingly good at it. I changed quickly leaving everyone in the dust. My last session was with my mentor. I had the special ability of Conjuring. Sir Rosings was my mentor. I had just recently gotten my ability. This was my second session with him. Whenever I looked at him, I just thought he had eaten some sour food. It took all of my strength not to laugh when I first see him.
"Ah, Miss Stuplings, welcome back," he said.I walked into the large room and sat down at one of the chairs.
"We are going to try to summon some things, first moving them," He pointed to a chair across the room, " Make that come to you," I stared at it, and thought of pulling it through the "void" as they would call it. I got it across the room, and I looked at Sir Rosing. He stared at me, mouth agape.
"H-How did you do that?" He asked.
"Um, I just thought of it and dragged it through the 'void' and it popped here, am I doing something wrong?" I said, wondering why he was so surprised.
"Most of, all of Conjurers, use a snap or some sort of movement to summon things to them," Sir Rosing stammered, "that means, your special June, very very special." I felt my jaw drop. I wasn't that special…
"Can you think of something else, maybe at home, that you could conjure here?" I thought of one of my books on my desk, in my room, and imagined pulling it through the void. It popped in my hands.
" You are truly extraordinary, I-" Sir Rosing was interrupted by another Mentor needing him in Universe. He rushed out and I walked out of the room, and started to walk around. I mean it's not like I could do much more. When I got interrupted by other students, I realized it was time to go home. As soon as I got home I was interrupted by my mother.
"I'm very disappointed," she said hands over her chest.
"Mother? Did I do something wrong?" I immediately started to panic.
"When did you activate an ability?" Shoot. I didn't realize that my mother had gotten a scroll.
"Uh-I-uh-" I started to panic, but held it together slowly.
"Sorry, Mother I must of forgot.I have gotten the ability of Conjuring," I held in a breath before she spoke.
"Oh, uh, Honey! That's great news, show me!" My mother seemed disappointed from the "bad" ability I got. Maybe she wanted me to be a Telepath or a Vanisher, so we could be like the Vackers. I concentrated hard pretending to do a lot of concentration. Almost breaking a sweat from scrunching my head so long, I clapped my hands very loudly. A pen appeared in my hands.
"Oh, Honey that…was really bad, because in order for you to get an A in this new session, you need to try extra hard.
I held a sigh as I said, "Okay," and walked upstairs
This was going to be a long night.
The next day passed quickly and I don't remember that much. The day after that was a little bit better. I heard the news that Sophie had blown up Lady Galvins cape. I burst out laughing. When I saw Sophie in the halls, I congratulated her on doing an amazing job in school, and said to see her later.
It was Thursday and that meant it was phys. ed. When the mentors strode into the room Sir Caton said,
"Who's ready for the Ultimate Splotching Championship?" I cheered loudly. It was with telekinesis, I thought I was pretty good. The first person I went up against looked like she was about to cry.
"Everyone on your marks, on your marks, " Sir Caton said, "Get set," I was handed a pink splotcher. I balanced with my telekinesis.
"Splotch!" The girl I was against didn't even try, she ran away crying. I moved up to the winners. I saw Sophie with the winners. And no wonder, Wonderboy, was in the winners too. He won every time. Everyone was getting really sick of little Fitzy winning.
I was so lost in my own thoughts that when I heard the words, "Splotch" I almost lost. Barely, just barely, I won. I didn't know how much longer I could take with me trailing around in thoughts like this. Sophie and I kept going up in the ranks. By the time I was full locked on it, I realized that I was in the top nine. I got distracted and I got splattered in a pink splotcher. When I looked back Sophie was in the last match. Up against Fitz yes, Sophie was against Fitz Vacker. I'm pretty sure I shouted the loudest when the mentor said "Splotch". It was like watching them get thrown back from power. Wait! I rubbed the pink splotch out of my eyes just in time to see both of them hit the wall. I'm pretty sure I ran to Sophie and checked her pulse. I was sooo overreacting.
"Everybody move please, we have to get her to Elwin," I ran in front of the Mentors quicker than every to the Healing Center. Channeling my energy to sprint across the courtyard to Elwin.I would not be heading back to the session until I knew that Sophie was okay. I burst in quietly and slid into a shadowy corner.
They put Sophie on the cot, along with Fitz. Elwin rushed in from his office
"What happened!?" he was taking this very calmly.
"Elwin it was just a bad splotching match," said Sir Caron calmy.
"Okay.. out, Out! I need to treat my patients," I stayed in the shadows of the corner waiting till he actually started flashing orbs around them.
"Is Sophie okay?" I asked stepping out of the shadows.
"OH-my, my, we got a little stowaway," he replied.
"First, I am not a stowaway. This is not a boat. Second, answer my question!" I said going next to Sophie.
"She is fine if you would like to know, just hit her head a little to hard. But now I got my own question. How long were you standing there?" Elwin asked.
"I've been standing there since Sophie first came in, and a little bit longer in order to stay hidden from the Mentors," I replied, heading for the door.
"Are you a Vanisher?"
"Nope, Conjurerer,"
"You are very good at hiding Miss Stupling,"
"H-How-?"
"I know a new patient when I see one,"
As I exited the Healing Center I wondered what he meant.
When I got back to the session, no one noticed me, they seemed to think, well this isn't Sophie Foster so, it's not anybody. I slunk into the back of the crowd. After a few agonizing minutes, Fitz and Sophie entered the room. Keefe, Biana, Dex and Marella rushed towards them congratulating on the win for Sophie Foster.
The next day Dame Alina said that we were four weeks away from midterms. Midterms were a huge thing in my family, considering that we have to be perfect!
Walking through the halls, I saw Dex and Marella, talking to Sophie about Prattles pin. I decided to stop by.
"You don't have any Prattles pins?" I heard Marella ask.
I stood next to them, eyes wide too. Sophie stared at her feet.
"I think Sophie should have it," Dex said placing the pin in Sophie's hand.
Marella snorted and said, "Of course you do,"
"What? She needs to start her collection,"
"Whatever you say,"
I saw Dex blush as Sophie said, "What's the number mean?"
"There's one pin for every creature on the planet-that we know of. Right now there are only one hundred and eighty-five unicorns-so that pin is super rare," I heard a lot of bitterness in Marella's voice as she said that.
"Hey, Soph, it's cool you started you collection!" I interrupted. Dex and Marella turned to look at me. I pretended not to notice when I muttered, "Oh no," under my breath.
"Hey, Sophie?" Biana said behind Sophie, "Can I talk to you?"
"Uh, sure," Sophie said. Biana glanced at us,
"Can we go somewhere more private?"
As Sophie left I turned towards Dex and Marella and said, "I'm June, I met Sophie on her first day here,"
"Oh! That makes a lot more sense," said Dex.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Marella," I focused on her braids, and replied, "Nice to meet you too,"
"I wonder what Biana needs Sophie for," Dex interrupted.
"I was wondering the same thing,"
"Is she going to get Sophie to switch over to the dark side?" I said teasingly. I had barely known them for five minutes and it felt like we were all best friends.
"Ooooo. I think your right!" Marella said back. We burst out laughing.
"Look Biana's done talking to her!" Dex rushed over to Sophie.
"Are you going to tell us what that was all about?" Dex said to Sophie. We were right behind him.
"She invited me to come over to school today,"
"What?" we all said.
"She said she wanted to be friends,"
"Why?" all three of us were clueless.
"She didn't say," Sophie said as she shrugged.
"Please tell me you told her to go sniff a gulon," Dex whined.
I saw Sophie look down, and I groaned.
"Aw, come on!"
"I didn't know what else to say,"
"You could of told her she's a stuck-up snob and you don't want to be her friend," Marella argued.
"Yeah! I mean come on Sophie!" I said.
"Look, I know you guys aren't going to like this, but my life would be a lot easier if Biana and I got along. If it doesn't work out, then I wasted one afternoon of my life. So what?" Sophie said.
"How do you know this isn't a trap?" Marella said, "Invited you over, then humiliate you. You could be walking into an ambush."
"I agree, Sophie this is dangerous stuff," I added.
"That's not what this is,"
"What? You think she isn't capable?" Dex asked.
"No, but she would never do it at her house. Not with Fitz there either,"
I groaned.
"Right, I forgot you and Wonderboy are friends," Dex said.
"You use that-" I stopped myself. That was a conversation after this one.
Sophie sighed. "Aren't you guys the teeniest bit curious what she's up too?"
I looked at Dex and Marella as they looked at me.
"I want details later," Marella said.
"And you better not leave anything out," Dex said.
"Be safe Sophie!" I added as we went our separate ways.