I forgot my umbrella, again. I look towards the gray sky and feel the light drizzle on my nose. I can’t help but chuckle at my forgetfulness but what else is new. I look to the other side of the street to see the smiles of my high school classmates. Even the rain can’t dim their mood. I’ll admire them for that. But only that. Nao: “There are only 2 things that could put a smile like that on my face.”I pick up the pace to my destination before the heavy rain catches me and wets my reward for survival. It takes longer than I would like but I make it to my local bookstore in time. I push open the doors and breath deep the smell of fresh new books. The only reprieve in the town for people like me. I scan the area to see only a handful of people reading or at least pretending to.Nao: “The few that are.”But that’s fine, more worlds to escape to for me. I pace around the fiction section, scanning everything hidden gem and catching titles. But none of them really pop outNao: “I need so

I wake up and start to think that everything yesterday was a dream. But the slight headache and necklace assures me that things are going to get better.Nao: “It wasn’t a dream…I’m….not useless anymore.”I breathe a sigh of relieve and get dressed for new day. I place my school books in my bag and get ready for school. Through my door and then down stairs. Nao: “See you mom, I’ll eat school breakfast today.”Nell: “Wait.”I stop at the front and turn back around to see mom still making food in the kitchen.Nell: “Can you check on Alyson? She’s usually up early, I hope everything is alright.”Nao: “…Okay mom, I’m sure the bit-”Nao: “-The angel is alright.”Nell: “Thank you.”I go back upstairs and knock on Alyson’s equally plain door. Nao: “Alyson!”……Nao: “Fine, I’m coming in! I don’t want to be here longer than I have to.”I open the door with a quiet creak and witness this pristine room. I always blown away by how empty this place. Aside from dolls, a bed and work related mate

Today is the day! I wake up with a bright smile but that’s quickly turned upside by the pain.Nao: “Wholly crap!”My entire body is on fire and my head is pounding. Nao: “Arc?”Arc: “That happens when you put a lot of points into your stats. You’ll get used to it.”Nao: “It was only 4!”Arc: “4 is a lot when forcing the body to permanently improve. Imprinting the shapeshift spell onto your mind worsens the situation.” My smile returns with the thought that I can change my body freely now. I hurry to swap out acid blast for shape shift. Nao: “So, how do I do it.”Arc: “This is your first time so don’t go straight to 6 feet or make drastic changes.”Nao: “Don’t worry, I still need to live here. I can’t explain rapid changes to my mom. I’ll craft my body into a greek god over months and blame my workouts and growth spurts.”Arc: “Alright, just think about how you would like your body to change.”I close my eyes and think of a less pudgy face, a nice chin and one-inch height growth. 5’

Shock and bewilderment all around. I knew this would-Mat: “Cool!”Tallow: “I can’t believe magic actually exists.”Velo: “What kind of spells can you do?”Anthony: “…”Nao: “Slow down, I’ll explain how this happened.”So I did and they listened with bated breath. They hung on my every word like I was really someone special. Ha, I guess I am. But I did leave out what happened with Anton and kept to the story I told Sever. After I finished explaining there was a period of silence and contemplation. I starting to get nervous again, say something.Anthony: “I get the gist. I’m glad to hear you got this only a few days ago. If you had this power for months didn’t do anything...”Anthony: “Anyway, I understand why you hid it until you got stronger.” Tallow: “But it’s a bit disappointed the loser hero we thought beat the bullies against all odds used OP magic.”Velo: “Man, some people are just…lucky.”Mat: “Yeah, this is cool and all but why even show us? I feel…even more pathetic.”No, N

Alyson: “Alphon, nice name.”Nao: “Not as good as Alyson but I do like how our names begin and end the same way.”Alyson: “Sounds like you believe in destiny.”Nao: “Not fully, but I understand some things are set in stone. Few things are in our control.”Alyson: “You have a good head on your shoulders.”Alyson: (Nice to know I’m not the only one who thinks like this.)Nao: “So what do you do for fun around here?”Alyson: “I don’t really do fun.”Nao: “Come on, we’re young. If not now then when?”Alyson: (Don’t tell me he’s a party junky.)Nao: “As long as it’s not parties or loud noise I’m fine.”Alyson: (Dodged a bullet there pal.)Alyson: “So what kind of fun are you looking for?”Nao: “Some place I can relax with someone interesting. Up for it.”Alsyon: “When you put it like that, I do have some areas in mind. I haven’t…really been before but there’s a first for everything.”Alyson: (I’ve been letting Nao get into my head too much. I guess I do need a break and this guy seems cool