tricky. I'm never good at writing magic incantations."
"It wasn't bad," I admitted. "The magic incantations are supposed to just come to you, right?"
I personally was asking because that's how it felt throughout the exam. When questioned to write out the details of a spell, I merely let my mind work its magic and the words practically spilled onto the page without a second glance.
"Yes. It's a little more difficult to write it out seeing as the spell is supposed to be chanted out, but the intention of the words flows out first, before the magic language that triggers the spell," she explained. "I think next semester we're learning how to shorten the spells."
"Shorten?" I curiously questioned.
"Yup. It's when there's no sentence that explains your intention. The spell just comes right out and activates. We're obviously only learning the basics."
"Ah." I bobbed my head in understanding, feeling as though eyes were on me. Scanning the crowd around me, I fought my urge to frown when I noticed Eliza and Rick heading our way.
Oh no.
As if sensing my stiffness, Clara followed my gaze as she moved to stand next to me.
"What do two of the flaming horsemen want after our strenuous midterm?" Clara questioned, the hardness in her voice giving strong 'back off' signals.
Eliza's fake grin could win her an award in acting as she flicked her hair blonde locks that she'd recently highlighted with red and hugged Rick's arm.
"Oh nothing," Eliza sang. "We figured standing here to wait for the results would be better since it's closer to the entrance."
"Could have stood over there." Clara pointed to the doors where there was a clear empty spot. "Or there, or even there. That's a nice spacious spot right down there."
Rick smirked, his eyes clearly on me.
"So where're your boyfriends, Blazing Alice?" he inquired, his dramatic inquiry having a few students glance our way.
I kept my cool. His emphasis on the word “boyfriends” was one of the lies he'd been spreading throughout the school since word got out that I was dorming with three guys.
I'd thought it was a normal thing, but Clara enlightened me with the standard rules of two girls and two guys per dorm. If the numbers were uneven, they made sure that the dorms were either made into all boys or all girls, and if there were less than four individuals, they made do with it.
Meaning I was the lucky blazing duckling that got to share my dorm with three sexy freshmen.
I'd been ignoring it, but Gabriel, Westley, and Keru were extremely popular. It's not like they were trying to be. All they did was act like their usual selves, which ended up bringing all the girls to crowd around our classroom and squeal at their arrival like they were the next boy band.
Due to their rapid spike in popularity, the rumors circulating that we were dating began to make it harder for me to have female friends.
Half the time I was getting dirty glares while they whispered insults regarding my body. It was the usual bitterness, so it was the least of my worries.
No one needed friends that brought other women down.
Westley and I weren't really hiding the fact that we were dating, but we'd both tried not to show too much affection to one another during school hours.
I'm sure if we did, I'd be getting cornered or deal with more hate then I'd like to be bothered with.
Keeping to my selective few was what helped me be able to focus and grow so much in the last six weeks. I didn't have time for jealous Rick to ruin that.
Still don't get why he's apparently jealous of me when he hates my guts.
Deciding it was about time I played along with his silly game, I shrugged.
"They just finished their exam, so..." I shrugged. "Why is it your business, Rick? I'm sure you and your horsemen crew have other things to focus on than on my dating life?"
His surprised expression made me grin, while Clara patted my shoulder.
"Must be nice to be dating three sexy guys. Each of them is a different flame trait, too." Clara was clearly hopping on the dramatic train, and I guess we were going to roll right on with this apparent three boyfriends lie.
I'll warn the guys about it later.
"It's nice," I agreed, wearing a pride-filled smile as I continued praising them. "Gabriel is so hot. He's like the whole package. Plus, he's the perfect teacher in all things. You have a question, he's