It was almost hard to believe that it was normal here to be so close to your family when mine abandoned me. I guess we weren’t much of a family to begin with since I wasn’t Lynn’s daughter. “You should keep me updated on how things go.” “I will,” Arma agreed. Princess Hannah was walking down the hall in our direction. She had a girl with her. “Aqua, are you busy?” She stopped walking when she got to me to ask. I shook my head. “No, not at all.”  “Aqua this is Lydia. Lydia, this is Aqua, our adviser’s daughter.” She introduced us. I smiled. “It’s nice to meet you, Lydia.” Lydia looked confused to why we were being introduced and so was I. “It’s nice to meet you too…” She was the shy type. She grabbed Hannah's arm and didn’t say anything else. “That’s all.” Hannah walked off with Lydia. I didn’t really know Hannah, so I assumed she some kind of ulterior motive to introducing me to her friend. I didn’t have a good feeling abo

I didn’t have a relationship with Konn before, so I didn’t have the same feelings as they did. “It was like a normal lesson,” I answered while staring down at the paperwork. “I think I upset him.” It was better for me to open up instead of what I was doing before. Cade was my older brother so I felt like I should get advice rom him and to do that I have to open up Cade stopped writing and looked at me. “What do you mean? He’s not very expressive of how he feels, maybe you misunderstood.” I read through the first document then spoke. “I think I’m stressing him out by being here. He said things were hard and that we all were trying to adjust.” I put my elbow on the desk and rest my head in my hand. “Things would be easier if you or Gray were the holder instead of me. Then Konn never would have had to come get me.” Cade scoffed. “You really would want that? Obviously, things are going to be difficult at first Aqua. You’ve been here for less than a month. Out of

I waved to Cade when I saw him with his family. They walked to us, but Lynn looked annoyed. “Hey Aqua, Lexus, where's your dates?” Cade asked.“There was an emergency, so Calvin and Sadia had to leave. Sadia sent me a text letting me know everything is fine but I’m not sure when they’re going to be headed back. They might miss the fireworks. We decided to wait for them together.”“I hope you guys are enjoying yourselves,” Konn said. I was since I was here with Lexus.Vella was with them and she looked annoyed too. “Yeah, I hope so too.” She was bitter in tone. She must have still suspected something was going on. I wished I could spend the rest of the festival with them. “Thanks, I hope you guys enjoy yourselves too.” I watched Gray pull on Konn’s sweater. “Dad, come on, I wanna play that game.” I wish I could play with my younger brother but I couldn&rsqu

We walked Lexus the rest of the way to his next class and Cade walked me to mine. I had to do a lot of meditating in the class that trained my abilities. My teacher was the castle’s Oracle. He knew a lot from experience and some of our abilities were similar. After I walked with Lexus to his last class. I had met up with Konn for my last class. “I heard you overslept.” Konn said. I chuckled nervously. “Yeah, the festival made me exhausted. It won’t happen again, I promise.” That was the only question he gave me about this morning. I wanted him to know I took this job seriously, so I needed to make sure this didn’t happen again. It could have easily been Konn finding out instead of Cade. He started our lesson and he spoke a lot more than yesterday. I thought a lot about last night because I hadn’t exactly processed the fact that me and Lexus had sex for the first time. So much happened earlier this morning that I didn’t get to really think about it. My

I stared at the picture as Tay continued to talk about it. “There aren’t very many pictures of her, and I’ve never met her but Mom has talked about her. Apparently, she disappeared like twenty years ago. A lot of people thought she was crazy. She’d draw… dragons a lot.” “Lexus my mother’s name is Mae. Are there any other pictures of her Tay?” I asked. Tay rolled her eyes. “I’m obviously emotional, you can’t tell me you’re a mythical creature, show me proof and then ask me for pictures. God where is your human decency? Oh you’re not human, that explains it.” She rambled as she walked to the bookshelf and grabbed a scrapbook. She opened it and showed me a page with pictures of her mom and Mae.  “Wow.” My dreams of the future were blurry, but this was definitely how she looked. “I think that’s her; I think that’s my mother.” I looked at Lexus. “Now that I know her name and how she looks I can find her.” I took a picture out of the scrapbook. The one I took