Archer

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My name is Archer Young. I am 11 years old, and a Year 7 at Eastwood Private Grammar School for Wizards. Here we study the core subjects of Maths and English, as well as other magical themes subjects like herbalism or incantations. Anyway, on to the story.

I left Hercules Primary School of Magic in July. In June we were sent letters, assigning us to our forms in secondary. Out of the about 50 kids in my year in primary, only 3 were coming to Eastwood. That was me, my twin sister Navy, and Reef Holland. Our luck we were all in the same form, 7 Gold. On the train, we sat together, not knowing anyone else. A girl came over to us and asked if she could sit with us. "Finally," Navy exclaimed. "Some female representation!" Reef and I burst out laughing at this, and I just did a thumbs up to show that the girl could sit with us. We told her our names, and she told us hers was Clover. She was in our form and told us what she knows about the school. Her brother Thorn came to Eastwood, but he was in college now. Reef and I were water-graffitiing the tables while Clover and Navy talked. I was writing 'Wenomechainsama' when I heard Clover say my name. I hadn't been paying attention, but this is what I heard.

"-Archer related?"

"Yeah, we're twins, how'd you know?"

"You two look almost identical, like Archer is you're gender bend or you're Archer's gender bend. Why did your parents name your brother something so obscure but you something more normal?"

At this point I just got distracted and finished writing 'Wenomechainsama', so nobody noticed I was eavesdropping.

When we arrived at the nearest station to the school, we had to get coaches to the actual school itself. We were in the coaches for about an hour, and it was 8pm when we got there so that means we were in the train for 5 hours. We entered the dormitories, where there were banners, each in the different form colours for each dorm room. We were taken in to the 7G form common room, which had a gold door, and inside the walls were coated in yellow and black. There were two doors at the back, both black, that led into the bedrooms, there was 144 kids in the year, 36 in each form, and because the genders were spread out evenly, that's 18 beds in the boys and 18 beds in the girls' rooms. Each room was split into 3, with 6 beds per section. Reef and I entered, and at once went to the left section, and claimed beds next to each other. I put my suitcase on top of my bed and started unpacking. I saw Reef take out a picture and put it on his bedside table. It was a photo of him, a year ago, with an older girl, who was maybe 13. "Who's that?" I asked him. Reef looked at the picture and frowned. "It was a picture I took with my older cousin Ivy, in August, just a few hours before they..." Reef looked like he was about to cry, so I stopped him. I could infer from this that Ivy wasn't alive anymore. I finished unpacking my things and started reading Mag 'n' cheese. It's literally just a children's book about magical macaroni and cheese, but it's so good. The author, Rhys King, had signed it for me, and it was a first edition, so I'd say it's rare. At 10pm it was lights out, and all of us went to sleep. I couldn't sleep, so I got out my Nintendo switch and opened among us. The boy on my other side was on his phone, I'm not sure what he was doing though. All the other 16 boys were asleep though.

The other boy, I saw he was playing among us. I looked at the code for the game he was in. DHDRQG. I typed it in and got into the game. The boy was the only one in this game so far, so he typed 'Hi' into the chat. His name was set as 'Nike air' and he was rose coloured. My name was just set as APY, and I was grey. I typed "Hi" back into the chat and then Nike air looked up from his screen. I smiled and he mouthed to me 'Are you playing among us?' I nodded back as a response, and he came over and sat with me. By this point another 7 people had joined, so we didn't need too many more people to join. After he started the game, Nike air was going back to his bed, so we didn't know each other's roles, but then he turned around. We had both been assigned impostor. We stayed up all night playing among us with each other. I killed him a few times, he killed me a few times. We told each other our real names and became friends. His name is Jet, by the way.