I heard them. Every time I heard them banging on my door. I had cried myself to exhaustion. Guilt overrode my senses. I should have stay with Grandma. Instead, I had let her talk me into taking the exam. My room lay in shambles. I had ransacked it two days ago in a rage. I sat in a pile of dirty clothes. My hair greasy from having not washed.
Nik had returned one day and stood outside my door for a while. I glared at door. My eyes burrowing a hole through the door to the girl I had loved most of my life. I looked at my surroundings. I was being weak. I couldn't be there for her in the state I sat in. Shadows clouded my vision as fury at myself for failing closed in. I had to be stronger. Better. I stood up and began cleaning. The shadows never leaving my vision.
YOU ARE READING
The Crystal Trials
FantasySalvare University looms above its city as a sanctuary for those gifted with magic. The University is renowned for pouring out students that encounter immediate success and wealth in the world. Those that have earned their robes are respected as lea...
