Extra for a Reason

Chapter 13 | A stranger I forgot

"Terla..." "Terla..."
"Your callo.."
"Oh."
"Unknown code..."

"Terla...I'm Nick. I'm sorry, I love you."
"Ahh....,who are you again?"
"Nick... please don't play dumb. I said, "I love you." "

"Terla... who are you talking to?"
"No one?"

When Terla looked at the callo again, there was nothing on it.
She walked to her sister..., "VV, have you read this book?"
Now in her hand was a book with "Don't let me go." on its cover.

Bzzt..bzzt... "Terla, your callo."
She found her callo again in her left hand.
"Who is it?"
"Nick."
"Lol...has he decided to come crawling back now?"
"Haha...maybe?"
"Terla, hey you still have feelings for me right?"

"Terla!!"
"Ah, Mom?"

"Terla!Terla!!"
"Mmmm...?"
"Terla, it's time to wake up!!"
"Hmmmm...mommy...?"
"Yes, how lazy you are. Wake up now! Don't make your brother late!!"
"Immm, yes..."
Terla got up, looking around with her dreary eyes. She reached out to her clock and it was 7a.m.
Her vision became clearer and looked around again, her mother was already gone but she could faintly hear her grumbling at the stairs.

"Ha...ha, how funny. I was even speaking into a callo and thought it was real."

It's been a week since that night but strangely enough, nothing has happened and there was no difference from a normal day except from the fact that Adair, Eleni and Zephyr came out sometimes to "steal" her food.

She yawned and stretched herself as she got out of her bed.
She took a quick bath and put on the dress she had bought.
It was a red blouse and a skirt with red Magnolias on it.
She just did a simple half-up, braided at the front.
"Bro's potion is doing a good job, I guess." she murmured as she inspected her now acne-cleared skin in the mirror.

When she got down to the first floor,  she saw her sleepy brother and her parents.
"Son, you can still sleep a little longer. You need to be fully energized when you take the magic test."
Mother Ophelia told her son as she looked proudly at the son.
"Your mom's right. It's important for you to be in your best possible state so that you can go all out when you hit the celestial stone." Father Ophelia agreed.

She walked past the group and went straight to the kitchen to prepare herself breakfast.
Is it because of Lucas's potion or is it related to her becoming the library's master, her magic hasn't blacked out a second since that night.
She hasn't tested out all the magic types she possessed but she could freely use any magic she wished.
It's been long since she last enjoyed her abilities like this.

She was once a one in a thousand who possessed and could use multiple types of magic.
It is not uncommon to possess three or four magic types but it is rare actually to master more than one of them.
But she possessed more than nine magic types: light magic, four elemental magic, creation magic, space and time magic, electricity magic, material magic, and other magic she can't make out the nature.
Unfortunately, this fact might be what actually dragged her down. She possessed two many types and wanted to master all of them, which delayed her to practise any one of them to complete mastery and  ultimately left her in this state.

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The ceremony is being held at the ceremonial ground located in the middle of all three schools which is built into a stadium.
All the ruling families in Orton are seated at the very front of the stadium with other important authorities including the Ophelias.

However, Terla was just not there.

"Lord Ophelia, where's your daughter?" a middle-aged man beside him asked.
"As you know, Lord Arthur, teenagers these days. She might have gone to her friends." Terla's father answered, shaking his head.
"Same here. Hahaha..." Angelina's father laughed but stopped halfway sensing Lady Arthur's glare.