Magic Is Overrated

CH. 1: I Should've Stayed in Bed

"We'll he's a vampire, Julia, you couldn't have just thought that the Olive Garden across the street would have been a good date idea!"

I exited the back of the college's greenhouse and heard Margaux scoffing at Julia. Both of them have been great friends of mine since middle school. We've been through rough times as the human (dullies) world has been languid to warm up to us magicals for the past twenty years.

"I thought he would have liked the pasta sauce! It gives a good bloody look!" Julia responded.

"Did you take your "oh so hot I could die" crush Jack to Olive Garden be he might like the sauce, Julia?" I asked coming to stand in front of them. They sat on the garden's water fountain just after classes for lunch. The water fountain was a beautiful sculpture and memorial. It held a plaque that said,

"I know I did it for my fellow magicals, as Merlin did the very same for us in the beginning." - Estwood Gates.

Estwood Gates was the founder of this university just when things got out of control in the human world. Which happened to only be about twenty years ago.

"Ugh! I thought it would at least be a suggestion." Julia sulked over her binders for shapeshifting classes.

I mimicked Julia to Margaux and shook my head. "Well, it's not like he would have liked the greeter either, it's a giant garlic breadstick saying "Greetings, you may come in." I don't take him as a garlic kind of guy."

Margaux nodded and rubbed Julia's shoulder, sympathizing. Just as Julia opened her mouth to continue her sulking, Maximus strutted out of the opposite end of the university with Jack. They looked as if they were joking around, lighting their cigars with Maximus' flames that he executed from his first finger.

Although I feel that I need to explain our university. Since this university is an all-in-one school for all different types of magicals, there are different ends of the buildings for each magical. Of course, every end of the buildings is named after the magicals like "Wizards Ends", or "Demons Ends" etc. And then we have different, separate magical dorms for the bit richer magicals and of course mixed dorms for the poorer ones. Our university also holds things like a greenhouse for fairies. The gardens are for everyone, a big pale blue pond for mermaids and sirens, and a cooking store for demons and vampires. And so on. Estwood was generous for the university and other schools for the magicals so we would have a place to stay to be safe, away from the dullies. The University is protected by a forcefield that Estwood created before he died so that the construction would continue. The force field is also kept strong by the teachers and staff who mix powders that create a fierce chemical to keep the forcefield kickin'.

Margaux shook her head, "He does know that smoking on grounds is a level 1 warning. He's such an imbecile. I don't even know why you like him."

Julia's head bobbed back up after she heard the faint hint of one of her many crushes. "Is it Riley? I haven't been able to talk to him since he got his right hoof hurt." Julia followed Margaux's eyes to lead her to Maximus. Her sweet Maximus. Just a demon who's a third year in college and still somehow manages to piss off the entire staff of the college, which is around 143.

"It's weird not seeing him with his "boyfriend" Desi," Margaux added after Julia. " I heard that they got approved to go out into the human world for a few weeks to speak against Dr. Hoimelright's accusations of magicals."

"It's hard to think that we're not even liked by dullies even though we've shared this earth for centuries," I said.

Julia furrowed her brows. "But wait for El. Didn't one of the Elemental professors ask you about doing something like that in a smaller town?" And in return, I nodded.