Be my Jewel (Lady Lesso x OC)

the School for Good and Evil

I gave myself a few minutes to think. I'm sure that if I don't have any answers about this place and this room where I am, it's going to drive me insane.

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Still lost and in lack of answers, I walked around the room for ten minutes, I searched, and looked for potential clues in this place, but found nothing. It was so dark; however, the room was beautiful with the black and red four-poster bed and the many candles all around the bedroom I felt like I was a princess "A very dark princess" I said to myself. Even if I'm not used to living in the darkness it was very cozy and I was better here than in my own house.

Then I started getting impatient, staying here will have the death of me so I decided to check if the door was closed, it wasn't, so I thought that seeing this place, especially the castle up close would be for the best, I left the room and explored the many corridors of the castle, a real labyrinth, the walls as I advanced were darker it's as if even a little bit of light would be useless, the more time passed, the more lost I felt. Between corridors and stairs, my head was spinning but finally, after descending what seemed to be nearly 1000 stairs, I stopped at a junction of two corridors, so I took the one on the right and ended up entering a long and wide corridor, possibly the main one in the castle.

There were candles hanging on the wall, providing some illumination in this dark place. This corridor led to a stone bridge, which in turn led to the other brightly lit castle. It was also very odd that I met nobody during my little "trip" maybe this place is abandoned or something, advancing on the bridge a strange feeling grew inside of me as if I was being observed by something or someone. As I reached the tower, a tall and majestic tower in the middle of the bridge I heard a little whisper and I directly turned my head at the noise.

I was surprised to see an old man at the entrance of the tower, he had glasses and he was bald, he looked like a monk with his long blue dress.

"Hello" was the first word that came out of his mouth "Who are you? Do I know you ?" I replied defensively, I wasn't able to say if I was in a dream or not, but everything seemed so real "Oh you don't know me yet, Aurore" "How do you know my name ?" "I just know it" "You didn't answer my question, who are you ?" "Climb up the tower and I'll tell you, Miss Aurore, I will tell you everything you want to know" "How can I trust you? And I don't need your explanations by the way, I can ask someone else" "Do you see someone else out there who can help you ?" he said sarcastically and he was right the only thing that was around was the wind moreover if it's a dream what can I risk? "And how am I supposed to do this exactly?" "Take the stairs" he said with a calm tone "Which stairs?!" I said angrily "Just in front of you" "he must be kidding me" "There are no stairs !!" he then looked at me with a look that means 'yes there are, follow your instinct' "I swear if I fall..."

I cautiously placed my foot in the void, not trusting him at all but suddenly a sort of mist appeared and supported my weight then I climbed my little Everest, and I finally reached the height of the man "Follow me" was all he said without even look at me "I don't know how he can be this calm..."

I followed him into what looked like a huge library, so many different books were exposed on the shelves, and at the back of the room something caught my eye it was a big quill that was moving by itself writing something on a book that was magically attached to it. We stopped in the middle of the library, where he told me to make myself comfortable on the couch "So ummmh where am I exactly? I swear I already don't trust you, so if you don't answer me..." I was the first one to initiate the conversation while waiting for answers that I was dying to know.

"You are in the school for good and evil dear" "The what?" "The School for Good and Evil, you don't know what it is ?" "No..." I took a confused look and he answered me right away "This school, our school is a magical institution where students are trained to become either fairy tale heroes or villains, we teach children the principles and skills necessary for their respective roles in classic fairy tales, every child at the school comes from a prestigious lineage" he explained "Our school ?" "Oh yes, I'm not alone here as you could believe there are many teachers who are teaching their subjects to the different sides, different fantastic animals, and also each school is headed by their respective deans, who oversee the education and activities of the students" "Omg I think I really to wake up that's too much to handle" I started pinching my arm "Because you think it's a dream ?" I looked at him in total shock "It is not ?" "No ahah" he chuckles

"You are here because you wanted to, finding a new goal and getting out of your boring reality wasn't that what you wanted ?" "Yes but..." "You can be very useful here Miss Aurore, you arrived at the beginning of this school year, but you will find your purpose" "What purpose" I asked him "You have been assigned the role of a communication professor between the schools, you'll have one class on the evil side and another one on the good and you will manage the communication between the two schools through the deans" I took a few minutes to think about what he just said, that's quite a lot to process "I'm sure you'll be good here, with us you don't need to worry in any way" he added "Yeah, yeah thank you... But you keep talking about the deans, where can I meet them? If one day I find myself lost you know" "You'll meet them when the time comes, for now, you can go back to your room and unpack your suitcases" "My suitcases- What do you mean" I look at him in disbelief "Yes you heard me, everything has already been brought" he said and I was left speechless. We stood up, and as I started to leave without any other questions, he added "Oh, and don't forget about the dinner in a few hours" As I reached the cloudy stairs. "Oh yeah because I hadn't realized it was getting so late"

I tried to find my room in the many hallways for the next thirty minutes and hopefully, I found it. Afterward, I cleaned the room and tidied up my belongings, including my clothes, my real ones were indeed there "I have no idea how they did that" so I put them in the wardrobe, which kept me occupied for a good hour until I left the room for dinner. I stopped dead in my tracks "But wait I don't know where it is..." and I put my hand on my temple "Oh gosh I could have asked him !"

I finally decided to search for it on my own, I explored every corridor, climbed every staircase, and peered into each room but they were all empty.
Suddenly, at the intersection of two corridors, I collided forcefully with someone and fell to the ground. I started to get angry, especially because the person who bumped into me didn't apologize, I was still on the ground, I turned my face to confront this person and I yelled "Watch out !!" I said angrily, once my head turned, all I could see was a tall redhead woman wearing a suit, the woman looked very intimidating and serious especially now that she heard what I said, she turned towards me in response and declared "You'd better watch who you're talking to" "Is it me who you're talking about ?" she is really getting on my nerves right now even though I don't know who she is.

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