"Now hold still Rickie dear, I'm still fixing up your outrageous hair." Odalia sternly tells her youngest son while harshly brushing his hair.
"It's perfectly fine! You're going to pull my hairs out at this rate! And would you stop with that nickname!" Alaric spat out, losing his patience when urging his mother to stop manhandling his hair.
"Don't you dare respond to me in that tone," Odalia expresses her displeasure to her son's attitude when putting down the hairbrush she held, "go get your things before heading off to school then."
Alaric does not waste a second to hop off the seat he was on and rushed off to grab his satchel that held his Crystal Ball. The item was of higher quality than the common ones most citizens of the Boiling Isles possessed. The top-notch Crystal Ball Alaric has was a gift given to him from none other than Odalia herself.
Alaric rushes to the front door while Odalia follows behind him in an unrushed pace. When Alaric makes it past the threshold of the entrance door, Odalia comes to a stop and stands at the threshold; looking over at her two youngest children.
"Don't forget to present yourself accordingly and not tarnish the family's name while at it; you are apart of a very affluent and prestige family after all. You know the drill, don't disappoint me." Odalia sorely reminds Amity and Alaric before shutting the front door.
"You heard that Mittens? You better not mess up, especially today." Alaric taunts his sister with a wicked smile when sauntering off.
Amity only glares at her younger brother before climbing up a wooden wagon carrying a large clay and sitting on it - using magic to wheel the wagon forward and soon catching up with her younger brother.
Now thinking about it, Amity was curious on what her younger brother could be insinuating. She knew by the face Alaric made with his sudden upbeat demeanor replacing his usual fractious one every morning (well... 24/7 at this point), was suspicious and he knew of something most likely involving her getting into some inconvenience or conflict.
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Alaric and Amity follow along their daily route to school. Amity silently reading through a book with Alaric intensely focusing over his Crystal Ball. The latter's concentration being broken when raising his eyes up from the Ball and spotting Willow kneeling on the ground with a flower before her.
The wagon Amity was riding rolls to a stop just in front of Willow and the flower; Amity looks away from her book to Willow. "Willow! Wow," Amity hops off the pot, "you're so unnoticeable I almost rolled into ya."
The Blight girl chuckles with the flower that Willow just healed wilting.
"Hi, Amity." Murmured Willow as she stood up - looking over at Alaric once she'd noticed him. "Hey, Alaric."
Alaric does not bother facing Willow and responds a with cocky smile when saying, "Hello to you too, Half-a-witch."
Willow only frowned and pulled up her hood while looking down at her feet.
"Uh, shouldn't you get to class early to prep your..." Amity trails off when a rattle is sounded from Willow's pot - it spills over, pouring out a purple substance and a blinking eyeball slides in front of them followed by a grumbled groan.
"Oh, Willow. You don't have anything to show, do you?" Amity denotes, highly unconcerned.
Hiding in the bushes, Luz was watching the whole situation unfold. "Witch drama!" Quietly gasped the human with widened eyes.
Willow clutches at her hood and gently tugs at as she lightly blushes.
"This is why people call you 'Half-a-Witch Willow'," Alaric butts in, ridiculing the poor girl, "don't be ashamed of who you are though. That's your parents' job."
Luz glares daggers at Alaric and muttered, "You should really come with a warning label. You are more disappointing than an unsalted pretzel."
A rattle is sounded from Amity's pot, making the witchling walk over to it and say, "oh, looks like someone wants to say something to you," before taking the cover off her pot.
"Abomination, rise." Amity orders with the snap of her fingers. Her abomination rises, turning more solid until it's forms a humanoid in shape. It bends over out of the pot to poke Willow's forehead, leaving behind abomination matter in the shape of a star.
"You're a... star." The abomination gargles.
"Aww. It's like mine," Amity readjusts a star shaped badge that reads 'Top Student' and Alaric inaudibly scoffed, "but much smaller and meaningless. As top student, it's my duty to tell you to keep at it." Amity tells Willow when putting an arm around her.
"Even you could get a passing grade someday. Abomination, cower." Amity orders and said creature groans when it melts back into the pot. Amity replaces the pot lid and takes hold of the cart.
"See you in class, superstar." Amity adds before she happily walks away while pushing her wagon.
"Remember, you're not stupid! You just have bad luck when you're thinking!" Alaric creully laughed before following after his sister.
Willow removes her hood with a quiet sigh. As Amity and Alaric leave, Luz blows a raspberry directed at both of them - glaring extra daggers at youngest Blight. If looks could kill, Luz was sure that little brat would be dead by now.
"Oh, see you in class, superstar!" Willow angrily wipes the star from her forehead. "I hate when she does that, and her brother is no help, so mean as always."
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Alaric grabs a few of his books and notes from his locker, just as the school bell screams. When he turns around to walk off to class, someone ends up running into him; Alaric falls to the ground along with the items in his arms.
"Urgh! You idiot, watch where you're--!" Alaric cuts himself off when he spots the witch who'd bumped into him and glowered. "Oh. It's you..." Alaric mutters when getting up and dusting himself off.
"Well hello to you too, Alaric." Gus greets the other witch - meaning for his tone to sound curt, however, that was difficult due to the fact that he was currently over the moon after receiving his human nickname from Luz. He immediately gets up on his feet and picks up the items he'd just dropped.
Alaric takes notice of Gus's attempt to disguise his cheerful outward behaviour in front off him - irked, Alaric exasperatedly grunts when rolling his eyes and picks up his stuff. "Just use your damn eyes next time and watch where you're running for Titan's sake, Portor." Alaric spat before stalking past Gus to head to class.
Gus gathered his stuff and pouts when watching the other witch stomp off. "For someone my age, you are way too grumpy this young." Gus remarks to himself.
"I heard that y'know! I'm not deaf when you talk that loudly about me behind my back!"
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