The Book Of Life

Chapter Twenty Four

This is insane. Things are getting real; real fast. And it shows how much I hate school but I'd rather stay. Soon we'll be out in the real world.

"Enough of the real shit." I think, "Time to focus on stuff like getting through this day alive. And earning this title of the Supernatural Queen."

My main focus is learning to control and master my powers. Preferably before anything happens. My second priority is to find out why Riley gave me her powers. I also need to understand this book, and why it chose me. I need to train for the hockey finals coming up and I also need to study for externals.

"Fuck my life." I sigh. "There's no way I'm going to live through this."

"Your lost in your thoughts." Sophie's voice sounds.

"Hey. No, I'm not."

She leans over and whispers to me. "You were staring."

Finally, the ancient librarian shows up and more of our cohort does to. As Sir marks the roll and reads out the notices, I notice Sophie's old rose ring is newly customised. Sophie notices my gaze and flaunts her ring. New Latin words are etched into the ring band, the engraved words gleaming in the artificial light of the lights on the ceiling.

"Oh! You like it?" She cheekily flaunts as she waggles her fingers.

I growl in annoyance.

"Oh! Jævla hekser!" I exasperate.

Sophie looks at me blankly. Confusions sparkles in her eye. She then shakes her head as a slight smile is plastered on her lips. Out of the corner of my eye I can feel and see that someone is watching me. I catch Nina Wallace's head snap to our table, hazel eyes boring into me. I fight the urge to look, I've always had it since the day I caught her staring out of the corner of my eye, when I look she snaps her gaze elsewhere; she does this almost every day but today just feels different- almost as if she wants me to know she's looking, as if she wants me to look at her. I give in to the urge, surprisingly her gaze doesn't falter, Nina doesn't look away like normal.

Her stare only becomes more intense. the part of me wanting to ask her why she stares is growing more. It creeps me out. She has a Girlfriend as well- they're still together is what I know. The bell rings and first session begins, Sophie groans and lays her head on the table.

"I hate math." I groan.

"Don't even think about it Katlyn, I'm not grabbing you a computer this time." Sophie groans.

"If only magic existed." I sigh.

Sophie's eyes shrink, eyebrows knitting together as she glares at me. "What?" I ask.

She stands up from her seat and clonks me on the head with a hand before walking to class at the other end of the library. I rub the back of my head as I give the finger to her retreating frame. I'm walking towards our classroom when within a few seconds I'm slammed against the window at the end of an book isle.

Nina.

She moved at the speed of a Vampire.

I pretend to be totally confused on how we got here so fast and why she's so much 'stronger' than me.

"Du snakker norsk?"

My brows only furrow in confusion. Her eyes roll and annoyed huff leaves her mouth.

"Do you speak Norwegian." she growls.

I shake my head slightly," I'm learning from Duo and Google translate. I know, it was a stupid idea."

"You have any idea of what you just said!"

Her hands squeeze tighter around my upper arms, actually hurting me a little. To a human this would have been almost excruciating. I slap one of her arms and she huffs in amusement followed by a chuckle of laughter as she doesn't move. Good. This will shock her even more.