Trinity High (Book 1 of the Trinity Series)

Chapter 19

"You know, sometimes I question how I got so lucky," Trey said as I walked up to him before getting onto the bus that would take us to town.

"Yeah. You must have done something to please God for managing to get a girl like me," I replied snarkily. His lips twitched into a smirk.

"You know, self-praise is no praise," he said.

"Self-praise is the only praise. People these days are too conceited and full of themselves to dish out any praise. You have to do something to lift your spirits up," I told him. He laughed and planed a kiss on the side of my head.

"You really do look beautiful, though," he whispered in my ear, making my lips pull up at the corners.

"So what's the plan for the day?" I asked him as we boarded the bus. We exchanged a gleeful glance with each other when we saw Lance and Abbey sitting next to each other in the same seat. We sat in the front, a good few rows away from them to give them privacy.

"It's a secret," Trey replied, his multi-coloured eyes twinkling. I raised an eyebrow at him.

"You aren't planning on taking me to a deserted park again, are you?" I asked as the bus lurched forward into motion.

"You know you had fun that day," he replied, rolling his eyes at me. I laughed lightly and kissed his cheek. He grinned, a dimple forming on his cheek.

"When are you going to start telling me where you'll be taking me for our dates?" I asked him.

"This is our second date," he pointed out.

"So? The surprise thing is getting old," I said.

"Surprises can't get old. Then it wouldn't be a surprise," he told me.

"But then I'll expect an amazing date each time. You're just going to have to get more and more clever," I brought up.

"I don't have a problem with that," he said with a shrug. I smiled gently at him and then leaned back in my seat. We fell into a calm silence, staring out the window at the scenery we were passing by.

Since Trinity High was surrounded on all sides by forest, we had to take a trail out of the forest to a nearby gas station. This is where the bus picked us up from. From there, we travelled along a barren road, with acres and acres of grass and land on both sides of the road. The only thing that could be seen were thick rows of trees that we knew to hide Trinity High.

"Do you think non-magic folk know about Trinity High? Isn't it possible that someone could stumble upon our school while trekking through the woods?" I asked.

"Well, first off, I don't think anyone's mad enough to go trekking through the woods in the middle of nowhere. But if anyone were crazy enough to do that, they still wouldn't be able to see Trinity," Trey told me.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"Because, I asked my mum and dad," he answered simply. "They told me that there are protective spells all around the school that hide it from the eyes of not only non-magic folk, but other witches or wizards that the school thinks should not see it," he explained.

I frowned.

My father never told me anything about magic, no matter how much I asked him. He would always brush it off, saying that I would find out when the time came. It always made me jealous the amount of information Trey had managed to learn from his parents over our short break. His parents sounded amazing. I felt sadness flood over me suddenly. I wondered if Mum would have answered my questions. I knew she would have. She told me everything. And I told her everything. And now she was gone.