Wayward Mages

Chapter 14

Charlene

Ok, I am super confused. Who is this old lady, and how does she know who mages are ? The three of us stare at her, confuzzled (I love that word! It sounds like you're fuzzy and confused at the same time).

Hey, maybe we should give ourselves a name - the three of us, Kyle, Kaira, and me. The Traveling three? No, that sounds like we're nomads. The Talented Three? Yeah, that's good enough. Kaira's usually the one who makes all the names. Like Mr. Parsformer? Seriously?

Anyway, this lady is like, tots creepy and has a hunchback. She looks kind of like the Beast,from Beauty and the Beast,in female form, of course, before he becomes a handsome prince.

I look over at Kaira to see her reaction and see her fainting. I'm about to catch her, but Kyle catches her and props her up with her arm on his shoulders,his arm around her waist, and her head on his chest.

I feel a twinge in my chest. What is it? This feeling only shows up when Guardian announces somebody else as her new favourite student; since I've known Guardian for the longest time, so I guess that I'm a little over possessive. I'm secretly a giant fan of hers, even though I'm a complete badass, inside and out. I have no idea why it's showing up now I mean Kyle just caught Kaira, that shouldn't make me feel like this.

Wait a second...OMG! I'm jealous of Kaira, who's my own sister, I don't know why but all of a sudden I feel like smacking her in the face. This shouldn't happen I'm Charlene Burns who's never ever jealous of anyone. It should be the other way around, most people try to impress me. They try to suck up to me. This isn't fair and it's so much work to impress people. Wait what?!? What's wrong with me, I shouldn't be thinking like this.

Suddenly, I can feel someone pulling on my arm and it snaps me out of my reverie. I can see Kaira trying to pull me inside the shack - wait, when did she regain consciousness? She's screaming something that sounds like "Charlie,get a move on," but I'm not so sure.

Anyway, I step inside the house, and look around. It strangely looks comforting and not as scary as I imagined it to be. There is a white futon in the living room with some pink throw pillows. The windows also has white curtains pulled over them.The entire place looks comforting except the strange old lady who is creeping me out.

She welcomes us in and shows to our rooms. Wait! How did we get rooms? Maybe Kaira and Kyle asked while I was all zoned out. I have the room to far end of the hallway while Kaira and Kyle have rooms right next to each other. How unfair!

 I decide to retire to the night and check out that chip that I stored in my bag. 'Operation Memory Transfer & Reprogramming' sounds creepy. Well I try to let that go and  get a good night's rest but I've still got that twinge in my chest.