The Esper's Academy ( Book 1){ Wattys2017}

Chapter 11

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Palladium....

Palladium was a very different kind of club from those in Manhattan City in the human realm. The night club was located in the boundaries of Avalon alongside with many others of its own. You could say the whole area was for the young Esper's entertainment and the enjoyable spending of their time.

It was the kind of night club that existed only once every decade - at a point in the social nexus when the gods of publicity, aristocrats, and powerful royals converged to create a singularly spectacular environment. Following in the hallowed tradition of mid- 70s Studio 54, late- 80s and early- 90s Moomba, Palladium had entered an iconic realm that defined a movement, a lifestyle, a generation, a dominant bloodline.

A cocktail-combo clientele of the city's most beautiful, envied, notorious, and all-powerful citizens had christened it their place to be - their natural habitat, their watering hole - and since it was the twenty-first century, the era of super-exclusivity. They even paid astronomical membership dues for the privilege.

Anything to keep out the hoi polloi.

Anna had come here with Marina and Sean, although, she was actually quite surprised. Not only about the fact that Sean willingly offered to accompany them, something that she was too grateful for, but also about the exclusive and extravagant inferior of the glorious club.

Annabella could feel the powerfulness radiated off of the espers inside but for some reason she didn't feel intimidated. She couldn't find it in her to. She was just feeling uncomfortable and like a fish out of the water. Anna was not familiar with such an expensive and amazing place and with so many high ranked people roaming around and dancing in the beat of the music. She wasn't sure if she was fitting in...

Anna was wearing a tight strapless white top with white lacy sides and a beautiful black loosen floating skirt that reached from her uper waist to little above her mid thigh. She had matched this beautiful outfit with a golden like necklace and black high heels, having her soft brown ombre hair with the golden tips cascading in waves all over her back and shoulders.

Anna had left her unique family pendant at home in fear of losing it or in fear of someone seeing it. Her mother and Tenjin had made perfectly clear, not to show it to anyone and never remove it but the second one couldn't be helped right now.

Marina, on the other hand, was wearing a tight white strapless dress that hugged perfectly ber curvy body and shown off her mesmerizing violet eyes even more. Her dark brown straight long hair were in perfect union with the rest of her outfit.

They had just gotten inside the club with Sean trying to find them a table but Anna's searching and curious brown eyes caught something else. Or...someone else.

And inside this blessed sanctuary, at the most sought-after table, surrounded by a glittering assortment of underage models, post-pubescent movie stars, and the sons and daughters of boldfaced powerful family names, sat one of the most gorgeous girl in the history.

Yeah...gorgeous until she opens her mouth, Anna bitterly thought.

Brianna Force. Seventeen years old going on thirty-four, with a shot of Botox between the eyes to prove it.

Brianna was popularity personified. She had the golden-girl good looks and tanned, Pilates-toned limbs that came with the Queen Bee position - but she transcended the stereotype while embodying the essence of it. She had a size twenty-two waist and a size ten shoe. She ate junk food every day and never gained an ounce. She went to bed with all her makeup on and woke up with a clear, unblemished complexion, just like her conscience.