Magic Lane

Chaptaa 1. ~

Sia's POV
It was early in the morning. Jasmine was downstairs cleaning the bathroom that "Tiger" (the house pet) ruined. I sighed getting ready for all of my duties I had to take on. I've also turned 14 recently. Dashing around the house, I stared at the list on the wall.

Your chores to do today.
Do the house laundry
Make breakfast
Clean the kitchen cupboards
Take Annie to school
Take out the trash
Get the mail
Make dinner
Water the plants
Go to the market and fetch supplies

Check the mail first. Got a text from Ms.Heritage that something is expected.
Love, jasmine.

I sighed and walked downstairs, outside, and to the mailbox. The neighbor walked out of their house scowling at a huge bulldog running across the lawn. "GET OFF MY LAWN YOU FILTHY DOG!" She screamed waving her broom high in the air.
I opened the mailbox and took out the soaked letters. The bills, new year greeting cards, birthday cards, more bills, advertisements, magazines... the last letter was in a dirty light brown envelope. With the words :

To Siamond Clifford
From : Magic Lane's Minister
( fragile piece of writing )

I blinked. Once, twice.. yeah. On the corner of my eye, I saw my neighbor Aaron run towards me. Fast, I stuffed the envelope into my pocket. Then, I turned normally.
"Hey Siamond!" Aaron greeted me. I smiled,"Hi Aaron. How's your day?" Aaron scratched the back of his neck,"No, how was YOUR day? Open the letter up." I furrowed my eyebrows.
Did he see me take it out? Did he send it as a joke? Did he spy on ME?
I twiddled my fingers. I wanted to lie, just because I wanted to read this to myself. But lying makes me feel guilty. Aaron is additionally my best friend. I wish I never made my next move.
"Um.. Are you crazy?! What in the world are you talking about?! Aaron stop assuming things!" I stumped.
Aaron frowned. ".. I saw you, Mond. With my own eyes." "See what Aar?" I innocently rolled my eyes.
We called each other Aar and Mond. Some everyone calls me Sia, and Aaron,  Ron. We did the opposite. Yeah yeah. I now right,, lame! He shook his head,"Don't worry.. I got it too." I blinked. "You got the letter? The one from Magic Lane?" "Yes. Of course.. Here, let's read it together." Aaron said taking out his letter from behind his back.
I grabbed my letter out of my pocket slowly. Waiting for Aaron to take his out first, just so I knew that he wasn't lying.
Here we go.. The letter.
Aaron read out :

"You are now called one of Magic Lane's official students. Please report to Hurio's Hotel on February 12th. In order to get through the Lane's Loyal Portal, you'll have to reach a complete blank painting on the 2nd floor. Without anyone seeing, reach in the middle of the frame and it will turn you invisible. After getting your dose, please quietly run back to the lobby. Behind the 6th knight, is a button. Press that button and it will teleport you to Magic Lane's Senter. Please remember that there are Gholithers guarding that knight. If you can make it past them to press the button, you made it to Magic Lane. You are not known as anyone right now intill you past your first task. Yes, this is a lot. And no, you do not need anything aside from being yourself. Thank you!
See you Feb 12th. Can't wait. :) "

Aaron took about 10 deep breaths while reading this aloud. "This isn't that-"

"...bad." I screamed after taking a look at the hotel we were suppose to go into. It has been a month, and I take everything back. I don't understand how Jasmine went through this. Adding on from that, I never told anyone about this aside from .. Aaron. Not even JASMINE! "I TAKE THIS BACK. I TAKE IT BACK!" I screeched.
"You should. Seriously.." Aaron frowned scanning the hotel. "I never signed up for this. They never said it was an abandoned hotel! I'm so dumb. I read about this a couple months before. This was created in 1756. Abandoned on 1797." I sighed.
A couple more kids entered the hotel in the back way. They probably are new to "Magic Lane" too. "So.. I'm guessing we have to-" I paused after feeling a hard knock on my back. I quickly turned, making Aaron follow my action.
A blue haired girl, with a grin on her face was behind me. "..don't you think it is impolite to just throw yourself at someone..?" I said sarcastically.
"Yes. I find it very very impolite. But anyways, I wasn't aiming for that. My annoying brother shoved me when I cursed at him." She scratched her head. "Uhm.. Well.. It's fine." I bit my finger. "Oh right! Hehe. My name is Summer. I'm here for Magic Lane! I'm a girl who wants to just.. I don't know. I'm in the first semester!" Summer smiled jumping like a bunny.
"Uh I see. My name is Siamond, I'm also here for Magic Lane. And I just came here for an adventure. Y'know? I haven't been out much because of WorkLett." I gave an awkward smile. Summer seemed to not know what WorkLett was, so I explained to her. Then, me, Summer, Aaron, and Brandon (Summer's annoying brother) found out way into the hotel.
Summer kept the letter with her just in case we forgot. She started reading the first task aloud after I stepped into 4 spider webs, ran into 2 huge spiders (which I'm pretty sure are tarantulas), and found at least 10 skulls laying on the ground.
"Okay, so! The first thing we have to do is go to the 2nd floor. There's a blank painting hung somewhere there. I honestly don't know where, but we'll find our way there at some point." Summer gave a thumbs up.
Using my time wisely, I started jogging to the elevators. Hearing a scream from Aaron,"Where are you going?!" I answer back quickly. "The elevator!? Duh!"
Another scream came back from Aaron a second later. I was too focused on going to the elevators to process what he said. They were just little muffles to me.
Walking around the hotel, I stopped for a breath. Footsteps were heard following me. I stretched up and turned. Aaron's head popped up, then Summer, then Brandon.
"So, have you found the elevator yet?" Summer glared at me.
Honestly, I said,"No.." Aaron's face turned quick,"Exactly! I've been calling you for the past couple minutes telling you that this hotel was abandoned for almost 100 years! Do you even think that the elevator even was created back then? If it did, do you think it'd work by now?!" Aaron shouted.
My brain finally came back from where it went earlier. Realizing, I slapped myself.
"Ugh. Well then, how are we going to get there?" I pouted.
Brandon finally spoke up,"Y'know the front desk? There was a lever there that was probably misplaced. Or was incredibly obvious. I also saw a group of girls walk up to the front desk, and then walk through the wall. I'm guessing that there's a hidden stairway behind there to get to the floors."
Summer's face beamed with excitement.
Aaron's face dropped to the negatives. "Oh. Oh! So you never told us earlier?! Was it because you didn't want anyone to see you checking out those girls?" Aaron scolded.
Brandon frowned, blushed, and looked away. I rolled my eyes, douchebags. Summer awed at her brother. We walked back to the main lobby, reaching the front desk. We all stepped out of our way to let Brandon do what he saw.
He walked to an old wooden desk, pulling the top drawer open. Then, he pulled something in the drawer. Which I'm guessing was the lever. Aaron jumped behind me, making me turn in fear. The wall behind us was open. Brandon shrugged while Summer grinned.
We walked up the creaky staircase and entered a long dark hallway. Left and right. Suddenly, 2 tall boys came up from behind us, and walked left. We decided to follow them since we just thought we could use them as a lead. The boys suddenly stopped in mid hallway and turned our way.
I ducked in fear, Summer stood there snorting, Aaron widened his eyes, and Brandon bit his fingers.
The first boy who turned was a blonde, he owned some blue eyes, and was smirking.
The second boy was a brunette, he had some emerald green eyes, and ofc was tilting his head.

"Do you need anything?"

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Ello my beautiful readers! Oops also handsome bc there might be some bois reading lol. How have you been? I know I haven't been posting for a long period of time. Just know this chapter took so long to write. 😌 ily guys! Stay strong.
- Angelina <33