Withering Witches

3

Bree is irritating me now. She's too excitable all the time. I know she's excitable for multiple reasons: she jumps up and down all the time; she speaks in a high pitch voice (which is a mix of helium and shouting) ; she jumps up and down all the time; she has way to much energy; she'll do hand stands and cartwheels everywhere she goes, and I should probably stop talking about her now. I thought there would be mature people here, not lunatics. People annoy me sometimes... Never mind, all the time.

"I'm going now!" I shouted across the dorm.
Speak of the devil. Bree came cartwheeling into me, crashing us down onto the floor. I looked angry at her. "Sorry," she spoke softly. I felt sorry for her.
Jenna came rushing down the hallway. "Jacklyn and Harly will be coming soon, they'll come with you too."
Then, in the distance, two girls. One with lovely ginger hair, which curled in the sun. Her long eyelashes twinkled, her tinsel blue eyes, which complemented her eyelashes.

The other had shoulder length white hair and gorgeous brown eyes. They were both clearly into fashion, since they wore long floaty dresses, as if they were both a Disney princess.

"Oh, Hi. You're Kaylee, right?" The ginger haired girl asked me.
"Yeah, um... Hi." I replied. They were like those mean girls in school that you never wanted to talk to because you were too scared. That's the vibe I got from them, anyway.
"I'm Jacklyn, and this is Harley." She said, pointing to herself then the other girl Harley.
"Well, I'm off to get my magic stuff now." I told them, "Are you coming too?"
"Yeah, why not." Harley smiled at me.

They don't seem to care about me. They're those friends that can't live without one second of saying cheesy lines like If I never met you, my life would be dull and those who do stupid 'girly girl' type things, like put their finger on there forehead and saying I'm a unicorn! while doing a stupid dance. I hope not.

I used to know some friends like that, they were so annoying. If those two are like normal friends, I shall be saved.

If not... I don't know. Jenna will be the only one I like until the next person comes!

We walked down another hallway, this school has too many hallways. There were many people this time, they ran towards us and behind us. They were probably the year eights and nines by the looks of it.
"What kind of wand do you want?" Bree asked me.

Oh no, not a conversation with her!

"I dunno." I shrugged.
"You can draw on the Witches's wands! They're birch wood, so It's perfect for decorating." Bree said while jumping up into the air. "Actually, I've got mine on me right now." She dived into her pockets, pulling all sorts out.

"Here it is!" She exclaimed at last, her wand high up in her hand as she did a heroic pose. It was plastered with stickers and glitter. It was all hot pink in colour, and there was small mirror flakes on it so it would be a disco ball when light shone onto it. No one would have ever guessed that that was originally cream white in colour - never mind wood.

"Lovley." I said softly but in my head I said it sarcastically.
"Thanks!" She replied.
Harley turned around and stared at Bree, "Put that away before it's taken off you!" She whispered angrily so no teacher could hear or see the pink glitter bomb.

Oh! So Harley's that type.

Ugh. I hate that type.

Glad I'm not that type.

Suddenly, a bell, ringing forever. Or at least, that's what it seemed. Really, it went off for one or two seconds.
"What does that mean?" I inquired nervously.
"It means lunch." Jacklyn replied.
"Lunch?" I echoed, "Already?"
"Yep," Jenna said, "You took at least three hours just on building your bookcase and putting your six-teen copies of the same book up on the shelves."
"Seriously?" I asked.
"Yeah!" Jenna laughed. She couldn't believe how long I took and how I didn't believe her. We both started laughing as the other three walked away to eat.

Me and Jenna didn't eat for most of the lunch break. In fact, we only spent five minutes of the whole one hour eating. The other fifty-five minutes of that hour was spent talking, organising the dorm, learning where each class room is, stuff like that. It was fun. Jenna told me some stuff about home, how she has a brother and a sister who were twins. They're totally different from each other, the boy liking yellow and the girl liking purple. The boy having more of a tan colour to his skin and the girl having as white as snow skin. The boy liking sports and the girl liking writing.

Everything sounded fun at her house, how she could always play with her siblings. At home, I'm an only child. I have a mum and a dad, but by the time I come back for Christmas they would have probably divorced. I hope they do, anyway.

My dad is the worst! When I said I had no siblings, I mean they don't live with me. Around six years before I was born, mum had his child who was named Iza. One day, dad broke up with mum and forced to be given the right to bring Iza with him. At this time, she was only four, and was given a step mother. Dad broke up with Iza's step-mother for no reason and forced her to keep Iza. Then, he got back with mum.

She got pregnant again the month that they got back together against her will, some years after they broke up, took the boy, the boy was given to the new step mother, mum and dad got back together. Two years later, I was born, along with two others. There was me, the oldest, Jacob, the second born boy, and Delli, the youngest girl. Thankfully, dad didn't break up with mum because he loved Delli so much.

Delli was the perfect girl in Dad's eyes. She loved dressing up, wearing kids makeup, having her hair done, and she got lots of attention. This made her a spoiled brat. Dad won the lottery, which all the money was gone to getting what Delli wanted. She had £50,000 to spend on anything she wanted, a HD 3D tv, a crown made of real gold with a tiny diamond on the top, her own swimming pool (with a hot tub) that no one could go in, a room extension and a thousand different shades of pink lipstick.

Everyone was jealous, of course. I was delighted when I found out that Ididn't have to live with Delli anymore. But, I couldn't be with Jacob. We were best friends, played together, were in the same class, shared a room when Delli had her room extended (which was really just knocking down the wall between mine and Delli's room, making it bigger and making mine none-existent. This meant I had to share a room with Jacob).

Sharing a room with Jacob was fun, but that only happened for a couple of months because I got accepted into Crystal Rain Academy while Delli was only one mark off from getting the test right enough so she could come into the school. Of corse Delli was mad, so she told dad. He told me off, saying "Why didn't you let your sister get the answers!" and "You cheated! You told Delli the wrong answers while you got the right one so that you could enter that silly school!"

Mum got furious. She knew my real capability, unlike dad who only knew about how Delli was "smart" and "innocent" and "loving" and "caring". We all knew that was a lie.

*

Nothing else happened after lunch, so I had a long nap. I could hear Bree singing a pop song in the background while I slept, but I really didn't mind. That was because Jenna told me how Bree was horribly ill and was lucky that she could still do all the things she can do. That gave me a different look on Bree. She wasn't like this because she wanted to annoy me. Not at all. She wanted to do all the things she could do years before she was ill. This made me feel happy and hopeful, so I went to sleep easily.