The Distance

~ Chapter II : The Warning ~

Cybil's POV

   We talk about our plans for after school and how I wanted to practice on some defense moves to avoid getting hit by any magic spells. "If you get hit by my fireball you're gonna get burned.. no wait.. roasted!" She jokes as she went up ahead and open the large doors for the both of us to enter. I laugh and shook my head, "Seriously I'm the one who will do the roasting in this friendship, not you and your magic fire elemental spells." I walk in and see that the dinning hall was full, letting out a groan afterwards. "Damnit... well guess we're gonna eat out on the grass field like always." Joan pats her back as she squeezes through people to get to the line, "You see if you didn't skip, we would be first in line maybe dumb dumb." She raises her voice since the place was both loud yet crowded. I try to follow her and squeeze through a bunch of people as I finally get to the line but my eyes shot directly at someone that I knew who it was.

   Joan pushed two large guys that were back to back then sees me, standing like I was caught in one of her paralysis spells. I studied Iris from a far and I felt my cheeks get warm, my mind was just saying so many compliments about her left and right. She squints her eyes as she tries to look where I was looking at to see that I was looking at Iris. She grew suspicious and she walks over to me, locking her arms with mine then drags me to the line, "Why are you eye'ing the new girl?" She asks as she kept her voice down to a minimal but at a reasonable level so I can hear. As soon as she turned me around, I stopped looking at Iris and I came back to reality as I look at Joan, "Wait what? I wasn't eye'ing anyone." Speaking at the same level as Joan, a bit confused.
   
  "Seriously I saw you and literally trail your vision to the new girl.. there's something going on with you and her huh? Don't tell me that you guys hit it off that quickly?" She pulls away and was a bit angry with me that I didn't tell her what happened to me."Hey I'm not gonna leave you behind and she's probably not interested me ever since that I bumped into her when I ditched class, " I cross my arms and glance away, a bit upset. "Tell me now, " She says, grabbing my hand as we both move up to get our lunches then make our way to the outside field. As I walk with my friend, I glance at the large windows to see Iris and my smile fades a little. I wish it was super easy to just walk up to her and just ask her to be friends with me.. or even more than that.

   My cheeks warm up again and I shake my head, 'nope no.. she's the enemy, don't interfere until we fight after lunch.' I thought to myself as I look at Joan from afar. "Hey let's climb up onto the branch, it'll be fun." She shouts from afar as she was already midway to the branch. "Alright I'm coming!" I shout back and jog a little so I don't spill anything from my tray. The wind blowing through my hair just a tiny bit as I jog a little and watch Joan cast a levitating spell on herself to get to the branch first. "That was just lazy!" I shout from afar and she started laughing as she waited for me to catch up and climb up the tree.

Iris' POV

  As I eat my food, I paid little to no attention to anyone but thought about my family. My grandmother most importantly.. I didn't know much about her but back then she was different than my mother. She would tell her adventurous stories and how she would give me small presents when she came back from her trips. The last thing she gave me was a dagger and told me that I should always keep it just in case if I didn't have a weapon of my own. I had the dagger in my bag, just for defense of course nothing serious.

   I was happy back then till everything just had to fade and yet till this day I just shut my own mouth and kept going forward. It didn't bother me at all but that girl who had to bump me, she seemed to be a bit over her head to just look at me that way and to bump into me at the wrong time. I clench my fist and gritted my teeth, ' stupid low level.. I shouldn't be thinking about you but only because I want to face you myself to see how weak you are.' I thought to myself and slam my hand onto the table. The other students heard a loud thud and look over at me as they're conversation drops midway. I quickly look at the other students that sit almost near from me on the other table, "What are you looking at?! look the other way or else I'll have to face you myself!" I shout in anger and got up real quick, taking my leave since I was done with my lunch.

   The students look away real quick and were very afraid when I threatened to hurt them. I didn't want to hurt people at all but back then I use to be bullied just because they always saw me as a rich brat. Even the thought of it makes my heart ache just because all my life I was silent.. when I was a child I was weak since my mother didnt want me to play with weapons. I clench my fists as I walk outside to the field to get some fresh air so I wouldn't be stuck in the depression rabbit hole. I was told that if I were to become the best fighter I had to focus on my opponent and their weaknesses, not my own.

  I walk to a tree and sit under it, taking all the beauty of this wonderful, clear day. The breeze was duable and wasn't too windy, the grass was being brushed by the low breeze and the trees were dancing while the breeze was its partner. Everything was calm so far that a small smile crept onto my lips, it been so long since I ever cracked a smile. I lay my head against the tree and look up at the Sun beams through the green leaves as I stretch my legs out in front of me. I fold my hands in my lap and decide to rest my eyes since I didn't get enough sleep last night due to the party we had.