Once upon a Midnight | BOOK I

Two

"Are you even listening to me?" I frowned.

"Oh! Sorry, Kim. What were you saying again?" Britt took his gaze away from his phone.

"Wanker," I grumbled as I created a snowball and threw it at him.

"Ouch!" He rubbed his cheek, feigning pain.

"Serves you right." A triumphant smile spread on my face.

After the talk I had with my mum, and a little training on conjuring weapons, I rode my bicycle to my best - and only - friend's house. Thirty minutes of explaining my terrible predicament to him, and he seemed to be more bothered with his phones and the pixies in the greenhouse. Even Moonlight was chasing the pixies around the greenhouse. I eyed one of the pixies sitting in Britt's hair. A brown haired pixie who was laughing while playing with Britt's dark brown hair. The pixie also eyed me with her pitch-black eyes and hissed before she continued.

Apart from my family, the Richardsons and the Lewins were the only other magickal families I knew of in Chichester. Britt's parents were Walkers, magickal explorers who scale the magickal realms, and since they are almost never home, Britt always have his mortal friends over for parties. During the holidays, the tall brunette goes to Blackstone school of sorcery for his magickal studies. He is an earth-based sorcerer who spends most of his time with his evil familiars - pixies. And sadly, No! Moonlight isn't my familiar. I'm one of those sorcerers who haven't picked a familiar yet.

The Lewins avoided everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be a family of satanic witches. But Britt apparently has a huge crush on the beautiful daughter of the Lewins, Elene Lewin. The poor lad even named one of his pixies after her. I couldn't blame him though, Elene Lewin was truly an epitome of beauty. I shrugged at the thought of falling in love with someone like that.

"Look, Kim, all this sounds like a whole lot of trollshit wrapped in pretty bow. Even I have never heard that the seal on the Shadow Queen is breaking." He tossed his phone aside and went to a potted plant. After casting a spell, the flower bloomed. "And I don't even know much about this so called Shadow Queen. I thought she was some kind of urban legend. Never knew she really existed."

"You're dumb." I adjusted myself on the wooden chair. I glanced outside the glass wall of the greenhouse  and unsurprisingly, I spotted Isabelle at one corner, watching me. I hissed and turned away. I didn't know why my mum had me followed wherever I went but I did know that it wasn't in anyway fun.

Britt came back to sit on the wooden chair beside me. He picked up his drink and slurped. "What did your mum say about that freakish nightmare?" asked Britt.

"She said that it probably meant that there is no way I'll escape the trials." It wasn't as if I believed that though. "Oh, and my dad gave me a sword for the trial. A really badass silver sword. I call it Fury." I smiled.

"You named your sword?" Britt have me a weird look.

I snorted. "It'll help with my conjuring."

"I still can't get my head around something." Britt moved his fingers through his hair, causing the pixie to fly away. She landed on his shoulder and rested her head on his neck. "Why you? Why were you chosen for this bloody trial?"

"I asked the same helldamned question." I picked up his drink and took a big gulp. "Refreshing. What's in that drink?"

"Believe me when I say you'll be better off not knowing. What did your mum say?"