Our home (a literal hallway) never again turned the way it was before. With Millie gone, Mily and Saki had even less reasons to come out of their room(s). Midari was bored because she liked talking (bothering) to Millie. Wendy and Kevin remained home at Millie’s request so now no one could enter Millie’s room anymore (except Eric who was still working on their drawings for that book).
The only happy person in the school was, obviously, Lord. Bro had always been happy and Millie’s not frequent visits didn’t affect the kid one bit.
Instead, he showed up into my room one day (I was showing Betty my book collection) and disturbed the peace like he always does.
But of course, Betty was a big fan of lonely and parentless kids, so she immediately adopted him.
And Lord being the biggest mama’s boy (I wasn’t even sure he had a mom), instantly attached himself to her.
,,Betty’s my new mama!” He loudly announced.
,,Yeah no, hands off” I pushed him away from her ,,Betty already adopted me, so get in line.”
Lord scoffed.
,,And here I was, thinking that you might actually want to go out and grab some ice cream with me.”
,,Come to think of it” said Edgar, stopping his daily newspaper reading time ,,A new store opened recently. Carter’s the owner.”
I imagined Carter as an ice-cream-truck guy, serving ice-cream until Elizabeth appeared and destroyed his business while stealing all the ice-cream to herself. Yickes.
,,Yeah and I wanted to try it out. And everyone’s busy so I have no one to go with…”
He’s old enough to go by himself though…
,,Okay then let’s go” I told him and grabbed a jacket (we ghosts get cold easily).
,,Wait!” Edgar placed his newspaper down ,,Before you go….”
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And that’s how I got myself a shopping list.
Edgar assumed that I would be going to all these other stores so he couldn’t miss the opportunity to send me shopping.
,,What’s on the list?” Lord asked.
,,Well we’ve got: apples x10, pears x20, vanilla smell shampoo…oh that one’s for Betty…bread x3, because, of course, we eat a lot of it, that’s why Mily’s complaining about leftover bread and…two pair of socks. Christmas themed. In Edgar’s and Betty’s sizes.”
,,I want Christmas themed socks too” Lord complained.
And if you’re wondering, yes. It was summer. And it was freezing. And Betty and Edgar were already planning stuff for Christmas. Also, despite us ghosties freezing, we still went to buy ice-cream. If you think this doesn’t make sense, go argue with Elizabeth.
We stopped by every single ghost store and eventually found everything on the list. Then, Lord dragged me to the ghost-ice-cream-truck, where Carter was surrounded by clients.
Apperently, he got Midari to do the advertising part and given how popular Midari is (along with me of course), every single Ghost, Reaper, Spectre and whatever other kinds of supernaturals existed, came to buy ice cream from Carter.
When we actually managed to bypass the supernaturals and arrived face to face with Carter, he no longer had the ice-cream we wanted.
,,What do you mean no chocolate? C’mon, we’re besties! You have to have chocolate!” Lord almost started crying.
,,Listen kiddo, we really don’t have that anymore. Pick something else. We’ve got…ice-cream ice flavored or…ice cream nothingness flavored. Your choice.”
Because we all know how temperamental Lord is, the second he heard this, he blew up Carter’s truck.
After many, many apologies to Carter and a promise that we would pay him back one day, we ran out of there.
,,Why did you have to do that huh?” I scolded him.
,,He was annoying” Lord shrugged.
I facepalmed.
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,,Let’s just get home already and see if we can convince Mily to pay for us.”
Lord must’ve felt bad because at some point he offered to carry one of the shopping bags.
I took a deep “breath”.
,,Look, Lord…what you did…I mean your power…is pretty cool. I wish I could blow up stuff like you. Instead, all I got is this stupid fire I can’t even control.”
Lord looked up at me.
,,To be fair…I can’t control my powers well either. I don’t even know how I managed to hit Jeanette. So…I guess we’re on the seam team?”
What Lord wasn’t aware of, was a major difference between us. From what I had heard from Millie through Erika through Saki, was that Lord was actually trying his best to control his explosions. He was secretly training with Mily every two days, but somehow, he didn’t manage to make any progress.
Me on the other hand, tried using my fire like two times and then gave up. Although Evil Luna said that my fire is technically stronger than Millie’s (because her Reaper side was affecting the capability of her power), I gave up the moment I saw that I was bad at using it. Which meant that I could improve but I was just too lazy to do it.
Then Lord ran towards the park.
In our lovely city we had a park. And in the park there were trees, bushes, benches, a lake and ducks.
Lord absolutely adored ducks. I once went into his room to search for him and (not so accidentally) went through his closet. Lord’s got more duck figures and toys than a duck themed store.
He particularly enjoyed feeding the ducks that were swimming peacefully on the lake. That’s exactly where he ran off to.
,,Lord wait!” I yelled and ran after him.
Though when I arrived, I saw a very unhappy Lord. The lake was frozen.
,,I know it’s very cold even though it’s the middle of summer…but…a frozen lake?”
Lord pointed at the water.
,,The ducks…are frozen?”
Sure enough, several small ducks had been frozen along with the water.
,,Hey listen! Look over there!” Lord pointed into a direction. Underneath the ice someone was trying to break it.
,,Well now I’ve seen everything…” I said ,,Should we help them?”
,,I’m not a big fan of helping people…” Lord said and I agreed, so we turned around and were about to leave, when a big big icicle flew between me and Lord and hit the frozen lake.
I turned around and saw Kevin on the other side of the water, redirecting the ice.
,,Mily?” Lord worried.
,,And Kevin!” I worried.
Mily was apparently fighting Kevin for some unknown reasons. But of course between the companion’s water powers and the witch-spectre-ghosts magic spells, Mily was the better one.
,,Cease the fighting, there’s someone underwaterrrrr!” I yelled but no one heard me.
Instead, Mily listen up all the ice on the lake and smashed it into Kevin’s direction.
I now had a clear view of the person in the water. A girl with wet brown hair and red bangs was trying to swim.
,,How do we save her?” Lord asked.
,,Now you want to save her?? Traitor!”
But of course, it wasn’t that simple. Kevin summoned the lake-water and threw it into Mily’s direction. Mily avoided it and with some hand motions and incantations, the water reverted into the lake, forming a big whirlpool.
The girl in the lake screamed but neither Kevin nor Mily paid her any attention.
,,Lord! Do you know how to do magic??”
,,No!”
,,Then do you know an ice spell??”
,,No!”
DO you know something?? I asked my evil self.
Bro, I was born not long ago, how am I supposed to know anything?!”
None of the two were helpful. So I tried my best to remember all the magic Mily taught me and sure enough, I did remember something.
(Also, no. I can’t float over water.)
I recited an incantation and although I was sure I had chanted it wrong, the water before me started freezing back in a thin line.
,,You got this!” Lord tried to encourage me.
Before I knew it, I stepped onto the ice.
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I ran towards the centre of the lake like Elsa. Actually, I was better at that than Elsa.
The girl gasped for air before choking with it. I thought the girl was still alive only to realize that she was, in fact, dead.
,,Grab my hand!” I yelled. She didn’t seem to trust me but then reached out to me. I pulled her up and then ran with her on my back to the shore, where Lord was waving at us.
Behind me, Mily was just concluding her fight with Kevin, freezing him. I was actually starting to wonder who the real Elsa was, me or Mily?
I put the new girl on the ground and then sat down myself.
,,Don’t try to breathe” I told her. She looked at me like I was stupid.
,,You’re dead” I added ,,You don’t need to breathe.”
She stopped breathing and stared at me.
Before I could ask what her name was, Mily made an angry sound and smashed Kevin-the-ice-cube on the ground. The ice surrounding him broke and all we were left with was an angry Kevin.
,,Don’t ever, ever try that again” Mily warned him. Kevin mumbled something but it didn’t matter what.
Mily looked tired.
,,Why did you guys fight?” I wanted to ask but Lord talked faster than I did.
,,Someone decided it would be wise to attack me. Also he blames me for what happened with Millicent.”
,,Uhh, fellow ghosts, sorry to interrupt but I would like to say thanks for saving me and hi” the new girl interrupted.
,,It’s great to see new faces around” I said ,,I’m Luna. That’s Mily. That’s Kevin and this little one is Lord.”
,,Okay got it” she said ,,This is so normal.”
,,And your name is…?”
,,SUKI!” Midari’s loud voice rang from behind us. The genius kid was eating popcorn. Next to her Erika was walking with a serious look (like Erika Salem version) and occasionally grabbed popcorn.
,,Your name’s Suki?” I asked.
The girl shook her head.
,,No, but I like it. Call me Suki.”
,,Suki, Suki!” Midari sang and offered her some popcorn as well ,,The show was so cool guys. Mily’s ice magic never fails to impress me.”
,,It was quite entertaining if I may say so” Erika grinned ,,Me and the kid went out to buy popcorn but then saw you guys and decided that popcorn goes best with an action movie starring Mily and Millie’s companion. Also featuring L&L.”
,,This is Midari, our scientist. And Erika, our not very licensed teacher.”
Suki waved.
,,Did you drown yourself?” Midari wanted to know.
,,Yeah” Suki replied. She reminded me of my sister when she said that, mainly because my sister wasn’t one to take death seriously (though others claim that I am the one who actually doesn’t).
,,Oh yeah!” Erika enlightened us ,,I saw it in Edgar’s newspaper: “16 year old girl commits suicide by drowning herself in a lake!””
,,Yep that would be me. And since we’re on the subject” she looked around ,,Does anyone know anything about a magic school?”