Evie had a natural hate for kickball. She remembered one time in elementary school someone kicked it so hard that it completely blew her over and her chin had slammed into the gym floor. She had a bruise on her chin for two weeks and a tiny fear I'm the back of her mind of it happening again every time they played. She prayed it wouldn't.
The game started off good. Damon caught two kicks right off the bat. One of which belonged to the foot of the redhead Evie had bumped into yesterday. She asked Damon what her name was and he'd mumbled Sabrina but seemed to be focusing on something that was definitely not kickball. Evie had a knack for knowing when people were actually interested in what she was saying to them or not. Damon was only interested in what Luke had to say. It didn't take much observation to notice that. It was not subtle. Evie would have some fun messing with Damon later but for now she had to continue playing this awful game.
A girl with black and yellow hair came up to kick. Evie didn't remember her. She seemed a little out of place. Her hair was in a pony tail but she wore a skirt and lace tights, which seemed very odd for gym class. Evie watched her intensely as she readied herself to kick. Tyler, the pitcher for our team, rolled the ball slowly. The girl hit it full speed. Unfortunately, Evie heard a sound and looked away towards the door at just the right moment for the ball to smash into the side of the face. She reeled back a little dazed at first and then felt pain sting her face. She glared at the bumblebee girl and then stormed off to the bathroom without a word of acknowledgement towards the three teammates asking her if she was okay.
Evie slung the bathroom door open with magic, it flew off its hinges and hit the floor. As she stormed in the bathroom started to react to her angry energy. The sinks turned on simultaneously, the toilets started gurgling, the stall doors rattling and the hair dryers switching on and off. Evie pressed her hands against the sides of her head.
"Control it. Control it. Control it," she muttered moving towards the sink and gripping the edge, willing it to stop. The sinks filled faster, water spurting onto the floor.
"No, no, no," Evie panicked, spinning around and trying to think but the water was spilling out onto the floor now and as she started to panic the toilets exploded. Starting on the far end and working their way towards her.
Boom! Evie had to get out of here.
Boom! She couldn't stop it.
Boom! There was nothing she could do. It reached the last toilet as she felt water just above her ankles.
"What have I done," she whispered and with that she disappeared. And all the pipes burst, sending a river of water flooding into the highschool.
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It happened so fast that no one really knew what was going on. Elena heard the noises first. It sounded like gurgling water and she nudged Luke's arm to tell him about it but before she could even get a word out, the gurgling turned into rushing water noises.
"Luke, I hear water," Elena mumbled. He looked at her with raised eyebrows.
"What?" He questioned. She repeated herself about to go investigate but that was cut short as water started rushing into the gym. The girl that had kicked a ball at Evie's face started screaming for Lexi and Trenton to lift her up because her shoes weren't supposed to get wet. Classic Caroline.
The water kept coming until it was up to just past their knees. It was so murky, Elena had a feeling that at least some of it was from the sewers. At least it smelled fine. Elena carefully waddled towards the door with Luke trailing closely behind her to investigate. Just as they reached the gym doors they slammed shut in their face by some unknown force. Luke and Elena looked at each other.
"Magic," they said in unison. Elena pressed her face against the glass of the door. The water was getting higher now that the gym doors were closed as if someone had willed us protection. Who could be causing this?
"I don't know but you should go make sure that no one needs help. The water is getting higher out there," Luke said. The twins had a way of communicating with each other telepathically by thinking something and simply willing the other to hear. That's what Elena had done, she'd wanted input from her brother. Elena nodded slowly, twisting her hair into a bun and casted a spell under her breath. Then without a moment's hesitation she quickly threw open the doors and slid through, closing them behind her before nearly any water could get through. The water was nearly up to her neck so she dove under, the spell she cast making her tingle from head to toe. Her feet melted at the ends and formed flippers and she breathed in air under the dark water. She giggled. This was one of her favourite spells. She swam gracefully through the water, enjoying it as much as she could while looking for the cause of the flooded school. She noticed a lot of loose books and other school supplies floating around, so she collected them as she headed to where she knew the source must have been. The bathroom. She swam through the broken down door. To find cracks splintering across the floor, the sinks on, and each and every one of the toilets practically in bits with the pipe showing. Gross. She was right about the sewer water. She lowered herself to the floor pressing her flippers down into the crack tile, and closed her eyes.
"Reverse," she said. It was such a simple spell and unlikely to work if the spell was done on purpose but Elena had her suspensions and almost immediately the water started moving backwards. As if it was going back in time. Flowing back into the sinks and pipes and as it did so sealing everything in its path back up, including the door and the broken pipes. Elena sighed heavily as her feet returned to normal. She then exited the bathroom to return the soaking wet books and other things in her hands to their proper owners. Even if they were wet, because magic can't fix everything. After she’d finished that she began looking for the perpetrator of the water damage. She had a sneaky suspicion that Evie had caused this. Who else could it have been? A new student comes and the bathrooms get destroyed. That just couldn’t be a coincidence. As she wandered the halls she started to see students walking around that all looked extremely annoyed. Elena didn’t say much to anyone and briefly searched for magical energy with more of a difficult spell, that took a bit more energy than she intended it to but at least it worked. She picked up a trace of magic coming from somewhere high up and outside the school. Elena walked outside slowly and walked further forwards until she stood so she could spin around in a circle and see the whole front of the school. That was when it hit her like a zap of lightning. Whoever caused the destruction of school property was hiding on the roof.
Evie knew someone would come looking for her. She was crouched on the roof of Chime high -she decided to call it that so it wouldn't tie her tongue in knots- hiding from everyone. She didn't know how she ended up on the roof, but she did know that she had been so mad that she had probably teleported herself up there. It was quite chilly outside and Evie was shivering. Assuming she would be up there for quite some time, she was looking through the spell book she always had with her. It only had twenty five spells in it but it was still handy. At least she always had her charm bracelet with things to do when she was bored. She used a simple growing spell to make them real. Evie grabbed the blue book charm off her bracelet and said a growing spell under her breath. The charm grew to the size of a regular book labelled;
Land of wizards. As she read, completely distracted someone sneaked up on her.
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“Hey Evie, why are you on the roof?” Elena asked.
Evie jumped up, hiding the book behind her back.
“Geez, you scared me. Also I have no idea why I’m up here. Just needed a place to be alone for a bit,” She lied. Elena didn’t look convinced.
“It feels like you're keeping something from me. Besides, how did you get on the roof?” Elena questioned. Evie fell silent, she had a good point.
“You can tell me anything you know, we’re friends,”
Could she, though? Evie thought.
“I’m not so sure about that. We practically just met you know,” she said. Elena sighed
“Come on, let's get down from here” Elena said, as she walked towards the edge and swung her legs over. Evie followed. She found that Elena went down a ladder on the side of the school and probably assumed Evie had gone up that same way. When Evie reached the bottom she realized school was over already and the buses were not there.
“How am I going to get home?” Evie asked Elena. Looking up at the darkening sky.
“Luke and I can give you a ride, don’t worry,” Elena replied. The three of them piled into Luke's car which was a black fiat and then drove to Evie’s house.
“Thanks for the ride,” Evie thanked them.
“You’re welcome,” Luke said, with a friendly smile.
Evie's house was dark blue and pretty large. She walked inside to be greeted by their Corgi, Koda as well as May and Cora.
“You home Elie you home!” Evie's little sister Cora shouted.
“Yeah I’m home, thanks for noticing,” Evie said, melodramatically as her other siblings came bounding down the stairs like a herd of elephants.
“What took you so long?” whined Rose, Evie's eight year old sister.
“Things came up,” she replied simply.
“Oh ya, sureeee,” said her eleven year old sister Shayla sarcastically.
Evie stuck out her tongue at Shayla. It was one of those days where she felt like acting like she hated her siblings though in reality she did not.
“Mom I am heading to my room,” Evie called up the stairs as she headed to the basement. In her room was a huge bookshelf filled with a combination of spell books and normal books. In the center was a shiny brown coffee table. To the side was her desk which was littered with papers, pencil crayons, pastels, pencils and highlighters, with a big fat book in the center called; Finding your control. With a small subscript in the corner that read in bold letters; Love Grandma. Evie smiled fondly at the book, running her hands over the smooth cover as memories of good times flowed through her mind. Slowly she opened it up and skimmed through the pages taking in the sweet aroma of dusty old books that she loved for this reason only. Memories. Books carried memories and that was something that she loved so dearly. She found a page she liked a lot and stopped to read it properly.
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Learning to not explode but to Redirect
It is not about how angry you are, or how much you want to destroy someone for something they did. It's about how calm you are. If you are in full out rage you must seek the soft kind part of you and listen to not your mind but your heart. If you do these things during your anger your furry will cease. You'll come to understand your strengths and only little things will happen when you're mad because you will no longer hit that furry stage.
If you can not banish that anger then you must wield it, control it not hide, but redirect it to something happy and when it is directed at a happy thing it will become that. So no more explosions, only erosion.
-Look deep G -PAT
Grandma’s words always inspired her. Grandma's full name was Gazelle Kate Pats but everyone called her G-PAT. Grandma was the witch Evie got her magic from. Her daughter Cecilia was Evie's aunt and was also a witch. Evie took a highlighter and highlighted page three hundred five in the table of contents. Then she walked over to her bookshelf and pulled out the book labelled; A witches lair.
It opened a secret passage to her lair. Inside was a huge cauldron, a long counter with ingredients splayed across it, More spell books on a brown bookshelf, a witch hat, and a switch on the wall that turned it into a room with a large tv and a bean bag. Evie walked over to the bookshelf and grabbed a simple potion book. She had recently been trying to get better at making potions. She opened the book and flipped to page one hundred fifty two;
Levitation potion
-A pinch of sparkling daisies
- A spoonful of unicorn spit
- Two cups of goats milk
- A bucket of water
-A drizzle of spider silk
Mix the top four ingredients together at medium speed in cauldron, until bubbling, purple then add spider silk and say,
“Cesto Levato”
* And boom a Levitation potion, just drink and you levitate or someone else does.
* Add frog scales to make a splash potion.
So Evie went straight to it, she grabbed all the ingredients she needed from her various shelves and began to make the potion. She was about to put in the spider silk when someone knocked on her bedroom door.
“Just a minute,” she called, quickly throwing a freeze bomb in her potion. Which would stall it until she got back. She ran flicked the switch, ran up to her room, closed the secret entrance then said,
“Come in.” Luke walked into her room with his arms crossed instantly, surveying her room with wide suspicious eyes.
“What are you doing here? Y'all just dropped me off like ten minutes ago,” Evie asked, raising her eyebrows in confusion.
“Elena’s your partner for the Bio project. We completely forgot until we were almost home, then we turned around to come back ,” Luke answered.
“So where is she?” Evie questioned looking around him.
“In the bathroom,” He replied.
Evie quickly ran to her desk and slid the fake cover over her book from G-PAT.
“So, how are you?” Luke mischievously asked his eyes glued to Evie who at this point was panicking about all the witch stuff she had in her room.
“Making trouble,” Evie responded. Luke wandered around, slowly making his way over to Evie's desk. She quickly muttered a disguise spell. When she did all her witch books disappeared and were replaced with normal books.
“Cool books,” Luke said.
“Thanks,” Evie said, sighing a sigh of relief. Elena walked in.
“Hey,” Elena said, smiling brightly. Evie waved a slight quick flick of a hand in a gesture of “saying hello” before sitting down at her desk.
“We have to figure out what we're doing for our project,” Elena said, casually leaning against the wall. Evie didn’t say anything so Elena kept talking.
“I was thinking we chose the animal option,” Elena said, running her hand along Evie’s bookshelves. Evie simply glared at her and she slowly stopped.
“You realize I was busy before you came barging in,” Evie said, standing up with her arms folded over her chest.
“With what?” Elena asked suspiciously.
“Reading,” Evie lied.
“Oh ya that big book over there, or one that's on the shelf,” Elena snorted. Evie scratched her head thinking what to say. Luke still stood by the doorway and started slowly retreating away from the two girls.
“I have to go. Hanging out with Damon while you’re here. I will pick you up at five ok, bye,” Luke said and hurried to leave. Wow that’s boys for you.
“That's what I thought, look Evie I don't know what you want but you can't have it ok,” Elena snapped. Evie heard Luke’s car start up, hot and shaking now, she couldn't take it anymore she had to know. She walked up to Elena and grasped her wrist with a very strong grip that she had gotten from her mother.
“Hey, let go of me!” Elena growled. Evie let go, Elena's skin was purple where Evie had grabbed her. Elena panicked scratching at her now purple wrist and trying to rub it off with the sleeve of her hoodie.
“What did you do?” Elena asked, seemingly afraid but also curious. Evie smiled at her, she was so glad for that little trick that her grandmother had taught her when she was no more than six years old. It was an old witch trick that not many people knew anymore. You could grab someone’s wrist and it would turn purple if both of them were witches.
“So you're a witch.”