CRASH, BANG, BOOM!! Footsteps could be heard at the door, and the next moment an elderly woman entered the room. Two small creatures could be seen wrestling on the floor; all the furniture thrown apart, the room was a wreck. One of the two creatures slightly resembled a girl, except she was 1 foot tall, and had green skin. The other creature was a blue and pink bunny. The woman took a small pouch, seemingly out of thin air, and took a handful of something out of it. She opened her hand and revealed shimmering gold-colored dust, which she proceeded to pour over the two creatures, transforming them into teenage girls. In their new shape, the former bunny immediately jumped on the other and began to strangle her.
“Enough!” cried the woman.
The former bunny released her victim and moved away. She waved her hand, and a piece of furniture turned over, appearing to be a bed. With another wave, the covers flew over it, and the bed was made.
The other girl began to do the same, as the woman began to lecture them, “you two fight too often. Why can’t you get along? You are sisters after all, is it really so hard? Maybe some distance would do you well; maybe a new environment. That’s why I’ve decided: I’m sending both of you away from home. Your father and I can’t live like this anymore. You’ve broken our house so much already, and we can only fix it with a spell so many times before the tax charges grow too large. After doing a little research, I’ve found a school that I think will suit you both. I warn you, though, it’s not in our kingdom. It’s in the land of the humans,” she placed a brochure on the already made bed, and left the room.
“Do you think she’ll really send us, Mia?” asked the girl who was formerly green.
“Doesn’t matter, I just hope I wont have to share a room with you, or be in any of your classes if we do go,” Mia replied.
The formerly green girl looked glumly at her shoes and began to walk towards the door. As she approached the door, she was stopped short, “wait Quin…” Mia paused, as Quin turned around, “mom’s sending us away because we don’t get along, so I guess we could try staying together there.”
Quin’s face lit up, and the two sisters sat down on Mia’s bed and looked at the brochure together.
As dawn came, three silhouettes were seen in the dim light. One came closer to the others, hugged both and slowly walked away. The other two stood in their places and watched her leave. When she could not be seen anymore, they both picked up a small suitcase. They clapped their hands, and muttered something under their breath, simultaneously, and then disappeared.
“Name?” said a man behind a desk in a monotonic voice.
“She’s Mia, and I’m Quin,” said Quin, “We sent a letter a few weeks ago; we’re the new students.”
“Room 713,” said the man in the same indifferent voice, as he gave them a small key.
They began to walk down the long hallway, Quin gazing at the massive building before them, and Mia trying to make sense of the map they received upon entrance. Suddenly, the hallways emptied.
“Mia, leave the map; there’s no one around; we can find our room without it.”
“No Quin, mom said we can’t use magic here. If anyone finds out we’re witches, we won’t be able to stay, and our lives will be completely ruined. Just imagine, we’ll have no friends, we’ll be excluded and exiled from everything, and in the end, we’ll be forced to spend the rest of our lives together… just the two of us!!”
“That sounds great to me, but if you insist then fine, I won’t use any magic,” she looked at the map for the first time, and drew a path with her finger, showing the way to their new room.
Ignoring how easily Quin found the room, Mia led the way down the hallway. At last, after 15 minutes of walking around winding hallways, Mia stopped. Quin, not realizing this, bumped into her, and they both fell down, like dominoes.
“What are you doing?!” Mia exclaimed.
“Why’d you stop?” Quin answered.
“We’re here… smart one,” Mia replied, sarcastically.
They quickly got up and Mia began to open the door, immediately stopped by Quin’s hand.
“Don’t go in! We have to savor this moment. It’s our first experience in our new house,” Quin opened her hand, palm up, and in an instant a camera appeared; “now we can send pictures to mom and dad!”
“Quin, I told you: we’re not allowed to use magic here!” Mia said as she opened the door.
They both walked in, Quin with camera ready in hand, and Mia looking back at her, still angry. Neither of them noticed the clutter at their feet. Again, they tripped and fell, thus Quin’s first record of her new home was a picture of the ceiling.
In this awkward position, a third party entered the room. A young man, looking at a packet, folded over, came in without noticing the two girls on the floor. He tripped over them, and the three just lied there, staring at each other.
Finally, Mia asked, “Who are you?”
“Sho Tanaka. Why are you two in my room?”
“We’re not. This is our room, 713; just like we were assigned,” said Quin, smiling as she got up.
“Hmmm… that’s odd, I could have sworn I was walking into 715. That’s my room. Are you new to this school?” Sho asked.
“New to the school, new to the world—” Quin was cut off by Mia’s Hand.
Mia, laughing nervously, tried to cover up Quin’s slip up, “She means new to the country. We’re umm, from…”
“Djibouti!” Quin answered before Mia had a chance.
“Interesting. Is that in…” Sho wondered for a moment, “Africa?”
“Umm… sure,” answered Mia before Quin took another opportunity to add to their new history.
“Alright, well since you’re new, would you like me to give you guys a tour of the school?” Sho offered.
“Sounds like fun! I’m in,” Quin exclaimed.
“Yes, that’s very nice of you, I’ll come too,” Mia added, then turning to Quin, she said through gritted teeth, “don’t you want to get started on unpacking?”
“Hmm? Oh, I get it! I changed my mind. I have a ton to do today, so you two can go on your own.”
“Alright, if you insist,” Sho said indifferently.
As the two of them left, Quin looked out the door and whispered a few words. She slowly turned away and with a sigh, closed the door and began to unpack.
“Now, what should I unpack first?” she wondered, “Oh, I know!”
With a wave of here hand, a whirlwind of books flew out of her small suitcase and raced across the ceiling. Another wave brought out an entire bookcase, landing in the corner of the room. The books followed it and set themselves neatly on the shelves. This continued for another half hour, when all of the sudden Mia burst into the room, dragging Sho with her.
“Quin!! What did you do to—” she stopped short as soon as she saw all of their clothes flying through the room. Mia and Sho stood speechless. Upon Quin’s notice of them, everything fell to the floor. Sho followed suit, and fainted.
Overcoming the shock of Quin’s magic use, Mia regained her ability to speak, “Are you insane?!”
She tried to move closer, but remebered her original problem when Sho’s unconscious body was dragged with her at the motion, “I can’t believe this, first you put a spell on me to ruin any chance I had with Sho, and now you expose us as witches by using magic!”
“I’m sorry, I just wanted to help. I don’t see how a closeness spell could have turned out bad though.”
“I hate you! Now, not only am I attached to him at the elbow, but now he thinks I’m a freak of nature too!”
“Attached?” she paused to wonder what this could mean, and then exclaimed, “Oh! I get it. When I said he should find an instant attachment to you, it probably was taken literally. Oops. I’ll be more careful next time, I promise.”
“There isn’t going to be a next time! It’s over, I’m leaving, and I’m going to go somewhere where you can never embarrass me again!”
Quin turned around to Sho, clapped her hands, and whispered a spell. An hour passed, and he awoke, lying on the floor of Mia and Quin’s room.
“What happened? The last thing I remember, I was about to show you around campus,” Sho asked.
“Well, you see, when you turned to open the door, the man bringing the rest of our things beat you to the punch, and the door slammed against your head, so you lost consciousness.” Quin explained.
“Oh. Well, would you like me to show you around now then?”
“That’s alright, it’s getting a bit late, and we should probably unpack before it gets too late.” Mia answered.
Quin looked at her in disbelief, wondering if this meant she’d stay after all.
“Maybe another day then?” Sho suggested.
“Sure,” Mia said.
Just like that, the first risk the sisters ran of exposure subsided. Quin sat down on the floor by her suitcase, and began to unpack her things by hand. Mia, however, began to unpack her own things taking every short cut available.
With Mia’s things flying across the room, Quin couldn’t help but wonder why Mia was allowed to use magic, but she was not. However, they finished unpacking without a word said, and upon nightfall went to sleep. So their first day in this new world, full of excitement and surprises, ended, as only a prediction of what was to come.
A look into the next morning, though, would find Quin awaking with blue polka dots over everything she owned, including her own body, and Mia nowhere to be found. Thus Mia’s revenge was fulfilled, and their lives together in this unique place continued, with a constantly active two-sided quarrel.
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