Maldiction

I close my eyes Trying to drown out the noise in the Classroom. Breathe, just breathe. It’s going to be fine. Nothing is going to happen, it's just a precaution, nothing will happen. Just tests… and needles.. And doctors.

My anxiety hits me like a truck. It makes me so nervous that I can’t think about anything else but these problems. The headmistress sent me a letter this morning, I opened it and it informed me that I was to have more tests. Not the math tests or biology ones but Medical and scientific ones. I hate doctors with a strong fear of them. I realise that they save people but they couldn’t save the ones i asked them to. My parents. I know that know one could have saved them but it helps me to blame them. That's about all that helps.

“Besides me..” A voice in my head taunts. The first time I heard it i thought i was going insane. It was right after my parents death that it appeared in my thoughts and the sound in my ears. I could hear it so clearly that I asked a person next to me if they heard that. Of course they didn’t. The voice is neither a female voice nor is it male. It just is. Always changes. It always gives me chills. It forms from a dark magic that is forbidden to use. Everyone has a pull towards it in their lives but usually fades away with them using the “Good/Light” magic that is enforced. I was 6 when they past away, im turning 18 in five days. I use the magic i am supposed to but it also has to do with my…. Well bound.

“Andrea. I need your eyes to be open in my class to actually learn something.” Mr.Phillips calls out, startling me from my mental freak out and panic attack. I open my eyes to see everyone looking at me which just makes the voice laughed, and me a little embarrassed but it’s quickly made anger. I stare straight back at them and give them dirty looks. Some seem disgusted and some look like they are giving me pity while others look bored and I was entertainment. Mr.Philips or Leo as he refers me to call him, has been my caretaker for a long time. He was a bit older than my mother when I first met him. He has Copper Brown eyes and Dark Brown hair. Similar to mine. He has always looked out for me since I first arrived to the school up till now.

“Andrea!” My mother, Angelina Moon,called after me. I giggled and ran to the water fountain, the center space of the school. I peeked over it to see the lotus flower on top of the water, it was the prettiest flower I had ever seen. With a faint shade of pink on the tips. The water was a light shade of blue. I tip over the edge a little more to touch one and lose my balance. I yelp and close my eyes. Bracing myself for the impact of the water but it never came. I open my eyes to see my face right in front of a flower hovering, it's a little blurry from how close I was.

“Wow…” I mumble under my breath. I was hovering over the flower. It was like magic! I turn my face to see a man with his hand stretched out. It was almost as if he was holding me over the edge. Wait was he? He winked and moved his hands that I noticed were hovering in the air. I started to move up and back over the edge to my feet. I fiddle with my white lace dress as I look down. Nervous to see the man that saved me from a very angry mother if my dress got wet. Plus a very embarrassing first day.

A hand touches my chin and lifts my head up, the man is before me, kneeling so that we are almost at eye level. He has brown hair like mine and unlike mine he has Copper Brown eyes. Almost like a dirty penny! A bit of a stubble. His jawline was proment.

“Your name sweetheart?” He asks me and smiles slightly. His voice smooth, but it wasn't as deep as I would have imagined but I liked it. I blink a few times, my mind blank.

“Andrea Tyler Moon, but my mom and dad call me Andie.” I reply smiling, proud to use my full name. My parents are always telling me to be proud of my name. That they have worked hard for it. Of course they didn't tell me why or how my name was known.

The man looked amused, slightly shocked but almost proud in a sense. He had something in his eyes that I couldn't decipher in time before he smiled and covered any trace of what he hid. My father said I had a knack for finding out the truth. Even if it took forever. So I didn't try and figure it out now. I have all school year.

“My name is Leonardo Phillips. But my friends call me Leo. You can call me that if you want, on the weekends, of course.” He winks and looks up behind me. I look up to see my mother behind me putting on a fake smile which I would only know because she uses it with my father when she is unhappy, her blonde hair was curled, she curled it freshly that morning. Her blue eyes held a look in them that I had never seen before, her begging or pleading while looking at the man. She must have felt me staring because she glanced down at me seeing that I was looking. Her eyes filled with love.I walked over to her and I leaned back into her body. My mother always smelled of a fun warm summer day at the ocean. Her body seemed tense but relaxed a little with me.

My father, Jonathan Moon, Beside my mother he held a blank faced, his black hair and brown eyes always made him look frightening. He was a gentleman to me and my mother most of the time. However he commanded respect and didn't take any less. He was always working, somewhere, my parents were very secretive on the where and why.

I look back at the man. He was staring at my father. The two seemed to know each other. It was getting tense and I knew that if someone said something to offend my father there would be a price to pay and this wouldn't be a pleasant first day. I took my father's hand. His hand was giant compared to mine. He looked down at me and his face softened a little. No smile or frown just blank emotions hidden. I look back at Leo. He was watching me? A little odd but maybe he had a kid. Maybe he wasn't very good at the parenting thing? Who knows. Maybe he thought I was crazy? Well I did just think he made me hover over a flower...soo..

“Okay Mr.Phillips.” I say smiling. Leaning off of my mother my hand still holding onto my father's larger hand.

Leo was watching me now and chuckled. “Or should I have said inside school hours?”

“It's fine Leo- Leoarndo . She needs to practice.” My mother interrupts, her soft hand on my shoulder nugging me along. We walk a little and I turn to see the man-Leo behind me on one knee the same way facing us waving. I wave back and turn around.

That was one of the few memories I have of them. I was six, I don’t remember much from then.

I nodded at leo and he resumed his lesson on the topic we will be discussing tomorrow. I am not the smartest person in the room but I am far from the dumbest. I make it my business to learn all about magic, since it might kill me one day.

“I won’t let that happen, even if you “died” you would be reborn with me by your side.” The voice sounds like a gruff male to a soothing coaxing male voice.

“Just Shut up!” I shout. Stabbing my pen into my arm. I look up to see everyone still watching Leo. He still talks as loud as the voice.

“Oh come on don’t be that way, we are much better together, sooner or later you will see that..” The voice changes from male to female. It makes my blood boil. I close my eyes trying not to rage. “Besides you’d miss me..as you always do. We both know you enjoyed the magic that one time when we-”

“Shut your damn Mouth!” The room around me goes dead quiet. I look up from my hand the in clenched around my pen that I jabbed into my leg to see everyone staring at me. My breathing is heavy. Don’t pass out, Don’t pass out. I see Leo staring at me like he is concerned but he knows he can’t ask here not with them here. He regains himself from my outburst and talks loud enough everyone is compelled to look at him.

“Andrea wait in the hall. Everyone else let's finish up.” He says sternly. His eyes met mine daring me. “We will talk after class. Now Hall.” I don’t question or bother fighting because I know that he will not give in this time. This has happened before a little over a year ago. I was confined to a medical bed when he finally got word of what was happening he was so upset he had me moved into his class which is why I am here. He blamed himself for not releasing the signs. It wasn’t his fault I tried to handle everything on my own. We both did..

I get up not bothering to grab my stuff and leave the room, being careful not to punch a few girls who looked at me disgusted and mocking me. That was the hardest part.

“One day.. One day they will get what they deserve.” I don’t bother to argue or fight, because fighting is what lend me here.

I lean against the school wall, It’s made of rough old stone so I am careful not to tear my clothes. Or my skin. I am dressed in a simple black t-shirt and jeans with a plaid button up shirt. I left the button undone. My Black Boots I have on, have a thick wedge heel. My dark brown hair was shoulder length at the tips and angled towards the back. So I can’t do much to it other than a ponytail and sorta curl it. I rarely curl it. Ponytail keeps it out of my way but having it down like today was necessary, to many ponytails give me headaches.

So I wait for Leo, waiting leaning on the stone walls on my school.

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Hey Little Jays, I hope you enjoyed the First part.

What do you think of Andrea so far, What vibes do you get from her.

See ya!