“We have to find her!” Isis declared as I sat up.
“Uhhhh no we don’t!” I stated. “We don’t have to do anything! Why are we already taking on side missions?! We don’t even know this lady and she doesn’t even know her damn self!”
“Ayira told the witch she wants to see what life is like out here,” Souxie said softly as she smiled. “Why not let her see what life is like…”
“Okay so what about the random man yelling at her from earlier?” Isis asked. Maggie suddenly hit the table with her hand.
“Danielle said she was engaged! I remember she said it on the train because we were talking about weddings and she’s…she’s engaged!”
“What?!” Ayira gawked. “I cannot be married to any man!”
“Well apparently, he thinks you’re his soon to be wife,” Maggie laughed with a slap of her knee. “I heard they had to bring him into a building to calm him down. I guess he wasn’t expecting you or Danielle to be here. Did you get your room assignment? I think you and I are sharing rooms on Legacy Row.”
I watched as the three girls immediately took to Ayira while I remained quiet, still untrusting. It was cool in the beginning when I saw she had that man crashing out but now that she was a little too close too soon, I wasn’t sure how to feel. So she takes her sister’s life and instead of freaking out and panicking on wanting to go back, this…is what she wants? Did she not feel anything for her sister on where she might be? How can you trust anyone that moves like that?
“It’s decided,” Isis said. “We will have to protect her identity. The school thinks she’s Danielle who requested sanctuary here which means she’s protected. No one will come for her here.”
“As long as they don’t know who she really is,” Souxie added.
“Aye losers!?”
I looked down to see the chunky black cat come wobbling his way over with his stomach sloshing from side to side. Quan the cat looked up at the chair before deciding to walk towards Souxie’s chair because he knew she would pick him up and place him on the table.
“It is fate!” Ayira blurted out with laughter as she pointed at Quan. “I have a cat named Minka! She talks to me as well! We are living parallel lives.”
“Yeah well…I’m not a cat. I’m actually a grown ass man,” he said. “A real one. The realest one you’ll ever meet.”
“Quan Mitty, what did you want to say?” Souxie asked as she ran her fingers gently down his back. He arched his body into her nails as his hair flickered in waves down his body with his black tail curling up into a question mark before relaxing.
“I was just shocked y'all aren’t at the fields…Everyone is there now…probably not any seats left. It’s just one big ol reunion for Drew Collins students.”
I looked back seeing the dining hall was bone dry with the door closing shut with a loud bang of an echo.
…
“Welcome incoming Drew Collins students! The end of the summer is going to be one for the books!” The announcer said as we walked through the open gate of the old stadium. It was packed with the lights shining down on the overgrown field. I found myself getting excited all over again at the possibility of starting over at the school. The stadium seats were full of students ranging in ages with some of the younger teens and kids watching alongside their older siblings and parents. I smiled and waved at the group of siren girls sitting at the top row pretty much dominating an entire section for themselves. Isis clung to my arm only to get pulled away by a guy that caused her to shriek with joy as the two hugged.
She will always naturally be the center of attention no matter the room she walks in. Souxie on the other hand walked with grace as the girls sitting on the first row eyed her with envy.Souxie Lafayette already had the reputation of a Goddess at the school. As one of the most dangerous, most beautiful students here, she made herself appear untouchable. Quan walking beside her made it no better as he hissed at everyone like her furry guard.
“Where are my Kappa ladies?!” Someone suddenly shouted as she stood up in the center of the stands. The sudden loud chirping squeal of the sorority girls responding to one another. “The games are at the end of this summer! Please remember to stop by our booth during market days and come check out theeeeee ever loving everlasting KAPPA PHI MUUUUUUUU!”
The sudden burst of fire shot in the air in the shape of Greek letters, lingered above the stands as everyone clapped and cheered.
“Ladies of Kappa Phi Muuuu! Who better than to set the world a blazeeee!” One squealed as they began to chant in unison. I rolled my eyes at the stomping and cheering while Ayira became fixated on the girls in awe. One of the girls stood up with her body tilted forward as she held her hand out and playfully blew on it as fire began to spread like a torch.
“It’s so rare to see those who can handle fire! There aren’t that many prokinetics’ born these days. It’s such an old form of magic!” Isis exclaimed as she clapped. “Their entire sorority is filled with talented top tier elemental students!”
“I can do the same shit with a cigarette lighter,” I snorted with a roll of my eyes. I was ready to start walking again trying to catch up to Maggie who was stopped every other minute to talk to someone. That’s when Ayira suddenly took it upon herself to step up on the bleachers.
“What the hell is she doing?!” I hissed as Souxie stood with her arms crossed, amused. “Somebody go get her!”
Ayira suddenly raised her hands up against her chest as she inhaled before slowly releasing her breath as fire, the color of royal blue, blew from her mouth and nostrils. My mouth dropped. The fire spilled like bright waves. She let her fingertips grip the flames to stretch before suddenly dissipating into a wisp of smoke drifting in the air. Nobody said a word, but she had everyone’s attention all the same. The girls from the sorority stared with annoyance, the men were intrigued and even those on the sideline of the fields were turned to see the blue flame princess. Maggie was the first to rush towards her, almost tripping over her own feet when she grabbed both of Ayira’s hands.
“How in the hell did you do that?!” She shrieked. Souxie came up to her next while Isis leaned in.
“How amazing was that?” A growing crowd was beginning to get curious about the apparent rarest newest student at Drew Collins. It wasn’t enough that she was about to become the latest obsession. Maggie seemed almost attached to her off the rip but when Solomon King almost brushed past me to get to her, I shook my head and followed.
“Don’t think you’d get her attention with your sing-song shit,Kodak Flack,” I called out. Solomon turned around with a suck of his teeth in annoyance.
