Chapter 2 Part 1

A FEW DAYS LATER

“Are you sure you have everything? Clothes? Toothbrush?” Mia’s mother asked frantically. She did this every year. As she was doing another check through the girl’s bags, Mia and Kassie did another make-up and hair check.

“Mom, we have everything. Can we go now? We’re going to be late.” Mia said putting her compact mirror back into her make-up bag. The opening ceremony started in a few hours, and she didn’t want to be late again just because her mother was trying to stall them.

“Just making sure. Looks like you have everything. Let me go get the teleporter started.” She walked away from the bags and headed into the garage where the teleporter stood. They only used to teleporter to get to and from school, so mostly it just collected dust. When her mom came back and gave the thumbs up, they headed down to the basement with her. The teleporter always looked like a giant can with a hole in it to Mia. Except for the many buttons and the light that shot out whenever somebody used it. Mia never liked the teleporter, She would much rather fly.

“Why don’t you go first Kassie? Mia will be there in just a moment.” She gave Kassie a hug good bye and motioned towards the teleporter. Mrs. Peterson never came to see her daughter go. Mia thought she was just unsupportive but Kassie just said that her mother thought it would be too sad to come see her go. Kassie hugged Mia and the stepped into the teleporter with her luggage. And then after a flash of light, she was gone. Mia’s mother turned to face her.

“Now Mia, do you have that amulet?” Mia took the amulet out that was hidden under her shirt. “Good. Now don’t let anyone know that you have that. And remember, never take it off” Then she gave her daughter a final hug goodbye. “Good luck, sweetie.” Then she let go and turned her around so that she faced the teleporter.

She walked into the teleporter and turned around to see her mother wave goodbye. Then a flash of light wrapped around her for a second. It was so bright that Mia had to close her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, she was in a dimly lit room. There were a few guards standing by the teleporter. Mia stepped out and left her luggage to be attended to, as it was taken to their rooms during the opening ceremony. She walked out of the room and entered a narrow hallway. The hallway was full of her classmates. They were all wearing the same thing: a red plaid skirt or pants, a white polo shirt, and black shoes. Mia had no idea why they were already wearing their uniforms when they didn’t have to until tomorrow.

“Mia, there you are! The ceremony is about to start.” Kassie said jumping up from behind her. Then she grabbed a hold of her arm and started pulling Mia to the cafeteria. The cafeteria always had red table clothes on all of the tables and a special table in the front where the teachers sat. They sat down at the table farthest from the teacher, since Mia could guess that none of them were happy that they were back. Then everyone got quiet suddenly as the head mistress, Mrs. Circe, walked up to a podium. She wore a long dark purple dress as always. Mia wondered if she ever got that thing washed.

“Welcome students, to a new school year. I hope you all had a wonderful summer…” Is she serious? This is the same speech she’s given every year. The only difference is the list of new kids that come every year. Mia doesn’t know what happened next because the next thing she heard was Kassie trying to wake her up.

“Mia, come on, wake up. You can sleep later once we get into our dorms.” She was waving some papers around that much be the papers that tell them where are rooms are. Not that they won’t get the same room every year.

“Okay, okay. I’m up.” Mia said, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She was lucky nobody was here but them. They left the cafeteria and walked the many stairs and hallways until they reached their room. Did the person who designed this place love mazes or something? They opened the door to reveal their room. It wasn’t mush. Their room was in the shape of an octagon with two beds on opposite sides of the room. There was one door that led to a very big closet, half for Kassie half for Mia. There was a see through door between the two beds that led to the balcony. There was another door next to Kassie’s bed that led to the bathroom.

“Ah, how I’ve missed this room. It’s so much more colorful than my room at home.” Kassie said as she belly flopped onto her bed. It was true, compared to this room her room looked totally gray. And it literally was. Her mother never let anything really colorful into their house.

“While you get reacquainted with your bed, I’ll be at the library. I want to see if there are any new books worth reading.” She tip toed out of the room while her friend was kissing her pillow. Then she ran down the hallway and down a flight of dimly lit stairs until she came up to a pair of double doors. She opened one of the doors and stepped inside.  She was greeted by rows and rows of books. For some reason, they always brought her peace of mind.

Chapter 1 Part 2

“There is something I need to give you before you leave,” she walked across the room and picked up the box. Mia only heard her sound that serious when she was referring to her magic powers. Yes, she was a witch-as was Kassie-but for some reason whenever it was mentioned she turned all serious even in the happiest of moments. That’s why Kassie and she had to go to a private witch school in Britain. Sure people made fun their accents-mainly Kassie since she had a country accent- but they got in there for free and there were no witch schools in America. “You’ll need this if you are to go back to that horrible school again,” her mother said as she slipped something around Mia’s neck, making her realize where she was. Mia looked down and noticed a delicate amulet around her neck. It had a star that was just like the one on the back of her neck.

“Um…thanks,” she said, no way was she going to wear this for her first day of school.

“Now listen to me, Mia. You must never take off this amulet, do you hear me? Some very evil things are going on at that school and this will protect you.” Mia hadn’t a clue what her mother was talking about, but she didn’t want to accuse her of being crazy. Sure the people weren’t very nice, but there was no need for a charmed necklace to protect her from bullies that had nothing better to do than make fun of the Americans.

“Yeah, sure Mom,” she said kind of nervously. “Can I go back upstairs now? I don’t want to keep Kassie waiting.” She was already heading upstairs even though her mother hadn’t answered her question.

“There may not be a need to. Her mother is going to be here to pick her up in just a few minutes.” Just as she was saying it, there was a knock at the door. Mia was betting her allowance that that was Kassie’s mom, here to ruin their good time like always. They both reached the top of the stairs just as the door started banging even louder. Is she planning on breaking our door down? Mia thought to herself. Her mom went up and opened the door.

“Why hello Mrs.—”

“Were you planning on answering the door before the next ice age or are you just slow?” Mrs. Peterson snapped. Mrs. Peterson didn’t like her mom. And she made it her business to make it show. With her blond hair pulled into a bun so tight it looked like the skin on her face was going to rip any second, and her gray business suit looking extra boring today.  “Kassandra, it is time to come home. Hello Mia, it is good to see you again.” Who was she fooling? Mia knew that Mrs. Peterson didn’t like her any more than she liked her mother. And why does she always call Kassie Kassandra? She knows Kassie hates to be called that.

“Bye Mia. See you tomorrow. Thanks for having me over Mrs. Scarlett.” With a hug for Mia and a wave to Mrs. Scarlet, Kassie walked away with her mother. Then Mia’s mother closed the door and walked back down the hallway towards the kitchen. Mia could have sworn she heard her mother muttering something along the lines of …hate that woman. Who does she think…. Mia just walked back towards her room so she could put everything away.

Chapter 1 part 1

“Hey Kassie what do you think of this hairstyle for our first day back to school?” Mia said holding up a picture of a girl that has a very complicated bun.

“Hmm. I don’t think it is you, but we can try it,” Kassie said as she picked up the hairbrush off the redwood dresser. She walked up and sat down on the black bed behind Mia and started brushing her long brown hair. “Let me see if I can get it right.” She moved her hair around and around while Mia handed her the scrunchy that was on her wrist. “There I think I got it right. Go look in the mirror.” Mia stood up and walked towards the mirror that sat on top of her dresser and checked herself in the mirror. Her hair was up just the way she wanted it. Kassie always was great with hair.

“It looks great!” she said as she turned around to face her best friend. “Now onto the makeup portion of our preparation,” she said as she picked up her make-up kit and walked back to the bed and sat down. She opened up the kit and pulled out a little container of eye shadow and started putting some on. “I think I’ll go dark and mysterious by adding some black eye shadow. What do you think?” she asked as she finished and looked over at Kassie.

“You look great; the eye shadow really brings out your brown eyes. Now what should we do about me?” Kassie asked as she picked up the abandoned magazine and started flipping through the pages. “None of the people have short, curly, blond hair like me. And none of these articles say anything about bringing out blue eyes. I have nothing to use as my inspiration,” she said dramatically flopping down on the bed and dropping the magazine. What she was saying was true, not too many people had hair like hers. Even though Mia had told her again and again that she wished she could have hair like hers, she still acted dramatic about being so different.

“Why don’t you just leave your hair alone? We both know that you are so beautiful that you don’t need anything to bring out your beauty. You’re so natural,” Mia said as she tried to get her friend to sit up. “Why don’t we take a break and go get some snacks out of the kitchen? My mom said that she would make us some cookies so we could be the little pigs she knows we are.” She finally got Kassie to stand up and dragged her out of her bedroom and led her to the kitchen. Her mother was indeed in the kitchen and she was letting her famous chocolate chip cookies cool off on the steel rack. When she saw them entering the kitchen she smiled. Kassie kept telling Mia how beautiful her mom was. With her shoulder-length dark brown hair tied back into a messy ponytail and dark brown eyes, she looked like an older version of Mia.

“Hello girls. How about a snack?” she motioned towards the cookie tray, “be careful. They’re still a little hot.” Mia and Kassie both picked up a cookie and started nibbling on the sweet treat. “So, school is starting soon. Do you guys have everything ready?”

“Yup, now we’re deciding what we’re going to look like on our first day. A good first impression is important you know?” Mia said through a mouthful of cookie.

“And you should know,” Kassie said picking up a napkin and dabbing her face. “Actually we’ve been deciding what she is going to wear. I can’t find anything that would work.”

“Well, whatever you choose I’m sure you’ll look great. Oh, I almost forgot something. Mia, could you come with me for a second?” Mia followed her but when Kassie started to come after them she held up her hand and said, “Kassie, why don’t you stay here. Don’t worry, we won’t be long.” She then left Kassie in the kitchen and lead Mia down the hallway. She then turned to face the wall and pushed at it until a staircase appeared before them. Then they started their departure down the steps. Mia knew very well that the house that she lived in held many secrets and passageways. She knew this because when she was little, she would wander the house and found many different tunnels. But this tunnel was not familiar to her, so she tried not to gape at the little room that was lit by candlelight that came up before her. The only thing in the little room was a table with a box on it with a lit candle.

My Story

This is my story titled "Mia's Magic." But you should probably already know that. The picture to the right (if I haven't changed it) is the cover picture that I used for my story. Isn't it pretty? Don't worry, I asked permission from the person who owns the picture before I used it (Dang, that was so long ago). If you want to see more of the pictures that this person had made please visit http://xcrystlxdiamndx.deviantart.com

This is not a Skulduggery Pleasant fan fic (even though it is completely awesome). But I still you want you to read it because it the only really good writing I have done in.......forever. Be warned that I wrote this when I was in the 8th grade so it might not be as amazing as all of those other stories out there, but you still have to read it.
Ok, enough of that. I'll post the first part of chapter one..........eventually.