My First Day

     The castle was the biggest building I ever saw. It had to have at least 50 stories. And, it looked just like a castle from ancient times. There were even gargoyles on some of the walls. As we got nearer I saw more and more details and the more impressive it looked.

     Eventually, we got to the giant front door and the teacher leading our group, Ms. Habet, who was an old lady with a wrinkled face, white hair and a bad temper, pushed the door open. We were then in a big open room lit with torches. Right ahead of us there was another giant door only this time, it was slightly smaller. I glanced at Dylan with a nervous look. He simply smiled an amazing smile and held my hand. I blushed a bit and only lightly locked fingers with him. I didn’t want to seem too desperate.

     Ms. Habet left through the doors and not until she left, did I notice the stair cases on either side of the room. They looked identical, both leading up so you couldn’t see where it went unless you were actually on the stairs.

      “Hey,” I whispered to Brella, “Where do you think those stairs go?”

     “Oh, yeah, sure.” She replied, obviously not listening to me. She was talking to another boy. He had brown hair that was about 5 shades lighter than Dylan’s. His eyes were bright baby blue. But, the most shocking thing about him was he had the body of a horse where his legs were supposed to be! He was a centaur!!

     “So, who’s that?” I asked Brella in an ‘oooo somebody likes the centaur boy’ sort of voice.

     “This is Joey.” She replied, blushing a bit.

     “Hi Joey,” I smiled at him. “I’m Nick.”

     “And I’m Dylan.” Dylan politely added. Brella looked over at us for the first time and saw we were holding hands. She grabbed my free hand and pulled me away from Dylan, squealing.

     “Why didn’t you tell me Dylan is your boyfriend?!” She almost screamed.

     “What? Oh, no he’s not, he’s just a friend!” I told her, but I could feel my face getting hot and knew I was blushing.

     “Oh please, you both love each other, its obvious.” She said.

     “What, no, I might maybe like him…a bit, but"“

     “A BIT?! Please!! You love him!” She said.

     “Whatever.” I mumbled, hoping Dylan didn’t hear any of that. When I got back to Dylan he just smiled at me and held my hand again. He didn’t mention mine and Brella’s conversation at all! Hmm, maybe he does like me. I thought to myself. Wait, no, he can’t, why would he like ME?!

     Just then, Ms. Habet bursted through the door and said, “Follow me.” We all walked through the huge doors and entered the biggest room I had ever sen! To the right there were three long tables and one extra long the on the left. The table on the left was made of wood, placed with empty plates and it seated 11 adults. I bet those are the teachers. The tables on the right were all horizontal.

     The closest table was placed on a red and yellow striped rug. The table itself was dark brown. All the student sitting at it were looking at our huge group of first years, smiling. They were all either a Neko, Fallen Angel, Fairy or looked completely normal! There were about 300 student at the table overall. The were wearing the same thing, all the same colors as the carpet and table. I wonder what these colors mean. I thought.

     As we walked forward, I spotted the next table. It was set up like the first one except the colors were blue, pink and tan. The students sitting at this table were simply staring at us with blank faces.

     The last table was the same as the first two but with the colors orange and green and black. These kids were all scowling, glaring or paying no attention to us at all.

     Once we reached the middle of the room Ms. Habet spoke,

     “These three tables seat three different groups of species. These groups are Zephalor,” there was a loud cheer from the green and orange table. “Udellan,” another cheer, this time from the blue and pink table, “and Phodessel.” Then, there was the loudest cheer, louder than both of the other cheer combined. “These groups were formed centuries ago by Zane Zaphalor, Phil Phodessel and Unelle Undellan. These are the founders of Lestings.

     “The group of Zephalor is full of the proud Vampires, Giants, Dragons, Werewolves and Ghosts. Phodessel holds the brave Nekos, Fallen Angels, Fairies and Shape Shifters. And lastly, in Udellan, there are intelligent Wizards, Witches, Merpeople and Centaurs. All species in each group are similar in some way and therefore each group is like a family.” She now addressed the first years instead of everybody in the room. “Now, please take a seat at the appropriate table according to your species.” And she again said which species should go to which table.

     Dylan, Brella and I walked over to the table that seated the group Phodessel, me in the middle. Joey had left to ho sit at the Udellan table. At our table there was an empty plate in front of each seat and empty platters spread out all around the tables. I thought we were going to have a feast? I thought, quite confused. As if Dylan read my mind he leaned over and whispered into my ear,

     “Just wait, it’s really cool.”

     Just then, a lady who looked about sixty but somehow still young stood up. She had light brownish/grey hair that was short and a little puffy. She was wearing a long, flowing, purple dress. Even from far away you could see her piercing blue eyes. I knew right away that this was Professor Findlor.

     When she stood up she looked around the room at everybody and spoke, “Let’s begin the feast!” And suddenly, all the platters were filled with all kinds of delicious food. Everybody instantly started grabbing food and piling their plates. Dylan and I finally let go of each other’s hands.

     After we were done eating dinner all the dirty plates and platters disappeared and were replaced with clean plates and platter full of dessert. After we finished stuffing ourselves during dessert all the dishes cleared away and Professor Findlor told us to go to bed. Dylan led us to the Phodessel main room. It was a pretty big room full of brain, red and yellow. There was a fireplace on the left of the room. Around it were four couches: two love couches, and two three-people couches. They were all a very dark red. On the right of the room there were four tables all seating about ten people each. On the far side of the room were two doors. One labeled ‘Boys Dorm’ and the other said ‘Girls Dorm’.

     “Just go through that door and look for the room that says your name on it. Your stuff will already be there.” Dylan explained to me, pointing at the door that said ‘Girls Dorm’.

     “Okay, goodnight Dylan.” I giggled.

     “Goodnight Nick.” He smiles at me one last time and walked through the door going to the boys dorms. I looked at Brella and we walked through the other door. There were two long hallways. One held the year’s 1-4 dorms and the other 5-7. Brella and I walked down the left hallway for years 1-4. After a couple minutes of searching I found a door that said five names on it including ‘Nicole Winters’.

     “I found my room,” I told Brella. I looked above the name and saw a fancy 12 written in gold on the door. “Wait, is your last name Marsical?” I asked.

     “Yeah, why?”

     I screamed and hugged her, “We’re roommates!!” I was so excited that I would be with somebody I knew! We walked inside and saw two girls who were sitting on beds and talking. One of them was a Neko. The other one was a Shape-Shifter. I could tell because she was changing the color of her hair. There were talking about her hair, trying to decide between brown, straight hair, black straight hair with blonde highlights or dirty blonde curly hair.

     “Hi!” I almost yelled at them since I was so excited. They looked over, kind of stunned. Then, their surprised looks melted away into smiles.

     “Hi, I’m Cathleen, but just call me Cat.” The Neko said. I giggled to myself; Cat, because she is half-cat.

     “I’m Ambyr,” Said the shape-shifter. She had decided on straight black hair with blonde highlights.

     “I’m Nick.”

     “And I’m Brella” Brella added, excitedly.

     “Nice to meet you,” Cat said, “Autumn is in the bathroom, doing her hair…AGAIN!” she and Ambyr rolled their eyes at the same time.

     “She does that a lot?” I asked.

     “She doesn’t stop! She is almost always playing with her hair or at least make-up!” Ambyr explained. Just then, another girl walked out of the bathroom. She had wings, just like Dylan.

     “Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” she screeched and ran toward me and Brella. “People!!” she pulled both of us into a huge bear hug.

     “Hi!” I managed to get out. It was hard to breathe; she was small, but strong! She let us go and I finished, “I’m Nick.”

     “And I’m Brella.” We told her. She glanced at me and smiled then looked at Brella.

     “Wow! You have a good sense of fashion!” she sounded very impressed with Brella’s clothes and hair. Brella was wearing a short, dark blue dress with a dark brown belt around her waist. She was almost wearing black converse with white laces and studded snowflake earrings. Plus black leggings. Her hair was straightened with a headband to match the color of her belt.

     “Thanks, you do too!” Brella said.

     “I know!” Autumn said flattered. It was obvious they were going to be best friends! We continued to chat for awhile but eventually we all got tired and went to bed. I changed into my pajamas and lay down. Then, slowly, I drifted off to sleep.

     I was walking down a huge flight of stairs and I was lost. There was nobody any where! I was never going to be found and then I saw Dylan, “Dylan? Dylan!! Yes, I found somebody I know!” I was almost screaming, I had been so scared. Dylan simply grabber my hand and pulled me outside of the castle. We went over to the beach and he stared into my eyes. How beautiful his eyes were! He began to lean in. I did too. When our lips were less than an inch away, I was woken up. I slowly opened my eyes, disappointed, to find Brella jumping on my bed and pelting me with pillows screaming,

     “GET UP!!” but in a fun was. Not like my dad used to.

     “Ugh, I’m awake.” I groggily sat up in my bed.

     “Good! You didn’t wake up for so long!” she said, laughing at my tired face.

     “Well I didn’t want to. I was having an amazing dream!”

     Oh,” Brella started, “Sorry for bursting your bubble, but it was just a dream!”

     “It could be real.” I mumbled to myself.

     “What did you say?”

     “Oh, nothing.” I replied quickly, super happy that she didn’t hear me.

     I got up and slowly got dressed. Ambyr, Autumn and Cat all left while Brella and I were getting dressed. We decided to match, red shirt with the brown jacket over it and yellow headband and shoes. We all had to wear the same thing; we just got o pick the colors. After we were finally ready we walked out of our dorm and down the halfway. When we opened the door, standing there, waiting for us was none other than Dylan.

      “Hey Dylan!” I greeted him.

     “Morning!” he said. “Did you sleep well?”

     “Very!” I exclaimed.

     “Yeah, this morning she got really angry at me because she said I woke her up from a really great dream.” Brella added.

     “Really.” Dylan asked. “What was it about?”

     “Oh you know…stuff.” I chuckled a bit, starting to freak out. Brella gave me the look like ‘what the heck?!’ I returned it with a ‘it was about HIM’ look and slight nod in his direction. Brella confused face turned slowly into shock, and then she started smiling.

     “Oh,” she said, understanding. “Well, let’s go down to eat now.” She said. We all walked down to the Main Hall and sat at the Phodessel table. We started eating and soon Joey came over.

     “Hey Joey,” I greeted him.

     “Hi!” he said. From then on Brella and Joey were talking to each other the entire time and they hardly noticed the rest of us.

     “So, we have our first lessons today.” Dylan said simply.

     “What? Already?” I asked, feeling butterflies form in my stomach.

     “Yeah, they’re passing out the schedules right now.” Said Cat. There were several older kids, probably in their 7^th year, walking around, handing out small papers to people.

     “You are all first years’ right?” One of them asked us.

     “Yeah, but I’m in Udellan.” Replied Joey.

     “Okay, here are your schedules, but you’re going to have to get yours from your prefects.” The boy said, handing us our schedules and addressing Joey.

     “K, bye guys.” Joey turned around and left. I looked down at my schedule:

7:30-Mathematics-Professor Ladell

8:20-Swim-Professor Nate

9:30- Senses Control-Professor Tipped (Certain Species Only)

10:30-History of Magical Peoples-Professor Edand

11:30-Lunch

2:30-Animal Studies- Professor Atten

3:30-Flight Lessons-Professor Nodale (Certain Species Only)

6:00-Dinner

7:30-Astronomy-Professor Hadable

     “Wow, that’s a busy schedule.” I said. “At least I don’t have flight lessons!:

     “Oh, yeah, you have one class less than us!” Dylan said.

     “Well, we better get going to math, its 7:15.” Brella informed us. We quickly finished out breakfast then started walking to Math. We had to go up the right staircase and the second door on the third floor. When we got there we were right on time. Ambyr sat with Cat, Autumn sat with Brella and I sat with Dylan. We didn’t do any work all period luckily. We just introduced ourselves and talked the whole lesson. It was pretty fun.

     Swim was much worse! I never really liked swimming, or water in general, but this was worse! We were swimming in the ocean that was nearby the castle so the water was salty and cold. What made it even worse was we had it with Zephalor and Noah kept staring at me and Dylan. I was so relieved when we could get out of the water. Then, it turned out that of the sic of us, only Brella and Ambyr have senses control, so the other 4 of us got an hour off. We didn’t do much though, just sat in the Phodessel Main Room and talked.

     When it was time for History, we met up with Ambyr and Brella and headed to the fourth floor. History was pretty boring since we actually worked. We got out textbooks from the school library and we actually got homework! We had to write a page long summary of chapter 1 which was all about Wizards, and it was due the next day! Not a very good first impression of Professor Edand. Then, finally, it was lunch. We ate slowly and stayed in the Main Hall, just chatting until we realized we were going to be late for Animal Studies.

    We ran outside, hoping we weren’t too late and luckily, we got there right on time. Animal Studies was actually fun. Professor Atten had a phoenix for us to look at. She told us some facts about phoenixes and I guess we were supposed to be listening and taking notes because our homework was a page describing the phoenix with facts from class.

     Luckily, I had a free period next. I went to the Phodessel Main Room with Cat. Everybody else had to go to Flying Lesson. I decided to start on my homework so I took out my History textbook and began to read Chapter 1. I re-read it five times but still didn’t understand it. I knew absolutely nothing about Wizards so it was really hard. I glanced at Cat’s paper and she was almost done with hers!

     “How did you write the entire thing that fast?” I asked her.

     “Oh, I actually finished it awhile ago; I’m on the back of my page now. There wasn’t enough room on the front.” She explained. It turned out, Cat was really, really smart.

     “So, can you write mine for me?” I asked when she finished hers.

     “I don’t know…” she said, obviously against cheating.

     “Pleeasseee!” I begged her, making a pouty face.

    “Okay fine, but only half of it!” she gave in.

     While Cat was working on my History home and I was working on my Animal Studies paper, everybody else came back. Brella didn’t stay long though, she said she was going to hand with Joey. I actually finished my phoenix paper on my own and was about to finished my History paper when everybody said they were hungry.

     “My tummy is growling! Can we please go get some food?” Autumn whined. She had been begging us for the past half hour.

     “Yeah, I’m getting kind of hungry too.” Said Ambyr.

     “Me three.” I exclaimed.

     “Me four.” Said Cat. Then there was an awkward silence where we were all staring at Dylan.

     “Me five.” He shouted, finally realizing what we were waiting for. We all started cracking up. When we went downstairs for dinner we decided to stay there until Astronomy. When we got to Astronomy it turned out we had it with Udellan. Brella was hooked to Joey. The seven of us sat together and listened to Professor Hadable drone on and on about stars. Our homework was to make a list of every constellation we knew about or have heard of.

     When Astronomy was over we said by to Joey and headed to the Main Room. I was working on my homework until 9:30, and then I got tired and decided to go to my dorm for the night. Brella and Autumn decided to join me but Ambyr and Cat claimed they still had more homework, which I knew was a lie. Dylan said he was going to go to bed too. When we got to the doors leading to the doors Dylan smiled at me with his wonderful smile and kissed me lightly on the cheek.

    “Goodnight Nick.” He whispered. I heard Brella and Autumn giggle and I felt my face grow hot.

     “Goodnight Dylan.” I smiled at him and turned to walk to my dorm. Although, once I entered the door Autumn screeched,

     “WHAT?! I want a goodnight kiss too!”

     “No, come on.” I yelled as I grabbed her arm and pulled her down the hallway to our dorm. When we were in our dorm they instantly wanted to talk about what happened.

     “That was so sweet and cute.”

     “Are you guys going out?”

     “Are you going to date now?”

     “How much do you like him?”

     I just ignored them, got ready for bed and fell asleep.

Author's Note

Yeah, it's quite long!