My parents still wanted me to live a normal life like any other child such as going to school and passing college, I am sure you can imagine what it was like for me during my school days. The other kids took one look at the mark on my right arm and instantly made fun of me, it was worse doing P.E wearing a t-shirt as this would reveal my whole mark. The comments and the laughs did hurt, but I knew one day all these living mortals would need my help. It was just wondering when this situation would happen. I had no friends through school except for Cleo, she seemed to take a liking to me knowing I was different to other kids and often wondered if there was a reason I was born with an enormous mark. Through my years of school I had never socialised with boys apart from the ones who bullied me, I had taken a liking towards a boy called Luke who was in the year above me. He was tall with spikey brown hair and emerald green eyes, his build was very athletic but he did play for the school football team and outside of school hours he was part of a swimming squad at the local leisure centre. From time to time I would go swimming with Cleo on a Friday evening at the swim disco within the leisure centre and I would often see Luke practising his lengths down the far side of the pool away from everyone else but I could never work up the courage to go over and talk to him. I always would hide my right arm under the water for as long as possible to have fewer people staring at my birth mark.
I often wished I had spoken to Luke and got to know him during school, but I thought he would just see me as an outcast like everyone else did. From time to time I thought he was looking at me and smiling but I put it down to him smirking at the fact I had an enormous mark on my right arm. My feelings developed very strongly towards him into falling in love with him, my heart felt like someone had poked it with a pin when Luke had finished school and went onto college. I thought I would never see him again and the day he walked out of the school gates forever I went home that night and cried myself into my pillow, my tears sparkled onto my pillow like spectacles of glitter. Life was strenuous being a witch.
Eventually I was glad to have finished school and looked forward to starting Franklin College this September, I was going to be starting my A-Levels in subjects I wanted to study such as Drama, Dance, English Literature and Media Studies. A fresh start would mean to escape all the torment I had faced and hopefully try to forget all about Luke. My first day of college was just blissful, the atmosphere felt so open and friendly, straight away other people spoke to me normally like I was just like one of them and not an outcast.
After college I would go for a walk to the park and visit the statue of Gabriella, I had called to her the previous night in the hopes she would watch over me starting at college and I wanted to go thank her in my own way. Whilst I was walking out of the primary entrance of the college through the automatic doors I passed Luke without realising it was him. He stopped in my path smiling at me, all the feelings that I had for him went flowing my veins and a warm fuzzy feeling spiralled round in my stomach, of all the places I thought I may bump into him in the future, I would not have expected him to be at the same college as me.
“Hello Precious.”
He spoke to me smoothly with a slight charm in the tone of his voice, I could not believe he actually knew who I was.
“Hello Luke, it is nice to see you again. I did not know you went to Franklin College.”
He just smiled towards me and for the first time I noticed his dimples on the right side of his cheek, I felt even more drawn towards him and it was like the world around us was empty, that we were the only two people who existed at this moment in time. Everyone else around was just oblivious to us.
“Yes, I have just started my second year doing a course on sports studies.”
I kind of knew he would be taking a course that involves sport studies but I thought he may have teamed up with a swimming coach and trained up to hopefully swim as team GB in the Olympics, he had so much potential behind but I did not understand what was holding him back.
“Anyway I have to go but it was nice to see you again Precious.”
He smiled towards me again then walked into the college, I just stood for a moment thinking about my feelings of Luke. I wish I could tell him how much I am in love with him but perhaps it would be for the best I kept quiet, if he found out I was a witch then things would only
