It turned out Bruno’s tactic was to keep me out front for months so that the other students could see exactly what I was doing in the kitchen. When he finally allowed me out back, not that many students complained. I only got hauled into Jacqueline’s office once.
Max had been wrong about the integration thing. Sure, people weren’t as outwardly hostile as they’d been in the past, but nobody went out of their way to be my friend either. In the aftermath of the attack, most of the students lost a chunk of their memory. The ones who didn’t were certain I was involved but they couldn’t be sure in what capacity. So my status pretty much evened out there too. Max and I sometimes still ate together, but I wanted to push ahead with the plan of not hiding myself away.
It was just my luck that after I’d spent months proving I wasn’t going to poison anyone, it was time to move to the senior campus. It was two days before the new school year started. I sat on my new bed in my new dorm room staring at the empty bed on the other side. Yep. After so many hopes of getting a better roommate, I didn’t get one at all. It was like somebody in the administration office hated me. At least I would be leaving the deputy headmaster’s jurisdiction.
Traffic through the dining hall was at an all-time high just before school started every year. I changed into a pair of black jeans and a long-sleeved black top for my first shift in the senior campus eatery. These days I could afford more hair magic. It saved a lot of time.
I was just passing the front door of the dorms when a streak of green light shot out of the sky. Kai’s ethereal white wings retracted into his back as he landed on the front lawn. The dorm doors opened behind me.
“Excuse me,” a male voice said. A dark-haired boy sidestepped me and approached Kai. It was Evan McKinnon, a third-year mage at the top of his class.
“You ready?” Kai said.
“As I’ll ever be,” Evan responded.
Kai placed a hand on Evan’s shoulder. I pressed my back against the door as if the teleport might affect me if I got too close. “Where are we going?” Evan asked.
“Melbourne. There’s a disturbance in the barrier inside a psychiatric hospital.”
“Humans?”
Kai glanced surreptitiously at me. “Yeah.” He grunted. “Every time I think they’re easy to deal with, one of them throws it back in my face.”
I was probably imagining that he smiled at me before they disappeared. I blew out a chagrined breath. Humans. What were we thinking trying to survive in this world of supernatural creatures?
Shaking myself, I hightailed it to the dining hall before I got chewed out again. It was a new year. Maybe this one wouldn’t end with me all alone again.
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