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excuse myself now without appearing rude.
    “I love thunderstorms. It’s nice that they do that every once in a while.” I put down my fork and stretch my arms above my head with a groan. “Well, it’s been an eventful first day, guys, but I should get back to my room. I’m beat.”
    They all stand at once. “We’ll walk you there,” Dante says.
    “You don’t have to do that. I can find my way back.”
    “Nonsense, we’ll walk you,” Horace says.
    “Yeah,” Amr agrees.
    I sigh. I hope I don’t change in front of them before we get there. “Okay.”
    I stand, leading the way to the dorms.
    “How do you like it here so far, Avvi?” Amr asks.
    I shrug. “It seems interesting enough. I like the horses. Though I have no idea how I’ll find my way to all my classes in the morning. I’ll need a car just to make it to all of them on time.”
    “Don’t worry about that. We’ll help you get around, and you also have your P.A., right?” Horace asks.
    Triton clears his throat. I glance at him, but he doesn’t say anything. Maybe he just had something caught in his throat. “Yeah,” I say. I pick up the pace. I don’t have much longer.
    “Then you have nothing to worry about,” Dante says. He throws an arm around me again, but I still sidestep out of it. If I was closer to the shift, his arm would haven’t brought me to my knees.
    My heart hammers in my chest. The thunder outside rumbles the school as we make it to the dorms. I all but run to my door. I have to regain myself as I turn to look at them. “Thanks for walking me to my dorm. Goodnight.” I give them a smile before slipping inside and closing the door. At least none of them tried to invite themselves in.
    ~*~*~*~
    I lay on the marble floor of my room in my dragon form. I sigh as the rain pelts my window. At least at the barn I could look out the hayloft at the stars. Here, I can’t even see the sky through my window. I have nothing to look at and no one to keep me company. Like a bird in a golden cage, I’m stuck. I thought at least here I would get to feel the air under my wings again. Is that why they wanted me here? So they could keep me trapped in my room at night?

MR. MAGIC TUTOR

    I think I prefer sleeping on the cold dirt ground to hard, cold marble. They may’ve given me a bed, but I would bust it in my dragon form. I guess they gave it to me so I could take naps. Otherwise, that big fluffy thing will never be used.
    With cracking elbows, I push myself onto my hands and knees and stand. Going over to the closet, I grab one of the awful uniforms I will now have to wear daily. I think I would be okay with wearing a white polo shirt if I didn’t have to wear it with a skirt.
    Once dressed, I dig my hairbrush out of my suitcase. Normally, I wouldn’t care what my hair looks like, but now I’ll be going to school with boys my age, and some of them are cute even if I wouldn’t tell them that. I don’t want to appear as if I don’t care at all about my appearance.
    I start the tedious task of working the brush through my curls when a slight knock at the door echoes into my room. I glance at the clock. It’s not even six thirty. Horace said he would walk me to breakfast at seven. Who could it be?
    I open the door, and to my surprise, the blue and green-eyed servant stands on the other side holding the box I saw him placing the pieces of my broken locket into; he bows and holds it out to me.
    I take it and open it. It all looks to be there. “I’m sorry, Miss. I wasn’t able to find the entire locket. The silver screw is missing. I searched the entire court yard, but I was unable to find it.”
    The screw is the part of the locket that allows me to open it and place a picture inside. “It’s fine. Don’t worry about it. It’ll show up, or I’ll be able to get a new one. Thank you for working so hard to find it all and return it to me.”
    He blinks for a second before bowing. “Of course, Miss. I will always be at your