CHAPTER TWO
My awful upside down school
“ The looming brick building of utter and completely hard to believe that it’s legal torture” said Maya.
“ Icky” I say
“ Hello class Welcome Patrick, Welcome Maya, Welcome, Mia, Welcome Maria, and Welcome ‘Lijah”
“ Hello Class”
“Hello Mrs. Potters!”
“ What a beautiful morning it is today, shall we get started?”
“Yes!”
“All right, today we are going to practice! So go to your stations!”
Our stations are little rooms not larger than a dinner table, with titanium walls. We practice our magic in them because it’s safer. While the others are in their stations I practice around the remaining space. The classroom is really bright and cheery with one wall red, one blue, one purple, and one rainbow striped. There’s posters all around the room and our desks are each painted a different color. That color is like our name, it represents us. My color is red. Mrs. Potter’s likes it that way. It’s pretty fun, too. Sometimes we practice our magic, but other days we play magic games, like Melted CandyLand for the flames, and Human Chutes and Ladders for the flyers, and so on.
This is going to be a short chapter because I want to tell you something really super ultra important about me.
Chapter Three
My secret
So here’s the thing, I wasn’t born a flyer.
When I was small, like five and a half, I had the best animal powers in all of Borj. I could do anything with my powers that you could’ve asked. I was so little too. I went around Borj and all throughout cities and towns, it was amazing and I was so happy. Here I am this tiny little five year old with straight short brown hair and a cute little hand made dress. Touring the country. I had fans but I also had haters.
Franze Mccoppithagafordotten was one of my haters. He was a Flamer and he was as Messed-up-and-tangled-around-and-around as it gets. He was jealous of me and my powers, and one day he did something about it.
Franze Mccoppithagafordotten took away my powers. His brother was Francis Mccoppithagafordotten, a little known revenge seeking scientist. Francis invented a contraption to take away powers. He used it on me and gave Franze all my powers and abilities. I went to a doctor who said that I would never be an Animal whisperer again. He implanted wings on me when I was six. They were beautiful, blue and shimmery, but it wasn’t the same as whispering. I miss it so much, I tried to teach my brother, but it was hopeless. Franze is famous and tours the world, not just Borj, the non-magical people have accepted him and he now lives in somewhere called New York.
I have a bone to pick with Mr. Franze Mccoppithagafordotten
Chapter 4
My second introduction
I’m Mia Kamel, I’m 11 years old, when I was five I got my amazing Animal abilities stolen, I love red, chocolate, and my wings, I go to Clux Berry Magic school, and I’m really not in the advanced program.
Chapter 5
My Decision
“I’m sick of this!” I say as I walk into school with Maya.
“What do you mean?” She asks.
“ I want to be good at my ability’s, I want to be advanced.” I say.
Maya is the only one who knows about
Franze Mccoppithagafordotten besides my family and Mrs. Potters.
“ Mia, I do to, I really, really do, but there’s nothing I can do about it. No matter how hard we practice, we just are never going to be normal magicians, and that’s okay.”
“ No Maya, it’s not, follow me.”
We run through the school’s halls clutching our books. We finally come to the door. What’s behind this door is my favorite place. Ever. The door is old and worn with a big sign that says THIS DOOR MUST STAY LOCKED AT ALL TIMES, but it’s always open. The door is downstairs in the basement. It’s blocked with some old materials and chairs. I shove the door open and flick on the lights.
The whole room is full of boxes, old boxes. To the right is an old beanie bag chair and to the left is a file cabinet. These files belong to all the kids that have ever been in the disadvantage program in Clux Berry Magic School.
Maya jogs in behind me, catching her breath. I open file number 1456 and take out the first 16 papers.
“ Maya, this has all the information of every student in the Disadvantaged Program at Clux Berry.”
“Woah.”
I give her paper’s two-eight.
“Here’s your record”, I say.
“Maya Traburlowskin, age 11 Speeder.” Maya says
“Ok sure basic info about random people, can we go to class now?” She asks
“Ugh, Maya Traburlowskin, don’t you get it, Franze Mccoppithagafordottin went to Clux Berry, he was in the Disadvantaged program, we can use his record to find him.”
“Find him?, Mia Kamel, you aren’t, there are so many things that can go wrong, not to mention how you are going to get to him. Mia, don’t even think about it.”
“ To. Late.”
Chapter 6
What have I done
Fifteen minutes later I’m sitting on a bench in an old smelly bus stop with my best friend and an umbrella. Bum Bum Bum Bum Beep Beep Beep, my phone is ringing.
“ Heeelllooo, Hi Mrs. Traburlowskin, Maya’s all tied up right now, Ok see you later, Buh Bye now”.
That wasn’t exactly a lie. I kinda sorta tied her up so she couldn’t move and made her come here so she would pay for our tickets in exchange for freedom.
“ Maya, I’m gonna let you go, do you have 15 dollars?” I say slash ask.
She hands me the money. I carefully and slowly untie her. We board the bus to Baksdaven, the town on the edge of Borj. It reeks on that bus.
Maya’s one of those fancy girls, and takes out a spray from her fringy purse. Four sprays of that and the bus suddenly smells like Caramel Apple Delight, She gingerly unfolds a piece of Razzabazzle gum and pops it in her mouth.
“ Want some?” she asks
I take a piece. The bus goes all the way around Kelhangad, my town and to the border of Arrplytutle when I realize something. It’s 3:00. I’m supposed to be home in 15 minutes. What will my parents think. They’ll probably call the police who will track me down and I’ll be grounded for life. Oh. No. I need to get to Franze, I need to get my Animal Powers back, I just… Do. I can’t help it, I want to be normal, then I can create a formula to make the magic of the disadvantaged amazing.
I take a deep breath and tell Maya I’m going to get off and go to the bathroom.
“Can I have your perfume?” I ask her,
She looks at me quizzically, but hands be the pink plastic bottle that smells like Jibbles, the department store with the perfume section the size of my house. I go to the bathroom at the Jeller Beans Cafe. I drench myself in the acidic liquid, scrub myself with soap and pull my crazy long wavy brown into a messy bun on the top of my head, take of my sweatshirt and spray myself a little more. Now the police won’t be able to find me, I smell like Jibbles, and I never, ever, put my hair up.
“ What’s up” I say as I get back to Maya.
“Whats up? Whats up?, you never, ever, put your hair up. You smell like the drug store across the street from the pizza place, …”
“Jibbles” I interrupt sheepishly.
“…. What ever, look, you used all of my perfume, I’ve been on this chemical smelling bus with my best friend going to who know’s where, for three hours. Mia, tell me where you plan to go and what you’ll be doing there or I’ll get off at the next stop and pay for a taxi.”
“ I’m going to go the edge of Borj, dress like a tourist, catch a ferry to New York, catch Franze and from there we’ll-”
“Oh no, Mia, there is no we, I’m super angry at you, you tie me up, bring me to this bus, use all my perfume, and until now, I had no idea where we where going, I’m not going to get in major trouble, risk my life, and meet this wack Franze Mcwhatever just so YOU can get better at your powers, ditch me, and start touring the country again. You’re so selfish! I can’t believe you,…ugh!”
“Maya…I”
“Can it wait until you’re too famous to talk to me EVER again?”
And just like that I watched my possibly former best friend walk away from me, pay for a cab and ride away.
I don’t need her. I’ll be fine on my own. I tuck my wings into myself so no one can see them, then I realize something, Maya was going to pay for our ferry tickets, and our disguises. But she didn’t take her purse when she dumped me.
Should I use the 50$ for a cab ride home so I can apologize, or to pay my way to being advanced.
Chapter 7
My Adventure
One hour later I’m one the edge of Borj, in a town to buy tourist stuff. I use high heels to get taller, some of Maya’s makeup to make myself look older, buy some sun block cream, a sundress, a disposable camera, and a pair of those sunglasses the size of dinner plates.
Viola! I’m an old cheap tourist for just 15$ at the good old Bargain Mart. Ferry tickets cost just 25$ at the Ferry Rides For Less Ferries. That leaves me with enough for something in New York.
And no, I do not feel guilty for using Maya’s money. She cut me off before I could say something really important. I’m doing something good for the entire Country of Borj. Every Borjonian will benefit from my courageous act of generosity.
The ferry ride is awful. I puke, I hurl and I do every other variation of throwing up possible. Such as, I blow chunks, I vomit, I eject, and I spit up.
Well that is thankfully over. Ok, um I’m in New York, on a pier, so uh now what. I wipe of the make up and let my hair down. But then, accidentily, I let my wings slip. Thankfully no one notices.
I don’t really know what to do. I didn’t think it was going to work. Maya would know what to do. She would say,
“ Mia, suck it up, crying won’t fix anythin’”
It’s like I can hear her voice, like she’s standing right next to me. I plop down and cry. What am I doing? This won’t work, It can’t, what would I say to Franze, Hey I’m that girl that you stole her life from, give her life back.
“ Mia, get yourself together, I’m not here to see you mope.”
“ Maya?”
“ Hey weirdo”
“ I’m sorry for being so selfish”
“ I never knew what it was like to be good at powers, if I did I’d want them back too, would you get up and tell me your plan.”